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Mysterious safe found abandoned in Arabi, with receipts dating to just before Hurricane Katrina

The safe was retrieved by deputies and opened by a representative of the company that manufactured the safe. There was no money inside, but the contents included a couple of bank bags with thousands of dollars of cash register receipts. Investigators were not able to determine what business the receipts were from or why the safe was dumped behind a business on Aycock Street off St. Claude Avenue near the Orleans Parish line.

The last entry on the receipts was dated Aug. 26, 2005, three days before Hurricane Katrina struck.

“It’s a heavy safe and someone went to a lot of effort to get rid of it, and the question is why,’’ Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann said. “It’s also interesting the receipts end just before the hurricane, but the safe is dumped almost six years later.’’