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Feds: Brink's Employee Makes Off With $196,000 In Quarters (cnn.com)
dfsmith writes: CNN is reporting today on the prosecution of a man who stole $196,000 worth of quarters from his employer in Alabama. Apparently the Brinks facility kept large bags of the coins for the Federal Reserve (about 1 ton each), which the accused emptied and refilled with beads (leaving some coins visible in the bag's window). Dennis faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. That's a million-quarter fine, or 216,000 more quarters than Dennis stole.
Notwithstanding the enterprise of purchasing and transporting that many beads, you've got to wonder: how would you go about this heist, and what would you do with the proceeds?
Notwithstanding the enterprise of purchasing and transporting that many beads, you've got to wonder: how would you go about this heist, and what would you do with the proceeds?
As recent college students know, laundromats almost always accept quarters as a mechanism for buying machine time, so laundering the proceeds must have been particularly easy and convenient. This guy is obviously a cerebral master of crime.
Robber: "I'd like to convert these into pounds."
Teller: "Sure thing! What have you got?"
Robber: "196k in quarters"
Teller: "OK, well, one quarter is 5.67 grams, so....9800 pounds"
Should this ruffian be apprehended, I believe the correct punishment, as warning and deterrent to others, is that he be drawn... and quartered.
Casinos are used to launder money all the time, you put dirty money on the table and get back 70-80% of the face value back in clean money.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.