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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 4688821, member: 1644"]
All that effort for $400, my god

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2023/06/the-heartbreaking-end-for-the-championship-belts-stolen-from-the-boxing-hall-of-fame.html[/URL]

"Canastota, N.Y. — Six championship belts stolen from the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota in 2015 are gone.

They were melted down and sold for scrap after they were stolen, investigators said in an indictment in federal court unveiled Thursday.

...Included in those thefts were four boxing belts that belonged to Canastota native Carmen Basilio and two to Tony Zale.

Two of the people charged in the conspiracy drove to Canastota to stake out security and the items on display at the hall of fame, according to court documents.

[B]They returned in November 2015 and smashed multiple glass displays with an axe and stole the belts, investigators said.

They drove to a Pennsylvania home on or about the same day of the thefts to pry gemstones from the belts and then melt them down to metal pieces, investigators said.

The scrap was sold for about $400 in the New York City area, investigators said."[/B]
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