New York Man Allegedly Arrested With One Million In Fake Money Orders
A New York man was allegedly arrested with $1 million in fake money orders.
A man in New York could face 20 years in prison for the possession of 1,372 fake money orders totaling over a million dollars. Clarkstown, New York Police nabbed Shae Stevenson, 23, in his SUV after a minor traffic violation. He had been driving with a suspended license, and his car vehicle was being impounded when the fake money orders were discovered.
Monday, Shae Stevenson of Rockland County had inadvertently alerted Police to the fake money orders when, after being told that his vehicle was being impounded, he rushed to zip closed a duffel bag and remove it from the SUV. When the duffel bag was searched, a total of 1,372 fraudulent money orders were discovered having been forged from the United States Postal Service, alongside fake MoneyGrams from commercial pharmacy company CVS.
Shae Stevenson was arraigned Wednesday and released on $5,000 bail. The New York man is scheduled to come before the Clarkstown Justice Court August 7 after having made no plea.
Attorney Kevin Faga told ABC News:
“He is not making any comments. This isn’t a simple one-count case. When you have a 1,300-count case, it’s a substantial matter and we have a lot of investigation to do. The search and seizure appears questionable, and we definitely have to examine the propriety of the search. Shae is a good kid, his family is behind him and that’s all I can really say.”
Man facing prison for having $1 million in fake money orders: A Rockland County man was hit with 1,372 felony… goo.gl/fb/dsXl3
— Tom Flowers (@TomFlowers) June 13, 2013
Good or not, felony possession of forged instruments, in this case fake money orders, is a potential crime. Donna Harris of the US Postal Inspection Service stated, “Any fraudulent money orders, if you take it to a bank, they might not know. Only when it doesn’t clear do they find out it was actually fraudulent.”
CVS has not issued a comment.
The question is where New Yorker Shae Stevenson got the fake money orders from, and what he was planning to do with them.
What do you think of the New York man with the fake money orders? Could Shae Stevenson be innocent in his involvement with over one million dollars in forgeries?
