Store Owner Catches Coin Thief

Two competing coin stores work together to catch a coin thief.

Paul Kendall said a man walked into Rocky Mountain Sports Cards and Collectibles Friday afternoon and tried to sell him a gold coin that he had stolen from a coin store called Pocket Change.

Police records state that James Baril, 28, had swiped the gold coin, worth $1,800, from Pocket Change.

A little while later, Kendall received an interesting phone call.

?I got a phone call from (Baril). He wanted to come and sell (the stolen coin) to me, but I didn’t know it was stolen,? said Kendall.

He quickly found out.

?What we do is we call each other…if somebody steals something from us. We keep in contact with each other,? said Kendall.

That?s what the owner of Pocket Change did shortly after the gold coin was taken.

Kendall told him he just got off the phone with someone trying to sell him a gold coin. The owner of Pocket Change wasted no time. He got to Rocky Mountain and waited for the thief.

?It was tense. Everything happened so fast,? said Kendall.

It was Baril?s dad who came in to try to sell the coin, according to police records.

Baril was recognized and the owner of Pocket Change chased him down. He held him at gunpoint until police arrived.

?It was just a fiasco out there,? said Kendall.

Both Barils were arrested.