Prior Lake Man Gets 18 Months For Making Fake Stamps

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A 32-year-old Prior Lake man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for making fake postage stamps.

Andre George Mehilove was sentenced on one count of counterfeiting postage stamps on Wednesday and ordered to pay $230,000 in restitution.

Police say Mehilove admitted from August of 2006 to April of 2009, he created counterfeit postage meter stamps using his personal computer and printer. The stamps were copies of the postage meter stamps he bought online.

Police seized various computers, items with fake postage, PayPal identity devices and online postage labels on April 3, 2009.

Mehilove was indicted on July 6, 2011 and pleaded guilty to the crime on Oct. 17, 2011.