A Memphis, Tenn., man has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for using faking $100 bills throughout the St. Louis area and Perryville. He passed the fake money in at least three stores in Arnold, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office reported.
U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Tuesday, Aug. 13, sentenced Barry Young, 45, to prison and ordered him to pay $3,300 in restitution. In April, Young pleaded guilty to one felony count of passing counterfeit obligations, court records show.
According to the guilty plea, Young used counterfeit $100 bills in February and March 2023 in at least 10 stores in Arnold, Brentwood, Crestwood, Fenton, St. Louis County and Perryville. He would use one to four fake bills at each store, passing a total of $3,300 of the counterfeit currency.
Young used four fake $100 bills on Feb. 28, 2023, at a store in Arnold. On the same day, he used three counterfeit bills at a store in Perryville, the guilty plea said.
He used four fake $100 bills on March 3, 2023, at a store in St. Louis County, and on March 6, 2023, he used two counterfeit bills at a store in Fenton, according to the guilty plea.
Young returned to Arnold on March 7, 2023, and he used two counterfeit bills at one store before going to another store, where he also passed two fake $100 bills, the guilty plea said.
He used the counterfeit money on March 9, 2023, at a Brentwood store, where he used three counterfeit bills. On March 11, 2023, Brentwood Police stopped a vehicle he was driving, and the officers recovered a fake $100 bill and saw a printer and paper cutter in the vehicle, according to the guilty plea.
On March 13, 2023, Young used a fake $100 bill at a store in Fenton, and on the same day, he passed two counterfeit bills at a store in Crestwood, the guilty plea said.
The U.S. Secret Service and the Arnold, Brentwood, Crestwood, St. Louis County and Perryville police departments investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Roy prosecuted the case.