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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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$44,000 payroll cash stolen from post office in Brittania Beach, B.C., Canada, one of largest such robberies recently; package from Royal Bank not secured in safe, discovered missing Friday after arrival Thursday.
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BRITTANIA BEACH, B.C. (P)--Theft of a payroll package containing $44,000 in cash was discovered Friday when the post office opened at this little copper mining town of 1,500 on the British Columbia coast.
It was one of Canada's largest post office robberies in recent years.
Mounted police, who did not report the theft until Saturday, said the money was received at the post office in a registered package from the royal bank of Canada Thursday, and was taken either Thursday night or early Friday morning.
The package apparently had not been put in the safe where it usually is kept.
The safe was locked and undamaged when the money was found to be missing yesterday.
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Brittania Beach, B.C.
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Stolen Thursday Night Or Early Friday, Discovered Friday
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$44,000 in cash stolen; one of canada's largest post office robberies in recent years
Event Details
Theft of a payroll package containing $44,000 in cash from the post office in Brittania Beach, a copper mining town of 1,500 on the British Columbia coast. The money was received Thursday in a registered package from the Royal Bank of Canada and taken either Thursday night or early Friday morning. The package was not put in the safe, which was locked and undamaged when the theft was discovered Friday upon opening. Mounted police reported the theft Saturday.