By Tonia Rose, staff writer
Feb. 3, 2010 — A Grayson woman involved in the manufacturing of counterfeit money will spend the next two years behind bars.
Sally Marie Kemplin, 30, was ordered Jan. 25 into the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson W.Va., for her Oct. 13 guilty plea to one charge of aiding and abetting in manufacturing of counterfeit obligations.
Between Dec. 3, 2007 and Dec. 7, 2007, Kemplin, Cody Aaron Burnett, Yvette Lynn Dunn and Kerry Lee Blevins fabricated numerous $100 bills and used the money to purchase OxyContin.
During her plea agreement hearing in Ashland’s U.S. District Court, Kemplin told Judge David Bunning about her role in the conspiracy.
“I cut the bills while knowing that they were going to be used for purchases,” she said.
The four-day crime spree began when the four traveled together Dec. 3 to the Grayson K-Mart to purchase a HP DeskJet printer, used to imitate the money.
After producing the bills, Kemplin and Dunn drove to an unknown residence in Grayson and bought several OxyContin pills.
Later that afternoon, Kemplin and Dunn met another individual at the Grayson Post Office and purchased an additional 10 pills with $300 in counterfeit bills.
Afterward, they drove to the Junior Food Mart parking lot where they exchanged more money for seven other OxyContin tablets.
That evening they returned to K-Mart for a refund on the printer.
In addition to her prison sentence, the Bureau of Prison recommends that Kemplin participate in a 500-hour residential drug aftercare program.
Burnett, Dunn and Blevins all pleaded guilty June 15.
