Woman
Pleads Guilty to
Printing Thousands in
Counterfeit Bills
Tarshema Brice isn't a magician, but with the help of a Hewlett-Packard 3-in-1 printer, she was able to turn a $5 bill into $50 or $100.
Brice, a 34-year-old hairstylist and janitor, was arrested last September and pleaded
Guilty to counterfeiting in April. In total, Brice admitted to producing between $10,000 to $20,000 in fake
Bills over two years
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Brice's counterfeiting operation was hardly complex. As
Bloomberg explains, Brice would take $5
Bills with a specific watermark and soak them in a degreaser called "Purple Power." Following that, she would take a toothbrush and scrub off the ink. After drying the
Bills with a hairdryer, she then would take the blank
Bills and print scanned images of a $50 or $100 bill
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