http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080215/NEWS/802150488 Coin caper yields 4 arrests Teenagers face theft charges over an assortment valued at $520,000 By Kate Spinner Published Friday, Feb. 15, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. PORT CHARLOTTE — Steve Duke said he suspected the boys were up to no good when they came into his pawn shop a second time to sell more rare coins. Edited to comply with Copyright limitations...
It's sad how much damage those coins are going to receive through out the whole process of being locked up in evidence to the point of being returned to the owner's hands.
Bonedigger, they're not talking about your house, are they???? LOL Again, a real eye opener about protecting your collection.
What a shame. Those coins apparently survived Hurricane Charley but the could not survive a bunch of dumb teenagers.
you would have thought that whoever owned it would have had a complex security system....especially w/ half a million dollars laying around the house.!!!
Maybe they did. Complex security systems are not perfect. Remember the "V chip". It was supposed to allow parents to block TV channels that they did not want their kids to watch. The kids knew more about how to program it (or get around blocks) than the parents. Maybe these kids are pretty tech-savvy and knew how to defeat this collector's security system.
If they are first offenders they will probably get of lightly. Maybe no prison time at all. They may get some home detention, perhaps have to wear an ankle monitor. A few hundred hours of community service and 3 or 4 years of probation. Then expunge their records so they are not lifelong felons. Why ruin these lads lives for a simple property crime? Sigh.
