So one of my best friends from home (29 years old) He works 60 hours a week (makes about 60k a year) and is finishing up his 2nd major in school at the same time.. Pretty good kid, got in trouble for a few dumb things when he was younger like drinking in public and running from the cops when he was like 19 or 20... but nothing in the last 9 years or so.... So anyways, he works on bridges for a living, went to Home Depot and bought some stuff paid with a $100.00 bill, bought like $50.00 worth of stuff.. So then he goes to Mcdonalds, gets some food, pays with a $20.00 bill that he just got back as change, the manager behind the counter looks at the bill and says this kind of looks fake, my friend asks to see it back, and a direct quote "It looks good to me, who checks $20's anyways?" So the dude just gives him the food, as he's driving off, he uses one of those felt pens and sees it's fake, the Mcdonalds guy writes down his plates and calls the cops.... by the time he gets home there are 3 police cars waiting for him.... They take him into custody and bring him to the station....

He gets to the police station (This is obv a small town btw, where nothing ever happens, so the cops are all over this) They start grilling him thinking he's like the mastermind behind making fake counterfeit bills (There has been a few of them going around the small town lately I guess), my friend just starts getting mad, basically calling the cops stupid and to go to Home Depot etc, it was just wrong place wrong time kinda shit.. The cops don't care at all, and are totally trying to throw the book at him..The next day he's on the front page of the newspaper ( He's the link if anyone wants to read it. http://www.eagletribune.com/punewshh...yword=topstory and once again, we live in a Small town, he's basically the talk of the town now, which basically means he stands no chance at ever getting a job ever again around there, and might lose his job now because of this....

They are charging him with "Uttering a counterfeit note" and basically trying to throw the book at him, and are working on more charges...... I guess it's a pretty serious charge, and even though it seems like total common sense that he didn't make the counterfeit bill, and obviously didn't know he had one....(I'm 100% sure if they thought he was "Making these bills", they would have raided his house looking for shit.. which they didn't which obviously means they are just trying to be dicks about it all) they are trying to make an example out of him for whatever reason, because it's a small town and they have nothing better to do.... So his family is telling him to get a lawyer, which every lawyer said they wanted between 4-5k to take on the case... What's your play here? Just one of those shitty things that really could happen to anyone... and unfortunately these cops just have it out for him.....

Edit: I just found out he tried to have the police give him a polygraph test (they actually have a polygraph test there too I guess), and they refused saying it's not admissible in court, so what's the point.... He said "Because it will prove to you I didn't do it" and they said "Well people can beat it so that means nothing" What a joke...

pm willywoo

 

Originally Posted by MartyConlon

That's the problem, is they arn't going through his house.... I mean it's pretty obvious a 29 year old kid, who makes 60k a year works 60 hours a week, and goes to college to work on a 2nd major, (and trust me is not the computer type) isn't doing this, but he was a punk kid 9 years ago, it's still the same cops in the small town 9 years later that never liked him and are trying to get him for whatever they can... But like I said, if they thought he did it, they cops and feds prob would have been searching his place in 5 minutes..... They are just trying to be dicks...

If that's the case and the charges get dropped, I hope your friend sues for harassment and improper treatment. I'm sure he can get something because the cops sure seem like they did the whole thing improperly.

lol so they were waiting at his house to arrest him but then never bother to get a search warrant and look for any type of counterfeiting equipment/evidence?

some of my friends had fake 20's passed to them at a kegger at their house some years ago. No big deal, taken in, questioned, comps taken and the like, the cops had nothing to charge them with. Without any proof, and only 1 fake bill to work with, any reasonable judge would throw this right out. Public defender would be competent too.

 

Originally Posted by cchan

so when someone questions the possible fake bill, he counters with who checks 20s anyway?

lol probably the wrong thing to say IMO

LOL Haverhill

 

Originally Posted by LatestLines2

LOL Haverhill

lol exactly..... it's that Mcdonald's right on the Plaistow/Haverhill Mass/NH Border....

he should roll over on his supplier. Home Depot's the real criminal here.

tell your friend to get a lawyer

I would still hire an attorney but this is a very difficult charge for a prosecutor to prove up.

To be found guilty of uttering the accused has to have passed or attempted to pass a counterfeit Federal Reserve note. The accused must have known at that time that the note was fake and that the person passed the fake note willingly and with the intent to defraud.

 

Originally Posted by TheFirm53

I would still hire an attorney but this is a very difficult charge for a prosecutor to prove up.

To be found guilty of uttering the accused has to have passed or attempted to pass a counterfeit Federal Reserve note. The accused must have known at that time that the note was fake and that the person passed the fake note willingly and with the intent to defraud.

I hear ya, it's just one of those things, where if I was him, personally, I'd much rather take that $5,000 that I worked my ass off for, and go to Hawaii for two weeks, instead of paying it to a lawyer for basically a ton of nonsense that he should never be getting charged for.....Just a tough call......

Just have Aunt Bea bake an apple pie for him to give the judge; Opie can bring it over - everyone loves that freckly little rascal!

 

Originally Posted by kellykip

Just have Aunt Bea bake an apple pie for him to give the judge; Opie can bring it over - everyone loves that freckly little rascal!

Damn that is such a lame situation. How can you charge someone with counterfeiting unless you have tons of evidence they are doing so? I mean the whole point of counterfeiting is to swap out fake money with real money over time, so if someone is successful in doing so there are always going to be innocent people with fake money who shouldn't get in trouble.

i like how the paper just throws him to the wolves with name and address.