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Mint Worker Smuggled Out Gold Worth $135K In His Butt

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Talk about an inside job...

    I guess we now know what an a**load of gold looks like.

    At least he wasn't coining his own money too, then they would all be struck through grease.

  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: cameonut2011
    Talk about an inside job...

    I guess we now know what an a**load of gold looks like.

    At least he wasn't coining his own money too, then they would all be struck through grease.


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  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,700 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gives new meaning to 'Seated material'?

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ChrisRx
    "Full crack" designations.


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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does this guy also like gerbils? Just asking?
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This guy will be the 'butt' of jokes for a long time... and no doubt he will 'end' up in prison where his skills will be well 'received'.....image Cheers, RickO
  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey...it made the national TV last night on Jimmy Kimmel. He had a very good time with it, including naming the judge....

    Tom

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,615 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Moral of the story : pick your assets carefully.
  • Schmitz7Schmitz7 Posts: 756 ✭✭✭
    Would PCGS slab and label these as "dark side" coins? image
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: mrkbrown87
    Originally posted by: Dentuck
    It was the one-kilogram gold coin that finally ended his career, according to prosecutor Erasmus B. Dragon.



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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,755 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: ricko
    This guy will be the 'butt' of jokes for a long time... and no doubt he will 'end' up in prison where his skills will be well 'received'.....image Cheers, RickO


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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,753 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does the RCM use UPS for its gold deliveries?
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,309 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder if he put the boogie in his butt, too.



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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mint worker who smuggles out product without paying for it will get caught in the end.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,753 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Brown is the new gold.
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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Making the news OTP (over the pond),



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  • RockyMtnProspectorRockyMtnProspector Posts: 754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The stolen coins all exhibited signs of a light wipe.
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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    From the Associated Press, February 2, 2017:

    OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A former Royal Canadian Mint employee who stole 22 cookie-sized pieces of refined gold by hiding them in his rectum has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

    Thirty-five-year-old Leston Lawrence was found guilty last November of stealing the pieces from the mint and selling 17 of them through Ottawa Gold Buyers.

    Ontario Court judge Peter Doody on Thursday sentenced Lawrence and ordered him to pay a fine of US$145,900 (CA$190,000).

    Doody says the stolen gold was worth US$127,116.11 (CA$165,451.14).

    Court testimony indicated that Lawrence was involved in purifying recently procured gold and sometimes worked alone, out of sight of security cameras.

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Court Judge "Doody" ???

    couldn't have picked a better name
    for the Judge !

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

    Thant **stinks **for him............and those that bought the gold. :smile:

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