The men found information on target businesses and used pry bars and sledgehammers to break into buildings and open safes that stored pull-tab proceeds, the complaint states.
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Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
28 May 2026
The safes had been seized in a pot shop raid, a source within the sheriff’s office said.
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Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2026
And much of the export revenue upside isn’t actually reaching the Kremlin’s coffers, because the limitations on fuel exports have forced the government to pay billions of dollars in compensation to refinery owners.
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Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
4 June 2026
Still, seizing ships doesn’t seem like a very effective way to fill the Treasury’s coffers, and embracing freebooting carries risks besides financial ones.
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