Original Blog Entry: $250,000 falls out of Brinks Armored Truck on city street

truesee — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:31:13 GMT

Monday, June 1, 2009

Money falls out of armored truck Updated: 06/01/2009 04:40 PM

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Hundreds of thousands of dollars lying on a city street. It was a shocking discovery for two people on Syracuse's Northside.

One man walking out of a barber shop and another man walking to his car on North Salina Street discovered at least $250,000 had fallen out of an armored Brinks truck. At first, both men say they thought the bags were trash.

I saw it and thought who dumped that trash off? As I got closer I realized that these bags were full of money, lots of money! Plastic bags full of hundred dollar bills and twenty dollar bills and I thought oh my goodness, said Syracuse Antiques Exchange owner David Jenks.

Two postal bins rolled over, the money spilled. I tried to catch the one bag before it went down the drain and in the water, said Liverpool resident Hanson Herring.

Jenks took the money into his store where there happened to be a police officer inside.

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Thousands still missing after armored truck loses its load

Last updated 11:32 am

WSYR-TV Syracuse, New York

Syracuse, New York (WSYR-TV) - Hundreds of thousands of dollars fell out of an armored truck along North Salina Street in Syracuse on Friday night. While much of the money was recovered, about $60,000 is still missing.

The Brinks armored truck was carrying about $336,000 when the money somehow fell out of the truck. Two men, David Jenks and Hanson Herring, saw the money on North Salina Street and helped secure it. But Syracuse Police are now trying to figure out where roughly $60,000 of the money went.

Jenks, who owns the Syracuse Antiques Exchange near the corner of North Salina and Wolf Streets, says he had no idea what he stumbled across when he saw the bags of cash in the street.

They were just clear plastic bags, they looked like trash bags, Jenks said. That s what I thought when I first saw them.

At first we thought it was trash, Herring said. We walked over, and looked at it, and it s money!

Jenks says the two men immediately flagged down a nearby police officer, who called for backup. All the bags of cash were put inside the Syracuse Antiques Exchange to keep them safe.

Syracuse Police are giving us an update on their investigation into the missing cash later today, and we ll bring you the update as soon as we get it.

We had previously reported that the money fell out of Loomis truck, when in fact, a Brinks truck was carrying the money and Loomis had no involvment.

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