~$100,000 in dimes stolen from truck in Northeast Philadelphia - 6abc Philadelphia
Police are investigating after someone broke into a trailer containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dimes in Northeast Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police are investigating after someone broke into a trailer containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dimes in Northeast Philadelphia. The discovery was made around 6 a.m. Thursday in a Walmart parking lot on the 4300 block of Byberry Road. Police on the scene say an estimated one million dimes, worth $100,000, were stolen.
A total of $750,000 worth of dimes were in the truck, police said. Dimes were found scattered from the Walmart parking lot to Woodhaven Road. Action News has learned the truck driver picked up the dimes from the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday, but then went home to get some sleep before a long drive to Florida. So, the truck driver parked the big rig in the Walmart parking lot.
When he came back Thursday morning he found the trailer door was open. "They were trying to cross-load the dimes into other things. There are dimes all over the parking lot," said Capt. Jack Ryan of Northeast Detectives. It's not known if the thief or thieves knew what was inside. Northeast Detectives say it's not unusual for thieves to break into trailers just to see what they can find.
There are cameras in the parking lot and investigators are working on a suspect description. Sources tell Action News that SWAT officers were called to the scene to help block entrances.
I would say based but how the fuck do they expect to launder $100k in coins lmao
Coinstar. just show up to ur local grocery store with several 55 gallon barrels filled with coins. then karen out on a service worker when they dont have the $100k on hand.
A hundred dollar giftcard a week for the next 20 years aint bad. It's passive income!
You don’t spend the gift cards. What you do is sell them at a discount, preferably to crypto nerds, then get clean money in return
Of course!
The DSA crakkker kkkaren at the customer service counter said they couldn't honor my coinstar transaction worth $100,000.
It would be so funny and so Philly if the guy gets caught because he tries to Coinstar them.
Maybe they own a furnace and are looking to get into the zinc market
"Hello, Mr. Drug Dealer. May I ask you a question? Do you take dimes?"
dealer looks over at his dime bags
Pantera starts playing.
pigsqueal
Slot machines?
I'm assuming this is organized crime and they have a way to launder it, a bunch of penny slots or something.
Laundromats my man
They meant to get quarters to launder them by reselling Homies figures, but they snagged the wrong truck.