Boy Finds $11,000 in a Vending Machine: The Creston Racket
Boy Finds $11,000 in a Vending Machine: The Creston RacketA 14-year-old on a paper route reached into vending machine number seven, row C at 4:50 a.m. on March 9, 2011, and pulled out a sealed manila envelope marked DO NOT OPEN - RETURN TO R.W. Inside was $11,000 in banded cash and an index card with three future dates; who was R.W., and why was this money being moved through a vending machine dead drop?In this episode, we narrate the sequence of discoveries that connected that envelope to a citywide cash flow: a network of 340 vending machines, a protection scheme for local businesses, a…
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