Money from around the world stolen, then recovered
Arizona Coin Collector
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Money from around the world stolen, then recovered
By Rich Davis
Originally published 12:19 p.m., January 16, 2009
Updated 12:19 p.m., January 16, 2009
An Evansville couple faces charges of stealing thousands
of dollars worth of paper currency and coins from the
United States and more than 200 other countries that a
local man had been collecting for 34 years.
Brian and Jane Lee Mann were arrested Thursday and
appeared in court today; Brian Mann is still in the
Vanderburgh County Jail while his wife was released.
Brian Mann is a maintenance employee at the East Side
apartment complex where William Kanowsky lives. Mann
faces charges of burglary, theft and possession of
stolen property; his wife faces all but the burglary
charges.
According to a police affidavit, Kanowsky's collection
was stolen on at least two separate occasions recently.
Kanowsky alerted a local coin shop owner about the
thefts, supplying him with serial numbers. The shop
owner later contacted police and identified Brian Mann,
43, out of a picture lineup as the man who brought in
at least some of Kanowsky's currency over the past week.
Police said some of the currency already had been sold
on eBay and 11 more pieces are currently up for
auction there.
A search of the couple's apartment by police turned up
much of the collection, although police said the
recovered properties "are too extensive to list at
this time."
More than a dozen of the bills, still in protective
covers, were found in Jane Mann's purse, according
to police.
Police estimated the value of the
collection at more than $15,000.
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