The Justice Department issued the following statement.
A Rankin County woman was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for possessing and passing counterfeit currency.
Mary Glassmire Sessums, 43, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Jackson.
According to court documents, an investigation by the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office, the Pelahatchie Police Department and the Brandon Police Department identified Mary Glassmire Sessums and Purvis Dustin Ward as individuals who had been passing counterfeit United States currency in Rankin County. On November 2, 2019, several residents of Rankin County reported that a man and a woman had been making purchases at garage sales using counterfeit currency. One of the local residents took a picture of the suspects’ car and provided a tag number and description to law enforcement. Officers from the Pelahatchie Police Department later stopped the vehicle. During the stop, officers observed what appeared to be counterfeit United States currency in plain view in the vehicle. Sessums and Ward were arrested for possession of counterfeit currency. Several victims later identified Sessums and Ward as the individuals who fraudulently passed counterfeit United States currency to make purchases.
Rankin County Deputies obtained a search warrant for Ward’s residence and located counterfeit currency, uncut sheets of counterfeit currency as well as two computers, three printers, specialty ink and paint, all of which was used to produce counterfeit currency.
Sessums pled guilty on March 13, 2024 to possessing and passing counterfeit currency.
Ward previously pled guilty to one count of making counterfeit currency and one count of possessing and passing counterfeit currency. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Todd W. Gee and Resident Agent in Charge Kyle Smith of the United States Secret Service made the announcement.
The case was investigated by the United States Secret Service, the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office, the Pelahatchie Police Department and the Brandon Police Department.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Kabah Ealy and Dave Fulcher.
10 comments:
Only in StankinRankin would someone print counterfeit money and spend it at garage sales.
Why? Just why? Garage sale purchases????
For the love of money!
6:58 you buy a $2.00 item, pay for it with a $20.00 counterfeit bill and get $18.00 good money back in change.
I’m glad the Government jumped all over this lest our money become worthless under a deluge of bank notes made from nothing more than green ink and paper.
@7:37 - yeah, we get it, but damn, how much fake money you gotta pass at a garage sale to amount to anything! That's a true Rankin County Redneck!
They were caught in November 2019, and she's just now being sentenced. The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slowly.
This crime sucks. Especially because you are hurting a normal everyday person selling things at a garage sale.
The biggest crime is our 40+ years of deficit spending across both parties and administrations and the money printing by both sides that debase our dollar and devalue it way more than any kind of individual like this could.
Little people pay taxes. And get sent to jail.
Not sure I understand 10:00 AM's comment. The people doing the garage sale are most likely "little people" just trying to get by during this Biden Inflation. They are victims of the one passing the counterfit money. The one who is manufacturing counterfit should go to jail. We have enough happening on the Federal level we cannot trust; Lord knows we need to trust our money or we are all sunk.
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