CONTACT US: Email: paranaughtica@gmail.com Twitter: @paranaughtica Facebook: The Paranaughtica PodcastContact Cricket: Website: www.theindividuale.com Twitter: @Individualethe Goeie dag! Mirëdita! Barev dzez! Assalamu alaikum! Or simple, “hello!” Welcome to the show. Today we are going over 10 crazy ass Armored Truck Heists.(Please forgive us for Crickets audio quality starting around the middle of the episode. I’m crying inside.)There’s nothing better than stumbling upon large sums of money. It’s different when you have to work for it. Some say the money is ‘more’ valuable....others say ‘less’ when there is effort involved in the accumulation of fast cash.While the vast majority of us actually slave our lives away to earn some coin, there are others who think outside the lock-box and intend to go from rags to riches in matters of minutes. Now, thieves are pathetic people. They could very well be the worst of people based off the levels of narcissism and total lack of empathy and sympathy. I’m talking about the “career” thieves – the people who enjoy robbing from other individuals for all that they themselves had worked for. I’m not talking about the homeless gal on the corner of 7th and Central who goes into Walmart and steals some bread, or beer, or makeup....I’m talking about the pricks who break into your residence and take that hard-earned VCR and blender. Those people suck.But, today, we aren’t focusing on the average homeless thief who has empathy for others and is just trying to live without harming individuals. We are talking about the crazy mo-fo’s who rob from banks!.....well, armored trucks! If there was certainty that nobody would be harmed or killed during these ‘crimes’, I’d say we need way more of the men and women who carry out these heists. Banks suck. And the people who own and run those banks suck even more.Anyway, we’ve got a list of 10 Armored Truck Heists that are sure to keep you entertained for the next 90+ minutes.These are crazy. So, forget everything else that you’re doing and strap up that velcrow because we are about to go on a ride. Enjoy.Don’t forget to Like, Share, and Subscribe....and give us 5-star reviews.CHECK YOUR LOCAL WATER TREATMENT LEVELS: EWG Tap Water DatabaseOh, to check out a small batch of Coops’ music, go to this this link — https://on.soundcloud.com/Q1XRaY9WSpzawV9r7 ***If you’d like to help out with a donation and you’re currently listening on Spotify, you can simply scroll down on my page and you’ll see a button to help us out with either a one-time donation or you can set up a monthly recurring donation. You can also go to the Facebook page where we have a link to Ko-Fi and Pay-Pal if you'd like to help out the show. We would greatly appreciate it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I just wanted to put this at the beginning of the episode here.
I know we've been having issues on Cricket's side with this microphone getting all poppy and clicky.
And I don't know what's going on because sometimes it sounds fine.
Other times it sounds like total shit and I'm really embarrassed that I have to put it out.
And yeah, it just sucks.
I don't know what's going on there because...
We delete cookies.
We clear up as much RAM as we can.
And it's just hit or miss.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I thought maybe it might have something to do with the buffering from the file being sent.
I don't know.
I really don't know.
I'm not a genius with computers or anything.
But I just don't know what's happening with his audio.
So for the first half of this show, his audio seems relatively fine.
Until about halfway in, it just starts going to shit with all the clicks and the pops and whatnot.
So, I do apologize.
Ladies and gentlemen, just hang in there with us.
I'm trying to figure out these problems we're having here.
I will find solutions.
I don't know what to say.
I don't know what to do or say other than I am sorry to my dear, dear, dear listeners.
It's annoying to have to hear all the clicking and popping and it sucks because people will turn it off.
They don't want to hear that.
No one wants to hear it.
So, I just hope that you guys can just help me here and just get through it with me.
Please. Alright, it's enough.
So, here's the show.
Enjoy. I'm always tired.
Something's wrong with me.
We have, like, sickle cell anemia or something.
I don't know if that makes you tired, but...
I'm either tired or hyperactive.
Oh, I wish I could be hyperactive.
I'm one of the two.
Less so the latter as I get older.
The older I get, the more tired I get.
Heyo! How's everyone doing out there today?
Welcome to the show.
Once again, or if you're new here, welcome to the show.
We are immensely, immensely grateful that you are here with us for this episode.
It's going to be a great one.
Cricket, what are we doing today?
I'm pretty sure we're going over some armored car heists this week.
Oh, yeah, buddy.
That's right.
We're covering ten armored car heists that will leave you with gaping eyes or just a quivering sphincter, one or the other.
But why not both, really?
Yeah, the more the merrier.
Fuck. Man, it's delicious tea.
What you drinking there?
Oh, man.
It's so good.
It's a wonderful dandelion-nettle blend.
Very cleansing.
Good for new beginnings.
So, Cricket, I have something very important to tell you, and the listeners, for that matter.
I had a dream last night.
I dreamt I was a dove flying over the sea.
And then I dove into the ocean, and I swam with the dolphins.
I was two animals joined as one.
Which meant good things are coming.
Good things.
I do love Grandma's boy.
I don't know what you're talking about, man.
Anyway, and now that that is out of the way.
So, as you know, we all know that robbing banks is just too easy, right?
Far too easy.
It's the armored vehicles that are the real challenge.
That's what we want.
That's what we're after.
Robbing an armored truck is an endeavor that only few can successfully execute.
And even fewer.
It can get away scot-clean.
And amazingly, these crazy-ass brazen heists typically occur in broad daylight during regular business hours and in locations that are more or less busy with everyday pedestrian traffic.
It's like, bam, right there, dude.
And I can guarantee that as soon as it involves an armored vehicle, that's at least a level 3 wanted level.
At least level 3. I think, yeah, if you shoot the back of the armored truck in GTA, I think you do get like three stars, maybe.
I don't know.
More often than not, though.
Rather than a single perpetrator, a skilled team is required to carry out such an operation.
This is because armored truck personnel are responsible for transporting large amounts of cash.
That's sticky, icky cash.
Mmm. Mmm.
Mmm. Anyway, and are specifically trained to stop such heists from taking place.
And they're armed with firearms, which makes the heists all the more trickier.
And so, given the complexity of these crimes, as well as the time it takes to plan them, and the number of individuals involved, you gotta trust these guys, too, right?
You can't just pick up a couple randos off the street and expect that they're gonna, like, carry out the job and not say anything.
Not turn on you.
So, you know?
And it's also rare for these cases to remain totally unsolved, just because of how many people there are involved.
And before we get into today's story, it's tea.
But before we get into today's story, please, if you haven't already, click the subscribe and like buttons and share this episode with all of your closest enemies and least liked friends, as well as your family and strangers alike.
And now, before we dive into this ask first, we should cover a couple of new stories that are making the rounds of the old CIA Twitter cricket.
What do you want to start with?
I don't even want to talk about it.
It's rage-inducing.
Okay, okay.
Hey, fair enough.
Yeah. Rage it up.
Rage all you want.
Good things are coming.
Good things.
Alright, so they have officially voted down an inquiry into the Muslim rape gang scandal, so that's probably very unlikely to ever get properly dealt with because...
I mean, if they need this and think it's going to turn up something else, I mean, honestly, the really mind-blowing thing is you think to yourself, if you're voting it down, that means it's so crooked that you couldn't even just take it over and not embarrass yourself.
Like, it's got to be really bad.
Why do you think they would vote against it?
I mean, because it's so bad that even investigating themselves or...
They always call these independent inquiries, but I have my doubts.
But that means that effectively even shining light on it like that means it's going to blow way too much open.
Oh, yeah.
Dude, if they...
Yeah, they just can't investigate themselves.
The whole thing will fall apart.
I've got a list of 50 labor pedophiles right here that Darren of Plymouth posted on Twitter.
Pretty high-ranking people all charged with some pretty...
One of them just got nailed, actually, very recently.
Oh, yes!
Who was that?
Oh, I don't remember.
One of the labor PMs, though.
I saw the article.
It wasn't Starmer, the one that's the primary source of this, so it wasn't quite as important.
It was just one of the random ones that I guess was a tasking musk.
Twitter. That's right.
So, you know, it's one of those fights where you don't really want anyone to win.
And now I want to find out who that was.
I know it's crazy because Kara Starmer, he was running the show.
He was in power when that really bad guy, what was his name?
The reason why he owned so much of it is because he was in the Crown Prosecution Services.
Doing that specific job before the one he has now.
While all of this was going on.
Jimmy Savile is who I'm thinking of.
When they were trying to take down Jimmy Savile.
And they covered it up for him so much.
Oh yeah.
Keir Starmer was involved in all of that.
Went to bat for him.
Who was this dude?
How can I find that?
How do you think I should find him?
Labor party.
Arrested. Child sex crimes.
Maybe? I feel like the part is.
So he is Sean Morton, 35, faces four criminal charges including photographing and distributing rape images of children, some with animals.
He was a labor counselor and general election candidate.
Gee. And let's see here.
One might almost speculate that there might be a conflict of interest of some kind here.
Yeah, you'd think.
You'd think.
Just a theory.
There might be something getting in the way here.
So he was like, he's good friends with Kezia Dugdale, who was really good friends with Hillary Clinton, and so they were all in cahoots together.
Well, yeah, because all the stuff happening over here, I mean, it doesn't just happen here.
And I think this is one of those things where it was like those petal hunter people.
They brought this guy down.
Oh yeah, it wasn't the authorities themselves.
They were just simply forced to kind of grudgingly prosecute.
Oh dude, so I'm wrong.
That wasn't his name, Sean.
The Sean guy just said.
That's a totally different dude that was just arrested.
Sean Morton.
So that's a different one who is being prosecuted for the same shit right now.
So I guess you don't really need to apologize because the same thing happened to them.
Holy crap.
My God.
So the guy that we're talking about, his name is Ivor Kaplan.
The more recent one, yes.
The more recent one.
That sounds familiar now.
Yeah, and he was talking shit about Musk last week or whatever on Twitter.
I swear you'd think you'd have the sense not to be that, you know, overt about it.
But he just gots to.
Yeah. And then...
We got Milton Orkopoulos, 33 counts of child sex and drug offenses.
Keith Wright, child sex offenses.
Bill DRC, child sex offenses.
Terry Martin, child sex offenses, child pornography.
Bernard Finnegan, obtaining access to child pornography.
I mean, the list goes on.
Wow, that's actually a significantly worse rap sheet.
So these rape parties.
So, okay.
You have all these labor party members, clearly implicit in a lot of this.
And then you have this investigation into these Muslim rape gangs, and good old boy Keir Starmer decides, no, we're not going to investigate, because they carried a vote, and everyone's like, nope, nope, no, no, we better not do that.
The very most gracious interpretation you could give is that the ones that are already busted are leaning on the rest to intimidate them into voting no.
Because why wouldn't you want to further implicate the ones that are already nailed?
I mean, why would you care about them unless you're getting intimidated or you're complicit?
There's only one of those two options.
Wow, dude.
364 MPs voted against it.
I'd say concern for your fellow man's plight, but we all know none of these ghouls care about that.
No. No.
That's just insane.
Insane stuff.
Yes. A most rage-inducing subject.
Okay, so Ivor Kaplan, he was caught and arrested in an undercover sting.
He was suspended by the Labor Party six months ago.
Former Labor MP and chair of the Ultra Zionist Jewish Labor Movement, JLM, has been arrested for attempting to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex activity.
So he's also a huge Zionist.
Yeah, and they're also behind an awful lot of the importation.
Pushing and everything.
So, not surprising there.
Yeah. And the guy that I mentioned first, Sean Morton, 35, he faces four criminal charges, including photography, distribution, rape images, children, some with animals, labor counselor.
