Students charged with making counterfeit money for cafeteria use

Four Florida teens face federal counterfeiting charges for allegedly making phony money on a home computer and spending it in the high school cafeteria, WPBF TV reports.

The three boys, ages 14 to 16, and a 15 -year-old girl are freshmen at Jensen Beach high school in Stuart.

Detectives say cafeteria workers were given counterfeit detector pens after some bum money showed up last month.

When more began turning up, detectives tracked it back to a 15-year-old boy who had allegedly been selling it at a discount and even giving it away. Police said they discovered sheets of counterfeit cash in his room, the TV station reports.

WPBF says parents told police they had bought their son the yellowish resume paper when he said he needed it for a school project.

Detectives said the boy told friends he did it because it "sounded kind of cool at the time," WPBF reports.