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Several members of
By Harold Morse
alleged counterfeiting
ring indicted
Star-BulletinOne person and three separate groups of his friends were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges of counterfeiting $20 bills in Hawaii.
Myron Moon is named in all three indictments. Also named with him in the first indictment are Inga Bertelmann, Donna Lung, Delores Ishii, Eric Francisco Apilando, Elizabeth Ah Toon, Randy Manuwa, Sandra Hashiguchi and Dennis Yamauchi.
This group is accused of counterfeiting from Sept. 4, 1997, to on or about March 5, 1998. Bertelmann is accused of allowing Moon to use her home computer and printer to make counterfeit U.S. bills, according to the indictment.
Bertelmann also is accused with Lung of passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a Kaneohe gas station, later passing three counterfeit $20 bills at a Kaneohe market and passing one counterfeit $20 at Windward Mall, and the indictment alleges Ishii passed two fake $20 bills at a Kaneohe fishing supply store.
Apilando and Ah Toon are accused of passing two of the bills at the YWCA in Kaneohe. This indictment also says Moon used Bertelmann's computer and printer in the summer of 1998 to make more counterfeit bills and that Hashiguchi gave counterfeit bills to Manuwa.
Moon and Yamauchi are further accused of passing a fake $20 at Taco Bell in Kaneohe.
The next indictment lists dates from March 1, 1998, to July 6, 1998, accusing Steven Jobe of allowing Moon to use his computer and printer to make counterfeit bills. Jobe also is said to have driven Moon to two Oahu nightclubs to pass fake bills.
The next indictment lists dates from Sept. 1, 1997, to Oct. 31, 1997. It names Moon, Sanford Sevilla and John Stark and says Sevilla provided his computer and printer to Moon to to make counterfeit bills, also that Stark allowed Moon and Sevilla to make counterfeit bills in his home. Stark is said to have passed a phony $20 at a Mililani store.
