On 4/15/13 two subjects were arrested in Frankfort, Illinois for selling fake/counterfeit silver bars. The suspects attempted to sell the fake bars to several coin and jewelry shops in the Chicago area. Tests of the "silver bars" identified that they were in fact made of lead. Two of the bars had the markings JM and the others were blank.
The subjects were identified as Robert M Calaway, and Katarzyna Swider-Lewicki.
