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 Sheriff’s Office charges one for counterfeit $10 bills, warns merchants web posted August 29, 2009  EDGEFIELD – The
Edgefield County Sheriff’s
Office made an arrest Friday morning of a man they claim was passing
counterfeit $10 bills at a rural store on Highway 378 on Wednesday and
Thursday. Montrell Tramaine Wideman, 23, is in custody on a single
count of forgery and additional charges could be pending Chief
Investigator Randy Doran said. It is believed a number of fake bills
are currently circulating in the area and merchants are advised to be
on the look out for more. Inv. Doran said Wideman is accused of using one of the fake bills at Winn’s Grocery on Wednesday. He is said to have returned on Thursday when the owner discovered the bill was fake and contacted law enforcement. After a photo line up Wideman was identified and a warrant for his arrest was issued. “When he was picked up he had three more (of the bills) in his pocket,” Inv. Doran said. Click on Picture for larger view  The $10 bills are slightly smaller than a
normal bill, have uneven cuts
on the edges, are crumbled and look somewhat washed out. Local
merchants are advised to be on the look out for the counterfeit bills
and contact law enforcement at once if they encounter anyone trying to
pass them off as real.The bills all contain the same serial number GF 00237040 B and do not contain the standard watermark that should be seen when holding the bill up to a light source. The case remains under investigation and at least one other man accompanied Wideman when he used the faked bills. Inv. Doran said a Greenwood man was arrested on Wednesday and found to have $15,000 of allegedly counterfeit bills in his possession at the time. “They got a laptop computer, a printer, and drugs,” Doran said. Derrick Jermaine Lewis, 29, is being held in Greenwood County on multiple drug trafficking charges for crack cocaine and marijuana as well as forgery. The Secret Service has been contacted in the case, Inv. Doran said, as well as calls to Greenwood County to see if the bill’s serial numbers are the same. “It could be they are coming out of Greenwood,” Doran said. “Until we hear back from them we don’t know.” © Copyright 2009
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