The Quiet Theft: How a Hard Hat Betrayed $1.6M in Boxes
The Quiet Theft: How a Hard Hat Betrayed $1.6M in Boxes
A yellow hard hat, numbered 11 and taped with blue painter's tape, sat visored forward on an empty shelf above sixteen missing banker's boxes - approximately $1.6 million in bundled bills seized in 2017 - in a locked evidence vault beneath the Garfield County Courthouse. How did a room with two intact locks and no forced entry lose sixteen boxes without a trace, and why was a hard hat left in plain sight?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the November 14, 2019 discovery through the four years, four months, and nine days…
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