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By Star-Bulletin Staff

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Funny-money suspects to be handed to feds

KAILUA-KONA >> Big Island police were expected to turn two people found Tuesday allegedly with $2,600 in counterfeit $100 bills over to federal officials for prosecution.

A man, 36, and a woman, 34, both from Birmingham, England, were arrested after allegedly passing a counterfeit bill at a business in the Lanihau Shopping Center, police said.

The woman left the business without receiving all of her change, but officers stopped the suspects in a rental car, police said.

Police said they found three more counterfeit $100 bills in the car after the couple granted permission for a search.

Police and Secret Service agents with search warrants searched the couple's condominium, security deposit box and car and found 22 more counterfeit $100 bills, more than $2,000 in genuine U.S. cash and 585 pounds in British currency, officials said.

Police believe the couple passed additional counterfeit bills.

Anyone who may have received the fake money is asked to call Detective Zachary Houchin at 326-4232.

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Maui motorcyclist dies after hitting trailer

WAILUKU >> A 40-year-old Maui man died yesterday after the motorcycle he was driving struck the rear end of a boat trailer on South Kihei Road.

David Maikai, of Kihei, was traveling south approaching the intersection at Uilani Street when the motorcycle struck the right rear side of the boat trailer and he was thrown from the motorcycle, police investigator Duke Pua said.

The death was the fifth traffic fatality this year, compared with three for the same period last year.