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A trio of Florida wise guys are lucky to have been arrested.

That\'s because the jokers were allegedly printing funny money on a home laser printer — and then using it to pay drug dealers.

Macclenny, Fla., residents Jeremy Randall Johnson, 32, and Kyle David Duncan and Adam Mallett, both 17, were charged last month with felony counterfeiting charges, said Chuck Brannan, chief investigator for the Baker County Sheriff\'s Office (search).

Brannan said Friday the teenagers would print about $20 to $30 at a time — in $1, $5 and $10 bills — on a Hewlett-Packard combination scanner/laser printer (search) in one boy\'s family kitchen.

They\'d then use the phony moolah to buy drugs from street dealers, he said. The fake bills started showing up in local stores on Feb. 2.

By the time of the trio\'s arrests Feb. 17, Brannan said, \"there had been some threats from drug dealers.\"

Brannan said Duncan showed him how they printed the bills on the machine, which was seized. The resulting fake $1 bill was of good quality, Brannan said.

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