“It was like a game for them.” As the massive case of the head of ten cents is directed towards the trial, new details arise.

Given the expensive truck load, $ 750,000 in ten cents, it was a risky movement for the driver of a tractor trailer that went from philadelphia to Florida to park it during the night next to a Northeast of Philadelphia Walmart.

And luckily, a group of thieves drove that night looking for things to steal and stumbled upon the truck. They burst With the tire plates, the authorities said, then millions of currencies were stolen by throwing them into trash cans and then left, leaving thousands of coins of ten cents scattered by the parking lot.

The next day, prosecutors said, one of the thieves posed for a photograph that is in the bed of a truck full of silver coins. And in text messages, crew members planned a “Victoria Dinner” in a casino.

But since the robbery of coins was News A naughty fieldThe officials responsible for enforcing the law were beginning to close the culprits, a group that now say that prosecutors include 10 people who also participated in a series of robberies in 2023, raising stolen goods as diverse as refrigerators, frozen crab legs, liquor and air conditioning units.

In recent months, details have emerged in judicial documents that link some of the men with violent criminal organizations.

One of the ten cents, Rakiem Savage, was A key member Of the overlapping groups known as omerta and zoo gang, prosecutors said, whose members sought to increase their wealth and status in North Philadelphia When executing illegal game rings, defrauding unemployment programs, using falsified money and committing murders while attacked the perceived rivals. Savage has been accused of crimes that include conspiracy to commit extortion in that case, in addition to theft and conspiracy charges related to the robberies.

Two other coacked in the theft of ten cents were members of a gang called Dirty Block, prosecutors said, and have been accused separately of stealing a Fedex truck in 2022 that had carried 9 kilograms of cocaine.

These details were greatly left without addressing in the Federal Court on Tuesday, since one of the defendants, Aikeem Palmer, was released on bail to wait for the trial for charges that include robbery and robbery. The American District Judge Wendy Beetlestone agreed with Palmer’s lawyer in which he had not been accused of committing violence during the robberies, and pointed out that others accused of working with him, including two of his brothers, had also been released of custody to wait for the trial.

“He is not the leader,” said Palmer’s lawyer Luis Ortiz.

Prosecutors said thieves had shown an arrogant attitude towards their criminal capers.

“It was like a game for them,” said American prosecutor Alexander Bowerman in Court on Tuesday.

The most striking robbery was the theft of ten cents, which occurred on April 13, 2023. The truck driver was supposed to take the trailer and its 15 coins palettes of the United States mint in Central City to Florida. But parked during the night in the Walmart parking lot in block 4300 of Byberry Way, where they hit the thieves.

Palmer and his codefondents were made with more than $ 200,000 in coins, prosecutors said, and then a wave of text messages were sent. “We succeed!” Savage wrote along with a screenshot of a news article about the robbery.

Then came the photo of Malik Palmer’s brother, Aikeem Palmer’s brother, “swim in a ten cents, said the prosecutors. Men also talked about going to a life! Casino for a “victory dinner” to celebrate its tour.

The group had committed previous crimes, prosecutors said, and also communicated on those extensive through texts.

In January 2023, prosecutors said, the group stole 36 televisions of a trailer trailer in the northeast of Philadelphia, and one of them sent a group text message saying: “Who needs some large televisions.”

Two months later, prosecutors said, several members of the group stole 10,000 pounds of frozen turkey wings of a truck parked in the 2800 block of Charter Road.

“You all have more wings,” said one of the men in a group text.

Aikeem Palmer participated in the theft of thousands of frozen crab legs, prosecutors said, and sent loot videos to some of their accused coconspirators.

In total, prosecutors said, the group was responsible for stealing goods worth more than $ 1.5 million of 10 different victims.

Even so, some questions remain unanswered, including what was of all ten cents.

Part of the money was exchanged or converted into banks or credit cooperatives in the weeks after the robbery, prosecutors said. But the total accounting remained much lower than the coins more than $ 200,000 in currencies that were accused of stealing.

It is not clear if the answer will be revealed if any of the men takes the case before a jury. Currently, a trial is scheduled to start in August.