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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

All right.

Today is Tuesday, the 24th day of October.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Federal authorities released more details and unsealed charges in the theft of more than two million dimes earlier this year from a tractor trailer that had picked up coins from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.

The truck driver was bound for Miami when he pulled into a parking lot to sleep on April 13th. During the night, thieves made off with a portion of its cargo, which contained $750,000 in dimes,

a shipment weighing about six tons, authorities said earlier.

Thousands of coins were left scattered all over the lot in northeast Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that prosecutors contend that the theft, which they now say totaled $234,500 in stolenimes, was part of a spree of robberies from tractor trailers passing through the region that also netted the thieves, frozen crab legs.

You guys remember that story?

Frozen crab legs, yeah.

Shrimp, meat, beer, and liquor.

Detectives said at the time of the surveillance video showed six men dressed in gray hoodies and armed with bolt cutters approaching the truck in the middle of the night and breaking into it, then loading the coins into smaller bags and into a waiting truck.

I wonder how much all those dimes weigh.

Six tons, yeah.

Yeah, that was all of that was what his load weighed.

Geez.

I mean, is it even worth it at that point?

Yeah, sure.

That's what I was thinking.

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