So, he was arrested around Christmas Eve just last year.
You gotta love how you actually have to specify which of them got nailed.
It's like the Dallas Cowboys of politicians.
I'm going to go ahead and post.
Yeah. Debbie does all of them.
So I'm going to post this on Twitter.
It's the list of 50 of these other Labor Party members who have been and are getting busted.
So, I mean, everyone's giving credit to Musk, especially Alex Jones, for I think it's just that they can't avoid it coming out any longer,
and therefore they need to deify him further, and this is a great way to do so.
I mean, people just were absolutely enraged at him a week and a half ago over the H-1B stuff when they realized, oh yeah, he's actually basically Comstock.
Yeah, go fuck yourself.
Just to remind you that he doesn't actually give a crap about any of you.
He just feigns it for popularity's sake.
Absolutely. People don't understand that.
And so yeah, they're going to be like, oh look, he's trying to take down the deep state.
Everyone's like, oh, but he is doing that.
I love him.
I was watching a funny thing where some YouTuber named Charlie or something faked his Path of Exile freaking hardcore, which really kind of cast a lot of doubt on that world record Diablo 4.1.
Because I guess he was talking about his stream and it hurt me because There's a level where you know Diablo because you've played it.
And then there's just a level where you know basic RPGs.
And he was having trouble with even that.
And I'm like, you want me to believe this dude is playing through the hardest content in this game and not dying?
I'm like, this just defies belief.
Because I guess he had this nuclear setup.
Just really didn't know how to optimize it in the slightest, which wouldn't make any sense if you cleared all of this shit on your own.
I don't know.
I think it's kind of dummy post his streaming of his video game.
Well, the funniest one was one of his claims for it's even kind of sus.
He said that when he went to open up his thing, they were actually called Elon's Maps.
Which made me think, That they specifically filtered out like super easy to clear maps for him to beat so he could show him off to flex the account while they just boosted him otherwise and got him the best gear and everything behind the scenes.
Yeah, I just don't like how Alex Jones is saying that Elon Musk is like the godfather of bringing down the deep state, that he's exposing all these pedal rings when he doesn't do anything but repost the work that everyone else has already done.
It sucks because everybody thinks that Elon Musk is this guy that's bringing it all down.
He's the guy.
He's not.
He doesn't do a goddamn thing.
He protects pedophiles.
He protects these rings.
That's what he thinks Twitter's for.
It's a fucking data center.
Seeing stuff like this is really important to creating his mythos.
All these little ways of boosting him up in popular culture.
Definitely the mythos.
They're learning from the Trump.
Effect is what it is.
They're trying to make him into the tech oligarch version of Trump.
For real.
For real, dude.
He's got to be the best gamer.
He's got to be the best etc.
He's got to be the guy who takes down the pedos while actually only really highlighting other people's work.
That's all he does.
That's all he has ever done.
He just highlights other people's work.
And it's like, that's a useful function, and you can give him credit for that, but then people actually give him all the credit and almost completely forget about the people who did the freaking work for years.
There's people who've actually gotten sued for talking about this back when they could keep it under wraps, for example.
Stuff like that.
There's people who fought hard.
And it's like, you know, he's essentially doing the Mark Twain thing and jumping on the bandwagon when it costs nothing to be a patriot.
What do you think is up with these fires, man, in L.A.?
Well, you know, in the absence of anything else, I always assume everything's in operation and then go from there.
I just love Gavin Newsom.
He's such a great person.
He's such a good human being, really good governor.
He's really run the state really well.
I mean...
You can't fault him for anything.
You can tell from those perfect teeth that he's a fan of Phil Collins.
Yeah, and the hair.
He's a fan of Christian Bale on American Psycho.
Yep, I love Phil Collins.
That guy is such a fucking...
Why people have not drug that guy through the streets yet is astounding to me.
I mean, it's really the power of...
Mesmerism right there.
I can't think of anything else.
That's what charisma is.
It's the ability to magically influence you with nothing but your personality and your words, your spelling.
Yeah, just being articulate.
That's the thing.
It's like he has terrible ideas, but he articulates them so beautifully that people are like, I want them to be right.
So a week ago or a little over a week ago or something, right when these fires were popping off, Made a statement saying, dude, none of this is organic.
This is all orchestrated.
People are going out and starting these fires.
It's very obvious.
Not global warming.
This has nothing to do with global warming.
Someone did actually post something about how it was weird that all these houses burned, but they all had smart meters.
If they had a smart meter on their house, they burned.
And then next door, the house, this older house that did not have a smart meter on it, was perfectly unscathed, which was weird.
Yeah, I laughed pretty hard when they talked about some guy, or about arresting ClimatoChangeo on some video.
They're like, they found ClimatoChangeo.
They won't release the information about him.
Because I guess there was some homeless guy going around starting fires during all of this, which...
I'm watching one right now.
Did they catch climate change?
Well, I don't know if this is climate change.
But I know that they caught a few of those guys, and then they just let them go.
They're like, oh, we are not going to press charges.
You see these guys, they're starting fires and running away from the fire scene, or the fire's right there.
Like, they literally just started it.
And the cops are arresting them, but releasing them.
See, an important thing to note is that they're pretty clearly not doing this just because they like to burn things.
This is not pyromania.
So, you know, like, that says, like...
Somebody's paying them to set these fires.
Well, think about this.
Remember when those millions of immigrants came and the government was giving them all credit or debit cards with like $5,000, giving them a new iPhone, and those were just being replenished every month or every week or whatever, and we all said, look, when they stop giving them money,
they're going to get angry.
I mean, I even commented that technically it wouldn't even require a real order.
They would just go nuts.
Yeah, they'd be pissed off.
Others might be taking orders.
Yeah, some could be, and others would just be exploited like the mob is.
Remember, one of the first large-scale welfare states was the mob in Rome, where they had a whole bunch of unemployed people that they just kept fed and housed.
And then anytime there was a need for some civil unrest to give the power of the government to do something or push something through on the Senate or get the leverage you need to get the guy in you need, they'd have the mob do their thing because they got nothing better to do.
And so one of the first arsonists who was caught, who was an illegal immigrant, they found one of those debit cards on him with $5,000 in cash and a smartphone on him or an iPhone.
So, yeah, they're still paying some of them to do these things.
Others are just going out and causing havoc, and why not?
Because they're not from here.
They don't give a shit.
And they're pissed off.
Scuttlebutt is one of them had a UN ID.
Yeah, that's the guy.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's even more suspicious.
Very suspicious.
To have a United Nations ID?
Nothing to see here, fakes.
Well, I'm like, exactly how do you get a UN ID?
Well, you have to be part of the UN.
I was about to say, you gotta be a United Nations member, so...
Oh, so here's more footage.
More footage of people starting fires.
It's mayhem.
It's mayhem all over Los Angeles.
Oh, it's nuts.
Which... I don't want to say it's fine.
The BLM lady who got caught embezzling all that Black Lives movement money, like two of her houses allegedly burned in the Palisades fire.
And ironically, that horrible singer, Taylor Swift, is that her name?
She's had a house burned down, so she's had two houses burned down now.
One in Hawaii and Malibu, and this latest one.
Which is great for insurance claims, right?
Oh, wonderful for insurance.
Terrible for everybody else.
Terrible for everybody else.
It's mayhem.
Yeah, so...
How many houses are burned down?
J-Lo's house burned down, Jennifer Garner, Adam Levine, Adam Sandler, Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck, Rihanna, Michael Keaton.
James Woods' house apparently made it.
Oh, yeah.
Was burned, but was damaged, but survived, I guess.
Yeah. Well, I mean, the fires, most of them are pretty much mostly contained by this point, I guess, except for that Palisades one.
Yeah, that one was huge.
Which, you know, it's weird because the Getty...
It was scathed a little bit.
It didn't get hit hard, but apparently this Palisades fire is going to come around the backside if the wind catches it, right?
I guess it's going to come back around and get it from the other side, is what someone was saying.
So I'm like, yeah, let's do that.
I mean, no, bad.
Let's not do that.
Yeah, I mean, that would just destroy all...
I mean, that would firstly just destroy any of the evidence, though.
Very conveniently.
And dude, this is crazy, because what, like three weeks ago, there were other fires somewhere in LA.
Remember that?
Houses were burning down.
This was just like three weeks ago, maybe a month ago.
And even then, I was like, these are not organic either.
The informational soup makes it hard to even remember these things.
What were those fires about?
My thing was like, this is pretty suspicious because houses were burning.
They weren't even next to each other or close to each other.
Yeah, embers can go up in the air and fly for a minute, land.
But it just looked a little too sus to me to have all these specific houses different distances away from each other all burning and then everything in between is fine.
It seemed a little sus.
So that was like four weeks ago.
And then now we have this national emergency, this national disaster happening in Los Angeles.
And why?
Well, for the 2028 Smart City, Los Angeles, everybody.
Have you not heard?
My, how convenient.
How would they have done this without all this space cleared out?
Ask yourself that.
If you guys don't know, if you haven't heard, LA has planned this Smart City to be carried out by 2028.
They have a whole document about it.
And it's laid out on Twitter.
It's City of Los Angeles Smart LA 2028 Technology for a Better Los Angeles.
It was published December 2020.
I posted it on the Twitter page of ours.
And anyone can go to it.
I mean, go to the actual document.
You can flip through the pages.
Doesn't look good.
And it's also, who do you think is going to swoop in there and buy all this land?
That's now just destroyed.
Why, I'm sure it won't be anyone who conveniently profits from it or anything.
Wouldn't be Blackrock.
It's like being ruled by the Vogon Empire, except they don't even bother to tell you they're setting you up for a bypass.
We're gonna build a bypass over you.
Oh, wait, we don't even tell you that.
Well, Larry Finky.
Larry Stinky Pinky Finker.
Alright, well, what's some good news?
Some good news is...
Justin Trudeau Castro has resigned.
It's old news now.
It's a week old now, but might as well mention it.
I mean, hey, him quitting is still cause for celebration.
Although, realistically, him actually being held accountable for all the incredible anti-freedom moves he pulled throughout his career would be a lot better.
I don't think he's going to face any sort of punishment or anything.
He'll just be a laughingstock.
The average person is not going to like the guy.
The only thing you can console yourself with is when you're dealing with a narcissist, that burns worse than you could possibly imagine.
When you think about imagining if people didn't like you, you're not envisioning how a narcissist would feel about it, unless you actually are one.
Because, yeah, it's a whole different level of hell.
For real, dude.
There's nothing worse for them.
That's why they're such people-pleasers and so willing to lie.
God, they suck.
They all piss me off.
And so him leaving isn't going to really make Canada any better because...
Who's the guy?
Polivier or whatever?
Oh, yeah.
Pierre Polivier.
Yeah, that guy.
So he's coming in, but he's all about technocratic.
Not transhumanism, but create a new world order, essentially.
He wants to combine Canada with America and Mexico, which, what's the initials?
C-U-M?
Let's just say Canada, United States, Mexico, C-U-M.
Nice. You know?
Yep, let's make a deal with Peter Thiel so your freedom can be real.
No, your rights we won't steal.
That is going to be the mantra they're saying.
And then we have...
Trump going over to Greenland to try to buy Greenland.
He wants Greenland to be part of the United States, too.
Yeah, which at the very least just looks like an old-school imperialism move from us buying islands and stuff, as opposed to the really freaky one where he wants to annex Canada or Mexico.
That's way more concerning to me.
We've bought islands without going completely...
You know, North American Union.
But, like, I'm not sure if Greenland, that's a whole, that's a pretty large country, as few people as there are on it.
It's a massive country.
