Marine is held in Naha on charges of counterfeiting

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Marine is held in Naha on charges of counterfeiting
By David Allen and Chiyomi Sumida, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, March 23, 2008

NAHA, Okinawa — A 20-year-old Marine assigned to 3rd Marine Logistics Group was indicted in Naha General District Court on Friday on charges of forging and passing counterfeit currency.

Pfc. Phillip C. Scott was immediately turned over to Japanese police custody and is being held in the Naha Detention Center pending a trial. No hearing date has been set.

Marine spokesman Master Sgt. Charles Albrecht said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service worked with Japanese police on the probe into fake $20 bills that first surfaced in September at businesses in central Okinawa.

the indictment focuses on four incidents in November.

According to the indictment, Scott made some of the bills in his barracks room on Camp Kinser, using a photocopier and printing the images on cheap paper.


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