Would-be Counterfeiter Tries to Return Printer with Fake Money Still Inside
By: NBC News
Updated: March 12, 2013
Pop quiz: If you are trying to print counterfeit bills and your printer breaks down, do you:
a) Try to return the broken printer, with parts missing, to the nearest Walmart?
b) Play dumb when one of your sheets of fake $100s is still in the disputed printer?
c) Pick a fight with the Walmart staff when they refuse to give you the refund, prompting them to call the police?
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
Chances are, you'd choose "e." But failed mega-money printer Jarad S. Carr went with "d.
Yes, when Carr went to Walmart to return the printer last week, he didn't have a receipt. Not only was it missing the paper tray and installer CD, there was a sheet of paper in it -- with two $100 bills printed on it.
The employees at the store in the Village of Lake Hallie, Wis. were trying to help Carr as best they could, but he wasn't doing much to help himself, insisting on a refund even after the fake bills were discovered.
When a clerk handed him the piece of paper he crumpled it up, asked another clerk to throw it away, and then kept pushing for a refund, even trying to get half price for the printer, Lake Hallie Police Chief Cal D. Smokowicz told NBC News Monday. Walmart employees called police after Carr became even more insistent when the store said it would not take back the printer, and he refused to leave.
"He continues to stay there to try to barter with Walmart employees, saying he was willling to accept a lower price," Smokowicz said.
Smokowicz and another officer responded to the call, and when they got there and tried to arrest Carr, 37, he resisted and then tried to leave the store, the only Walmart in the town of 6,700 residents.
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