I mean, I know why they want it.
It's for strategic purposes, which is the most concerning thing, is that they want it because they probably intend to use it.
It's terrifying.
Holy shit.
All of Greenland, 56,789 people.
Yeah, they're talking about buying off every person in the country to purchase Greenland.
That is so nuts.
Because it's that few people on there.
They could easily afford that.
If they can afford millions of illegal immigrants, they can afford 56,789 people in Greenland.
See, there's a magical thing that everyone must know, and that's that the government is never actually out of money.
They just like to be out of money when you're asking.
It's just like every cheapskate in the world hasn't got their wallet with when they go out to eat.
Good God.
They got money, they just don't want to spend it on you.
And they think you're a sucker enough to actually believe the whole, oh, we can't fund this.
We could print it, but we're out.
The printing press was broken today.
The digital swipe of the pen didn't work.
Yeah, how ironic.
You came in on a day that nothing's working today.
Sorry. Yep, the money-making machine's router just went down.
Our IT won't show up for at least another day.
What's that, Zielinski?
You need another trillion?
We got you.
It's okay.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, but we're going to have to put you up in a hotel room for a week and we might get your appropriation.
It's like the Marriott, oh no, oh no, you're going to a condo lodge.
Motel 6 if we can find one.
No fucking hot tub, no pool, we get nothing.
Stay in your room.
Alright, well that's it for the news.
Let's move on.
We gotta get into this episode, which is a fucking banger.
Keep in mind, though, that this list of 10 armored car heists are in no particular order.
Alright, so starting this out at number 10, we have...
The Linwood Loomis Robbery.
Nice, good alliteration to start it off.
On the late morning of February 19th, 1991, Peter Berg, aged 48, and 33-year-old Jeffrey Pease were drivers who were making a delivery to a large grocery store in Linwood, Washington, Washington State.
While Berg waited in the driver's seat, Jeffrey returned to the truck with the store's receipts when two men approached them.
In front of startled shoppers, one assailant began to assault Pease, while the other opened fire on the truck with a semi-automatic weapon.
Nothing to see here.
That's three stars.
Berg quickly leapt from the cab and attempted to defend himself by firing back, but unfortunately, he missed and was tragically killed.
Peace also tried to defend himself, but was shot seven times, including one to his head.
Fortunately, Peace survived the attack.
Wow, that's crazy.
The assailants then made off with bags containing over $20,000, which is the equivalent to around $37,000 today, $2024, before fleeing the scene.
The initial and prime suspect was a 28-year-old man named Michael Carl Wartz, a former employee of Loomis.
Wartz had allegedly cased the grocery store for the robbery, and his ex-wife claimed that he was seeking a partner for the heist.
However, Peace did not recognize him, and he did not fit the description of the two attackers.
Michael, who had been arrested later that year, 1991, Jim Townsend, Snohomish County's Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor, said the shooter's identity is known to authorities,
but he declined to elaborate.
Oh, that's not suspicious.
Hmm. Townsend said Wartz has no connection to the Pratt family, some of whom were arrested early in the investigation of the robbery.
During one raid, A deputy shot and killed Robin Pratt, a 28-year-old mother and wife of one of the suspects.
In lawsuits stemming from the shooting, the Pratt family received a $3.4 million settlement from Linwood and $1.15 million from Snohomish County.
This is so messed up.
This is over $40,000.
I know, this is nuts.
Like, somebody got killed, and somebody else is now killed, and now there's like $4 million in settlements involved.
Jesus, that escalated very rapidly.
Yeah, and it's the police killing these people.
Yeah, and then getting sued about it as they're raiding.
It's ridiculous, dude.
So the FBI arrested Wartz in Michigan about five years after the robbery, and federal charges were filed against him in connection with an unrelated armored car theft.
A break in the case came when Wartz's ex-wife told a Seattle police officer that her ex-husband had planned to rob a Loomis armored car at the Linwood store in early 1991.
How dare you?
The ex-wife, Jenny Wartz, said that a short time before the robbery, she accompanied Wartz to the store to conduct surveillance on a Loomis armored truck.
Well, that kind of clinches it then.
Sounds like she rattled him out.
Ratted him out hard.
Probably because he wasn't paying her any money.
He's like, you're cut off.
I'm not paying you anymore.
You stole $37,000 and wouldn't give any of it to me?
Well, that's it.
I'm turning your ass in.
Yeah. You can't trust those jilted women.
What do you call it?
Or what's that saying?
A woman scorned.
Oh, hell hath no fury.
Yeah. Like a woman scorned.
Hell hath no fury.
Like a woman scorned.
Yeah. And so what's this next one here?
What do we got?
Alright, the Plymouth Mail Heist, famously referred to by the media as the Great Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery, which I feel is like a reference to that old silent film, The Great Train Robbery, was at the time the most significant cash theft ever recorded.
I mean, good for them.
Records are made.
I mean, you get bonus points for setting a record, right?
Yeah. On August 14th, 1962, two armed men intercepted a U.S. mail truck that was transporting $1.5 million in small denominations from Cape Cod to the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, Massachusetts.
They stormed the truck wielding sawed-off shotguns and quickly disarmed the two postal workers who were then bound and blindfolded.
And hey, they weren't robbing a grocery store or something in this case.
Can't get mad at them for attacking the small business.
Meanwhile, 16 bags of cash, equivalent to $11 million today, were transferred to a waiting getaway vehicle.
Eventually, the truck and its bound occupants were found abandoned in Randolph, Massachusetts, near Route 128.
Wow, this is like a freaking movie.
I'm sure movies have been made on this.
Oh yeah.
For five years, the United States Postal Inspection Service and the FBI tirelessly searched New England for clues related to the robbery, but their efforts were met with frustration due to a lack of evidence.
At one point, authorities even offered a substantial reward of $150K, or 10% of the amount recovered, from the Federal Bank of Boston.
Whoa. That second one, if you could get it all back, is pretty huge.
Yeah. A million dollar reward.
In addition to a $50,000 reward from the Postmaster General for information that could lead to the conviction of those responsible.
Wow. They really wanted that money back.
And I mean, that is a huge incentive to rat out your buddies and get off.
That's gnarly.
If any of them had girlfriends that were privy to what they were doing, they're doomed now.
Especially if they We're going to cut him out of getting the money.
They even stated that any suspect killed during their capture would be considered convicted for the purpose of the reward.
Well, that seems a little presumptive, don't it?
The intense media coverage, law enforcement involvement, and public fascination with this record-setting robbery created an atmosphere of near panic in the Boston area throughout the early to mid-1960s.
Who's panicking?
Anybody who's got a beef with their neighbor?
Hey, I got a tip for you.
My neighbor did it.
Oh my god.
And then they're like, oh, automatically convicted?
Well, my neighbor's been a dick lately.
This dog keeps shitting on my yard.
His dog, yeah, his fucking dog keeps barking.
I was about to say, I bet there was also an outbreak of politeness.
Many innocent individuals were wrongfully accused of participating in the heist, with the media loudly declaring their guilt, despite the absence of any supporting evidence or facts, which thankfully never happened again.
Thank God.
They became terribly ethical after this horrible embarrassment.
Alright, as the five-year federal statute of limitations limped closer without any significant breakthrough in the robbery case...
The Postal Inspectorate and the Department of Justice intensified their efforts, launching a campaign of extensive surveillance and pressure on all-known armed robbers in the Boston region.
All-known armed robbers in the Boston region.
I feel like your real problem here is that anyone who did this is freaking retired.
Yeah. Why would you be robbing places still?
You'd have a problem if you were.
And they're not in Boston region.
Alright, yeah, you're probably long gone from that region.
This frantic push aimed to uncover any leads regarding the identities of the culprits.
Just before the statute of limitations was set to expire, a federal grand jury charged four men and one woman with the crime.
Jesus. Wow.
This screams inside job.
Yeah, like, that money was long gone, dude.
None of those people were probably involved, even.
No. They were just patsies.
Except maybe the one guy who disappeared.
I got some questions there.
He might have actually been involved and they were like, yeah, you gotta go live on an island, brother.
Yeah, dude.
Vincent Fat Vinny Teresa.
Fat Vinny!
A notorious mobster from Boston and a top lieutenant to Raymond L.S. That's a vast majority of the money.
Dang! Dude had like the money launderer from like the Scarface Xbox game.
I never play that.
That's part of what you have to do in that game.
Anytime your character, quote, dies, he loses all the money and drugs on him.
But if you deposit it in the bank, you have to launder it and lose a certain percent.
Right, that makes sense.
But this motherfucker, dude.
Vincent Fat Vinny Teresa.
Oh no, Kelly.
John Red Kelly.
Made $8 million and walked away scot-free.
And then after the statute of limitations wrote about it, because nobody got killed or anything, there was no extending it.
Yeah. Because it was all done clean.
80 cents for every dollar.
That's crazy.
Dude, how much you want...
I'd be suspicious.
How many people got mailed checks after that?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Like, inconspicuously, like, six months to a year later when nobody was, like, really looking at him anymore.
After they'd stopped talking to him, like, you just get, like, a big old check in the mail and it's just like, deposit this and say nothing.
80 cents on every dollar, dude.
What the fuck?
Like, how many people were involved in this?
Did it say how many people?
Two armed men?
Yep. Damn.
So, yeah, the dude who laundered the money made...
Most of it.
Yep, and then he probably had to, you know, cut it off.
The guy who planned it.
You know, who knows how much each other guy involved in that plan got.
Because odds are good that, you know, as being that high level of guy, he probably didn't even do it himself.
Probably sent two goons to go make some good money on one job.
Yeah, they all probably got, you know, $50,000, $100,000 maybe.
Oh, yeah.
That'd be so intense, dude.
Just think about that.
Like, the North Hollywood robbery that I covered back in the day.
That one was, like, straight up, like, freaking Fallujah, like, war zone levels of shooting.
So crazy watching it.
Like, they were just lighting them up.
They had so much firepower.
I thought it was funny, though, how they were like, what was it, willpower beat firepower, and I'm like, you guys had like a hundred people there with machine guns and shotguns.
No, the police, dude, they were highly unarmed.
They were using shotguns at a distance, and handguns.
They didn't have ARs or anything like that.
They actually had to go to a fucking gun shop.
And the owner of the gun shop gave him, gave the cops a bunch of long arms to use.
Okay, I was like, wait, they got something at some point, though, because they took him down.
Toward the end.
Yeah, that was crazy.
And one of them shot himself in the head, and the other guy, you know, he got blasted, lived.
So they pretty much killed him, too, because they shot him, and he was laying on the ground, he gave up, but they shot him so many times at the ankles and shit that...
They pretty much taped off the area, wouldn't let any reporter get close to the guy.
He was still alive.
And he was talking to the chief of police while he was handcuffed on the ground.
And then after about 40 minutes or something, then they let everyone come and get him.
They wouldn't even let paramedics near the guy until he died.
And then they let everybody come in.
So, what the fuck is that about?
Well, you know, if you need to get your police militarized...
Maybe you don't want anyone to discuss the actual circumstances of it.
That one, it kind of makes me feel like the cops had a part in that one too, and that's why I think it was the chief of police was talking to the guy for a while.
Right. And so they're like, oh, well, if we let you live, you know too much.
Well, and an awful lot of that whole ordeal was why that whole thing was highlighted for years after that.
Why they needed better arms and stuff.
Oh, right after that, I don't know, who was it?
Clinton, I think?
Decided LA should have weapons, long arms.
Oh, yeah.
Assault rifles.
Oh, yeah, because...
Well, I mean, did they even have a...
