Wash. man arrested with high-quality fake money
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Cowlitz County sheriff's detectives have arrested a man they suspect of making counterfeit money to use at the Clark County Fair, which opens Friday.
The Columbian reports that the investigation indicated the man was manufacturing high-quality money and had used as much as $20,000 of it to buy drugs and pay off debts recently.
An informant told officers the man was making a new batch of cash to be distributed at the fair.
Deputies found a printer, linen paper, forged currency and drug paraphernalia in a Longview home after serving a search warrant.
They say 34-year-old Jeremiah J.H. Anderson was arrested Wednesday night for investigation of forgery.
KATU-TV in Portland, Ore., reports that Anderson was arrested earlier for attempted forgery, theft, possession of drugs, and drug paraphernalia by Woodland Police on March 3 this year. At the time, Anderson had counterfeit currency in his wallet and in his car.
In June, Anderson was also arrested for theft and identify theft for his involvement in a case of forged checks that Kelso police investigated in May 2012.
If anyone has any information about these investigations they are encouraged to call Detective Rob Stumph at 360-577-3092. Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 360-577-1206.
The Columbian reports that the investigation indicated the man was manufacturing high-quality money and had used as much as $20,000 of it to buy drugs and pay off debts recently.
An informant told officers the man was making a new batch of cash to be distributed at the fair.
Deputies found a printer, linen paper, forged currency and drug paraphernalia in a Longview home after serving a search warrant.
They say 34-year-old Jeremiah J.H. Anderson was arrested Wednesday night for investigation of forgery.
KATU-TV in Portland, Ore., reports that Anderson was arrested earlier for attempted forgery, theft, possession of drugs, and drug paraphernalia by Woodland Police on March 3 this year. At the time, Anderson had counterfeit currency in his wallet and in his car.
In June, Anderson was also arrested for theft and identify theft for his involvement in a case of forged checks that Kelso police investigated in May 2012.
If anyone has any information about these investigations they are encouraged to call Detective Rob Stumph at 360-577-3092. Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 360-577-1206.
Poor sap chose to print fake money for the wrong crowd. Printing it for the Federal Reserve yields the same results to our economy but carries no legal penalty.
I'd bet the informant was some weasel dope dealer that got burnt. Just has that kind of read.
Idiots like this are why it took me 10 minutes to use a 100 bill at Fry's last month as they ran around checking it.Â
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The writing is on the wall. Slowly but surely they will phase out cash.Â
 @caphillkid Wait until you have to actually return something there. Five managers will have to OK it. Then they give you a store credit that requires three more people to authorize it's use. Crazy security nazis at Fry's.
I'm assuming this man was an Obama supporter and was just doing his part to print more worthless money....
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 @Truth Percolates What does this have to do anything with politics?
 @Derp Because Obama has the Treasury ramped up to print trillion$ to pay that huge debt he's created. Can you say 'Inflation'?
 @caphillkid Well said. Its easier for the uninformed to spout off than to learn how services they take for granted are here to support them.
 @caphillkid The US Treasury has nothing to do with the Federal Reserve. No government agency has anything to do with the Federal Reserve. No US citizen can own stock in the Federal Reserve. The Rothschild's in England are the owners of the Federal Reserve.
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The treasury issues bonds to BORROW money from the Federal Reserve and the taxpayers have to slave to pay back a phoney debt. The US Constitution says that only the US Government can 'coin' money, hence the phony and Unconstitutional worthless paper money. The Constitution also prevents the US Government from establishing a 'central bank', so bankers and lawyers went around the Constitution by establishing a private bank to keep We the People in debt.
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You need to dig a little deeper than the US Government's propaganda machine.
 @Magic 8 Ball Congress authorizes the "printing" of money, not the President.Â
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You need to read a little bit about how this actually works. The president does not have the power to tell the Treasury to print at his whim.Â
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But by all means, continue making yourself look silly as usual.Â
 @Magic 8 Ball 10/10. Would read again.Â
H's lucky the police got to him before his drug dealers did, so far anyway.
 @Opus8no5 The drug dealers will probably seek him once he gets out of jail.
I am pretty sure they will seek him out before he gets out of jail!!!
intolerant much? Â What people do with their printers in the privacy of their own homes....
How can what makes people happy in any way lessen the value of what's in your wallet?
Please don't allow your bigoted traditional concept of money stigmatize this talented man.
 @cheekygesturton Counterfeit money hurts the economy by essential costing the seller money as the money they accepted isn't real and they cannot use it in turn to buy things. Besides he wasn't only just printing it, he was using the fake money.
 @cheekygesturton Sarcasm?  Hard to tell sometimes with the written word.
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If not... I find it hard to believe you think this is okay... you work hard for your pay, right? Â
 @Datsuyama Can't you see a jab at the gay marriage movement when you see it?
 @Magic 8 Ball Man... I was pretty dense this morning! Â
What differnce does this make? Are you telling me that the printing presses at the Treasury aren't already working overtime to pay off the huge debt we are in ($186,000 for every man, woman and child in America).
The thing that sucks about the current law system and counterfeit money: He who holds the phony money... loses. Generally it's good, unless you are stuck with the (as indicated here... good quality) bad money. Once someone gave my mother counterfeit money, and she didn't find out about it till later.  A bank discovered it...  took it, and absorbed the loss. (For her, that would have hurt quite a bit)
What we have now, is high quality fake money already. Boorauch saw to that.
 @pbs7mm Actually, Reagan saw to that many years ago Cowboy.  Way to try and revise History.  If you are going to, like the non-thinking Republican I'm guessing you are, point fingers, at least point them at everybody responsible.  This economy was a team effort-- it couldn't have happenned without collusion from both wealthy Republicans and wealthy Democrats. Â
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 @MPS Let's start blaming the people who started using paper money then. Let's point the blame where it needs to go. 1971??? Pffft, let's try 1771. The early colonies used paper money in 1690. THEY started the inflation. Give blame where blame is due!!!!!!Â
 @MPS It was long before him when they took our money off the gold backed system. They used to be promise notes for gold or silver. They then decided they didn't want to pay back the gold if asked to. Nixon officially separated us from gold in Aug of 1971
Arrested in June for the same thing? Another example of a judicial system that can't seem to keep criminals in jail.
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Talent wasted with drugs, he could have gone to work for the Federal Reserve!
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Funny how this is counterfeiting punishable under law, but issuing billions of new credit unbacked by anything at all is not.  Its really the same thing. http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2996132
This guy is lucky he's alive if he was using counterfeit money to buy drugs. It must have been pretty convincing counterfeit...
Where is the Secret Service ? dont they handle counterfeiting cases ? 20 large in funny money to pay off depts and buy drugs this guys gonna have lots of enemies ! and he was arrested in march with counterfeit money and they didnt nail him then ? somethings fishy about this whole story , better get the secret service in on this one Pronto !
 @sportbuff01 On a serious note, with cases like this, they are notified usually the same day. They already know and have it logged in their tracking system.
 @sportbuff01 Yeah... The secret service could use those $20's at the local strip club.
@Stock Woodie @sportbuff01 lol