Counterfeit bills used at strip club

Damon Armagost spent $600 of the fake bills at Deja Vu on April 16, according to a news release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the Middle District of Tennessee on Friday.

The strippers were suspicious of the fake money and called Metro Nashville police.

When officers arrived, Armagost first told them he got the money when he sold gold coins for $1,400 to an unidentified person.

U.S. Secret Service agents later determined that counterfeit bills with the same serial number had been passed in other parts of the country. When they went to Armagost’s home, a family member told agents they had seen the image of a $100 bill on their computer.

Armagost then acknowledged that he had downloaded the image from the Internet and printed 14 of the bills, prosecutors said. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 5.