Did they have SWAT back then?
They had a SWAT, yeah.
SWAT was sent in.
It's just SWAT wasn't enough.
So I was about to say, you think SWAT would at least have decent arms.
They came in a little late.
It's so crazy, too, because the two guys, they had armor-piercing bullets, high-powered rifles, multiple different guns, and, like, nobody died except for those two.
That is a little odd.
It makes no sense.
Like, some cops are shot, but they survived.
They got, like, stormtrooper aim.
Yeah, and they had all this makeshift armor on.
Dude, the video, if you watch the footage of it, it's so intense, because they're getting hit.
But, like, their body armor takes it, and they just keep firing their weapons.
At one point, like, this heavy-ass machine gun, the guy just holds up with one arm, because his left arm gets blasted by bullets.
It's so intense.
I love that shit.
Gnarly. I don't like people getting killed, but it's like, dude.
It's like a real-life action movie.
Real life.
Well, you know, it's like it sucks for them, but at the same time, you're kind of choosing it.
I mean, you're shooting at a bunch of people that are shooting at you.
I can't really feel too much sympathy.
You're not getting attacked.
That's like mutual combat.
Yeah. Yeah, the North Hollywood shootout, man.
That will always be in the books as one of the craziest live recordings.
Especially if you're the one who initiated the firing in the first place.
Which I would wager they shot first here.
They did.
Yeah, because one of them saw cops outside and so he just went out there and started shooting at them.
Ugh. Those guys are crazy.
They're taking like painkillers and these amphetamines.
So they were all doped up.
That's the thing that didn't ever make sense to me is that they seem more intent on engaging than escaping.
Well, they knew that once they saw how many cops were surrounding the building, they were like, well, there's no way out of this.
We just got to fight our way out.
Shoot our way out of this.
Yeah. Pretty nuts.
Pretty nuts stuff.
But let's get into...
The Rochester Armored Motor Service of America heist.
On June 26, 1990, two security guards were on their way to deliver fat stacks of cash to the Federal Reserve branch in Buffalo, New York.
While passing through the Rochester area, they decided to take a break for a sandwich.
As one of the guards, a woman, Enter the store, a man with a shotgun reportedly pushed the barrel of a gun through the door slot.
Albert Ranieri, one of the guards, opened the cab of the rude intruder.
When the female guard returned to the truck, she found herself to be an immediate hostage.
Ranieri had no choice but to navigate to a remote location where he and his fellow guard were restrained and blindfolded.
They were uncertain about the number of assailants involved, but estimated that there were at least two.
The thieves made off with between 700 and 8 kilograms, so 1,500 to 1,700 pounds of cash, valued at $10.8 million, which would be nearly,
well, $20 million today when adjusted for perpetual inflation.
Fortunately, neither of the guards sustained any injuries during the heist, not even a scratch or a stubbed toe.
I feel like they could have a more accurate number than between 700 and 800, if they know the exact total.
Yeah, I know, right?
It was about this much weight.
Oh, and exactly $10.8 million.
Authorities quickly grew wary of...
Oh, God.
Authorities quickly grew wary of Raynery, suspecting he was involved in illicit activities.
They also had their eyes on his father, Albert Raynery Jr., thinking he might be a part of the heist.
In 2000, Raynery would be arrested on charges of racketeering.
During his court appearance in 2001, he confessed to embezzling funds and admitted to shooting a pool hall owner whom he accused of stealing from him.
Raineri was sentenced to 30 years in prison, yet he refused to implicate any of his associates.
Unfortunately, only a small portion of the stolen funds was retrieved.
Authorities managed to recover $87,000 from his residence, while he confessed to burning an additional $100,000 in his barbecue to cook hog steaks.
Fabricated story.
That's great.
You would be burning $100,000 to cook your steaks.
That's just the way.
I think that...
The money doesn't exist.
I think that was, uh...
If anything, you knew he was about to get busted and just set it on fire.
He could've.
Or I think he stored that other $100,000 somewhere safe and said he just burned it so they wouldn't look for it.
I'm just thinking, like, you know, $9.8 other million?
Man. I know.
There's a lot of money there, for sure.
The FBI has stated that the investigation continues even though the five-year statute of limitations for the robbery has lapsed.
Within 13 months, it was the second multi-million dollar heist AMSA had suffered.
Ouchie, someone's getting fired.
That heist took place in May of 1989, where $2.9 million was stolen from an AMSA truck in East Syracuse.
Two men drove a one-ton truck through a garage door and pistol-whipped two guards.
Just boom, boom!
The Brooklyn Delicatessen Taper.
Oh, yeah.
Sounds delicious.
Alright, on a crisp autumn day, November 19th, 1969, three guards were about to embark on what would become an infamous chapter in the annals of crime.
The men worked for Wells Fargo and were tasked with transporting $2 million from the aqueduct racetrack in Brooklyn, New York.
It was a routine job, their heads filled with thoughts of lunch and the films of Linda Lovely doing porn maneuvering.
What? Read that again?
Doing porn maneuvering?
What? Little did they know that their day was about to take a perilous turn.
So hold on, hold on.
It says...
It was a routine job, their heads filled with thoughts of lunch and the films of Linda Lovelace doing pornographic maneuvering.
Yeah. Little did they know that their day was about to take a perilous turn.
Like, what?
Yeah, they're just thinking about porn.
Thinking about Linda Lovelace doing porn maneuvering.
Alright, after picking up the cash, the trio adhered to union rules and made a customary pit stop at a nearby delicatessen.
Just ten minutes away from the racetrack, it was the perfect place to grab a bite and discuss the latest in sports and suffering marriages.
Oh, just like the bar.
Except you're not as drunk.
The guards knew the drill, so you won't crash.
The guards knew the drill.
One would remain in the truck while the others took turns on their lunch breaks.
It was simple and effective for the team and safeguarded the precious cargo they were transporting.
Which, well, that's the whole reason they got two people in there in the first place.
Always somebody watching.
Gotta have someone watching.
Yep, you always have at least two, if not three.
But as the third guard, oblivious to danger, returned to the truck after his break.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
In confusion, the gunmen pushed their way inside, and before they knew it, the guards found themselves handcuffed and robbed not just their authority, but of their safety as well as their dignity.
And, you know, you're definitely losing some, like, some status in the guarding community for this one.
Absolutely. Surrounded and overwhelmed, the guards had little choice.
The robbers acted with a chilling calmness, placing moneybags over their heads.
This left them in darkness and anxiety.
I wouldn't like a bag over my head either.
The truck, once a symbol of their duty, now became a vessel of terrorists the robbers took control.
With three of the gang members now inside, they started the engine, ready to execute their carefully laid plan.
As the truck lumbered a few blocks away, the reality of the situation set in for the guards.
They were at the mercy of a gang of criminals who didn't appear to be as reckless as one might think.
The truck was parked on a street bustling with children playing and elderly folks watching them from their windows.
All unsuspecting witnesses to a meticulously orchestrated crime taking place right under their noses.
In just three minutes, the robbers transferred the bunny into a basement.
Chevrolet, cramming it full with their little batting pants.
The handcuffed guards could only watch, helpless as their professional lives
Yeah, that would really suck.
The gang spueled their getaway vehicle, and with alarming precision they sped away, leaving behind a portion of the hall.
Out of the $2 million, only $1.37 million made it into their pockets.
Only. While a hefty summon of $700,000 lay unclaimed in the back of the truck.
I mean, you know, when you're in a hurry.
Take what you can, dude.
Shit. Authorities were left puzzled as no one could determine who had pulled off such a high-stakes heist.
Rumors of seven-season criminals involved in this professional operations world, hinting at a network of individuals who had meticulously planned this audacious act.
Yeah, they were never caught.
And whoever got it just got it and got away with it, so...
What happened?
Somebody stole $1.37 million and apparently really hurt the feelings of the guards.
Because that story, you could really feel the guards' feelings.
You could feel exactly the mental sentiments they were feeling going through at the time.
The humiliation and fear followed by slight relief and then the realization that they're probably getting fired.
Yeah, that was the one lingering thing I'm sure they were all worried about the most, getting fired.
Yep, that part probably hung over the entire incident, is I am so screwed.
Yeah. God damn it, dude.
I'm sure they had a couple moments where they thought, well, there's still 700,000 laying here.
You just take it.
Should I just leave it?
Yeah, I know, it's like...
We're already getting fired.
Yeah, yeah, they took all of it, sir.
That's what I would have done.
Shit. Dug a hole.
It's like, did you always have a gigantic ass?
No. Don't check my pockets.
Oh, shit.
Alright, this next one here.
The Rutledge Berkshire Armored Car Services Depot Theft.
Really long named ones.
All right.
Really rolls off the tongue, don't it?
Oh, it definitely does.
The Rutledge Berkshire Armored Car Services Depot theft.
Say it in Scottish.
The Rutledge Berkshire Armored Car Services Depot theft.
At approximately 6 a.m. on January 31st, 2002, two security guards reported for duty at the Berkshire Armored Car Services Depot in Rutledge, Vermont.
Not long after their arrival, a masked gunman with a pronounced New York accent burst into the facility, quickly overpowering the guards and restraining them.
He then drove in a vehicle, believed to be a van that was discovered shortly thereafter, and made off with all the cash stored in the vault.
In all, this one man got away with $1.9 million, or $2.5 million, accounting for inflation.
Investigators delved into a myriad of theories, drawing insights from interviews and tips that implicated a range of suspects, including mobsters, desperate drug users, ex-husbands, and parents with criminal backgrounds.
In March 2002, an inmate at St. Albans Jail, who was serving time for a federal weapons offense, revealed to investigators that he had been approached to take part in what he believed was an armored car robbery.
Just two weeks prior to the heist, he claimed that someone had reached out to him with an enticing offer to join in on a robbery that would supposedly set him up financially for a significant period.
This inmate, employed by Commercial Building Services, the company that owned a van suspected to have been stolen and used as a getaway vehicle during the robbery, Mentioned that the individual who invited him had persistently urged him to assist in stealing one of the company's vans.
Come on, dude.
Just gotta go get the van, man.
Steal the van.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on, steal the van.
Come on, man.
This is just for days.
This wouldn't let up.
So after much nagging...
Relentless nagging.
Come on, get the van, man.
Come on, get the van.
So when questioned about his motivation for sharing this information, the inmate insisted he was unaware of the $20,000 reward from the FBI, or the $50,000 bounty from Berkshire, for tips relating to the robbery.
His primary goal was simply to secure his release from jail, thinking that, you know, any information that was helpful would lead to his release.
But, you know, you can give me the money, too.
That's what I would have said.
I would be like, oh, there's money?
Oh, there's a $70,000 reward?
Well, then that's what I'm doing it for.
I'll take that, too.
Also, I want out.
I want it all.
Why not both?
A former convict reached out to the federal agents just days after the robbery, revealing that an acquaintance had contacted him about a week prior, inviting him to participate in a, quote, Big score.
And expressing interest in the reward for the information he could provide.
The ex-con shared that he was informed the plan involved robbing the Berkshire armed car in Rutland simultaneously with the actual event using a stolen van, details that had already been made public by the time he spoke to the investigators.
The informant who declined the job due to concerns about facing a lengthy prison sentence from a previous felony conviction revealed several additional details.
He mentioned that the individual who approached him had been planning the heist for three months.
The scheme involved moving the cash from the van into a vintage white Pontiac Le Mans from the 1960s.
Beautiful. According to the informant, he was promised a.357 silver magnum with pearl handles and hollow point ammunition if he agreed to take part.
We will give you a silver gun.
If you participate in this.
