🙄 Stephen Lancaster Dennis, of Harpersville, Alabama, plead guilty to a count of bank theft after stealing $196,000 in quarters from a Brink’s armored truck. Dennis worked as a money processing manager for the Brink’s Birmingham branch, which is where he stole the coins from. According to WSPA… the 49-year-old had access to the Federal Reserve coin inventory, which included so-called ballistic bags containing quarters in $50,000 increments. The bags were stored on skids in the doubtless aptly named Coin Room. An April 2014 audit of the coin inventory showed that four of the bags had been filled mostly with beads. Those bags each contained only $1,000 in quarters, which had been strategically situated so the coins were visible through a plastic window in the necks of the bags, according to federal authorities. Upon investigation, authorities determined that Dennis had entered the Brink’s facility on February 16, 2014 — a day off for the Harpersville man — and collected four empty skids and four empty ballistics bags, which he filled with beads, the Justice Department said. He then placed the skids and bags in the coin room, authorities said. The theft took place between January 1, 2014, and February 20, 2014, the news release said. Dennis faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. That’s a million-quarter fine, or 216,000 more quarters than Dennis stole.
