A local man pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to printing counterfeit cash with a color copier and attempting to pass it at a local convenience store.

“Well, I needed some money,” said Charles Kevin Clayton when Federal Judge David Folsom asked him about the crime.

Clayton, 33, who lives in the Liberty-Eylau area, was arrested Oct. 3, 2007, after attempting to pass some funny money at the Lakeway Country Store on U.S. Highway 59 South in Texarkana, Texas. The clerk wasn’t fooled by a bogus $100 bill handed over by Clayton as if it were valid U.S. currency and called pol...