How Much?
This boggles the mind (story from the CWB blog):
- An armored car driver has been charged with stealing more than a half-million dollars from his North Side employer. In coins.
Managers at Thillens Cagistics called police to the company warehouse at 4242 North Elston on Monday afternoon when an audit revealed that $537,088.22 had gone missing between May 10 and Aug. 18.
Three months and over half-a-million? It makes that recently convicted idiot selling accident info to lawyers for $10 grand over the years look like an even bigger idiot.
It also makes us wonder about Thillens security measures = half-a-million in coins has to weigh many hundreds of pounds at the very least.
This isn't the end of the stupid though:
It also makes us wonder about Thillens security measures = half-a-million in coins has to weigh many hundreds of pounds at the very least.
This isn't the end of the stupid though:
- Company representatives told investigators that 28-year-old Cameron Bowman of Riverdale stole the money by putting incorrect totals into a computer. While Bowman did not admit to any wrongdoing, police said, he did ask if he could leave and return with the money.
Bowman left for about an hour and came back with a Ziploc bag containing $25,300 in $100 bills, police said.
They let him leave? Alone? And he comes back with 5% of the stolen total and expects a walk? Is this when the police were finally called?
Guess what his bail was?
Guess what his bail was?
- Prosecutors charged Bowman with one count of felony theft of more than $500,000. Judge Charles Beach set bail at $30,000, and Bowman went free by posting a 10% deposit bond of $3,000. He is due back in court Monday.
Less than 1% of the total stolen as bail? This guy must have had the biggest shit-eating grin standing in front of the judge.
Rumor is he paid the bail in rolls of dimes and nickels, and Dart was only too happy to accept it.
Rumor is he paid the bail in rolls of dimes and nickels, and Dart was only too happy to accept it.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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The bail part of the story is too funny. Thanks for the laugh, Crook County.
He makes "Quarters Boyle" look like a piker.
26,830 pounds if he took it all in quarters
My bet is he gets off, case dismissed
Victimless crime or crime of economics — right Larry
Memories of John "Quarters" Boyle come to mind.
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Look on the bright side. That three grand can pay the city shortfall budget down.
Dafuk?
Really?
Hooooo...
This shit ought to come with a laugh track...
And silly m/fers are ADAMANT that
The Police are the problem.
Look.
Point & Laugh.
Leave.
Stop.
Reverse...
Point & Laugh again
while still rolling.
Something stinks within this happening.
Quarters and dimes weigh the same per dollar. Nickles and pennies are much heavier per dollar.
Quarters weigh .20 ounces.
$537,088 x 4 = 2,148,352 quarters.
2,148,352 x .20 = 429,670.4 ounces.
429,670.4 / 16 = 26,854.4 pounds.
Maybe I'm missing something in my arithmetic?
John "quarters" Boyle made off with 4 MILLION dollars in quarters from the tollway system but only gave back 720 dollars. He did do some prison time but then got a city job when he was released. This guy is a piker in comparison.
Charlie Beach was a scumbag DUI attorney who roamed the hallways of the 4th floor at Daley center for years. He'd have a spanish interpreter right there with him to do the quick plea deal special. Nice guy but nonetheless a scheister attorney. He made a good living but decided to class himself up by getting slated as a judge.
According to my calculations, if he did this evenly over the course of 70 working days, he had to walk out with about 384 pounds of coins every single day from May 10th to August 18th, totaling 26,880 pounds worth of coins. I hope his basement floor is reinforced.
He’s is an example of a non violent offender.
Every morning i drive west on Berteau where they’re located. The guys routinely double park and block traffic as the grab their bags and clothes from personal vehicles . I’m not surprised that shenanigans were going on.
$500,000 = 2M quarters; a quarter weighs 5.7 grams.
So over 11M grams, which is to say 11 metric tonnes. In 100 days, so about 240 pounds per day.
That's heavy, man.
