No one throws huge wads of CASH in the garbage. So yeah, this was a red flag . . .
A 32-year-old guy near Huntsville, Alabama named Christopher Shock is facing serious jail time for printing a bunch of fake 20 and 50-dollar bills.
And he got caught after he threw out a bunch of rejects from a test run, and garbagemen found them in his trash.
They were really good forgeries and looked real. But once they pulled them out of the garbage, they realized they were printed on regular printing paper.
Police were able to link the bills to Christopher, because one of them was printed on the back of a receipt from the Alabama Pardons and Paroles department. And it had his info on it, including his full name and birth date.
In Alabama, the penalty for forgery is up to 20 years in prison PER BILL. So if they really go after him, he could be facing life in prison.
It looks like he's been doing it for a while. Police think that between 10 and 30 thousand dollars of his fake bills are already in circulation.