Man Steals $1Million from Brinks Truck with a NOTE!

[Magg]

Anyone heard about this?

It happened in LA yesterday or the day before, and they still havent caught him.

[kenny]

HELLO?

I merely borrowed it!

[Magg]

Damn, took a while to find it but:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...nes-california


In a new twist on a classic crime, a thief took bags of cash totaling more than $1 million from a Brinks armored car driver in Los Angeles ? and the weapon was an extortion letter, police said.

Armored car robberies are not unusual, said FBI Special Agent John McEachern, "but I have not seen a case like this in my 30 years" in law enforcement.

The driver told officers that a man handed him a letter at 6th Avenue and Pico Boulevard about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, and it ordered him to bring the armored car with at least $1 million to 29th and San Pedro streets, police sources said. The letter threatened harm to the driver's family members, and identified them by first and last names, the sources said.

Police released few details about the crime, and it wasn't clear how the thief approached the driver or whether the driver had to reload the truck with money. Brinks Inc. officials would not comment..

The driver told police that he and his partner in the truck went to the drop site as directed and turned the cash over to the driver of a four-door black Dodge pickup truck with tinted windows. He then called police.

Robbery-homicide detectives questioned the driver for hours Sunday night at the Los Angeles Police Department's Parker Center headquarters. The second guard in the armored car corroborated the driver's story, police sources said.

Police and the FBI are continuing to investigate. "Extortion happens all the time ? but using extortion to rob an armored car? I haven't heard of it before," said Lt. Carlos Velez, who is investigating the case.

Armored car robberies often involve shootouts, since the guards carry guns. "Whoever approaches the car, they know those individuals are armed. They know some act of violence will occur," said McEachern, the FBI special agent also investigating the case.

Such crimes date back more than half a century.

"It goes back to Boston's Brinks case," McEachern said.

In 1950, seven men in Halloween masks walked into a Brinks office in Boston and stole more than $1 million in cash and $1.5 million in bank notes. It was the biggest robbery in history at the time and took the FBI years to solve.

Since then, similar crimes have caught the fancy of Hollywood producers and the imagination of criminals.

In 1981, members of the Weather Underground, a radical anti-war group, took $1.6 million from a Brinks truck in New York in a crime that left one guard and two police officers dead.

In 2001, a Brinks guard was killed and another guard was wounded in a shootout with masked robbers inside a crowded San Fernando Valley supermarket.

In 1995 alone, 10 armored car guards were shot in Southern California, McEachern said.

"When you have Hollywood and movies like 'Heat' [a 1995 film about a Los Angeles heist], it doesn't help," McEachern said.

Last March, a guard for Armored Transport Inc. was killed by a robber firing a high-powered assault weapon behind a South Los Angeles bank.

The number of local armored car robberies has decreased in recent years, from 22 in 1993 to four last year, FBI officials said. The decline is attributed in part to improved security in the armored car industry, they said.

In the past, some of the largest takes have turned out to be inside jobs, officials said.

"The first thing you think when you get a case like this is: Is it a legit robbery or is it an inside job?" McEachern said.

In 1997, six men escaped with a record $18.9 million from the Dunbar Armored Co. depot in downtown Los Angeles. At the time it was the largest cash armed robbery in history. The mastermind of the heist, Allen Pace III, was a disgruntled former employee of Dunbar.

The LAPD is asking the public to report any information about the latest robbery to detectives at (213) 485-0780.

[SmokeyTheBear]

There was one a few years back. An inside job. One of the armored car employees was conned into stealing all the cash by his girlfriend.. The girlfriend had 2 boyfriends , and her other boyfriend had made her go out with this guy and con him into stealing all the cash.

So anyways the guy takes all the cash , and he is supposed to meet up with his girlfriend after , but instead the other boyfriend arrives and takes all the cash , the girlfriend convinces the guy to go hide out in mexico until the heat is off. But week after week the guy is in mexico with no money , meanwhile his girlfriend and her real boyfriend are spending all the cash. poor guy.. so finally they figure instead of paying the guy they will just send some hitmen down to kill him. Thankfully for buddy the cops were starting to track down the bad guys , and manage to intercept the hitmen about to kill the armored truck driver.

So anyways after it is all over , the guy is on america's most wanted or some show , and they asked the guy , if you could do it all over again would you have still stolen all the money.. And he said "YUP"

The moral of this story is .... " never trust a bitch "

[Odie]

we had a brinks case here a couple years ago when soem guys dressed up as cops and took over the truck. One of the guys got pinched and ratted everyone else out. There is still $$ unaccounted for...

[C_U_Next_Tuesday]

I think I seen the classic bank robbery a few years back.. it was all done with a phonecall to the bank saying there was a bomb and to put the money in a trash can across the street....no bomb.. money got delivered..some fucker is wealthy...now that is what I call dialing for dollars.

[jhauser]

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear
There was one a few years back. An inside job. One of the armored car employees was conned into stealing all the cash by his girlfriend.. The girlfriend had 2 boyfriends , and her other boyfriend had made her go out with this guy and con him into stealing all the cash.

So anyways the guy takes all the cash , and he is supposed to meet up with his girlfriend after , but instead the other boyfriend arrives and takes all the cash , the girlfriend convinces the guy to go hide out in mexico until the heat is off. But week after week the guy is in mexico with no money , meanwhile his girlfriend and her real boyfriend are spending all the cash. poor guy.. so finally they figure instead of paying the guy they will just send some hitmen down to kill him. Thankfully for buddy the cops were starting to track down the bad guys , and manage to intercept the hitmen about to kill the armored truck driver.

So anyways after it is all over , the guy is on america's most wanted or some show , and they asked the guy , if you could do it all over again would you have still stolen all the money.. And he said "YUP"

The moral of this story is .... " never trust a bitch "

SmokeyThe Bear thats hysterical the guy admits he would do it again

[Muff]

Originally posted by Magg
"When you have Hollywood and movies like 'Heat' [a 1995 film about a Los Angeles heist], it doesn't help," McEachern said.

Blame it on hollywood lol. At least they quoted one of the best movies.

[QuaWee]

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

The moral of this story is .... " never trust a bitch "

[brizzad]

magg.. your sig is awesome.. at first i was like.. why the fuck would someone put a picture like that in their sig, and then i saw "we drift around the competition"

[Manowar]

awesome way to do a crime

[Magg]

Originally posted by brizzad
magg.. your sig is awesome.. at first i was like.. why the fuck would someone put a picture like that in their sig, and then i saw "we drift around the competition"

[Doctor Dre]

That's fucking pimp ... but the guy could have been easily caught

[stevecore]

for years i've thought that staking out the bank is worthless, stakeout the bank employees home & family, find the most susceptible teller then take pictures of them and family. Then it's as simple as walking up to the teller handing them the photos with a note demanding cash. I think you would have a 100% success rate if you chose the right employee to demand the cash from... but honestly i don't think theres one person who would risk their families life for federally insured cash.

[Gynecologist]

I bet that guy will be out of a job.

Also, I think the only way to get away with a crime like that is to shoot your fellow robbers in the head because if you let them live then one of them is bound to brag about it as soon as he gets drunk on some Mexican beach.