counterfeiting

James Watkins told a U.S. Secret Service agent that he alone printed the counterfeit bills, and he had been counterfeiting for several years.

Some of the confiscated counterfeit bills had identical serial numbers.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigated the illegal alien case.

A Casper man was sentenced to 1.5 years imprisonment for counterfeiting.

Federal judges sentenced four people last week for crimes including counterfeiting, drugs, and illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien, according to a news release from the Wyoming U.S. Attorney's Office.