That feels less like payment and more like a quest item.
Yeah. You'll need this for your next mission.
You'll need this for your next mission, which will involve werewolves.
Take these hollow point ammunition bullets.
Yeah. You've been upgraded or downgraded to hollow points.
They're like, look, now you don't have to purchase an upgrade with pearl handles.
It comes with it.
So the post-robbery plan was to lay low for a while, and if law enforcement started closing in, they would just escape to Mexico, like everyone else.
It's what you do.
It's in the fucking playbook they give to every robbery guy.
When asked about this decision to share the information, the informant revealed to the police that he was a heroin user in need of the reward money.
Oof. Must have been a bad stretch of being without heroin.
I mean, if you're just, like, straight up telling the cops, like, yeah, I need drugs really bad.
That's some bad witch-alls right there, to be at that point.
That's some pretty hardcore desperation.
Like, oh, by the way, could I use your bathroom?
Yeah. Gotta take a fat shit.
Yeah, I just need to go.
In February of 2003, federal agents were approached by another individual involved in the drug trade.
Who was described as being in a difficult situation due to cocaine sales and federal firearm charges.
Uh, yeah, so this individual informed investigators that $1.9 million was concealed in an apartment located above the downtown Rutland Pizza shop.
The informant mentioned that he had heard from others that a woman visiting the apartment above Caramilla's Pizza on Strong's Avenue That's a lot.
30 bags of money.
Ooh. I could use that.
Oh, yeah.
Fuck. She insisted that the cash she saw was simply lottery winnings and stated she had no knowledge of the Berkshire robbery.
Like, okay, there's gotta be a trace of lottery winnings?
Like, was there a ticket sold?
Who sold this ticket?
Where did this ticket come from?
Is there a receipt?
So, this just sounds more like an RPG as you go on.
I mean, first, you know, some guy turned down the request, so he had to wait until some other player character...
Was seeking the silver magnum for their next quest.
And now we got this lady.
Yeah, she's giving you wrong information.
Where she just kind of passed her persuasion check and they're like, oh, lottery wings?
No need to look into that.
No backstory to it.
Yeah, that's it.
100% success.
And then another woman informed federal agents that she suspected her ex-husband, who had a history of armed robberies himself.
Including a notable incident in Schenectady?
Schenectady? New York?
Did I say that?
Schenectady? Schenectady?
I don't know.
Schenectady? It probably is pronounced something crazy like Chevella?
Chevella? Schenettady?
Okay, so it was a notable incident in Schenectady, New York.
Sorry, New Yorkers.
Where he robbed a jewelry store to pay off a $5,000 drug debt.
She revealed that her ex-husband would monitor the weather channel to time his heists with winter storms, believing they would help him evade capture.
That's pretty genius.
To further obscure his trail, he would sprinkle laundry detergent to mask his scent.
Ah, that's pretty good.
The woman conveyed to FBI agents her belief that her former spouse, residing in Schenectady, Was involved in the robbery as he had often discussed plans to rob an armored car.
But, of course, nothing came of this.
Pops are like, we'll look another way.
We'll look over here.
Well, that sounds awful lot like we might solve the case.
You realize how much overtime I'm getting?
Already doing 80 hours a fucking week.
He's like, I got rent to pay.
In 2004, a woman approached investigators with her suspicions about her father being involved in a robbery.
She recounted how her concerns were initially sparked by a voicemail he left on the day of the crime, claiming that, quote, all his drug debts had been settled and there would be no more harassment from creditors.
Good for him.
Yay! I suddenly got debt-free.
And so can you.
Yeah, how?
Don't ask.
You're just one good score away from being debt-free.
It's so easy, you can do it too.
Given her father's criminal background and the discovery of a ski mask and gloves hidden beneath the seat of his vehicle, she expressed to the investigators that it was certainly possible that he could be the one responsible for the robbery.
That same year, investigators began to explore potential mob ties.
To the incident after the Organized Crime Task Force from the New York Attorney General's Office reached out to federal agents regarding a, quote, very reliable informant who indicated that the heist was executed by a member of the Tanglewood Gang based in the Bronx.
Sound like D&D fans.
The Tanglewood Gang.
Playing some D&D.
You got the 20?
You're the 20 side?
Is that a different game?
You have upgraded in bat rank to Tanglefoot.
The agents received information indicating that the gang consisted of the offspring of the Wise Guys from the Luchesi family.
Luchesi? I think it's Luchesi, isn't it?
Luchesi? Luchesi.
I'll go with that.
Yeah, sounds good.
With two guards from Berkshire implicated in the heist.
Initially hesitant to meet with federal agents due to concerns for his safety, The confidential informant eventually agreed to speak with the lead FBI agents, revealing that he only knew the robber's first name.
Let's start with that.
Early in the investigation, authorities pursued another lead from a different informant after a Worcester, Massachusetts police detective relayed that one of his sources had mentioned a man who was paid $4,000 to drive a getaway van during the robbery.
Federal investigators noted that during the discussion between the informant and the driver, the term armored car was mentioned.
However, there was no recorded follow-up on this lead in the federal documents.
Why would there be?
Wow. I mean, I feel like if you're playing one of those point-and-click games, you would need to plug in those terms and ask various people about them.
Was there an armored car mentioned?
Anyone? No?
Armored car.
Keyword, armored car, anybody.
Keyword. In the local investigation, an employee from the Old Belomos Market on Forest Street in Rutland informed authorities in March 2002 that he suspected two former employees of the Giancola Construction Company,
the Giancola family, owns the Howe Center.
Which was the site of the robbery, and therefore we're all connected to the crime.
I mean, that's...
yeah. If you want to catch him in advance, you just need to find out what their next quest item they're seeking is.
Yes, and where it is.
You gotta find it first.
Yeah, I was gonna say, what does the silver 357 lead you to?
A werewolf.
He noted that one of the suspects had a similar physique to the gunman and spoke with a distinct New York
Additionally, in July 2002, agents received several tips from an anonymous caller who claimed to sell cars in the Rutland area.
This caller expressed suspicion about a man who had paid cash for a $7,514 Toyota Tercel, suggesting he might have ties to the robbery.
Did he pay in ones?
7,514.
A Toyota Tercel.
Is that even like a decent car?
What is this type of car?
Probably not.
My question is, is this a new car or a used car?
Good fucking question.
Oh, dude.
Tercels are sick.
This guy got ripped off.
I'm going to say that.
It's like a little hatchback wagon-ly looking thing.
In the picture I'm looking at, it's a cream color.
It's a very lame looking car.
But hey, he paid $7,514 for it.
Maybe at the time, 2002?
Oh hell no, he got ripped off hard.
Oh yeah.
I guess he needed it really bad.
Motivated buyer.
So anyway.
The car dealer recounted visiting the buyer's residence on July 8th, where he witnessed the buyer pulling out cash from a box that held at least $200,000.
Money, money, money, you gotta love it!
The buyer exclaimed, inhaling the scent of the bills as he passed them to the salesman.
God, this thing even has NPC reactions.
It's the same, too.
It's like you go back to him and he does the same thing.
Money, money, money, you gotta love it!
The buyer exclaimed, inhaling the scent of the bills as he passed them to the salesman.
He's like, could I have a thousand dollars?
Sure, money, money, money, you gotta love it!
You gotta love it!
Every time.
Another tip came from an employee at a neighboring building to the Berkshire Terminal in Rutland.
During an interview, marking the first anniversary of the heist, he is celebrating, a worker from...
Westminster Crackers revealed that someone who he knew had been offered $30,000 to, quote, Stay silent.
about the robbery.
This employee expressed suspicion towards a co-worker who had previously mentioned the large sums of money located just beyond a maintenance room wall adjacent to the Berkshire Vault.
To this day, the robbery is the biggest heist in Vermont's history.
And everybody involved gained at least 5,000 XP, and that's guaranteed to get them a level.
Alright, give us some spunk.
Alright, what have we got here?
The Eden Prairie Ram Security Heist.
At 1pm on April 18th, 1989, a Ram security guard was loading money into an armored car in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, when he was approached by three heavily armed men in a vehicle.
As one of the robbers came up to him, he instinctively grabbed the robber's gun.
However, he was quickly subdued without shots being fired.
The guard felt that the robbers moved very smoothly.
They did not appear to be panicked or in a hurry.
So, probably professionals is what I'm hearing implied here.
Sounds like the whole thing had already been orchestrated and they knew they would have no pushback.
So they're just like, let's just go in here and do it.
Well, it did it so quick, it didn't get any pushback.
Yeah. Almost simultaneously, the second phase of the heist began.
A van pulled up in front of the armored car, cutting off any route of escape.
A fourth robber placed what appeared to be a bomb on the car's hood.
In just under a minute, they stole close to $1 million.
They then vanished without a trace.
Quick. One investigator described the operation as, quote, commando-like, as if they had trained and practiced it in advance.
The bomb squad was immediately dispatched to the scene.
Attaching guide wires to the device, they carefully removed it from the car's hood.
Oh, yeah.
Nice red herrings.
Damn! Yeah, I did.
In the first two heists, through a combination of careful planning and clockwork timing, the robbers had stolen 1.6 mil.
They had also brilliantly covered their tracks.
Every vehicle that they used had been stolen, wiped clean of evidence, and then abandoned.
It was thought that they would quit while they were a million dollars ahead, but one year later they struck again.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Suddenly, two of the robbers approached him and ordered him to the ground.
At the same time, a van pulled up in front of the truck.
The van's occupants fired two shots at the Brinks driver.
Faring for his life, he began to drive away, crashing into the van in the process.
He turned his siren on as one of the robbers fired more shots at him.
I'm guessing probably the same one as before.
He circled around the parking lot and came back to the bank.
He saw his partner on the ground.
Fortunately, he was uninjured.
As the robbers entered their getaway car, the driver decided to fight back.
He slammed the armored truck into their vehicle.
Despite this, the robbers were able to escape.
Fortunately, despite the number of shots fired in the heavily trafficked area, nobody was injured.
Yikes. That would have been intense.
I know, like, the whole thing probably was just a whirlwind from start to finish.
Would have felt like no time at all.
Mm-hmm.
The robbers abandoned their car behind a nearby shopping center and left on foot.
The FBI theorized that they may have had another vehicle parked nearby, which they used to leave the area.
Uh, yeah, probably.
Most likely.
I doubt they kept walking.
Just with bags, yeah.
Yeah, just carrying bags of money around.
Still got a face mask on.
I like to take my pet money out for a walk.
Authorities quickly cordoned off the neighborhood.
They brought in tracking dogs and set up roadblocks.
However, the gang had once again made a clean getaway.
The following morning, authorities found one of the gang's stolen cars less than a mile from a bank.
As in the other robberies, it contained no evidence to identify them.
All the authorities could really do at this point was wait for the elusive robbers to strike again.
At this point, the FBI believes that the robbers could be living anywhere in the United States.
There are apparently at least four members of the gang.
None of them have ever been identified or located.
And, yeah, apparently they're damn good at what they do, because that's all they got.
Damn, got away with every one of them.
They probably got enough money and were like, alright, let's settle down.
Living in Aruba.
Yeah. They just took that first million and invested in Bitcoin and then just bought it out.
Yeah. When it exploded.
That's the thing, man.
I think a lot of these older bank robberies, even probably some of the more later ones, more recent ones, whatever.
I think a lot of them, especially back in the day, were orchestrated by basically ex-military people.
People that had their foot in the door of the military or police, and they orchestrated these things.
Yeah, because that felt like either a military op or an inside job.
Like, one of the two.
They either had help with it or they were so smooth at it.
