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Counterfeit cash is an all-too-common scenario in stilllwater. In 2018, the Stillwater Police Department investigated 34 cases of counterfeit cash, and have investigated three already in 2019.

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counterfeit cash you end up with, you just lost that,” Gibbs said. “It’s worthless.”

Investigating counterfeit is difficult. In most cases, police are called after the fact, when a business is counting money and realizes they have a fake bill, or when they try to turn it into the bank and the bank catches it. The person reporting it rarely knows where the bill came from, which means the police have few, if any, leads. When a business or person reports counterfeit to the police, the SPD sends a patrol officer who gathers information and passes it on to Detective Brett Moore.

Moore is what Gibbs calls the “central collec-

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In the noise, bustle and flashing lights of a busy bar, it’s easy to miss little things, like a counterfeit $20 that gets mixed in with the bar’s real money.

That’s what police say probably happened Feb. 8, the day before an employee of the College Bar found the fake bill and reported it. That Saturday night call was the second of three counterfeit reports police have responded to this year – the other two, a fake $100 bill someone tried to use at a Stillwater Walmart and three $20 bills someone used to pay for a delivery from Papa

John’s. Just like the College Bar case, police didn’t know where the money came from.

It’s an all-too-common scenario. In 2018, the Stillwater Police Department investigated 34 cases of counterfeit cash, adding up to more than $3,500 of fake money. The bills ranged from $5 to $100.

Capt. Kyle Gibbs of the SPD said $20 bills are the most common.

Because counterfeit is worthless – there’s no government buy-back program if a business or individual accidentally accepts a counterfeit bill – that means $3,500 of loss over the course of 2018.

“That’s the downside, you just lost the $20, or whatever amount of

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Stillwater police have responded to three countereit reports this year including a fake $100 bill someone tried to use at a Stillwater Walmart.

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The process of a counterfeit investigation, SPD Capt. Kyle Gibbs said, is similar in structure to a drug investigation. tion point” for counterfeit cash information. He keeps track of all of the counterfeit investigations and all the names and serial numbers of bills confiscated by police.

“I do keep a log, mainly just of serial numbers, to see if we have an on-going pattern to where the same serial numbers are being used multiple times,” Moore said. “I can kind of tie it together that way.”

Moore also works with the Secret Service, the agency responsible for investigating and prosecuting cases of counterfeit money.

But the Secret Service will only open an investigation if the amount of counterfeit cash is above $100,000, Gibbs said.

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terfeit money, the county will attempt to prosecute under the crime of “uttering a forged instrument.”

The structure of a counterfeit investigation, Gibbs said, is a lot like a drug investigation.

“Just like you do a drug investigation, you’re using the users to get back to the dealers,” Gibbs said. “They’re using the people passing the counterfeit to get back to the printers. They’re trying to find the source of the counterfeit money.”

Police say you should keep your eyes open to avoid accepting counterfeit money. It’s usually pretty obvious if you’re paying attention, Moore said. Most of what he has seen either has Chinese lettering on it or is clearly marked as “movie money.”

“The paper’s wrong,

the color’s wrong … their cutting lines are not straight,” Moore said.

“There’s white exposed.

It’s not very good quality at all.”

If you do accidentally end up with counterfeit money, don’t worry. You won’t be prosecuted for having it, only for trying to pass it off as real. If having it in your possession makes you uncomfortable, Moore said you can bring it to the police department and the police will pass it on to the Secret Service to be destroyed. But if you do try to pass it off as real, you might end up on Moore’s list.

Caitlin Thomas is a multimedia journalism sophomore from Edmond.

She can be reached at caitlin.thomas@okstate.edu.

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Eddie Sutton

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In his sixth year as a finalist, former Oklahoma State men’s basketball coach Eddie Sutton was denied from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, per a report from the Tulsa World.

