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Southeast Missouri counterfeit suspects get prison time for a counterfeiting ring

Jun 27, 2012 -- 3:28pm

 

Three of the five suspects accused in a counterfeiting ring get federal prison time for their role in the crime.  22-year-old Darius Robinson, 19-year-old Brynet Trice, and 25-year-old Jessica Gross, 28-year-old Terry Hester, and 29-year-old Darius Lankford each pled guilty to counterfeiting in U-S District Court in Cape.  They made and passed fake 10, 20, and 50-dollar bills at businesses in Dexter, Cape, Sikeston, and Poplar Bluff in October 2011.  Gross and Trice were sentenced to 5-years probation, Hester received 18-months in prison, Lankford 15-months, and Robinson got 24-months.  They were all ordered to pay 3-thousand-10-dollars in restitution. 

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