It just worked out that well.
Because, yeah, that worked a lot better than the one we talked about first that involved somebody dying at the beginning and then, like, another person getting shot and then three million in lawsuits.
Holy crap.
On to the next one.
The Brentwood Pyrolator Robbery On March 17, 1982, two individuals just in trench coats, dark felt hats, and aviator sunglasses impersonated FBI agents to execute a heist,
making off with over two million from a Pyrolator Armored Incorporated facility without brandishing a weapon.
Explosing garage door, so it was like closing and they slipped under really quick, catching a security officer off guard with their claim of being federal agents.
The FBI indicated that the amount stolen during the St. Patrick's Day robbery exceeded $2 million.
The heist is reported to be the most significant in the history of the Pittsburgh region, prompting Pearl later to offer a reward of $100,000.
According to FBI agent Paul Kimball, The guard was alone in the office when two men presented some form of identification claiming to be FBI agents.
According to the guard's statement to the police, neither of the robbers was armed.
The two men swiftly subdued the guard, seizing his keys, shotgun, and revolver.
They then handcuffed him, covered his mouth and eyeglasses with tape, and forced him to lie on the floor.
These guys are geniuses.
Taping the glasses is an interesting touch there.
These guys are pretty smart.
The thieves utilized keys to gain access to a vault area where they loaded approximately 26 bags filled with cash.
According to Kimball, the stolen money had already been counted and prepared for delivery to banks in western Pennsylvania.
Kimball also noted that an unspecified amount of cash was left behind in the vault.
Throughout the heist, the men communicated via walkie-talkies with at least one accomplice waiting outside the garage.
The vehicle was then driven into the garage to facilitate the transfer of the money.
Once the robbers had departed, the guard, still in handcuffs, managed to shuffle over to a phone.
With his back turned to the device, he dialed an eight-digit number and instructed the person on the other end to get in touch with the Brentwood police, according to Kimball.
Authorities and Purlator representatives arrived at the scene of the robbery around 1 a.m.
The FBI reported that the largest robbery in the area prior to this incident took place in March 1979, also involving Purlator.
During that heist...
Around $666,000 was stolen from a purulator van in the nearby town of New Kensington.
According to the FBI, one individual was convicted for the crime and a portion of the stolen money was eventually recovered.
No one has ever been identified as a suspect in the heist.
Authorities have ruled out the security guard and a police officer who resigned unexpectedly just days after the incident.
That's suspicious.
And the sole significant link to the crime emerged during a trial in 1990 when a drug dealer and federal informant named Joseph Rosa claimed that Pittsburgh mobster Gino Chiarelli was responsible for the robbery.
But this accusation was never proven.
So, yet another one where they got away with it.
I don't know, was that a truck?
Yeah, in that case they more so stuck in...
Snuck into the transport facility itself.
They skipped the armored car part and just went back to where they park them.
That's pretty ballsy, dude.
They're just like, you know what?
What the hell?
Let's not even wait for them to bring the money to us.
Let's go take it.
Let's go claim it.
I try to imagine they attempted to reenact the scene in Men in Black and the dude just didn't buy it so then they had to take him down.
You know how easy that would be?
My goodness.
I mean, you can just buy an FBI badge.
You can buy any badge online.
All the vests.
You can buy sheriff vests.
You can buy anything online, dude.
Have one of the FBI ones that says, like, female body inspector next to it.
Yeah. You can, like, literally buy all the gear you need to look just like a sheriff or a SWAT or whoever you want to look like.
You can buy all of that online.
It's nuts.
Not even the deep web.
Like, on the internet.
Oh yeah, I mean, like, they'll sell an awful lot of that stuff.
You can get, like, police lights, the decals, you can do it all.
You can do it all, man.
Yep. Just not necessarily all in one transaction.
Otherwise, they're probably gonna catch you.
Yeah, they'll catch you.
Be like, so why do you need this exact corporate logo, this exact site location, and this exact...
No, no, no reason.
No reason.
You know what, let's just make that four separate purchases.
That dude, I forget his name, the guy in Canada, I covered his story.
He was a serial killer during COVID lockdown stuff.
Oh, I almost had his name, I forget.
But he just went around, he made two police car replicas, he had all the gear on, and he just went around and killed people.
Lit structures on fire.
That's gruesome.
It was nuts.
Taking advantage of people's natural letting of their guard down because they think they're talking to someone that's actually responsible for something, and then, nope.
Gabriel Wartman, that's who it was.
Happened in Nova Scotia.
God, it's like the whole, like, creepy, like, I lost my puppy thing, but with, like, a whole air of authority behind it.
Yeah, dude, he did a 12-hour shooting and arson spree across Nova Scotia.
The cops couldn't catch up to him, dude.
Because he looked like a cop.
He just looked like a cop.
He had the police replica.
He was pulling people over and then killing them, dude.
That is so messed up.
Yeah. Imagine just getting stopped and thinking, oh, man, I don't even know where the hell it, like...
Yeah. There's one of my lights out or something, and then the dude just, like, lights you up like a Christmas tree.
That'd be so messed up.
You know what he did to one guy?
He pulled him over, or put his hands behind his back, handcuffed him, put him in the back of the police cruiser, and then shot him there.
I'm saying that just almost, this feels like almost like unnecessary, unnecessary padron tree.
For real, and then he lit the car on fire.
Like he was role-playing being the actual cop unnecessarily.
Even though he had no intention of just taking him and capturing him anyways.
Yeah, it was a bad story, dude.
It was bad shit.
Bad shit happened in that one.
Anyway, what do we got here?
Alright, so the Yurikucho Mitsubishi Bank Robbery.
This one happened in Japan.
On November 18th, 1986, an armored truck from the Bank of Japan pulled up to a Mitsubishi Bank, or Mitsubishi branch, located in...
Tokyo's Yurikucho area.
As the guard was in the process of unloading cash, two individuals clad in motorcycle helmets approached the vehicle.
Getting within striking distance, they unleashed a mysterious substance believed to be maced directly into the driver's eyes.
Yeah, Japan doesn't have a whole lot of firearms in it, so...
Make do.
Don't have to really worry about...
Yeah, they just had to improvise.
The bandits would make off with $2 million in cash and bags filled with checks from an armored vehicle, marking the largest armored car robbery in Japan's history.
Which, I wonder how many times this has happened.
Good question.
Surprisingly, that's an interesting one.
Surprisingly, the thieves left behind approximately $5 million in cash still inside the truck, according to officials.
Which really kind of begs the question of...
Why? I mean, especially if you had a vehicle to ditch with it.
I'm not sure.
I'm looking up...
Did they just...
Did they...
I'm wondering that one.
Oh, how many other...
How often they've actually had armored car robberies.
Yeah. I mean, it's a pretty uncommon crime, which is why it's so dramatic.
There aren't even any results.
Alright, well, the driver, Seichi Aizawa, 38, had parked the armored car outside the Mitsubishi Bank's Yurikucho branch.
A prominent commercial bank located in the heart of Tokyo at around 8:30 a.m. to begin his first delivery of the day.
As he opened the back door of the vehicle, two men, their faces obscured by helmets, emerged from a nearby parked car and made their way towards him.
A brief struggle broke out, but swiftly seized two cases holding approximately $2 million in cash, along with three bags filled with the undisclosed quantity of checks, securities, and important documents from the van.
They made their escape in a white van, where a third accomplice was waiting, to which I ask yet again, having gotten more context, why did you not take it all?
Didn't want to get tracked down and murdered, dude.
I guess they were just thinking short-term.
Just decided, you know what?
It's not worth the wasted time.
It'll be the difference between us getting busted or not.
The heist marked the armor and...
It already said that.
However, the thieves left behind a significant portion of the cash.
Why the hell would they leave the cash?
That's still so bizarre.
Yeah. Yeah, it seems like it happens very often.
Like, essentially, oh, I got enough.
Like, well, if anybody else sees it, like, they'll take it.
So, yeah, leave it there.
Maybe we're helping the little guy.
I wonder if what they're partially thinking is that if it's not completely emptied, they might not 100% know until they get more context whether any was stolen.
Right. Because, you know, you see $7 million in the back of an armored truck, you're not going to think, oh my god, $2 billion were stolen out of here.
So until you actually talk to the guards, you might not be alerted.
I don't know.
I can think of a lot of theories, but it still seems dumb to me to just leave it.
Oh, yeah.
And in terms of how many car heists there have been in Japan, there have been several, it says.
Authorities believe the thieves were familiar with the armored car's route and chose a less crowded spot in the typically lively Yurikucho district for their heist.
Approximately 45 minutes after the robbery, the getaway van was discovered in a basement parking lot in Ginza, which is roughly 500 yards from where the crime took place.
It is thought that the robberies switched to another vehicle to make their escape from the parking facility.
Damn. Wow, that's a pretty...
Pretty impressive level of coordination here, though.
The police also believe that the crime was possibly the work of a group of foreigners.
And a final note on this is that on December 16th, 2024, Japan's largest bank issued an apology on Monday the 16th.
Following allegations that an employee stole over 1 billion yen from customer safe deposit boxes.
Which is like 6.6 million dollars, US.
Which really leans even more towards they left 7 million dollars, but did that really go back to the bank?
Yeah. Because apparently people were just embezzling the hell out of things at this bank.
So is that an inside job?
And did they just blame a group of foreigners to kind of deflect things?
Because it sounds like that's exactly how far they look.
Group of foreigners?
Yep. Ah, well, damn, this investigation's going nowhere.
Time to wrap it up.
This one's been solved.
Yep.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group announced that it is currently conducting an investigation into the matter.
So far, confirmed thefts from around 20 of the 60 affected clients have totaled 300 million yen.
About 2 mil.
The thefts took place at two of the bank's branches in Tokyo spanning from April 2020 until the issue was uncovered at the end of October this year.
It was a female employee who was in charge of the safe deposit boxes and their keys and exploited her position to fill for cash and other valuables.
Wow, that's even worse because I was about to say, this is stealing from random poor people for the most part.
This is their life savings, their family heirlooms and hand downs and all sorts of shit like that.
Even if you can make some excuses for like, you know, like businesses getting covered, a lot of times this stuff won't be.
No! Unless the bank has a specific, like, insurance policy, like, where if your stuff gets stolen or something, they'll cover it, but...
Yeah, a lot of times they'll explicitly tell you that, like, valuables that can't be, you know, enumerated with cereals and everything, they just can't do anything about that.
Right. But my China set!
My China set!
Yeah, exactly, like, my precious, like, everything.
Nope, not precious to us.
Worth 40 cents.
My Tamaguchi collection.
My Beanie Babies.
Yeah, the glove that John Lennon shook my hand in.
Oh, fuck, they'd probably cover that.
We'll just...
They'll probably...
They value it at nothing and try to buy it from you for 20 bucks.
That's what I was trying to say.
They just try to buy it from you, but...
Oh, it's not valued at anything, but we'll give you $100.
Yeah. She has since been terminated, which I would hope to God you would be, and is cooperating with both the bank's internal investigation and a police inquiry, although she has not been arrested at this time because we didn't need more reasons to scream inside job here.
This incident marks the second recent case of criminal behavior within a prominent Japanese financial institution.
My goodness.
In November, Nomura Holdings revealed that a former employee was arrested on charges related to robbery, attempted murder, and arson against a client.
My god.
So, yeah, I have a theory they might have had a corruption problem.
Alright, next one here.
The Toronto Brinks robbery.
Oh, this is a huge one, dude.
I think I remember this one.
This is huge.
On October 20th, 1981, the Brinks robbery unfolded as a violent heist accompanied by three related murders.
