AP GraphicA federal grand jury today indicted three Atlanta men for trafficking
in counterfeit Super Bowl XLVII tickets, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce
White Vance and Homeland Security Investigations Special
Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr.
The
grand jury also charged two of the three men with possessing and
concealing counterfeit U.S. currency. The fake money and 57
counterfeited
tickets were seized following a Jan. 31 traffic stop in Sumter County.
The indictment filed in U.S. District
Court charges Dwight E. Wilcoxson, 53, Anthony A. Hunter, 47, and Darryl A. Wesby, 45, with conspiring to transport and sell, and possessing
counterfeit tickets to the Feb. 3 Super Bowl
in New Orleans.
The indictment also charges that
Wilcoxson, with intent to defraud, possessed and concealed $4,820 in
counterfeit $100 and $20 bills on Jan. 31. Hunter faces the same charge
for possessing and concealing $2,240 in counterfeit
$100 and $20 bills.
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Pat Meadows is prosecuting the case.
An indictment is merely an allegation
and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a
reasonable doubt.
