Albert Lea Couple Sentenced to A Year in Prison for Fake Money | News

An Albert Lea husband and wife who admitted making fake money will each spend one year in federal prison.

That's the sentence handed down Monday to 31-year-old Travis and 34-year-old Heather Cameron.  They were indicted along with six others in 2011 for their involvement in a counterfeiting ring that targeted businesses along Interstate 35 between the Twin Cities and Iowa.

Federal investigators say they washed five dollar bills and re-printed them to look like hundreds.  "The defendants in this case were relatively sophisticated in their means of counterfeiting U.S. currency. They used a process commonly referred to as  bleaching notes," says Special Agent Louis Stephens, with the U.S. Secret Service.