Posted on 04/06/2024 11:36:10 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A brazen Los Angeles cash heist on Easter weekend in which thieves cracked a safe and got away with as much as $30 million is believed to be one of the largest such heists in U.S. history.
The heist has triggered rampant speculation among a public long infatuated with daring burglaries and hefty criminal paydays.
L.A. police and the FBI were tight-lipped Friday about any new developments in their joint investigation, but police Cmdr. Elaine Morales told The Los Angeles Times, which broke news of the crime, that thieves were able to breach the money storage facility in the suburban Sylmar neighborhood and then crack into the safe containing the cash.
Media reports identified the facility as a location of GardaWorld, a global cash management and security company. The Canada-based company, which also operates fleets of armored cars, did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment from The Associated Press.
Police said officers received a call for service at the facility at 4:30 a.m. Easter Sunday, and aerial footage from KABC-TV showed a large hole on the side of the building that appeared to be boarded up with plywood. WHAT ARE EXPERTS SAYING?
Jim McGuffey, an armored car and physical security expert, called the theft “a shock.” Any such facility should have two alarm systems and a seismic motion detector right on the safe, he said, as well as additional motion sensors throughout the building.
“For that kind of money, you don’t just walk in and walk out with it,” he told AP. “A facility should be protected from the top to the bottom and the sides.”
Randy Sutton, a former police detective in New Jersey and Las Vegas who investigated major crimes and high-end burglaries, said a crime of this magnitude had likely been planned for months.
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Due to the nature of the heist (so much money) they may be caught. Moving it. Getting rid of it. Dealing with the various personalities in a gang. I’d bet that state surveillance of money movement is much tighter these days than it was in the past. Now if there is an insider and one outside thief behind it…and the insider is now dead…
The Strike Team from “The Shield” ripped off the Armenian money train and it ended tearing the team apart.
To buy Bitcoin, no doubt.
My first thought
A great ironic ending.
I have an alibi.
Thanks mass55th, that was good. ROFLMAO 😋
Joe Biden’s minions at work. The Big Guy git his 10% off the top and the rest was circulated into DNC campaign funding.
😂 Back at ‘ya!
The bills were long gone before the robbers got there.
They got the scraps, and the blame.
The Big Shots made off with it all long ago.
I’ve always called that company GardaMoney. (Guard the money).
Because, the government hates competition.😇
Great response!!!
Sorry people, you have to go to Govt. digital money.
Because that stolen cash will be declared worthless.
You would think the security company would have security....
My Wyze v3 Pro security camera - cost $29 at amazon will notify me when there is movement. At my last job if a server went down due to say internet down in any state we did business in then an alert went to everyone from the IT people to upper management and you had to respond within minutes.
The bad guys jammed the wifi and disabled the security alarm and inexcusable they posted no guards!!!.
This has to be an inside job. I expect to read about several murders connected with the job.
Maybe find a guy frozen in a meat truck like the ‘Goodfellas’ movie.
“Don’t buy anything!”
Book or movie version of, ‘A Simple Plan.’ ;)
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