*NEWS*CONN. MEN CHARGED PASSING FAKE CASH

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Date: Friday November 11, 2005 10:31:00 am
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    Conn. men charged with passing fake cash
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    NYACK — Two Connecticut men found with what police described as a trunk
    full of counterfeit bills in $1 and other denominations were ordered
    held on bail yesterday in the county jail following their arraignment
    on felony charges.
    Clarkstown police detectives found the bills in
    the trunk of a car driven by a man accused of trying to buy a
    half-dozen light bulbs with a phony $100 bill.
    “I’ve never seen a
    counterfeit $1 bill,” Sgt. Harry Baumann of the Clarkstown police said
    with a small laugh. “But they had a bunch of them.”
    Egra Hill, 41,
    and Addullah Badur Rahman, 35, both of Bridgeport, Conn., were
    arraigned late yesterday on charges of first-degree forgery of
    government-issued money, first-degree possession of a forged instrument
    and possession of forgery devices, all felonies, and criminal
    possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor. Justice Scott
    Ugell set their bail at $100,000 each.
    Secret Service agents, who investigate counterfeit money, were involved in the case and attended the court session.
    Sgt.
    Alan Armstrong said Hill and Rahman were arrested after officers were
    sent to The Home Depot at the Palisades Center about 6:20 p.m. Monday.
    A security guard alerted officers that someone had paid for a $7
    six-pack of light bulbs with a $100 bill that appeared to be phony, and
    they were leaving in a red Chevrolet, police said.
    Officers stopped the car in the parking lot, police said, and took the driver and a passenger into custody.
    Armstrong
    said that when police opened the car’s trunk, they found ink
    cartridges, razors, several apparently altered insurance cards for
    various vehicles, computer paper and printed sheets of half-completed
    bills. In all, police confiscated apparently forged notes, including
    $100s, $50s, $20s, $10s, $5s and $1s. Face value of the bills was more
    than $10,000, including money the two men had in their possession when
    they were arrested, Baumann said.
    In addition to the copied bills, officers found two straws that contained what appeared to be cocaine residue, Armstrong said.
    Members
    of the Secret Service interviewed the two men during the day, Baumann
    said. There is a chance the men were not working alone, and a chance
    that some of the counterfeit bills had already been passed in the area,
    he said.
    Generally, forgers don’t bother with small denominations of
    bills; they usually copy bills with a face value of $20 or higher. The
    penalty for passing a forged bill is the same, no matter what the face
    value: up to 15 years in prison and a $15,000 fine for first-degree
    forgery.
    Most businesses have devices at their cash registers that
    can be used to authenticate bills. Baumann said a Home Depot clerk used
    one of the devices on the $100 bill before having security call
    Clarkstown police. The bills in the men’s possession did not have any
    watermarks on them and the paper did not have the correct weave,
    Baumann said

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