A Buffalo man was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison for making counterfeit $100 bills and attempting to cash them in more than 60 stores and restaurants in Buffalo, Amherst, Clarence and Orchard Park.
Eric M. Butson was convicted of conspiracy to falsely make and pass counterfeit federal reserve notes, according to U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross.
Butson and Catalina Hernandez are accused of possessing various tools and equipment necessary to make and manufacture false bills.
Using tools such as computers, ink-jet printers, ink and bleach, they made and manufactured counterfeit $100 bills and passed, or attempted to pass, the bills approximately 67 times at various businesses, prosecutors said.
A search of trash Feb. 6 at Butson and Hernandez’s residence turned up a partial counterfeit bill, printer paper with outlines of bills used to align for printing, receipts and bags from businesses on Elmwood Avenue where counterfeit bills were passed, along with their handwritten addresses, according to prosecutors.
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