Two Charged With Counterfeiting SEPTA Passes

Federal prosecutors last month charged two people with counterfeiting SEPTA passes.

Mark Cooper and Kimberly Adams, both 35 and both of Philadelphia, have been charged with counterfeiting more than 2,000 monthly passes over two years, United States Attorney Zane David Memeger said. Cooper has been charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud and possession of access device making equipment.

The two are accused of making the passes and then selling them, mostly to City of Philadelphia employees.

“This office will not tolerate fraud involving valuable government property,” Memeger said in a statement. “Those who counterfeit SEPTA passes, as the defendant allegedly did here, will be prosecuted and face serious criminal penalties.”