Just A Civilian (who couldn't even lift that much change)
The mayor, fast Eddie, the judges and unFoxxy just need to set some ground rules for these scumbag gangstas. Go ahead and shoot each other, but when you take out an innocent person like a kid, cop or senior, we’re gonna hunt your ass down and deal with you behind an old warehouse. Let’em Kill each other, the more the merrier. Just don’t get caught in the crossfire.
Crime does pay.
He just wanted his share of his reparations, now.
It’s all about poverty, right Groot?
Should’ve been released on an I bond. That 30k bond sounds racist to me.
That is a lot of coins!
Talk about CHANGE you can believe in! Penny for your thoughts?
A penny ante crook? He will never make it... Only dollars make sense.
Still - great haul for only nickel and diming! Guess this bozo did not take plastic or use an app for payment, purely coin-op!
"$537,088.22 had gone missing" in coin money mind you!
I'd start checking the local gum ball machines and payphones if I were you. However if that was so, the year would have to be 1986 or there about.
Maybe he wasn't the only one ripping them off?
$537,088 is over 12 Metric Tons of quarters.
Twelve fthousands kilos.
That is more than a jingle in your pocket.
That's $40,000.00 per day if he woked seven days a week.
No one saw him wheeling a trash can full of money out every day? Day after Day?
Bull shit! They found a patsy to take the hit for all the missing money since the last time they were audited. He takes the hit for the whole half mill, and they promise not to lock him up forever?
Stupid Man. Stupid Company.
Crime pays in Chicago.
This guys going to get out in a year or two and be a couple of hundred thousand ahead.
Thilens never impressed me as a professional outfit... until recently, their armored cars looked like they were shielded with painted cardboard....
As for putting in the wrong totals in the computer - LOL... morons. $100K/month for 4 months and no one noticed?
How much more is getting stolen?
As an aside, it sounds like the old CTA when they took coins - rumors abounded of people stealing wheelbarrows of dimes from the piles they had in the warehouse
How about those bed bugs in 010 processing area!!!! And their solution was telling us at roll call "if I were you I would buy a can of lysol spray to spray yourself after your done processing your arrest. Its alot cheaper then having to hire an exterminator to kill them once you have them in your house." A ticket was created for them to spray. Oh yea The following cars have missions... remember get those #s to me by 0300.
LOTSA Local Activity @SuperMarket Coin Machines.
Didn't they say WTF?
Coins came in at registers, went out by armor car, came back in
through coin machines in lobby. Machine collectors never said
anything to store managers? Don't these machines print out a
voucher where you redeem for currency inside market?
He COULDN'T process >$537K in coins himself. FBI gonna
want to know about this one.
Armor, arms, computers.
The weakest link was HUMAN.
That's double hernia surgical mesh weight
He shall be called the Ringleader.
Purchased any new shocks/springs/struts lately?
Circle of friends from phone. WASSUP?
Sure his last name isn't Boyle?
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That’s “chump change”...
He bro can you spare 100 dimes...
His jukebox goes non stop...
Thx you, I will be here all week, be sure to tip da waitress
Reminds me of Quarters! That guy’s still a mess.
Fall guy for sure, assuming a 5 day work week he would have had to average 95 pounds of coins a day.
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Every morning i drive west on Berteau where they’re located. The guys routinely double park and block traffic as the grab their bags and clothes from personal vehicles . I’m not surprised that shenanigans were going on.
8/26/2019 02:04:00 AM
Because double parking is clearly the predecessor to grand theft.
Was that a roll of quarters in his pocket or was he just happy to be there.
And you want a fucking CASINO in Chicago?
Cast of 'Heat' going "We wasted all those good explosives
on that fucking car!"
According to my calculations, if he did this evenly over the course of 70 working days, he had to walk out with about 384 pounds of coins every single day from May 10th to August 18th, totaling 26,880 pounds worth of coins. I hope his basement floor is reinforced.
