Philadelphia Police Capt. John Ryan told reporters the truck was bound for Florida the following morning, but it seems the thief or thieves “were trying to cross-load the dimes into other things to carry it away.”
Police are looking for whoever broke into a trailer carrying $750,000 worth of dimes, a crime discovered Thursday that left coins scattered on the ground.
Officers were called to a Walmart parking lot in northeastern Philadelphia just after 6 a.m. Thursday on a report of the break-in, which is believed to have happened overnight, police said in a statement.showed the tractor-trailer and coins throughout the parking lot. The thief or thieves appeared to have used bolt cutters to break into the truck, which had the dimes in bags on pallets, he said.
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