Police: Man uses fake money to buy fake drugs

[Betallsports]

Officers say some bogus bills were only printed on one side
ERWIN, Tenn. - A man was been arrested after police said he used counterfeit money to purchase fake OxyContin pills from an undercover officer. Unicoi County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 21-year-old man on Tuesday and charged him with criminal conspiracy with schedule II drugs, forgery and criminal simulation.
Investigator Frank Rogers said the officer met with several people at a mobile home park and arranged for the suspect and another man to come to Unicoi to buy 76 OxyContin pills for $4,875.
Officers said it was "obviously bad money" with some bills printed on just one side.

Authorities also tracked down the device believed used to make the counterfeit money.
The Johnson City Press reported officers expect to make more arrests in the case.

 

[FullyEclipsed]

The irony in that is pretty funny

 

[Betallsports]

Was this Guy Stoned ? or Just Stupid :think2:

 

[maxdemo]

76 OxyContin pills for $4,875....wtf was he crazy!!!
Thats $64.00 per pill...I can get oxy's for 10-15 per pill all day long...what an idiot.

 

[nhoj]

I was thinking the same thing Max in Houston they go for $10 or less.

 

[doomsdaycult9]

76 OxyContin pills for $4,875....wtf was he crazy!!!
Thats $64.00 per pill...I can get oxy's for 10-15 per pill all day long...what an idiot.

Limbaugh's personal pusher!

 

[CoolBreeze22]

Lucky for him he was buying from the cops, people kill for alot less than that.

 

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Hollywood man accused of printing fake $20 bills from home

Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel

1:56 PM EDT, August 23, 2011

HOLLYWOOD

Two months after authorities allegedly found uncut sheets of $20 bills at his home, a man with a lengthy criminal history has been indicted on charges of counterfeiting money.

Mark David Block, 54, was indicted by a federal grand jury last Thursday on one count each of making counterfeit money and possessing it, records show. If convicted, each crime would be punishable by up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.

Block has been to prison in Florida several times since the late 1980s, in cases ranging from grand theft to forgery to fraud, state records show.

During questioning by authorities in June, Block admitted producing an estimated $75,000 to $100,000 and circulating it across South Florida in recent months, according to a criminal complaint. But the charges against him were limited to $1,880 in fake bills allegedly found at his residence, federal records show.

The investigation of Block began on June 10, when Hollywood police responded to a domestic dispute call at his residence and saw the uncut sheets of fake money, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint doesn't specify where Block was residing.

Police called the United States Secret Service, whose agents determined the sheets totaled $960 in uncut counterfeit currency, the complaint said. After Block consented to a search of his home, an additional $920 in fake money was found, the complaint said. A Hewlett-Packard Office Jet All-In-One printer was confiscated from the home.

Block was arrested on unrelated felony arrest warrants and held at a Broward jail. Block was sentenced on June 21 to nearly four years in prison in unrelated cases of trafficking in stolen property, aggravated assault and grand theft, state records show.

He currently is serving his prison term at Dade Correctional Institution inFlorida City.

Staff researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report.

jcortega@tribune.com or 954-356-4701