In one of the largest cash heists in Los Angeles history, thieves made off with as much as $30 million in an Easter Sunday burglary at a San Fernando Valley money storage facility, an L.A. police official said.
The burglary occurred Sunday night at a facility in Sylmar where cash from businesses across the region is handled and stored, according to L.A. Police Department Cmdr. Elaine Morales.
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Sources familiar with the investigation told The Times a burglary crew broke through the roof of the Gardaworld building on Roxford Street to gain access to the vault. But it is unclear how they avoided the alarm system.
Breaking in through the roof because there roof isn't alarmed is a trope in something like half of the heist flicks made. And you have to suspect that there is somebody in the company whose going to soon relocate to a country with no extradition treaty.
$30 million is, at a minimum, three hundred bricks of $100 bills. Each brick of cash weight about a kilogram. So that's about 660 pounds of cash, assuming that's what they stole. In twenties, it would be a ton and a half of cash. Still, over a quarter-ton of cash would be a bit much to quickly haul out of the facility, which is why they likely broke a hole through the wall.
Security is an expense and its insured... They don't want
ReplyDeleteto pay for both.
Major scale operation. Now lest see if they find the
money or the perps.
Eck!
It's a visa thing?
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