NPA This Week in Pawn

Dallas News
Fort Worth-based FirstCash Inc., which bills itself as the largest pawn shop operator in the Americas, has closed two deals that adds another 154 stores in Mexico to its growing Latin America footprint.

Fox13
The Utah Attorney General’s Office has filed notice it intends to seize property and potentially millions in cash from a series of raids on pawn shops with links to the Kingston polygamous group.

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NBC2
There are dozens of pawn shops in Lee County. Not one of them wants stolen goods coming through their door, but it can happen, and pawn shop owners can pay the price.

Forbes
There should be a steady recovery in the number of unique users as well as transaction volumes on the Bitcoin network over coming months – helping Bitcoin prices reach around $8,500 by the end of the year.

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AJC
The GBI is investigating a former Rockdale County deputy accused of stealing guns from the sheriff’s office’s evidence room and selling them for cash.

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JCK
We have heard many lab-grown sellers talk about the ethics of their products. And we have natural diamond companies’ rejoinders to those claims. But we don’t often hear from the people who actually work in diamond mines and fields, whose living depends on diamonds. For Dorothée Gizenga, executive director of the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), that crucial voice is missing. Her group has long advocated to improve conditions in the diamond fields.