Authorities are still searching for the source and objective of fake money found in Hennessey over the weekend.

“We still don’t know if this was a prank, or what someone’s intentions were,” Hennessey Police Chief Aaron Pitts told the KT&FP Tuesday morning about fake $100 bills found in Hennessey.

“We’re sending them off to the lab today,” he said.

Pitts said he didn’t know exactly how many fake bills had been found “but it was a handful” being sent for testing.

Field Tested for Drugs

Those bills had “field tested positive for meth, cocaine, and fentanyl,” Pitts said Monday and warned the public “not to touch them if they found some they should call 911 and ask for the police.”

As of Tuesday, there had been no reports of anyone harmed who had touched those bills, he said.

Suspects

“We’ve had suspects,” Pitts said, “but haven’t yet been able to tie them as the ones who put those fake $100 bills on the school’s softball field parking lot, or up town,” said Pitts.

Pitts added that he hopes some of the downtown businesses, or homeowners on Mitchell Road, might find something on their cameras.

Three Finds Reported

The first report to police was by a parent going to her car during the Friday (Sept. 27) softball games and found them in the parking lot.

Although not reported to police, $100 bills were found Wednesday, Sept. 18, by Jack Quirk on Hennessey’s downtown sidewalks. He said he assumed he was being pranked and posted a picture with the fake money on his business Facebook page.

Quirk later turned over one of those bills to authorities, the police chief said.

Pitts also said his department was told that another bill was found on Main Street, but that person had thrown it away.