By Anthony Giron CAMP GEN. PANTALEON GARCIA, IMUS, Cavite -- Authorities here called on the citizens to be wary of circulating counterfeit money. Just recently, police arrested a suspect who was caught paying a fake P500 bill and keeping four bogus P100 bills as he transacted for commodities at a store in Indang, this province. Police identified the suspect as Ariel Viala Fernandez, 42, a native of Torres Mangaldan, Pangasinan, and resident of City Homes Resort Village, Barangay Langkaan II, Dasmarinas, Cavite. Fernandez was held by a police patrol team whose assistance was sought by businessman Bienvenido Ramos Grueso, 63, owner of a poultry supply and rice retailer at Barangay Kaytapos, Indang. In his complaint, Grueso said that Fernandez paid him a P500 bill which he found to be bogus through his store's money bill detector. Grueso reported that Fernandez handed the bill to pay the two kilos of rice worth P48 that he bought at his store. When questioned and frisked by the police, Fernandez yielded a wallet containing P2,170 in different denominations and four P100-peso bills that were also found to be counterfeit. The evidence against the suspect did not end in his wallet. When checked at the electronic warrant (e-warrant) and electronic-rouge (e-rouge) gallery, the Indang police said they found Fernandez to have pending cases of illegal possession and use of false treasury or bank notes and other instruments of credit at Pulung Maragul Police Station 3-Angeles City Police Station dated January 12, 2017 and robbery at Poblacion I, Pozzorubio, Pangasinan dated April 25, 2019. Payments of fake P500 bills and so with P1,000 and P100 bills and even P50 and P20 bills have been reported off-and-on at sari-sari (variety) stores, lotto outlets, ambulant stalls in the lowland and upland districts of Cavite. Police asked residents particularly operators of stores or any business outlets to be cautious when receiving peso bill payments to prevent being gypped by conmen. The best way for one is to double-check the bill in doubt with the point finger-and-thumb touch or better still with a bill detector. Use of fake money bills pay has been reported in populous Cavite virtually every year in the last decade.