Jeffrey Patrick Turner is a convicted counterfeiter of U.S. Federal Reserve Notes. He is responsible for producing over a million dollars of counterfeit $100 dollar bills. His arrest on May 2nd 2019 resulted in a 10 month sentence with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Turner was born on November 7th, 1986 in Sunrise, FL. After relocating to Palm Harbor, FL. when he was only three years old, he attended Tarpon Springs High School and eventually St. Petersburg College. Turner began selling drugs as a young adult and started counterfeiting by the age of 19.
In 2012, Turner started employment at a local sign and print shop in Dunedin, FL. where he learned graphic design. After relocating to Knoxville, TN. in 2014, he continued his career in the sign industry and in 2017 was involved in a work related truck accident that resulted in his termination from his job at Sycamore Sign Service. With the lease for his home expiring soon, Turner decided to return to a life of crime, specifically counterfeiting.
Turner spent over a month editing certain digital files of the one hundred dollar Federal Reserve Note, layering the files which enabled him to print realistic replica banknotes. Turners unique style of counterfeiting consisted of printing on blank bible pages and gluing two sheets together in order to embed a security thread and watermark. Turner used an iridescent green eyeshadow as a color-shifting pigment to replicate the optically variable ink and utilized invisible ink UV pens to color the security thread to beat UV security features.
Turner began selling counterfeit bills to multiple drug dealers throughout Knoxville and his network expanded from Atlanta, GA to Cleveland, OH. Printing roughly $20,000 a week, Turner would break bills up and down the east coast and sell the remaining bills to heroin traffickers from Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta and Chicago.
On May 2nd, 2019, Turner was set up by a confidential informant from Cleveland, OH. and the United States Secret Service raided his hotel room at the Extended Stay Hotel off Cedar Bluff Rd. in west Knoxville, TN. The Secret Service said that Turners counterfeits were the best they had seen in roughly 25 years and offered Turner a deal for his cooperation in teaching them his methods for future investigations. Turner recorded a training video for future Secret Service agents explaining his counterfeiting techniques and received a reduced sentence of 10-16 months in Federal Prison.