This audacious crime was executed by members of the Black Liberation Army alongside four individuals formerly affiliated with the Weather Underground who were then linked to the May 19th Communist Organization.
The operation involved BLA members including Kuwasi Balagoon, Sekou Odinga, Mityari Sundiata, Samuel Brown, and none other than Mitulu Shakur, the papa of Tupac Shakur,
who orchestrated the robbery, while the M19CO members David Gilbert, Judith Ellis Clark, Kathy Budin, And Marilyn Buck were tasked with driving the getaway vehicles in a series of switch cars.
It's all planned out.
The group of conspirators made off with $1.6 million in cash from a Brinks armored vehicle parked at the Nanuit National Bank in Nanuit Mall, New York.
In the process, they tragically took the life of Brinks guard Peter Page and left guard Joseph Trombino with serious injuries and caused minor injuries to truck driver guard.
James Kelly.
During their escape, the robbers engaged in a violent confrontation that resulted in the deaths of two NEAC police officers, Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown, while also seriously injuring police detective Artie Keenan.
that money was worth a lot of lives to them dang like that's a whole like level of conflict beyond simply taking out the guy that has the money
Yeah, these guys just didn't care.
Like, we will just shoot anyone.
We'll take it.
We'll get it.
They just went full on devil's rejects during their escape.
Real. Yeah.
The heist unfolded with Booting dropping off her young son, Jason Booting, at a babysitter's office before she took the wheel of a U-Haul truck designated as a getaway vehicle.
She positioned herself in a nearby parking lot while her armed partners drove a red van toward the Nanuent Mall.
Where a Brinks truck was scheduled for a cash pickup.
At precisely 3.55 p.m., Brinks guards Peter Page and Joseph Trombino exited the mall carrying bags filled with cash.
As they began loading the money into the truck, the robbers burst from their van and launched their attack.
One assailant fired two shotgun rounds into the truck's bulletproof windshield.
While another unleashed a barrage from an M16 rifle at Page, who was struck multiple times in the chest and died instantly.
Trombino managed to fire a single shot from his handgun but was hit in the shoulder and arm by several bullets, nearly severing his arm.
Meanwhile, the truck's driver, James Kelly, aware of the chaos behind him, fired several rounds at the robbers through a gunport in his truck's door.
However, he soon found himself under heavy fire and took cover beneath the dashboard, suffering injuries from glass and bullet shrapnel.
The attackers made off with $1.6 million in cash, equivalent to about $5.5 million today, 2024, before escaping in their van.
Trombino overcame his injuries and dedicated the next two decades to working for the Brinks company.
He wasn't scathed, dude.
He was like, dude, I'll take on anybody.
We want you.
You'll fire back.
I mean, that's pretty ballsy.
Dude nearly got his arms shut off.
I know.
That's quite the wound.
Robocop style, man.
Yeah, I was about to say, when you're getting shot so badly that you almost sever limbs, that's like Robocop levels of getting blasted.
Ugh, scene is nuts.
So after Trombino overcame those injuries, he also narrowly escaped death during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Well,
and you work for Brink, so you're at, like, you're at all the secure sites and stuff.
The robbers made a hasty escape from the scene, heading straight to a parking lot where a yellow Honda and a U-Haul truck, manned by members of the May 19th Communist Organization, were parked.
Without wasting any time, they loaded the bags of cash into both vehicles and took off at high speed.
Meanwhile, across the street, Sandra Torgerson, a vigilant college student, noticed their vehicle switch and promptly alerted the police.
She's like, ah, that looks a little sketch.
Better call the cops.
What, you don't switch vehicles with bags of cash?
At least a couple times a day?
Looking hella suspicious, looking around and shit, because you know they were, like, checking out for cops.
Probably Brent.
Well, and I mean, you got your, like, guns tucked, or are you, like, walking around?
Yeah, they're, like, having the guns out.
M16s and shotguns all out and about.
This seems suspicious even for New York.
Or she'd just be like, ah, it's another day.
Just keeps on walking.
Yeah, I could just see that.
Like, oh, that's a Wednesday right there.
As police units from across the country rushed to the mall where the gunfire erupted, they worked diligently to block any potential escape routes.
Before long, officers Edward O'Grady, Waverly Brown, Brian Lennon, and Artie Keenan identified and stopped a U-Haul truck, which had boot in in the front seat, alongside a yellow Honda at an entrance ramp to the New York State Thruway off Route 59. The officers were uncertain if they had the correct vehicle,
as reports indicated that the suspects were all black, while the individuals in this truck were white.
A tactic the robbers had intentionally employed to mislead law enforcement.
That's pretty genius.
Nevertheless, since the truck fit the description of the getaway vehicle they were pursuing, the officers approached with their weapons drawn.
The police officers who apprehended the suspects recounted that Budin pretended to be innocent, implored them to lower their weapons, promising to behave.
Somehow this worked.
Budin claimed she stayed quiet, leading the officers to relax their stance.
Once the police had their guns lowered, six men clad in body armor and armed with automatic weapons emerged from the rear of the truck and opened fire on the four officers.
That's crazy!
In case you wonder why they're so friggin' jumpy.
Officer Brown managed to fire off a couple of rounds at the assailants before being struck multiple times by rifle fire, collapsing to the ground.
One of the robbers approached his fallen body and fired several additional shots into him with a 9mm handgun, ensuring he was dead.
Keenan was shot in the leg but managed to take cover behind a tree and return fire.
Officer O'Grady was able to empty his revolver before being shot multiple times with an M16 while reloading.
He succumbed to his injuries on the operating table 90 minutes later.
Meanwhile, Lennon, who was in his cruiser when the gunfire erupted, attempted to exit through the front passenger door only to find O'Grady's body blocking it.
He witnessed the suspects jump back into the U-Haul and speed towards him.
Lennon fired his shotgun several times at the oncoming truck as it crashed into his police car, then discharged two rounds from his pistol.
The people inside the U-Haul quickly dispersed with some jumping into the yellow Honda, while others hijacked a nearby vehicle from motorist Norma Hill, all while Boudin tried to escape on foot.
However, she was swiftly caught by off-duty corrections officer Michael J. Koch, Just moments after the gunfire erupted.
Upon her arrest, Budin identified herself as Barbara Edson.
Clark, accompanied by Gilbert and Brown in the vehicle, lost control of the Honda during a sharp turn, resulting in Brown sustaining a neck injury and his handgun falling to the car's floor.
South Niagara Police Chief Alan Colsey was the first officer to arrive on the scene, and successfully held the trio at gunpoint until Orangetown Police Officer Michael Seidel and Rockland County District Attorney's Police Detective Jim Stewart arrived.
Once the three were taken into custody, authorities discovered $800,000 from the robbery, along with a 9mm handgun lying on the back seat floor of the car.
Authorities tracked the license plate of a white Buick, one of the escaped vehicles, to an apartment in East Orange, New Jersey.
Upon investigation, they discovered an arsenal of weapons, bomb-making supplies, And intricate blueprints for six police precincts in Manhattan.
Dang. So they plotted out where they could be dispatched from and everything.
Further inquiries identified the apartment's tenant as Marilyn Jean Buck, a woman with a prior arrest for supplying arms to the Black Liberation Army.
Although she received a 10-year prison sentence, she was granted furlough in 1977 and never went back.
And she's gone.
Dang. Just out on the run.
During the search of the apartment, authorities discovered documents indicating an address in Mount Vernon, New York, a small city located approximately 20 miles from the mall where the robbery took place.
Upon executing a raid at that location, officers uncovered bloody garments, ammunition, additional firearms, and ski masks.
Further investigation determined that the blood-stained clothing was linked to Buck, who had unintentionally shot herself in the leg while attempting to draw her weapon during the confrontation with the police.
Oops. Oopsies.
All license plates from vehicles near the Mount Vernon address were logged into the NCAC system.
Three days later, NYPD Detective Lieutenant Dan Kelly identified a 1978 Chrysler with a plate linked to the Mount Vernon apartment and requested backup.
The car, carrying Sandiata and Odinga, attempted to evade the police when Detectives Erwin Jacobson and George Alleen and Officers George Santori, Edward Johnson, and Lawrence DeTussi, along with Emergency Service Unit Officers John Russell and Alan Cochran, tried to stop them.
After the vehicle crashed, a shootout ensued, resulting in Sandiata's death.
It was shot in the neck and face by Detective Erwin Jacobson.
And Odinga's capture by Officers Cochran, Johnson, and D. Tusa.
In Sundiata's shirt pocket, police discovered a crushed.38 caliber slug believed to have been fired from O'Grady's service weapon.
Several months later, three additional suspects, including Balagoon, were arrested.
The search for those involved in the robbery would stretch on for several years, and Buck was taken into custody in 1985, while the final suspect to be apprehended was Shakur.
Who was identified as the mastermind behind the heist in 1986.
That's so crazy.
Tupac Shakur's dad masterminded that show.
And then, almost exactly ten years later, from 1986.
Tupac Shakur, the 25-year-old son of Matulu, an American rapper with extremely close ties with Marion Suge Knight, who has his own podcast from prison in which he was sentenced to 25 years for the death of one of two men that he viciously ran over with his truck outside of a hamburger stand in 2015,
and Sean John Combs, who is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest in September on sex trafficking charges and racketeering charges.
Such a long sentence.
Tupac would die roughly six days later.
And you almost kind of wonder if that isn't a linear series of events.
They always theorized that it was because you wanted to go independent, but I mean, I imagine you'd stir up a lot of bad blood with that whole incident.
Oh yeah.
Alright, what do we got?
Is this our last one here?
This is our final entry, the Sacramento Loomis Heist.
Ooh. Yep, the Loomis Truck Robbery of 1999 stands out as a bold and mysterious heist of a Loomis Fargo& Company semi-trailer truck loaded with cash en route from Sacramento to San Francisco.
One or more thieves manage to board the vehicle, cut a hole in the roof, and make off with it.
Around $2.3 million, all without even alerting the driver or the security personnel.
This audacious crime went unnoticed until the truck reached its final destination.
So, yeah, those people are probably long gone by then.
Despite extensive investigations, authorities have never identified any suspects, leaving this case unsolved and cold.
I mean, freaking, have you called Tom Cruise?
Because I feel like this is Mission Impossible shit.
So wait, wait.
This truck was driving, right?
Like, it was driving?
Or what?
And these guys jumped on the roof of it?
Yeah. And they're driving...
And they did some freaking, like, Inspector Gadget shit and, like, drilled in the top of the thing, stole the money out the top, and ditched it without them ever knowing what was going on.
That is so crazy.
Like, uh...
How would they be able to do that?
I don't know.
I mean...
99? Holy shit.
Yeah, so I probably had to enlist one of the early Fast and the Furious Paul Walkers for this caper.
Yeah, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel.
And then have Tom Cruise drop it.
Yep. Have Vin Diesel and Paul Walker driving and Tom Cruise drop into the ceiling after he drills a hole in the armored truck.
He drops in like Mission Impossible where he stops right before the floor.
Good god.
I gotta say, this is amazing.
This whole story is so amazing.
Alright, so the audacious crime went unnoticed until the truck reached its final destination.
And yeah, they never identified any suspects, leaving this case unsolved and cold.
The exact methods and tools employed by the robbers remain a mystery to this day because they're magic.
Because they're magic.
Is this a metal grinder?
I don't know if they use a grinder or a welding.
I mean, I'm presuming they used a watch laser.
That's my guess.
Like some James Bond almost level shit.
Wow, because it would have to be fast.
