Hayden man sentenced for counterfeiting

COEUR d'ALENE — For manufacturing counterfeit bills, a 41-year-old Hayden man has been sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Travis Lou Quiring was sentenced on Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Quiring to pay $1,785 in restitution and forfeit all the counterfeit-manufacturing material.

Quiring pleaded guilty to the charge on July 28, 2015.

According to the plea agreement, Quiring admitted he washed and counterfeited Federal Reserve notes by washing $1 bills or $5 bills and printing larger denomination Federal Reserve notes on top of the washed bills. These counterfeit bills were passed to numerous merchants in North Idaho and elsewhere.

The case was investigated by U.S. Secret Service and Coeur d’Alene Police.

Quiring has been booked into the Kootenai County jail 31 times as an adult. Charges included theft, possession of stolen property, drug paraphernalia and a controlled substance, burglary, DUI, battery, grand theft and domestic battery.