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ST. LOUIS, MO -- The following is a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office of Eastern Missouri;

Three people have entered guilty pleas to passing counterfeit $20 and $10 dollar bills in Hannibal and Bowling Green, MO, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap announced today.

According to court documents, on August 6, 2009, Ronald Olivier passed a counterfeit $20 bill at a Dairy Queen in Bowling Green, MO.  He was arrested by Bowling Green police officers.  A subsequent investigation revealed that Olivier had been in a vehicle being driven by another man.  Police discovered that the vehicle had been towed in Hannibal and had been associated with an earlier robbery.  Hannibal police stopped the same vehicle later that day.  Bobby Ray Waters was driving, and Sabrina Parks a/k/a Sabrina Inlow was a passenger.   Police discovered that she had been in a Pickadilly store in Hannibal on August 5 when another counterfeit $20 had been passed.

Sabrina Renee Inlow, a/k/a Sabrina Parks, 27, Hannibal, MO; and Bobby Ray Waters, 31, Hannibal, MO; plead guilty today; co-defendant Ronald E. Olivier, 41, Springfield, IL, plead Tuesday, October 13.  All three defendants plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to make and pass counterfeit currency.  Olivier also plead to an additional count of passing counterfeit currency.  Sentencing has been set for January 15, 2010 for Olivier; and January 22, 2010 for Inlow and Waters.  They appeared before United States District Judge Donald J. Stohr.

The conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or fines up to five years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000; each count of passing counterfeit currency carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000.

Reap commended the work on the case by the United States Secret Service, the Hannibal and Bowling Green Police Departments; and Assistant United States Attorney James E. Crowe, Jr, who is handling the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office