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DQ worker’s tip nets bust of counterfeiting ring here
Staff
Report TRUTH
OR CONSEQUENCES, NM - May 18, 2001 - The tip of an employee at Dairy Queen in
Truth or Consequences after receiving a counterfeit $100 bill resulted in the
arrest of five people from Sedalia, Missouri, last weekend. According
to criminal complaints filed Monday in the Sierra County Magistrate Court, a
female employee of Dairy Queen on Date Street reported the store had accepted a
fake $100 bill for food that had been ordered Saturday evening, May 12. She
called police while the customers, who had received their food and change from
the purchase, were still in the store. “After
merely touching the bill, it was clear to T or C Police Department Officer Willy
Kerin that the bill was counterfeit,” according to the statement of probable
cause. Police
arrested the following five persons on various charges with the magistrate court
setting bond: ·
Justin Cole Meyer, 24 - two counts of forgery (issuing or
transferring counterfeit $100 bills) and a count of conspiracy to commit
forgery; bond set at $100,000 cash; preliminary hearing set for 11 a.m. Monday,
May 21. ·
Thomas Lee Meyer, 49 – a count each of possession of a
controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of drug paraphernalia and
conspiracy to commit forgery; bond set at $50,000 cash; preliminary hearing set
for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 23. ·
Angel Ann Meyer, 27 – two counts of forgery and a count of
conspiracy to commit forgery; bond set at $50,000 cash; preliminary hearing set
for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 23. ·
Amy Lynn Lamb, 26 – two counts of forgery and a count of
conspiracy to commit forgery; bond set at $50,000 cash only; preliminary hearing
set for 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 23. ·
Matthew Jeremiah Sanders, 23 – a count each of possession of a
controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to commit
forgery; bond set at $50,000 cash; preliminary hearing set for 9 a.m. Thursday,
May 24, was waived by defendant. All
five defendants entered no plea during their first appearance on the felony
charges Monday in magistrate court. The preliminary examinations next week will
be held in the Sierra County Magistrate Court, 155 W. Barton Ave. in T or C. Police
said they arrested three of the suspects at the Dairy Queen including Justin
Meyer, Amy Lamb and Angel Meyer. During interviews of these suspects, police
learned they also had passed fake $100 bills to the new Fast Stop Texaco station
on North Date Street and to Taco Bell in the same building complex. The
trio told police they came from Missouri and were heading for an overnight stay
in Tucson, AZ, along with two other people who had left them at Dairy Queen.
Within an hour or so, one man named “Matt” returned to the Dairy Queen
looking for them. Unable
to find his friends, “Matt” – who was later identified by police as
Jeremiah Matthew Sanders – left in a tan Jeep. Police
found the Jeep with a Missouri license plate in the parking lot of the Super 8
motel in T or C to find it was registered to Justin Meyer. The
motel desk clerk advised police of the room the occupants of the Jeep were
staying and upon their knocking, Tom Meyer – the husband of Angel Meyer and
the father of Justin Meyer - came to the door. Police also found Jeremiah
Sanders in the room. During
a search of the room upon the occupants’ consent, police found five syringes
under the mattress as well as four packets of apparent methamphetamine. Tom
Meyer told police the substance belonged to him, according to the affidavit for
a search warrant. <<<
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