Four people, including one from Georgia and another from California, were nabbed trying to pass off phony $100 bills at two Hoboken stores Thursday afternoon, police said.

The arrests were made roughly 30 minutes after a quick-thinking store clerk ran outside and captured the license plate number of the vehicle used by the four people involved.

Alexis Mclee, 21, and Leon Samuels, 25, both of Brooklyn, New York; and Floyd Harrison, 26, of Inglewood, California, and Derrick Hamer, 37, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, were charged with two counts of forgery (fraudulent currency), two counts of uttering fraudulent currency, two counts of theft by deception, conspiracy to utter fraudulent currency, fraudulent government ID, possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.

Police said they recovered a total of 18 counterfeit $100 bills.

Police officers Harold Milne, Bianca Arroyo and Joseph Cahill responded to Hudson Paperi, at 312 Washington St., at 5:39 p.m., and were told by employees that a woman used a possibly counterfeit $100 to make a purchase and a man used a similar $100 bill immediately after, Sgt. Joseph Leonard said.

Several minutes later, the employees saw the pair enter and leave Sephora, at 319 Washington, where a fake $100 was also passed, Leonard said.

The man and woman then got into a silver Mercedes with a New York license plate, which was operated by another person, and left the area, Leonard said.

After it was determined that the bill was phony, descriptions of the people and vehicle were provided and the car was stopped on River Street at 6:05 p.m.

Sgt. Nicholas Burke, police officers David DiMartino, William Bullock and members of the Investigations Bureau conducted a motor vehicle stop of the Mercedes and saw a counterfeit $100 bill on the front center console and smelled raw marijuana inside the car, Leonard said.

Alexis Mclee and Floyd Harrison were identified as the two who tried to pass off the fake $100 bills and Samuels and Hamer were also arrested when they were all found to be in possession of the phony bills, Leonard said. Mclee was also found to be in possession of a small bag of marijuana.

Mclee, Harrison, and Hamer were released with pending court dates, while Samuels remanded to the Hudson County jail, Leonard said.

Police did not say if they believe the four people passed off the bills at any other locations before they were caught.