What started as an eviction call over a short-term rental guest reportedly refusing to leave led Sedona police into an alleged organized interstate counterfeiting operation.
A search of a Brewer Road short-term vacation rental in the 900 block on Sept. 3 uncovered what police described as an “organized operation” producing counterfeit cash and fraudulent documents linked to an Aug. 31 traffic stop in Cottonwood, according to a Sedona Police Department report requested by the NEWS.
Cottonwood Police Department officers arrested Carlos Cazelly, 74, and Morgan Gargiulo, 37, following an Aug. 31 traffic stop near the intersection of State Route 260 and East Fir Street…