Two Bend residents were arrested Tuesday for forging can and bottle receipts to collect cash from Fred Meyer stores in Bend and Redmond.

Wade Owen Kentopp, 27, and Christiane Patricia Boyd, 30, are also charged with forging $20 bills and manufacturing and possessing methamphetamine, according to a news release from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.

An investigation into the pair’s activities is ongoing. Sheriff’s deputies believe they may have stolen from Wal-Mart stores in the area and Fred Meyer stores in Portland, Clackamas and Medford.

Local Fred Meyer employees reported the couple about two weeks ago. Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office deputies obtained a warrant to search their home and found evidence of additional crimes, including methamphetamine use, the release states.

Kentopp and Boyd had stacks of Fred Meyer receipts and a blank roll of Fred Meyer receipt tape in their home, the release says.

The pair had been scanning receipts and bar codes into a computer, then doctoring them and printing altered versions on Fred Meyer receipt paper.

They brought the forged can and bottle deposit receipts to Fred Meyer stores and exchanged them for money.

They also printed out price tags with bar codes that they carried into the store and affixed to more expensive items. During purchasing, the forged tags were scanned, so the couple was undercharged for those purchases, the sheriff’s office said.

Detectives also found more than $580 in counterfeit $20 bills. And they found methamphetamine residue, scales, packing materials and paraphernalia.

Kentopp and Boyd were charged with one count each of computer crime, first-degree theft, second-degree criminal mischief, first-degree forgery, second-degree possession of a controlled substance and manufacture of a controlled substance. They were also both charged with four counts of first-degree attempted theft.

Both were being held in the Deschutes County jail Tuesday night.

The sheriff’s office asks anyone with information regarding these crimes to call 388-6655.