Floyd Beard recalls being in state of “disbelief” when he first found out one of his five children had been arrested July 22 on counterfeit charges.
Nineteen-year-old Anton Beard had never been anything like a problem child growing up in the neighborhood around North Little Rock High School. He and his friends always had plenty of after-school clubs and sports to keep them occupied.
Somehow, someway, though, Beard and two Razorback teammates wound up using counterfeit $20 and $50 bills at three different locations last summer in Fayetteville. Beard would later be charged with three counts of first-degree forgery, a felony in Arkansas that can carry a prison sentence of 5 to 20 years.