Fake Money Buys Jail Time
by Ben Hogwood

Morristown Police arrested an Albany woman for counterfeiting $20 bills
after she attempted to purchase candy with them in Morrisville, on
September 21.
Tara Beaudry, 19, was arraigned the same day and held for lack of
$50,000 bail.
Police were called to the Morrisville Mobil on Route 15 on September 20
after the store received a counterfeit $20 bill in payment for gasoline.
The store manager showed patrolman Garth Christensen a videotape of the
incident, where an accomplice of Beaudry came from a vehicle and paid
for gas with a phony bill. Beaudry then came from the same vehicle and
tried to purchase candy with a $20 bill. The store manager did not
accept this one and, after the two had left, noticed the bill used to
pay for the gas was also counterfeit.
Christensen later learned that the Yankee Dollar store in Morrisville
filed a complaint of a person passing off a fake $20 bill on Friday,
September 17.
In the affidavit, Christensen stated the bill did not have a hologram,
nor did it have the stripe through the inside of the bill. Christensen
had the Union Bank in Morrisville check the bill, which verified it as
being counterfeit.
On September 21, five officers of the Morristown Police Department and
two members of the Orleans County Sheriff's Department conducted a
search at Beaudry's residence in Albany. Beaudry was arrested and told
police that she and the accomplice, who will be arraigned at a later
date, scanned a $20 into her computer and then tried to pass the copies
out. She said she printed them on regular paper.
During the search, police also found 55 used heroin bags, several
syringes and several spoons with a white residue. Beaudry told
Christensen she had a heroin problem and needed help.
Morristown Police Chief Richard Keith said Beaudry has a previous
drug-related felony conviction