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 Posted - 06/18/2006 : 20:14:41
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By Madeline Baró Diaz
Miami Bureau Posted February 5 2005
Police officers on Friday dug up some unusual backyard buried treasure
-- about three million stolen nickels that never made it to the Federal
Reserve in New Orleans.
Miami-Dade police came across the nicked nickels, worth about $180,000,
at a home in the Redlands area of southwest Miami-Dade. They were still
in Federal Reserve bags, in a wooden box covered with a thick plastic
tarp and buried about four feet deep.
"We think most of them are there," said Judy Orihuela, spokeswoman for
the FBI, which is investigating the theft. "There's probably going to
be a few missing."
The nickel caper began on Dec. 17 when truck driver Angel Ricardo
Mendoza picked up the coins at the Federal Reserve facility in New
Jersey.
Mendoza, who worked for a private trucking contractor, vanished, as did
the 45,000 pounds of silvery loot. A few days later, the truck and
trailer turned up at a Fort Pierce truck stop, but he and the nickels
were gone.
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The biggest mystery of all might be what someone does with that many
nickels.
"That's the big question," Orihuela said. "You bury them in your back
yard, I guess."
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