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Nice to see the Jersey Journal has done away with their no-racial-identification clause.

"held brother's $92G in cash"......lets bet the brother is serving time!

I don't know why you guys find this story so unbelievable? Using women to distract someone holding large amounts of cash/drugs is a common practice with criminals. Just a couple years ago a similar plan was used but it ended in a murder instead.

I remember hearing about many burglaries/robberies like this growing up in JC. Someone brags about how much money they have to the wrong person so they set them up by having women have sex or flirt with the guy for a cut of the profits. While the guy is distracted a man will look for the money.

Also many young people do not know each others last names and know each other. Sometimes they don't even know that person's first name because they are known by a nickname.

The cops should have given that dude a beating right after that really believable story.

Yeah, that's the ticket...

Stupid is as stupid does.

P.S. That aphorism is turrible.

I call bullshit. 21 year old with 92k in a briefcase... I was just holding it for my brother. Yeah right. Two women were in my house and I don't know their last names?

Stolen briefcase held brother's $92G in cash, Jersey City cops told by Greenville man

Friday, May 21, 2010
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A briefcase with $92,000 inside was stolen from the home of a Jersey City man on Wednesday while two women he barely knew were at the residence, reports said.

At 4:05 p.m., police went to the 21-year-old man's home on Greenville Avenue off Old Bergen Road, where he told them he had seen a man walk past his window going toward his backyard, reports said, adding that the man then passed going in the other direction with the briefcase.

He told police he ran out of his living room and chased the man down Greenville Avenue and onto Scott Street before giving up and calling police, reports said.

The victim said the money in the briefcase belongs to his brother and he was holding it for him, reports said, adding that only his brother knows the combination to open it and that he had never seen the money himself.

The 21-year-old said that at the time the briefcase was stolen, a female friend he knows only by her first name was in the back room of his apartment with another woman he did not know at all, and that the door to the back room was closed, reports said.

He said that both women were gone when he returned home after calling police, reports said.

The victim gave police two addresses for the woman he knows, but police could not locate her, reports said.

He described the thief as being about 25 years old, 5-foot-8, and wearing black pants and a black hooded sweatshirt, reports said.

It's not clear why the victim or his brother were keeping so much cash around, based on the police report.

Anyone with information on the burglary is asked to call the Jersey City police tip line at (201) 547-JAIL.