http://www.smithfieldherald.com/clayton_cleveland/story/6304.html After a month-long investigation, a Clayton woman has been charged with possessing counterfeit money. Marcia Coates Grimsley, 59, of 413 S. Fayetteville St. was arrested Thursday after a November search of her home and car turned up $218,800 in bogus bills, the Clayton Police Department reported. Investigators think Grimsley printed the money. “We believe she acted alone,” said Clayton Police Chief Glen Allen. On Nov. 9, a private investigator called Clayton police after meeting with Grimsley, said Capt. Jon Gerrell. She had called him about his services, and he told her to meet him with the $218,800 that police later seized. The private investigator told police she brought the money but that it was obviously fake. “He was concerned because he didn’t want the money to get out into the public,” Gerrell said. Gerrell put out a vehicle description that morning, and Lt. John Coley called back to say Grimsley’s car was right in front of his and that she was pulling into her driveway. He went inside, interviewed her and then executed a search warrant. Clayton police called in the U.S. Secret Service to investigate. In addition to the phony money, police seized a computer, printer, paper and ink that might have been used to produce the fake currency. “She has been 100 percent cooperative,” Gerrell said of Grimsley. Citing federal medical privacy laws, Gerrell said he could not talk about why police waited nearly a month to arrest Grimsley. But he said police worked with her attorney, Barry Winston of Chapel Hill, to arrange the date and time of her arrest, which took place in Smithfield. Clayton police never thought that she would try to flee, Gerrell said. “We believe this was a one-time act, and we were lucky to be able to stop it,” he said. Grimsley was held under a $50,000 bond.
This is so sad. She comes from a great family. This is the same lady that was arrested in a school (maybe Polenta or McGees?) right about the time the school year was starting a couple of years ago for allegedly sending the money to a hit man to kill her daughter in law in Virginia. Her son is serving a long prison sentence for this crime. It is my understanding that the charges against Ms. Grimsley were dropped in the Virginia case.
son serving a life sentence in virginia for trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife? that seems like a very stiff sentence.
Well no pitty here he tried to turn his wife into a stiff so now he gets a stiff sentence sounds fare to me .
I found this in the WRAL archives: " Posted Vov 28, 2005 - JOHNSTON COUNTY, N.C. — Every day is filled with emotion for Marcia Grimsley, a former Johnston County elementary school teacher and the widow of a powerful man in state politics. Then, in 2004, she was charged in a murder-for-hire plot. Her son, David, is serving a life sentence in Virginia after a jury convicted him of trying to hire a hit man to have his estranged wife, Amy, killed. Grimsley's own future is on the line because she is also accused of being involved in the plot. The charge seemed to come out of nowhere. Grimsley was a respected teacher at McGee's Crossroads Elementary School. Her late husband, Joe Grimsley, was a high-level Democrat, cabinet member and advisor to former Gov. Jim Hunt. Yet, during an ugly custody dispute over her grandchildren, she called Amy Ashford an unfit mother who had stolen from her in the past. "But, I love her. I don't hate her," said Grimsley, who denies the allegations against her. Grimsley now lives in Johnston County, where she waits for the case in Virginia to be resolved. Virginia investigators say Grimsley's denials ring hollow. They based her arrest on taped conversations with her son and the fact that she sent $2,000 in cash to an officer posing as a hit man. Grimsley, however, claims she wanted someone to investigate, not kill, her daughter-in-law. "It did not seem out of the ordinary to me because I had hired a private investigator previously and paid cash," Grimsley said. Free on bond, Grimsley and her attorney are trying to get the murder plot charges against her dropped. Until then, she sticks to her story of innocence. "I want an investigation," she said. "I believe my son will be exonerated. I know that I'm going to be." Reporter: Cullen Browder Photographer: Gil Hollingsworth Web Editor: Kelly Gardner "
Are you saying he didn't do it cause his mommy said so? lol Wasn't he found guilty by a jurry of his peers?
I don't believe I ever said he did not do it. Just compared to other sentences this seems severe. Life for trying to hire a hit man!
