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Cop charged with passing phony $100s
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 6/6/2006 | Steve Patterson and Frank Main

Posted on 06/06/2006 7:01:46 AM PDT by Mike Bates

A Chicago Police officer is charged with passing counterfeit cash at a Northwest Indiana currency exchange after visiting a gambling boat.

Officer Larry Hood was arrested after he allegedly exchanged $500 in fake $100 bills for a money order and a roll of quarters on May 24 in East Chicago.

The bills looked like authentic $100s with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the front of each, police said.

But when a cashier held them to the light, they bore the watermark of a $5 bill -- a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A security strip on each bill read "USA five."

Increasingly, Secret Service agents in Chicago are seeing counterfeit $100s manufactured with bleached $5 bills, the Sun-Times recently reported.

Reassigned to 311 center

Hood is facing felony charges of forgery, counterfeiting and attempted theft in Indiana.

He has been stripped of his police powers with the Chicago Police Department and assigned to the city's 311 call-taking center pending the criminal investigation, department spokeswoman Monique Bond said.

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TOPICS: Society
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Considering Chicago's terrible schools, I'm surprised the cop wasn't trying to pass $75 bills.
1 posted on 06/06/2006 7:01:47 AM PDT by Mike Bates
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To: Mike Bates

Well like my Dad use to say if I can swallow it I can pass it


2 posted on 06/06/2006 7:05:44 AM PDT by al baby (Dick Trickle is not a medical condition)
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To: Mike Bates

The stupidest place to pass out fake money is a casino. They not only check and closely track all their money, but they have tons of survellence cameras.


3 posted on 06/06/2006 7:20:21 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

Currency exchanges aren't too good for it either.


4 posted on 06/06/2006 7:22:32 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

So don't try to pass phony-baloney money at casinos, currency exchanges & banks. Got it. Taking notes here for future reference. ;o)


5 posted on 06/06/2006 7:31:46 AM PDT by Millee (Tancredo 08!)
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To: Mike Bates
Apu says, "Don't try to run your funny-money con here either!"


6 posted on 06/06/2006 8:02:44 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Millee

I understand shoe stores work well, Millee. As long as you're taking notes.


7 posted on 06/06/2006 8:14:44 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates

Could you ask Mrs. Bates which ones in particular? I need some new summer sandals.


8 posted on 06/06/2006 8:20:31 AM PDT by Millee (Tancredo 08!)
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To: Always Right

Well said. Casino employees are trained aggressively to look at rogue money.


9 posted on 06/06/2006 8:24:01 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: Always Right
When the government increases the money supply, they are "saving us from deflation".

But when a private citizen tries to stimulate the economy and save us from the ravages of deflation, everybody gets all pissy about it.

10 posted on 06/06/2006 8:24:59 AM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: Millee

I'll ask her. If she ever comes back from the shoe store.


11 posted on 06/06/2006 8:26:28 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: AdamSelene235
But when a private citizen tries to stimulate the economy and save us from the ravages of deflation, everybody gets all pissy about it.

That's true, and the private citizen is increasing the money supply and not adding to the deficit. JFK tried a similar tactic by printing some US Notes instead of Federal Reserve Notes.

12 posted on 06/06/2006 8:32:00 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

There has to be an "Equal Protection of the Laws" affirmative defense in there somewhere.


13 posted on 06/06/2006 9:04:17 AM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: AdamSelene235
There has to be an "Equal Protection of the Laws" affirmative defense in there somewhere.

Considering JFK was killed, I am not sure I would demand that kind of equal protection.

14 posted on 06/06/2006 10:07:37 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right
JFK tried a similar tactic by printing some US Notes instead of Federal Reserve Notes.

I read that somewhere years ago. Think he did it via an Executive Order, which hasn't been withdrawn.

15 posted on 06/06/2006 10:16:06 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Mike Bates
I read that somewhere years ago. Think he did it via an Executive Order, which hasn't been withdrawn.

Once in a while you will run across $5 bills with red ink on them. They are 1963 bills that say United States Note across the top. I have run across two.

16 posted on 06/06/2006 10:18:10 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

As a teen, I had some saved until my brother "liberated" them into the economy. :-(


17 posted on 06/08/2006 1:09:44 AM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now wants to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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