Investigators found more than $32,000 in counterfeit money at a De Soto home on Sept. 21. A search also turned up the remains of an unknown amount of counterfeit money that had been burned or destroyed, four printers, a methamphetamine lab and a few grams of a substance believed to be crystal ice methamphetamine, De Soto Police Chief Jeff McCreary reported.
De Soto Police and the Jefferson County Municipal Enforcement Group Drug Task Force worked together on the investigation, at a residence in the 600 block of Boyd Avenue.
Two men, one from Pevely and one from De Soto, both 26, were arrested on suspicion of several crimes “relating to narcotics, counterfeiting and resisting arrest,” McCreary said.
De Soto Police had been conducting an investigation into counterfeiting and drug activity and requested help from the drug task force. The agencies entered the home at about noon on Sept. 21, he said.
“The Drug Task Force will be applying for formal charges,” McCreary said.