Men Accused of Stealing ‘Treasure’
Four men who made news by saying they dug up buried treasure worth as much as $125,000 from one of their yards are now accused of stealing the cache of old currency while doing a roofing job at someone’s home.
The arrests came after the men appeared on national TV, and police noticed how the story was different each time.
“Had they kept quiet ... they probably could have sold the money and no one would have ever known,” Police Chief Joseph E. Solomon said.
The cache included 1,800 bank notes and bills dating from 1899 to 1928. The currency had a face value of about $7,000, but prosecutors said the men had been offered $125,000 by a collector.
Police received an anonymous call on Tuesday from a woman who said the story the men had been telling was a lie, according to court papers.
They interviewed neighbors who said they had not seen anyone digging in the yard. And a coin shop owner who examined the money told investigators the men gave him conflicting accounts of how they found it.
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