Money doesn't grow on trees, but it apparently was being printed in a Hall County man's home.

Ronald Lindsey Bafile, 29, printed phony $20 and $50 bills using a color copier and printer, The Gainesville Times reported. But when he then sold $1,500 of counterfeit money to undercover officers for $300, Bafile was arrested.

A search of Bafile's residence in the 200 block of First Street turned up another $1,500 in counterfeit $20 bills along with a printer, printing paper and small amounts of marijuana and methamphetamine, police said.

Bafile now faces 71 counts of first-degree forgery and 119 counts of second-degree forgery and drug charges, police told the newspaper.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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