Three people have been charged with bleaching $1 notes and then using a computer printer to make them look like $100 bills in their 'Aiea home, according to the U.S. Secret Service.

Marc Antolin, his wife Milani Antolin and her sister Sherilyn Milan were arrested and charged Friday with conspiring to produce $100, $50 and $20 notes.

An informant told police that the couple would bleach genuine $1 notes and imprint the image of higher denominations on the blanks, court documents showed.

Honolulu police had arrested Milan on May 27 for passing a bogus $100 bill at Radio Shack in Nu'uanu. She said she got the counterfeit bill from her sister, Milani Antolin.

"The note was determined to be a genuine, bleached $1 note overprinted as a $100 note with a computer inkjet printer," said U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Scott Cary Riddick in an affidavit.

The informant, who had been arrested last week for breaking into a car, told police he saw Antolin and his wife printing counterfeit currency on several occasions in the past year.

The source also said he was present on one occasion when Antolin passed a $100 bill at a Chevron gas station. The attendant used a counterfeit detection pen to determine if it was genuine, and the bill was not detected as a counterfeit.

During a search of the Antolins' residence Friday, authorities recovered a counterfeit $100 bill on Milani Antolin and a counterfeit $50 in the living room. Counterfeit notes were also found in the bedrooms, police said.