260 pounds of gold is a lot of (butte) nuggets to pass.If I was going steal gold and try to resell it I would at least melt it down and mix some quartz and stone bits in it and try and pass it off as small naturally formed nuggets.
Say I picked it up years ago at some long forgotten roadside trinket stand labelled as fools gold that after finding it again in a forgotten box while cleaning up the attic or storage shelves in a closet got me looking at it closer and gave me suspicions to be more than what it was sold as back then now that I had gotten some experience with working around real gold.
Okay? where did the 260 pounds come from?260 pounds of gold is a lot of (butte) nuggets to pass.
It was reported the men stole 10 gold bars from the courier truck each weighing 26 pounds.Okay? where did the 260 pounds come from?
That somewhere above the $5 million market value mark!
I see. From the armored truck theft. I hadn't gotten treading that link until now.It was reported the men stole 10 gold bars from the courier truck each weighing 26 pounds.
True, the gold sphincter guy was busted by a bank teller when he deposited checks from a legit gold buyer.From what I have seen in my lifetime the typical thief spends way more time and effort on the task of stealing something that they do on the how to get rid of it without drawing attention end.
I sense a job opportunity.A Denver Mint employee is said to have stolen gold and taken it out in a wooden leg. I seems to me to be a much more pleasant method of concealment.
So if you put $120 under your bed every week over a 30 year career you have to go to jail?I agree. If you have something in your possession that could ONLY have come from a criminal act, then you are the criminal.
They do have a body, which by itself is still not proof of any crime. What is the cause of death? Did the guy just crawl into the fridge himself and get stuck there? What is the connection between you and the body?Suppose they found a human body in his fridge but cannot identify the victim. Doesn't matter!
Google, "Civil Asset Forfeiture".So if you put $120 under your bed every week over a 30 year career you have to go to jail?
A pile of money under your mattress could be there legally. A piece of molded gold with the "fingerprint" of the mint's mold cannot.So if you put $120 under your bed every week over a 30 year career you have to go to jail?
10 minutes with a $20 propane torch and coffee can of water could have solved that issue.A piece of molded gold with the "fingerprint" of the mint's mold cannot.
Yup. It's really the only reason we catch any of them. I'd have been so worried about the distinctive pucks that I would've melted them and added dopants to cover up their origin. And then waited 10 years. What's the hurry to unload it? I could use some gold in my portfolio.10 minutes with a $20 propane torch and coffee can of water could have solved that issue.
Stupid criminals.
When I think about going to prison (because my nephew was there for a year) I think the worst part would be the idiots I would have to live with.Stupid criminals.
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