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RCMP are searching for a man who defrauded numerous Metro Vancouver banks—using rolls of metal washers.

North Vancouver RCMP announced today (October 2) that 43-year-old Terrelle Robert Talbot allegedly conducted a crime spree over three months across the Lower Mainland in which he asked bank tellers to exchange rolls of two-dollar coins for bills.

However, the tellers were unaware that although real toonies were on each end, the coins within the roll were in fact just metal washers.

Each roll, which purportedly had 25 coins in them, were exchanged for $50.

From the 17 financial institutions, the suspect obtained over $30,000 in cash from March to May.

After an investigation by North Vancouver RCMP, the B.C. Prosecution Service issued an arrest warrant on September 19. Talbot is wanted on 17 counts of criminal fraud over $5,000.

He is described as 183 centimetres (six-feet) tall and weighs 91 kilograms (201 pounds) with black hair and brown eyes.

He has no fixed address and is originally from Nova Scotia where an outstanding warrant for similar offences was also issued.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311 or, for anonymous reports, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or online.