Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 9, 1990 TAG: 9005090333
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
It was not the most complicated of counterfeiting schemes - Jordan, 29, of Roanoke, simply ran a bill through a copying machine and tried to spend the replicated Benjamin Franklin for gas and rental movies at an Orange Avenue convenience store.
Nor was it the most complicated of trials - in a hearing that lasted less than a minute, Jordan pleaded guilty Tuesday to obtaining money by false pretenses.
Roanoke General District Court Judge Edward S. Kidd imposed a 10-day jail sentence with all but two days suspended. Jordan had originally been charged with a felony, but the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.
Although officials at the Racetrack store on Orange Avenue accepted the photocopied $100 bill in March, they were suspicious because of the bill's color and texture.
So they took down the license plate number of the car Jordan left in and called police.
When first confronted by authorities, Jordan said the bill was faded because it was accidentally washed along with the rest of his laundry. But he later admitted the fake bill had been through a copying machine, not a washing machine.
Judge Kidd allowed Jordan to pull his two-day jail stint over the weekend - but not until the weekend of May 18.
"I think the hotel's full this weekend," Kidd said.
by CNB