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2 in St. Lucie County arrested in counterfeiting scheme¶
By The Palm Beach Post¶
Wednesday, June 10, 2009¶
FORT PIERCE — It wasn’t burnt breakfast St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office detectives smelled Tuesday morning when they knocked on the apartment door in the 6500 block of Yedra Avenue.¶
Instead, it was burnt counterfeit money, and Brenda Hopkins, 46, and Ronald Jensen, 51, are facing charges of counterfeiting money and possessing the tools for counterfeiting money, a news release from the Sheriff’s Office states. Jensen faces an additional charge for destroying evidence.¶
About 7:44 a.m. Tuesday, Sheriff’s Office detectives and U.S. Marshals were serving a felony petit theft arrest warrant for Hopkins, when she ran out of the back sliding door and was caught by law enforcement officers, the arrest affidavit states.¶
After entering the apartment, a detective smelled an odor and heard Jensen making noises in the bathroom. The detective found burnt $20 bills inside the toilet bowl and a stack of folded $20 bills on the back of the toilet, the news release states. Detectives found at total of $1,680 in counterfeit $20 bills, $43 in bleached $1 bills, and one bleached $5 bill, the release states.¶
Jensen and Hopkins have requested an attorney, the release states. As of Wednesday afternoon, Hopkins was in St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of $41,000 bail, jail records show. Jensen was released on $15,000 bail on Tuesday evening, jail records show.¶
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