Corey Jye Walters sentenced for using counterfeit currency

A Gin Gin drug user busted spending fake cash at Murgon and Childers believed counterfeit cash was legal because his late grandmother previously put it through the pokies, a court has heard.

Corey Jye Walters pleaded guilty to one charge of fraud and two charges of possessing counterfeit money.

A man who used counterfeit cash to purchase goods at stores in Childers and Murgon didn’t know dodgy money was illegal because his late grandmother previously put fake notes in poker machines.

The bizarre claim was made as Corey Jye Walters pleaded guilty in Bundaberg Magistrates Court on Tuesday to one charge of fraud, two charges of possessing counterfeit money and numerous drug offences.

The court heard the Gin Gin man used a counterfeit $50 note to purchase an energy drink and gum at Childers Woolworths, receiving $39 in change.

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After successfully making the fraudulent purchase, Walters went back to the Woolworths on the same day but was turned away.

The court heard the notes were easily identifiable as counterfeit currency due to their containing large blue text in an Asian-language script on both sides.

The notes were easily identifiable as counterfeit currency due to their containing large blue text in an Asian-language script on both sides.

A week later, Walters tried to use a counterfeit $50 note to purchase a drink at a Murgon BP.

When the BP staff member who was suspicious of the note consulted with his supervisor, Walters left the store without retrieving the note.

Later that day police in Dalby stopped Walters after observing him driving erratically in a car with number plates that did not match the vehicle.

On searching the vehicle and Walters’, police found multiple sealed bags of cannabis and methamphetamine, with associated drug utensils, and multiple counterfeit banknotes.

Police in Dalby stopped Walters after observing him driving erratically in a car with number plates that did not match the vehicle.

The court heard Walters told police that his deceased grandmother often used the notes to play poker machines, and he didn’t know that it was an offence to possess counterfeit currency.

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Representing himself, Walters told the court that he didn’t remember how he obtained the fake currency.

“I was sort of on a bit of a bender, I don’t remember too much about it,” he said.

Walters was sentenced to eight months imprisonment with immediate parole.