Two men, including one from Lamar, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to utter and possess counterfeit commercial checks, U.S. Attorney Walter Wilkins said in a press release.
Forty-two-year-old Timothy Hicks, along with 32-year-old Saleem Edward Webb of Columbia, will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Margaret B. Seymour of Columbia later. They face a $250,000 fine and five year in prison.
Hicks, Webb, 22-year-old Christopher Rahsean Sam of Lamar and 33-year-old Keith Letrell Johnson of Estill were charged in an indictment with conspiracy to make, utter and possess counterfeit commercial checks in late April.
The indictment alleges that in May and June 2006, Johnson manufactured counterfeit commercial checks and provided those checks to Hicks, Sam and Webb, who cashed the checks at different locations.
Johnson also is charged with committing the offense while he was released on bond. He faces a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison consecutive to any other sentence if convicted of that charge.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anne Hunter Young of the Columbia office is prosecuting the case.
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