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Forgery suspect pleads innocent in bad bill case
By Kristin M. Kraemer, Herald staff writer
A Burbank woman pleaded innocent to allegations she tried to buy two packs of cigarettes with a $5 bill doctored to look like a $50.
Tammy Mora, 41, faces trial Jan. 11 on one count of forgery.
Prosecutors allege Mora walked into The Cigarette Store on Ely Street in Kennewick on Sept. 18 and handed over a $50 bill as payment.
The clerk became suspicious after noticing the internal strip read five dollars and the watermark showed President Lincoln's portrait instead of President Grant's. The clerk told Mora the bill was counterfeit and to wait until police arrived, but Mora claimed she couldn't wait because she had warrants out for her arrest, court documents said.
Mora then paid with a valid bill and left the store.
The clerk wrote down her license plate number, which police reportedly traced to Mora. She also was picked out of a photo montage by the clerk as the forgery suspect, documents said.
Mora was featured in a Tri-Cities Crime Stoppers wanted bulletin last month, and turned herself in to police the day it was published in the Tri-City Herald.
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