Dakota Valkyrie
August 23rd, 2008, 04:07 AM
A Queens armored-car employee who allegedly went fishing for cash and reeled in $40,000 is facing seven years up the river.
Toemirin Wongsonadi, 56, took advantage of his day job hauling bags of money from Queens businesses to the central safe for Dunbar Armored.
Wongsonadi would poke a handmade wire tool into bags of cash, wrap a $20, $50, or $100 bill around it, and yank the money from the bags before putting them into the company's main safe.
The scheme lasted from Sept. 22, 2007, through Aug. 10 - until Dunbar officials caught on to the repeated discrepancy between the amount listed on deposit slips from clients, such as Foot Locker, Rent-A-Center and Sprint, and the amount of money inside the safe.
When arrested he was found with $700 in rolled-up cash in his shirt and pants pockets and another $500 in his wallet. He allegedly confessed to skimming the bills from his Rent-A-Center route that day.
The alleged scam pales in comparison to the 1997 armed robbery of Dunbar Armored's Los Angeles depot, which netted a whopping $18.9 million, the nation's biggest armed robbery in history at the time. The mastermind, Allen Pace III, was a former employee who's now serving a 25-year stint in prison.
Wongsonadi was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on charges of grand larceny and possession of burglar's tools, and could face up to seven years in prison if convicted.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/08/21/2008-08-21_worker_fishes_cash_from_stash-2.html
Toemirin Wongsonadi, 56, took advantage of his day job hauling bags of money from Queens businesses to the central safe for Dunbar Armored.
Wongsonadi would poke a handmade wire tool into bags of cash, wrap a $20, $50, or $100 bill around it, and yank the money from the bags before putting them into the company's main safe.
The scheme lasted from Sept. 22, 2007, through Aug. 10 - until Dunbar officials caught on to the repeated discrepancy between the amount listed on deposit slips from clients, such as Foot Locker, Rent-A-Center and Sprint, and the amount of money inside the safe.
When arrested he was found with $700 in rolled-up cash in his shirt and pants pockets and another $500 in his wallet. He allegedly confessed to skimming the bills from his Rent-A-Center route that day.
The alleged scam pales in comparison to the 1997 armed robbery of Dunbar Armored's Los Angeles depot, which netted a whopping $18.9 million, the nation's biggest armed robbery in history at the time. The mastermind, Allen Pace III, was a former employee who's now serving a 25-year stint in prison.
Wongsonadi was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on charges of grand larceny and possession of burglar's tools, and could face up to seven years in prison if convicted.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/08/21/2008-08-21_worker_fishes_cash_from_stash-2.html