It was a movie theft. The few details that the Los Angeles police have provided so far seem to have been taken from a Hollywood script. The hit took place on Easter Sunday night at a money warehouse in an industrial area of Sylmar, a community 37 kilometers north of Los Angeles. The thieves entered through the roof and somehow avoided the company's sophisticated alarm system. The loot has so far been one of the highest in the city. They took $30 million from the vault.
The FBI, the American Investigation Agency, is collaborating with the Los Angeles Police Department. The case has become a headache for the authorities. The robbery was so well executed that those in charge of the money warehouse did not realize that the money was removed until Monday morning. The company, Canadian GardaWorld, has not made any public statement since then.
Police detectives and FBI agents have been investigating since Monday who could have carried out such a robbery. Sources in the investigation have informed the Los Angeles Times that they believe this is a group with experience in this type of robbery, as it appears to be a very elaborate plan that required the perpetrators to have experience entering heavily guarded facilities while going unnoticed.
The robbery has naturally become a big story for the local press. An ABC helicopter flew over the warehouse facilities, where several armored trucks arrive and leave heading to businesses after counting the cash. The images captured by the ship revealed a gap in one of the walls of the warehouse, which was already boarded up. The authorities have not specified if this hole was used to exit.
The 30 million that make up the loot is only an approximate figure given by the authorities. The FBI reported Wednesday that its agents are analyzing the company's information to find out the exact amount that was stolen. It has caught the attention of investigators that the thieves knew that there was such an amount of cash in that GardaWorld warehouse, which has 26 other similar warehouses in California in which they keep liquid money.
Yes it is a fact that this is one of the biggest cash robberies in Los Angeles. In 2022, the driver of a trailer transporting jewelry fell asleep. It took 27 minutes for a group of thieves to take advantage of the situation and extract the valuable cargo, which was valued at almost 100 million dollars. No one from that robbery has been arrested.
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You have to go back to 1997 to find a cash theft of such an amount. This occurred in September of that year in a less refined way. Five thieves, one of them a former employee of an escrow company, broke into a warehouse and made off with $18 million in $20 bills. They filled a moving truck until the money was up to their waists. One of the gang members was arrested, The thieves were arrested after one of the gang members was arrested and ratted out the others. Still, it took almost three years to capture them.
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