A Florida woman pleaded guilty to four counts of passing counterfeit cash while on state probation.
Lyndsey Rhea Markland of 41, Panama City, faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each count and payment of restitution to the victims she defrauded. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
According to court documents and public records, in 2022, Markland entered various businesses in Brevard, Clay, Duval, and Seminole counties and purchased gift cards and merchandise using counterfeit money.
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Law enforcement subsequently determined that Markland and her co-defendant, Neal Evan Pollman, 42, Panama City, stayed at the Comfort Inn in Palm Bay.
In November 2022, the Palm Bay Police Department (PBPD) executed a search warrant at the Comfort Inn and located Markland inside her room.
Also located in the room was approximately $30,000 in counterfeit currency and an HP printer for manufacturing the counterfeit cash.
Pollman and Markland appeared in federal court on April 27, 2023, pursuant to a writ bringing them to Jacksonville from the Bay County Jail, where they are serving a jail sentence for violating their state probation on multiple charges related to passing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes.
The court ordered Pollman and Markland detained pending trial.
Pollman was charged with one count of manufacturing and nine counts of passing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. He is scheduled for trial in July 2023.
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