8/26/2019 01:44:00 AM
I did notice he had gained a few pounds.
Little Tommy Dart hosted a jail pizza party spending the bag of coins at Pizza Hut.
Maybe he was clouted and had a take home armored truck?
I can’t believe the theft wasn’t discovered immediately. I worked at a bank for 10 years and every time we got a cash delivery we COUNTED the $$$ IMMEDIATELY. If it didn’t total the exact amount ordered to the penny, we called the armored car service as well as our main office or the Fed, depending on where the order originated. The same process happened when we shipped money out - we counted it and the receiving bank counted it. The armored cars were audited DAILY. Even if he stole money that was going to big stores like WalMart or Target (or coming from stores like that where large amounts of cash go in and out daily) that money should be counted coming and going every single day. Somebody has some very poor cash controls if this was allowed to continue for WEEKS.
$537,088 is over 12 Metric Tons of quarters.
Twelve thousands kilos.
We also do about 60 tons of dead murder victims a year. We need special wheelbarrows for our urban crime problems.
Boyle was protected by RINOs like Edgar and Dillard and then given city jobs from the dummycrats. Now this guy gets off easy because it’s a crime of poverty. Thanks Lori.
He probably sells dime bags on the side.
all i keep picturing is Kramer and his cargo pants full of change.
Talk about theft, Lincoln yards is getting 1.3 BILLION dollars in tif funds from the city, per today’s front page of the tribune!
How much is the city short on their budget? They expect each of us to make up the shortfall? Are we that freaking stupid? The other little pimp, rahm thought so. This has to stop!!!!
Bank Secrecy ACT/Anti-Money Laundering Examination Manual
(Google books 2015)
"Ascess the adequacy of the U.S. bank's systems to manage the
risks associated with receiving and sending....carriers of currency,
including armored car services, FIN 2014-G002, August 1, 2014"
Do they still cash checks at businesses? I remember them showing up at places in paydays and all the illegals would scamper out to cash their checks.
A number of years ago they had a f/1 who they caught shorting the ATM cassettes when she would suppose to be replacing the cartridges with ones full ($5k in each). She had the same route every day and skimmed $1000 from each cassette for a total of about $300,000 over the course of 2 weeks. Her plan came to light the day she called in sick and the sub realized all of her cassettes were $1000 short. Funny pet is all the company wanted to do was have the police escort her and her things out. No arrest.
Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket or are you just happy to see me.
Change is good! Groot is bad !
Is this guy related to “Quarters” Boyle?
He’s definitely going to need some new shocks on his car.
Dart bought wings and pizza for da few boys on lockdown, may want to stay away from the ranch dressing though...
How long did it take to have the bailiff count the 12,000 quarters before he was released?
** Maybe ** the Managers at Thillens were so ... uh ... considerate to Cameron Bowman because of his 'size'. In that pic of him with the article, he looks fricken huge. So 'maybe' the folks at Thillens didn't want to piss him off: .....
---> 'Uh sure, okay Cameron, go home and if it's not too much trouble please return any loose change you can find. Not that we're accusing you of doing anything wrong or anything like that'. <---
Ten years ago, the above would be obvious sarcasm. But today, hell, the absurd has become reality more often than not.
And the Low Bail by this judge Charles Beach isn't even news today. He's just another *woke* asshole in a black robe who probably owes his job to Toni Perriwinkle. Oh ... wait a sec... a quick search of his name looks like he just might owe 'the democrat party'. He was defeated in his re-election bid yet still winds up as a judge feeding off the taxpayers.
Ain't Cook County grand.
Some how boyle is a 150 elevator operator. He was seen sitting in a chair, pushing buttons at the old post office.
Love this guy till he came back. Should have been on a plane to Costa Rica.
