The Courthouse Cash Trail: Ferrets, Retrofit, and a $412K Vanish
The Courthouse Cash Trail: Ferrets, Retrofit, and a $412K Vanish
A woman walking her rescue greyhound found $41,600 in banded fifty-dollar bills stamped with Palomar County Superior Court evidence numbers stuffed inside a sealed waterproof bag in a drainage culvert; months later investigators pieced together how over $400,000 drifted out of a courthouse without a forced entry. How did routine retrofit work, badge logs, two diabetic ferrets and a property-and-evidence technician's predictable schedule let thousands of dollars slip away in fragments?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of…
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