Thieves stole $100,000 in dimes from a truck in a Philadelphia Walmart car parking zone

The thieves are believed to have damaged right into a truck carrying the cash on Wednesday evening because it sat in a Walmart car parking zone within the metropolis’s northeast, NBC Philadelphia reported.

They escaped with an estimated $100,000 in dimes from the unmarked trailer, which had collected $750,000 in cash from the U.S. Mint and was resulting from transport them to Florida.

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The truck was owned by logistics firm Eager Cargo, in keeping with NBC Philadelphia.

Spokespeople for Eager Cargo and the U.S. Mint weren’t instantly out there for remark when contacted by Fortune.

Law enforcement officials have been referred to as to the car parking zone on Thursday morning, the place NBC helicopter footage confirmed dimes strewn all around the car parking zone.

No arrests had been made, and an investigation is underway, NBC reported.

Talking to reporters in regards to the case, Philadelphia Police Captain John Ryan stated the criminals had been “fairly busy in a single day,” and that that they had appeared to make use of bolt cutters to entry the truck.  

“They have been making an attempt to cross-load the dimes into different issues to hold it away,” he stated. “There’s dimes all around the car parking zone, all down the road.”

Ryan added that it was “frequent apply” for drivers to choose up a great deal of cash from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia and wait within the metropolis in a single day earlier than heading towards their locations.

“They park their truck for the evening and get on the street within the morning,” he stated.

Though cargo thefts usually are not unusual in Philadelphia, Ryan famous that money wasn’t normally what was stolen from trailers, with most comparable crimes involving items like meat, TVs, fridges, and alcohol being taken.

In line with knowledge from transportation agency CargoNet, cargo thefts are surging throughout the U.S., with thieves focusing on meals and drinks as inflation continues to ship the price of primary items hovering. The typical loss in a meals and beverage cargo theft is $214,000, CNBC reported final month.