Anaheim Counterfeiter Who Used PC Gets 3 Years

An Anaheim man convicted of using a personal computer and scanner to produce bogus checks and $20 bills was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison.

Working out of a Yorba Linda garage, Kevin Metcalf, 38, may have manufactured as much as $120,000 in fake currency and corporate checks, prosecutors said.

“He used special paper and ink to make the money appear realistic,” said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, which prosecuted the case.

Metcalf, a real estate appraiser, was arrested after a cohort tried to sell counterfeit checks to an undercover Secret Service agent during a sting operation.