OT - MEDIA where are you? The mayor is about to address the city about the financial crisis we’re in and there’s a freeze on all city hiring. Yet, she has the GALL to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kenny Construction for a major remodeling job of her 5th floor OFFICE ...yes, office! Take a look up there, it’s a major construction site, walls down,etc. In a previous post someone made a great analogy, they said that when you spend $150,000 remodeling a home, that’s a major remodel job. She’s spending $220,000 to remodel an office that’s a fraction of the size of an entire home! How is it that no one is questioning this? Mayor, WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM TO PAY FOR THIS???
Hope they weren’t picking up for the toll roads..
This couldn't be an "OUTFIT" type caper, could it?
Let's give the guy a break for creativity at least.
While he leaves work for the day, "Hey man, you putt'n on weight?"
"Yeah, I gotta stop eating at Popeyes. That shit is making me fat."
There are no bed bugs.
True change comes from within! Heyyyyooooo!
Mayor Lightfoot is offering teacher 16% over 5 years and the Sgt’s Union is ready to accept 2% over 6 years to avoid arbitration. All Sgt’s better wake up and contact their union. For years union leadership has been shortchanging the membership now its going to cost every Sgt thousands of Dollars. Please contact the Sgt’s union and let them know 2% is an insult and unacceptable.
That's all he had left after Coinstar, Chicago and Cook County all took their cut.
He was the one caught holding the bag.. literally
Rumors also floating they increased his hourly rate and added overtime initiatives to help pay the outstanding balance.
Surprised this even got an ASA callback due to the fact the employer was given an opportunity to return the coinage.
Guessing the Cook County has a Big Kimmm’s Press’n Charges Dashboard too.
Campaigning on numbers for 2020.
Let’s see if this little misunderstanding still has shawty cash on any City must-hire wait lists.
Change has come to ‘merica
Thillens?! Haha! What a joke of a company. Look at some of the reviews on glass door. They deserve to be ripped off.
Its not a violent crime.
And he will have no criminal record and be give parole in less than a year.
Case closed by arrest DOES anyone think the financial crime unit will investigate this?
NOPE they made it a theft over?
long live the john quarters boyle legacy............
Reminds me of the now infamous Illinois Tollway scammer, "John "Quarters" Boyle"....
When does he start the Acadamny Lol, oh , there is a hiring freeze, darn
This is on the companies they don't pay these driver guards enough to be professional most of the Armored car driver guards in New York City are unionized make 30hr+ what do you expect when you pay these guy 12hr to 16hr or course they are going to steal.
They handle more than coins.
OT, today was cake and coffee for one of the worst people ever on this job.
Teachers reject 16% over 4 years, and groot wants us to take pay decrease.
Thillen's was a great place 2 play ball back in the day, real major league uniforms, p.a. system and a scoreboard with Armour Truck on it, alot of family fun, where people enjoyed themselves instead of looking down at some cell phone, this country is fucked!
Reminds me of the tollway manager crook a number of years ago. But come on how do you lose 12 tons or more of money.
Boy I would trust them to take care of my money. He was not alone in this. $3000 bail you got o be kidding. How about $5,000,000 bail that way at least you know where the money is.
So how many years of freedom would you trade for $550,000 tax free?
His home, car, garage, yard, basement, neighbor, wife and children will all be tossed, picked clean, dug up and scattered when he gets out. If he gets out. Everyone in the joint will know he has loot hidden somewhere. Got a fin says he don't last a week.
I once handled a robbery of a driver outside their offices/ware house drop point. I could not believe what I saw. There were coins all over the floor and I mean all over the floor. I asked a supervisor why and the supervisor told me that every night they pick up the coins. I asked how do you know who the monies belong to? he answered they don't. I then asked who do you know if the companies who were making the deposit were accurate or not? He again stated we don't we go by the paper work submitted. This does not surprise me.
Quarters Boyle, is that the same guy who used to drink in Dugans and used to put a bunch of quarters Jon the bar
I needed a good laugh. Who dropped the dime on this guy?
Anonymous said...
