Detroit trio arrested in regionwide counterfeiting ring

Three Detroit males have been charged with working a counterfeit ring throughout the area, passing counterfeit $100 payments.

Detectives with the Canton Police Division launched an investigation after noticing a rise in counterfeit $100 payments being handed at native companies and studying that a number of communities in southeastern Michigan have been experiencing related incidents.

A joint investigation involving detectives from Canton and the Plymouth Township and Northville Township police departments, together with the U.S. Secret Service, led investigators to a house within the 17000 block of Salem Avenue in Detroit the place counterfeit foreign money was being manufactured.

The police arrested three males there, aged 24, 25 and 26; and after acquiring a search warrant, police found a foreign money manufacturing enterprise on the residence that included printers, chemical substances, instruments and ink used to supply counterfeit foreign money. A number of firearms have been additionally recovered, a few of which have been confirmed stolen.

The three males have been charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Workplace with forgery – possession of 5 or extra payments, which carries a penalty of life in jail “or a number of years in jail”; and possession of counterfeit instruments, a criminal offense punishable by as much as 10 years in jail. Two of the lads are additionally suspected of firearms offences.

The three males have been arraigned in Detroit’s thirty sixth District Court docket on December 13 and issued a $100,000 private bond, with a requirement to put on a GPS tether and be confined to their residence. Their subsequent scheduled court docket look is December 30.

Contact Keith Matheny: kmatheny@freepress.com.