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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bonedigger, post: 328458, member: 4367&quot;](Great Job to those who helped nab this slime...)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/_kevin_j_hartman_37.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/_kevin_j_hartman_37.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/_kevin_j_hartman_37.html</a></p><p>///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</p><p>Two accused of stealing coins worth up to $1 million</p><p>Posted by Donna J. Miller January 31, 2008 08:08AM</p><p><br /></p><p>Two Greater Cleveland men were charged yesterday in Akron with stealing valuable coins there and hiding them in Lakewood.</p><p><br /></p><p>Parma resident Kevin J. Hartman, 37, is charged with breaking and entering, felony theft and safe cracking. So is Michael J. Patton, 38, of Seven Hills.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are accused of breaking into Chet&#039;s Coin Dec. 16, disabling the alarm and using a torch to cut open a safe.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;They stole coins valued at between $500,000 and $1 million,&quot; Lt. Rick Edwards said.</p><p><br /></p><p>They took the coins to Hartman&#039;s half-brother&#039;s house at 1301 Jackson Ave. in Lakewood and hid them behind a wall in the attic, he said.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hartman&#039;s half-brother is Howard Trower, 38. His wife, Eva Knight-Trower, 33, was at the Lakewood house on Jan. 25, when police searched it. She is charged with receiving stolen property.</p><p><br /></p><p>Howard Trower told police that he will turn himself in today at Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.</p><p><br /></p><p>Evidence at the house led detectives to search a storage unit in Cleveland, where they found model trains and toys stolen from Parma Hobby on Nov. 4, Parma Detective Marty Compton said.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hartman is a suspect in multiple burglaries in Parma and Greater Akron, Compton said.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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