Teachers reject 16% over 4 years, and groot wants us to take pay decrease.
8/26/2019 03:25:00 PM
Yeah, but they have been throwing around the "S" word.....
Quarters Boyle would be proud
"So how many years of freedom would you trade for $550,000 tax free?"
Interesting question...I estimate that, weighing my engineer salary against not having to pay for housing, food, etc. in addition to the $500k lump sum it would be worth about eight years in the klink from a strictly economic perspective. Less if the money is collecting interest. Having to poop and shower in a public setting is of course a tremendous drawback, and I'm famously picky about the quality of my pooping and showering amenities, so given that additional cost I'd say the threshold goes down to about four years. Four years of hell, perhaps, but after that four years I'd be able to live comfortably with a part time job.
It's eerily similar to the justification that white collars use to justify working 80 hour weeks at rich but badly run companies.
I'm rich, bitch!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Its not a violent crime.
And he will have no criminal record and be give parole in less than a year.
Case closed by arrest DOES anyone think the financial crime unit will investigate this?
NOPE they made it a theft over?
8/26/2019 12:18:00 PM
Thefts and robberies involving armored cars also falls under federal jurisdiction and can be handled by the feds.
Who is say how much he really took? Maybe he got caught taking say $30K. Some executive(s) took a whole lot more and blamed him?
He keeps his mouth shut. Does some minimal if any time, gets to keep a nice piece. The bosses pocket a ton. Or this is a smokescreen to cover some bigwig's embezellment.
Look at all the angles before you paint the entire picture.
"OT, today was cake and coffee for one of the worst people ever on this job."
What happened, did Commander Escamilla retire?!
Sgt exam updates in September with test in mid-December
Run Forrest run!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT, today was cake and coffee for one of the worst people ever on this job.
8/26/2019 03:25:00 PM
You'd have to be a bit more specific. I can think of several people that could apply to.
Local fake news 7 describes two aides tease 91 year old woman in nursing home received probation . No hate crime , no description two Hispanic aides abuse elderly 91 year old white woman.
So you are saying the Sgts union will accept a .33% raise a year for 6 yrs...dont think so
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Reminds me of the now infamous Illinois Tollway scammer, "John "Quarters" Boyle"....
8/26/2019 01:27:00 PM
He was pinched again in 2017 for leaving the scene of an accident? Didn't see any case follow up reporting. Mendoza was calling for no special treatment.
All this mention of Boyle is gonna make him feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
Saw him at Superdawg with his fat, greasy POS friend, the gun-totin, City of Chicago Inspector Ron Calicchio.
Kass would write about these two nitwits every now and then...
***
Retired, 30+
Quarters Boyle... "Hold my beer"
Dart a nickle + dime man anyway
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Teachers reject 16% over 4 years, and groot wants us to take pay decrease.
8/26/2019 03:25:00 PM
Yeah, but they have been throwing around the "S" word.....
8/26/2019 07:06:00 PM
***please stop the stupidity, Groot has NEVER said anything about us taking a pay cut, geez what fucking morons. Please show me when and where she said it?
I read this story again last night and don’t believe it. You mean this man stole between 250 and 300lbs of coins everyday he worked? If he’s stealing that much and not getting caught immediately, he should be able to keep the money and the hernia.
Connected......
Anonymous said...
This couldn't be an "OUTFIT" type caper, could it?
8/26/2019 09:41:00 AM
DING DING DING
Anonymous said...
Local fake news 7 describes two aides tease 91 year old woman in nursing home received probation . No hate crime , no description two Hispanic aides abuse elderly 91 year old white woman.
8/26/2019 10:15:00 PM
Take care of your own relatives move them into your house
An example of specialization. Criminals can make crime pay, while the CPD guy cited for padding his pocket on referrals obviously could not. How much would anyone wager that the actual amount stolen is different than that given on the insurance claim? Me thinks there is more than one crook in this case.
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