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Hollywood found the source material for its next heist film and it is from an incident that took place right in its own backyard.
Burglars in Los Angeles stole an estimated $30 million in cash on Easter Sunday by breaking into a money storage facility where cash from businesses is stored.
There are a lot of looming questions like ‘how on earth could this happen?’ and ‘who is behind the heist?’ The manner in which the burglars stole the $30 million is also baffling, they came in through the roof of the building and somehow avoided the alarm system while being able to break into the vault.
$30 Million Makes It One Of Largest Burglaries In LA History
A report in the LA Times says this incident is being “described as elaborate and suggested an experienced crew of burglars who knew how to gain entry to a secure facility unnoticed.” That’s because there are supposedly only a handful of people who would have known that there was $30 million in the facility on that day.
Another wild aspect of this burglary is the vault showed no external signs of a break-in. That doesn’t necessarily mean that someone had the code, however, as the inner-workings of the vault remain unknown at this time. But due to there being no external signs of the vault being broken into, the $30 million robbery wasn’t even discovered and reported until Monday because nothing looked out of the ordinary.
This all stinks of Danny Ocean and his crew. Or the Night Fox. There are only so many burglars on earth who could pull this off and Oceans 11-13 fit the bill.
And for those wondering how someone can disappear with $30 million in cash, this video shows how large various piles of cash are. All things considered, it’s not that much to hide.
That same LA Times report mentioned above says that prior to this, the largest cash heist ever in Los Angeles was $18.9 million in cash stolen from a facility in 1997. Those burglars were caught.