Massive theft at Dallas card show, Nearly 2 Million Dollars worth of cards stolen

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Originally Posted by Yoda

I only wonder where the police start in solving this heinous crime. Trying to get a positive id on one or all the perps, I suppose.

I'm not a criminal justice expert, so I can only surmise based on wild guesses and my zero background knowledge of how these investigations work.

But it does seem like identifying the goons based on the video would be a key step. With any luck, they have other security footage from elsewhere in the venue showing other angles, and maybe with a little better resolution. The only trouble, of course, is that unless these goons are already known to the authorities, about their only hope is some sort of a database, or else someone from the public identifying them.

If that doesn't pan out, then it seems like it's a waiting game. Waiting for someone to notice one of these cards somewhere. Or for one of the goons to try to sell a big chunk of them at a venue that recognizes these cards.

Seems like one other potential is hoping the goons get greedy and turn on each other because they can't agree on an equitable allocation of their ill-gotten gains. Or some jilted lover who turns them in. Seems like that's how most of the accounting frauds get caught.