I am writing in response to the letter “Justice system in Minn. not just.”

I do agree that the two girls who did those horrible acts to elderly people did get off way too easy and how they worked the system to not even have to do their entire sentence is very disturbing, but the elderly victims will pay for the damage caused on them the rest of their lives.

I would also like to point out that the “couple” who were charged for counterfeiting did not get a slap of the hand. Heather and I were sentenced within the sentencing guidelines for federal court. We did not get any breaks. We did not have any sort of previous criminal record, and I understand that money could have ended up in anyone’s pocket, but there again there were six others involved and unless you personally know each and everyone of us, you don’t know the entire story. You only know what was published in newspapers, which is far from the truth when it comes to who went and tried to pass this money at stores.

We all got grouped together as doing this when in actuality “the couple” that seem to be the main defendants were not part of the “ring” trying to pass money at stores. We did break the law and are paying the consequences for our actions!

Everyone of the eight defendants but one did get a federal prison sentence within sentencing guideline rules.

As for us “the couple” we admit our mistakes, that we did break the law, and we have learned from our mistakes and would like to move past this and hope those people who know the entire real story can inform the ones out there what really happened; otherwise, please leave “the couple” out of your future letters.

 

Travis Cameron

Albert Lea

 

Editor’s note: The Camerons report to federal prison next week.