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1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited September 29, 2019 6:32AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Delta ramp worker busted in $258,000 heist at JFK Airport

A Delta Air Lines worker was busted Thursday for allegedly swiping some $258,000 in cruise-line cash from a flight at JFK Airport — and the money is still missing, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

FBI agents arrested Quincy Thorpe at his Brooklyn home for allegedly stealing the bag of cash during his shift on Tuesday — charging him with the federal crime of theft from an interstate shipment.

The unrecovered dough is a mix of US and foreign currency that came from a cruise ship, sources said.

The cash, which was transported by armored car to JFK on Tuesday, was supposed to go to Miami on a Delta flight that morning, according to a criminal compliant filed in Brooklyn federal court.

Thorpe, an employee of Delta Ground Services, scanned the eight bags, but snatched one containing $258,205 at some point before takeoff, court papers charged.

It wasn’t until the flight arrived in Miami that a security company employed to pick up the cash realized one of the bags was missing.

Suspicions arose when Quincy called out of work in the days after the theft, according to court papers.

Surveillance footage obtained from Delta shows someone matching Thorpe’s appearance scanning and loading seven bags onto the flight and placing the eighth in a vehicle that they later drove off in, prosecutors charged.

Thorpe admitted to FBI agents at his residence on Thursday that he had been responsible for loading the bags onto the Delta flight and knew they were valuable, according to officials.

He was arraigned before Magistrate Judge Robert Levy and freed on an $80,000 signature bond.

Thorpe later exited the court in a blue hooded sweat shirt (left).

“We are going to vigorously defend him against the charges,” said his lawyer, Lonnie Hart Jr.

A Delta spokesman said the alleged crime did not reflect the “professionalism of Delta members.”

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    IDK
    8 bags @ $250,000 = $2,000,000
    Might be safer to drive it from Ny to Fla ??

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    https://youtu.be/yXkdeMkTJtU

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There are cameras all over the place.

  • morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've noticed more and more on highway light poles throughout CT.
    Wonder what it will be like in 50 years?

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cameras are not the problem,
    Ever see the signs that say "6 miles, 7 minutes to rte 40" ???
    Know how they do that?
    The "ping" everyone's cell phone and know where you go and how long it takes to get there.

    so i've heard

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  • ToughCOINSToughCOINS Posts: 63 ✭✭

    @morgansforever said:
    I've noticed more and more on highway light poles throughout CT.
    Wonder what it will be like in 50 years?

    A lot like The Truman Show.

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @morgansforever said:
    I've noticed more and more on highway light poles throughout CT.
    Wonder what it will be like in 50 years?

    Atlanta leads the nation in camera surveillance.....
    https://atlanta.curbed.com/2019/8/21/20825981/atlanta-big-brother-cctv-camera-surveillance

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,644 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The side story here is all the things cruise ships do to separate passengers from their cash.

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  • coin22lovercoin22lover Posts: 3,542 ✭✭✭

    Steals 258k with an 80k bond? He's doing better than most coin dealers.

  • spotthedogspotthedog Posts: 313 ✭✭✭

    Maybe paid the bond with a mix of US and foreign currency?

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    He / they obviously had a system in place to divert packages, how many times has this happened before, the missing bag was not discovered missing until the plane got to Miami.
    Smaller thefts were probably just settled as a cost of doing business by the airline.

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  • Moxie15Moxie15 Posts: 318 ✭✭✭

    commercial airlines make the largest part of their income hauling freight.
    I am a little surprised that in the twenty first century that a legitimate private company would ship this much cash.
    I wonder why this was not a bank transfer instead of a primitive shipment of cash.

  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If he had a sac that looked the same and filled it with something he might of been able to get away with it.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Crooks are stupid...there are cameras all over the place where these operations occur. Everything is on video. Even at the gun range we video everything.... Cheers, RickO

  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 28, 2019 10:45AM

    @Coinosaurus said:
    The side story here is all the things cruise ships do to separate passengers from their cash.

    Yah, cruise ships should stop forcing people on board and robbing them of their money.

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Moxie15 said:
    commercial airlines make the largest part of their income hauling freight.
    I am a little surprised that in the twenty first century that a legitimate private company would ship this much cash.
    I wonder why this was not a bank transfer instead of a primitive shipment of cash.

    Some businesses thrive on hard cash.

    Casinos come to mind.

  • STEWARTBLAYNUMISSTEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭

    What does this have to do with coin collecting ?

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 29, 2019 6:34AM

    @STEWARTBLAYNUMIS said:
    What does this have to do with coin collecting ?

    Sorry, I did not 'word' my heading correctly.
    I corrected it. :)

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would buy these :)
    https://youtu.be/N_i37UcJIvk

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,720 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @spotthedog said:
    Maybe paid the bond with a mix of US and foreign currency?

    Why not? China sent us shipping containers full of waffled half dollars that had been recovered from cars for some time before some genius figured out they might be counterfeit. It's not just widespread corruption now days but incompetence as well.

    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,759 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 29, 2019 3:16PM

    1. I would get a knapsack, take my cash, go to a show or number of shows and buy slabbed gold coins close to melt while keeping a low profile.

    2. I would get a Business Card printed for my new coin business after I relocated across the country.

    3. I would start taking tables at shows.

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  • jdimmickjdimmick Posts: 9,768 ✭✭✭✭✭

    80k Bond, he can easily hide the cash till he gets out and be home free.

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