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‘We made history bro’: Tennessee man accused of using fake money to buy $160,000 of jewelry from Downtown Crossing shop
@Source: boston.com
A Tennessee man was charged after allegedly using counterfeit money to buy $160,000 of jewelry from a Downtown Crossing shop in April, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced Wednesday.
Devin Johnson, 20, was arraigned July 22 on one count of larceny over $1200 and ordered to stay away from the jewelry shop, a press release said.
Johnson’s partner in the crime has not been arraigned yet, prosecutors said.
The two men gloated over their initial success on social media, posting videos and still shots, prosecutors said. On one site, the second suspect held a rose-colored watch and captioned the post, “We made history bro,” according to a press release.
Two men allegedly paid $160,000 in cash for several expensive items from a Temple Place jewelry shop on April 23, prosecutors said.
The items included a rose gold and diamond bracelet worth $15,000, a rose gold and diamond chain worth $50,000, a Rolex Presidential 40mm watch worth $45,000, a Rolex Datejust watch worth $23,000, and a gold and diamond tennis chain worth $30,000, according to the release.
Boston police responded to the shop April 25 when employees realized the $160,000 was counterfeit after putting it through a money counter.
The bills had the words “In Prop We Trust” written on them, and resembled ones used in movies, according to detectives.
Detectives identified Johnson and his partner through video surveillance footage, as well as a rented white Ford Bronco registered under the partner’s name, prosecutors said.
Detectives obtained arrest warrants in June, the release said.
“The facts here outline an incredibly audacious scheme to purchase real jewelry—and hugely expensive jewelry at that—with phony money, which eventually came undone through thorough, tenacious work by Boston police detectives,” Hayden said. “These suspects, like so many others, may have thought they got away with something. Like so many others, they thought wrong,”
Johnson will appear in court Sept. 23 for a pretrial hearing, Hayden said.
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