N.C. man and woman plead guilty to making and passing counterfeit currency

The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.
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Oct. 26—BECKLEY, W.Va. — Crystal Wilks, 23, and Jamarcus Harris, 32, both of Lenoir, N.C., each pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 13, to conspiracy to create and pass counterfeit United States currency in the Southern District of West Virginia.

According to court records, Wilks and Harris traveled with two of their co-conspirators from North Carolina on Oct. 12, 2022, to West Virginia.

Wilks and Harris admitted that they passed counterfeit $100 bills at businesses in Beckley, Fayetteville and Summersville.

Wilks, Harris and their co-conspirators rented a room that evening at a Summersville hotel, where they attempted to create new counterfeit United States currency. Wilks and Harris admitted that their counterfeiting process involved bleaching $1 bills, scanning a genuine $100 bill, and printing the resulting image on the bleached bills.

Wilks and Harris are scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 26. Each faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.