The 83-year-old Sutton coached NCAA Tournament teams at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky and Devin Lawrence Wilber/O’Colly OSU, his alma mater. Sut- Former OSU basketball coach Eddie Sutton was excluded ton played for the Cowfrom the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. boys and legendary OSU conference titles and three A representative from coach Henry Iba, Sutton’s conference tournament the Hall contacted the mentor, during his college championships. He is the family, telling Sutton he days from 1955 to 1958. second-winningest coach did not receive enough Sutton began his coachin school history behind ing career as an assistant votes to be included in the Iba. on Iba’s staff at OSU for a 2019 class. The family Eight coaches in Diviyear after he graduated in was “stunned”, as it had sion I men’s college 1958. His head coaching basketball history have been confident Sutton career began in 1967 in reached 800 wins on the would be voted in this Twin Falls, Idaho, where hardwood. Sutton, who year, that arrangements he founded the men’s has 806 wins, remains the were being made to transbasketball program at only 800-win coach who port the legendary coach the College of Southern is not a member of the Idaho. to Minneapolis, where the Naismith Memorial BasHe later returned to Final Four will be held ketball Hall of Fame.

Stillwater to coach the On January 15, 2005, this weekend, for the anCowboys from 1990 to OSU officially dedicated nouncement of the 2019 2006 and became the first the hardwood court at class on Saturday, per the coach to take four schools Gallagher-Iba Arena as report. to the NCAA tournament.

“Eddie Sutton Court.” He The identities of the He coached Final Four was later honored for his members of the 24-perteams at both Arkansas contributions to the game son voting panel are kept and OSU. Sutton reached of basketball and to the the Final Four twice with confidential, and a finalist university in 2007.

OSU, first in 1995 and Per the report, memmust receive at least 18 then in 2004. bers of Sutton family votes to be inducted.

The Cowboys reached were gathered together the postseason 14 times in on Tuesday morning for Jeremy Kolok is a his 17 years at the helm what was expected to be university studies junior in Stillwater, including a good-news phone call from San Antonio, Texas. regarding Sutton’s Hall of He can be reached at 13 NCAA Tournament Fame campaign. sports.ed@ocolly.com. bids, three regular-season WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019

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B illie Eilish

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Billie Eilish’s New Album depicts the dream world in her style M egan Hays , N ews Ed ito r , @o c olly

It is certainly impressive for an artist to be young and new to the alternative scene but already be a well known name and just come out with their first full length studio album.

But that is just what Billie Eilish did.

Her hit single “Ocean Eyes” and avant-garde boardline scary music videos have garnered her a lot of attention and, based on her debut album “When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”, it is well deserved.

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Eilish was heavily involved in the writing process with her brother and co-writer Finneas O’Connell for all but two of the 14 tracks on the album. The songs were designed to explore the different phenomena that happen after one goes to sleep from sleep paralysis to lucid dreams. Like most concept albums, the theme can be hard to apply to all songs, but the songs are crafted well enough that the listener can apply whatever meaning makes the most sense to the songs.

The album opens with a light hearted speaking au-

dio track “!!!!!!!” with Eilish joking about taking her invisalign out therefore officially starting the album.

In a startling transition, the music starts with “bad guy” and Eilish’s signature whisper tone voice over a hard pounding beat that slowly adds an alternating snapping one. The song is playful and almost light hearted (in terms of Eilish’s usual dark mood) making fun of the bad boy stereotype that up plays the tough guy act. The chorus pokes fun at certain characteristics before placing herself in the role of the bad guy.

The synthetic beat follow-

ing the loud “Duh” gives the the song it’s playful undertone. Just as the listener accepts the song has ended, a heavy bass comes in with Eilish pointing out the darker side of the bad guy character.

This isn’t the only surprise Eilish gives her listeners. In “xanny,” the song starts with the whisper tone and acoustic bass reminiscent of a sad ballad from the 1940s through the first verse, but it takes a sharp turn in the pre-chorus with the synthetic beat resonating and distorting Eilish’s voice.

The experimentation continues in “8,” where

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a ukulele accompanies a much younger sounding voice before it comes back to Eilish’s signature voice.

In between the lyrics of admittance for addiction and heavy but upbeat beat of “my strange addiction” are clips of audio taken from “The Office” adding an unexpected sense of humor.

Aside from her experimentation with audio effects, Eilish pushes the boundaries on dark themed lyrics. “bury a friend” has the most ominous sounding track title, but it also best exemplifies the album’s theme with lyrics referencing

the album’s title as well as nightmarish scenarios.

The ticking clock beat with strange synthesized interference create an eerie background to Eilish’s whispered sinister lyrics telling the listeners her nightmares.

“When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” is an interesting question that Eilish tries to answer through her exploration of sound to provide the right mood for her haunting lyrics.

Megan Hays is a chemistry sophomore from Bartlesville. She can be reached at news.ed@ocolly. com.

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