3 Million Missing Nickels Found

mrearlygold

Coins and Pot in Fla huh?


3 Million Missing Nickels Found

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The search for $180,000 in missing nickels ended in the back yard of a Miami-Dade County house today.



A joint task force including the DEA, FBI (news - web sites), Immigration and Customs Enforcement and detectives from the Miami-Dade County Police Department, found the nickels buried in the back yard of a home in an area near Miami known as the Redlands.


Law enforcement officials searched the home this morning and found nothing. They searched a smaller house behind the main residence and reportedly found 88 plants believed to be marijuana.


When agents went over the back yard with metal detectors, they hit on the more than 3 million nickels. Officials said the coins were buried in a wooden box, covered in a thick clear plastic tarp buried in a 4-foot deep hole. The coins were still inside Federal Reserve (news - web sites) bags, according to police.


The nickels left the Federal Reserve Bank in New Jersey Dec. 17. Three days later the empty truck was found in Fort Pierce. The driver, Angel Mendoza was missing. Police have still not found Mendoza. They believe he is out of the country.


Police are interviewing another man about the plants they found



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stephunter

To bad they found them so fast. They probably would have developed some nice toning after a while underground.

Steve27

Did they grow any extra leaves while underground?

ChangeIsGood

Just checked the markets. Nickel is up a dime.

I would have waited for the Quarter truck myself.

ajc

Now what is the attribute they will give when grading those coins?

tlhoy

Police have still not found Mendoza. They believe he is out of the country.

DUH! He has a wife in Cuba.

ChangeIsGood

Now what is the attribute they will give when grading those coins?


It will be known as the Flori-die

mrearlygold

<< <i>Police have still not found Mendoza. They believe he is out of the country.

DUH! He has a wife in Cuba. >>







Which could simply mean Dade County

coachleonard

his first words when he was arrested: "If I had a nickel for every time i got busted for pot..."

ms70

YES! This calls for a new attribution!

"2005 Stolen Nickel Hoard"

ms70

One other thing- What kind of metal detectors do the feds use? Did they hit on the nickels because they were such a big mass or do
they have some super detector that goes 4ft deep???

Neptune

were they Bison nickels?

I was hoping some got/would stay lost to drive the value up.

Hedger

Coin Vault will get their hands on those nickels and sell 'em for $1000.00 a piece.

Edited to exclude grading companies.

mrearlygold

<< <i>Coin Vault will try to get their hands on those nickels and sell 'em for $1000.00 a piece. >>




a slight edit


Tom

riverman

Couldn't the Feds fly over this guy's house and take some photos.
Then go before a judge and say this man is missing, under suspicion, and
he's got a freshly dug hole in his backyard. (perhaps to bury a crate of nickels?)
The judge could then sign a search warrant.

shirohniichan

I think Miss Haversham is behind all this.

For those of you who don't know, she was the mysterious old lady who supposedly lugged 55 gallon drums of Buffalo nickels out to her backyard at night and buried them.

The thought that she is actually hijacking armored cars to support her nickel-burying habit!

Louis

Smoeone will drop a dime on him eventually.

Murphy

Racketeer-II Nickel?

ldhair

<< <i>One other thing- What kind of metal detectors do the feds use? Did they hit on the nickels because they were such a big mass or do
they have some super detector that goes 4ft deep??? >>


I wonder just how big the crate or crates were.
Something like this might find it.
They also have a large frame coil that takes several helpers to use.

thebeav

Man....This is 17 tons of nickels !!
Couldn't have been very easy to work with, let alone bury in your yard !!

Paul

CoinOnTheCob

I would really be interested to know their “plan” was for living the good life with 3.6 million nickels. I imagine the hole was already dug when they took a detour with the armored car, but what was the rest? How do you spend all those nickels? $180,000.00 isn’t a million dollars either. They probably would have had to steal a nickel-truck once every two or three years.