Suburban traffic stop yields blank FBI credentials, $800,000 in fake bonds: Secret Service

CWBChicago ^ | 7/22/23 | staff

[CFW]

A police traffic stop in suburban Chicago turned into federal charges after cops found law enforcement badges and about $800,000 in counterfeit U.S. Savings Bonds in the driver’s car, according to a newly-filed criminal complaint.

Robert R. Krilich, 58, is charged with possessing a counterfeit U.S. security intending to defraud.

Rosemont police pulled Krilich over on Tuesday afternoon because they didn’t see a license plate on his car, officials said. Things snowballed from there.

First, Krilich told the officers that he just picked up his car from O’Hare after returning from Las Vegas, and he believed someone stole his plates while he was gone. But the cops realized his car had a proper plate attached, but it was covered with a piece of paper.

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Inside the gray Ford sedan, they recovered about $800,000 worth of fake bonds, blank FBI credentials, a U.S. Marshal Service star, a Homeland Security Investigations badge, a typewriter, and two laptops, a Secret Service agent wrote in a federal criminal complaint.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The guy’s a fraudster. He was arrested last year for opening bank accounts with a stolen identity then writing bad checks. His father was a developer who did 18 months on tax evasion and 9 years for bribing a government official.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A TYPEWRITER?

What is this thing called a “typewriter”?