Like how much Spycraft movie references can I squeeze in here?
Because this is really like one of a kind.
Holy crap.
This really is, dude.
This is like these were professionals and then there's like these people were magical ninjas.
Fuck yeah, they were.
So what happened?
How did this all play out?
Alright, so, started out on a raining evening around 7.30pm on March 24th, 1999.
The semi-truck trailer truck in question set off from the Loomis Depot in Sacramento, heading on a money transport mission to the San Francisco on Interstate 80. And to its knowledge, it made it.
While the truck's cab was fortified, the trailer carrying the cash Was not.
Oh my god.
So here's where the Mission Impossible part comes in.
Alright, so constructed from basic aluminum, it featured minimal security, relying solely on a locked door with an alarm system.
Oh, what?
No freaking lasers?
Yeah, I was like, where's the laser grid?
For many years, Loomis had opted for unarmored trailers for their coin deliveries, believing that the small value of coins didn't necessitate extensive protection.
Apparently, because, you know...
Who cares about coins?
Like, who's gonna rob a truck for a bunch of coin rolls, you know?
However, in the 1990s, Loomis began incorporating paper currency into their shipments to save costs.
Yeah, who made that decision?
And, you know, didn't actually bother to, like, upgrade security.
So, the truck was manned by 58-year-old driver Howard Brown, accompanied by guards Frank Betancourt and Ken Montgomery.
The journey from Sacramento to San Francisco was mostly straightforward, with just one notable stop at a truck scale in Cordelia, and all the usual traffic signals and stop signs.
After that, the truck continued on its way, reaching the Loomis Depot in San Francisco at approximately 9:40 p.m.
So not really a whole lot of openings here.
Mm-mm. So when Betancourt opened the rear doors, he was taken aback to find the Trailer's door drenched in rainwater and upon further inspection he found a significant
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
I mean, I guess their theory was correct.
Nobody cared about coins, but they also didn't upgrade their security after adding paper money.
Paper money, yeah.
It was probably more so just too much of a pain in the ass to steal.
That's what I'm saying, dude.
Who wants to steal a bunch of rolls of coins?
That's heavy.
And plus, the people holding it can use it as a defensive weapon.
They can womp you in the face with this.
Oh, fuck you up.
He later recounted to the San Francisco Chronicle, I just looked up at the ceiling of the truck.
The hole was jagged, but that just pointing down into the truck.
It didn't look like a clean cut.
It resembled a trap door.
And I imagine this was accompanied with audible blinking noises.
It had an alarm system.
Bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop.
There was definitely audible blinks going on here.
Only in the truck, though.
They didn't hear it in the cab.
They could only hear it if they went back to the truck, the trailer.
Yeah. Where the alarm was at.
And they opened the door and they could hear a beep, beep, beep.
Oh, and that has got to be...
That's just so mind-blowing.
Could you imagine just opening up when you get there and it's just like, we've been visited by a magician.
Damn magicians!
Initially, the guards speculated the truck might have been struck by lightning or possibly even a meteorite.
You know, those sweeping meteorites.
Took all the money.
However, that theory was quickly dismissed when they realized that approximately 270 pounds of cash, again, they knew the weight of the cash for some reason, valued at around $2.3 million, had vanished.
Yeah, I've got a feeling that vanishing is not what it did.
They must have a system where they weigh the cash and they weigh it at...
When they leave the facility and when it arrives at the take-in facility, they must weigh it to make sure it's right on point.
Yeah, probably to get an exact count without having to run it through one of those flippers.
Because every bill has a different weight to it.
Your 1s, your 5s, your 10s, your 20s, your 50s, your 1000s, 100s, whatever.
And then you add them all.
Yep, so you gotta inventory them all and then add them up.
Yep. So, 270 pounds, stolen by Tom Cruise's real-life counterpart.
Vin Diesel.
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's ghost.
Paul Walker.
Oh, man.
The follow-up criminal investigation into the robbery was conducted by the Rock.
Oh, sorry, by the FBI.
Which ruled out the truck driver and guards the suspects.
Their findings revealed that the hole in the roof had been made from the outside, indicating that there was no stowaway hiding within the trailer.
Where the hell did that come from?
There might have been a stowaway inside the trailer.
I mean, that would admittedly be still pretty amazing, even if they drilled out from the inside.
That would have been almost more amazing, because they would have had to hide in the trailer, nobody saw them, they had to stay in there for however long, know exactly when to start welding away or whatever.
And they would have had to just know that there was no motion sensor to catch them while they were sitting in there.
Yeah. Wow.
You can't see shit in there, so you had to have night vision.
I do like this whole, like, oh, it must have been a meteor.
Oh, damn, that meteor's got some sticky fingers.
The lightning.
The lightning blasted through and just evaporated the money.
The lightning, yep.
What can I say?
Zeus was offended by money challenging his power and decided to strike back.
Among the notable evidence discovered inside the trailer was a tattered Dutch military duffel bag marked with the initials MOV.
Suggesting it had been used by the Netherlands Ministry of Defense during the 1950s or 1960s.
Which could just as easily be a red herring.
Actually, I think it is a red herring.
Additionally, a baggage tag from the Netherlands Railroad was found attached to the bag.
Which, again, if you're dealing with people on this level of professionalism, them leaving this sloppy of a clue really does just feel like a misdirection.
They are far too smart to do this.
Yeah. When they could have just taken it with.
Yeah, these are some intact passports right here.
The FBI ultimately located two witnesses who were driving behind the truck.
They stated that as the truck entered a way station, they observed a man dressed in dark clothing leap off the truck and dash through the fields towards Solano Community College.
He had to get to class.
He was just taking a bus, he thought.
Wow. He's like, oh crap, I'm late.
It's okay.
I'll ride inside of the armored container.
I have to get to my criminal justice class.
I'm running late.
So, again, very secret agent-esque.
Just hops out.
That's funny.
Someone saw that happen.
That's awesome.
So, in other words, at some point, they would have had to have come alongside this thing and had this guy jump on top of this thing, drill into it, Get all the way in.
Take all the stuff out.
Get ready to haul it off.
270 pounds worth of shit.
Yeah, he's alone, dude.
For real.
270 pounds.
Alone, dude.
That is some serious muscle.
It almost defies reason.
I feel like there had to have been more than one person.
And they just only caught one guy.
Yeah. Maybe that wasn't even the dude who was in charge of running off or taking the money, but rather he was in charge of just getting in there and then running off.
Maybe it was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Well, you know, they had to give him a cameo in this movie.
I feel like he could lop 270 pounds up and out of that thing.
Plus the bag is from Amsterdam or whatever.
Such military duffel bag.
This is going to end with this armored truck jumping out of a building and into another building.
Oh my god.
Notably, the man seemed to be empty-handed, which kind of lends itself to the theory that his job was just to get in and open it up.
According to Betancourt, the robber likely anticipated that the truck would halt at the scales in the small town of Cordelia, which was a routine practice 99% of the time, though not always.
No, no.
You almost always do it, and then it doesn't happen the time you plan your heist.
You really can't plan for stuff like that.
So you got to settle for 99% on a heist, even when you're dealing with a pair of men.
Apparently magical spycraft, like, whatever the hell this Ocean's Eleven-esque shit is.
Now we have Brad Pitt in here somewhere.
Yeah, I was about to say, involving apparently this dude who just gets in real quick and then takes off.
That just reminds me of Ocean's Eleven.
Oh my god.
This was so smooth.
Yeah, what happens next?
Let's go.
What happens?
I'm anticipating this.
Alright, so the exact number of individuals involved in the robbery remains unclear, because yeah, literally the one dude that people see has nothing, as does the precise method they used to execute it.
The trailer lacked an external ladder, and when it arrived at its destinations, the doors were still locked, and the alarm was activated.
So yeah, someone definitely drove next to it, and someone jumped over.
And from what I'm hearing, they had to have gone in and out.
Through the roof, otherwise they would have set off the door alarm at some point.
Even if all they did was just bust out at the end of it.
This is gangster-ass shit, dude.
The guy gets on top of his car with his bag of shit that he needs, jumps over onto the roof of this trailer, gets his stuff, starts drilling away or whatever he's using.
Wow. As he gets the Payday 2 equivalent of the Asylum Assassin rating, my god.
Perfection. He deserves all of it at this point.
Alright, so this has led to the prevailing theory that the heist began in Sacramento as the truck departed from the depot.
It is suspected that the thief or thieves leaped from the depot's roof onto the trailer's top.
So, probably as it was slowly wheeling itself out.
Yeah, again.
So now we just have to add, like, David Bell in there because we need a parkour expert.
During the hour-long journey from Sacramento to the truck scale near Fairfield, they allegedly cut through the roof, descended into the trailer, packed the stolen cash into bags, and then tossed them out onto the roadside for later collection, either by themselves or by accomplices following in another vehicle.
That would have been the way to do it.
Once the truck halted at the way station, the robber or robbers seized the chance to jump off and flee.
Nick Rossi, a spokesperson for the FBI Sacramento office, remarked to the San Francisco Chronicle, I can't recall any case similar across the country.
It almost brings to mind the days of train robberies.
I mean, it brings to mind, like, every freaking spy movie and heist movie I've ever watched.
That is a very impressive one.
That's super impressive.
Yep, so to close this out, no one was ever arrested and they don't even know how many people were involved.
Literally, nobody has a clue.
And not only was no one arrested, nobody was hurt.
Yeah, nobody was harmed.
Nobody even got threatened.
Like, nobody even got pushed around in the process.
Yeah, no one was told to shut up.
Nobody was told to, you know, get on their knees and turn to the wall.
Like, nobody got tied up or parked in a random parking lot and bitched to go be picked up later.
Like, they took a drive.
They thought they were doing just fine.
They were not.
They drivers, they just gotta keep thinking about all those porno, what was it, pornographic maneuvers?
Pornographic maneuvers?
They just gotta think about pornographic maneuvering the whole trip.
You know it.
I mean, I was halfway expecting there to be, like, the mention of the remains of a friggin' grappling hook here.
Oh, yeah.
It was a grappling hook.
It was that amazing.
Oh, my God.
And a parachute.
There's a parachute on the top of the truck.
Out of hell with it.
Give him a wingsuit.
Yeah, dude, he glided on over there.
And then he flew down a mountain pass.
Oh, fuck.
That's awesome.
That's so cool.
So, yeah, that was definitely the most amazing one.
Holy crap.
Impressive job.
I commend them for that.
So there you have it.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings us to the end of this list of ten armored car heists that we vigorously hope has left your eyes fully gaped with no room to spare and went with astonishment as to the length that these people went to carry out their carefully planned robberies.
Excellent. I mean...
Yeah, you gotta respect the level of dedication here.
100%. That's excellently said, Cricket.
Excellently said.
That was a pretty good list, right?
Yep, and definitely tied it off in a boat at the end there, too.
Definitely, Cherry's on top.
Well, what now?
Well, now I'd say we're ready to wrap this up.
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You know what?
Such a true statement.
Oh, you know what?
Dude, I almost forgot.
I almost forgot.
Remember how I had that dream that I mentioned in the beginning of this episode?
Uh, yeah.
Referentially. Okay, well, um...
Yeah, okay, so...
Well, I had a second one that I almost forgot.
It's arguably just as important as the first one.
So like I said, I had a dream last night.
I was a snake, slithering through the grass, until I came upon a dead elk, and I climbed into his soul.
And it's where I stayed until morning, which meant I will underestimate someone very close to me.
Wow. Where do you get your weed from, Mr. Cheezle?
From you!
Cool! Hey, Mr. Cheezle, what's up?
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