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Repairman allegedly filled ATMs with fakes

A client uses a Bank of America ATM machine in New York on February 24, 2009. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)
A client uses a Bank of America ATM machine in New York on February 24, 2009. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen) | License Photo

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 28 (UPI) -- A San Francisco ATM repairman has been charged with substituting counterfeit homemade bills for real ones in the machines he fixed.

Samuel Kioskli, 64, was arrested after a traffic stop in Phoenix two weeks ago, KCBS-TV, San Francisco, reported. He allegedly made crude $20s using a copying machine and placed them in six Bank of America cash machines in San Francisco and one in Daly City, Calif., on July 4, 2010.

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San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said Kioskli became a suspect after his wife reported him missing.

"He's not a 21-year-old. This man was in his sixties, and he suddenly decided to flee the area to go for a new life. The why of it is the answer we hope to get in the proceedings," he said. "He did get 10 months of a new life, we're not fully sure what that new life was, but it certainly satisfied him down in Arizona I guess."

Kioskli is back in California and appeared in court Wednesday in Redwood City. Wagstaffe said bank customers who got the phony bills have been reimbursed.

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