An employee who works at the site of one of the largest bank heists in Los Angeles history has suggested the Ocean’s Eleven-style break-in was an ‘inside job’. The FBI and LAPD are still trying to piece together how burglars breached the roof of GardaWorld in Sylmar on Easter Sunday without triggering any alarms….CONTINUE READING
The mysterious crew gained access into the massive vault where they looted and escaped with around $30million, LAPD officials said.
One GardaWorld worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the sophisticated heist looks to have been orchestrated by someone with knowledge of the facility’s intricate security system.
It is thought the gang broke in through a hatch on the roof and some how circumnavigated the security systems to access the vaults and escape without raising the alarm, before escaping through a hole on the southeastern side of the building
Local news footage showed a patched up hole on the southeastern side of the building (pictured)
Police are still looking for the gang that stole the cash
Local media reported that the thieves targeted the GardaWorld facility in Sylmar (pictured)
‘It’s just mind blowing that you would never suspect it,’ he said to ABC7. ‘$30 million in the Valley, gone. How? Why? I’m still trying to process it. Was it an inside job?
‘Was it just one person? Was it a group? You know, there’s a lot of questions.’
The FBI is leading the investigation, but officials have not released any new details as of Thursday morning.
While there did not appear to be any damage done to the roof, local aerial footage showed a patched up hole on the southeastern side of the building.
Debris lay around it, though it is unclear what this may have been used for or if it was related to Sunday’s theft.
GardaWorld officials did not discover the massive theft until they opened the vault on Monday.
Law enforcement sources told the LA Times that very few people would’ve known about the massive amounts of cash being stored in the safe that was stolen from.
The break-in is among the largest cash burglaries in Los Angeles history.
The next biggest case was the Dunbar Armored robbery in 1997, in which six men robbed a similar facility to GardaWorld.
The six men took the 2024 equivalent of $36.5million from the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street in downtown LA.
The theft comes nearly two years after as much as $100 million in jewels and other valuables were stolen from a Brink’s big rig at a Southern California truck stop.
The cargo trailer was heading for a jewelry show in Pasadena, and the driver decided to stop at a rest stop, before someone broke in and stole the cargo.
To this day, the thief, or thieves, still have not been caught.
Across the pond, the Sylmar robber has drawn comparison to the Hatton Garden heist in 2015, in which up to $23.4 million was stolen from a safe deposit facility in London’s exclusive Hatton Garden district.
The burglars drilled through the 20inch thick vault walls of the vault over the Easter Weekend, a public holiday in the UK.
The thieves then took millions of dollars worth of valuable away in wheelable bins.
How daring Easter Sunday cash burglary in LA bears striking resemblance to London’s Hatton Garden heist also carried out at Easter
Six seasoned thieves drilled through the vault of Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd., a safe deposit company based in the London’s exclusive Hatton Garden district over the Easter Weekend in 2015.
John Collins, Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins, Carl Wood, William Lincoln and Hugh Doyle drilled through the 20-inch thick vault walls with an industrial power drill, after entering through a lift shaft.
Once in, they stuffed millions of dollars worth of valuables into bags, which they then put inside wheelable bins.
The gang, who at the time were nicknamed ‘Mr Ginger, Mr Strong, Mr Montana, The Gent, The Tall Man and The Old Man’, were all eventually caught, arrested and prosecuted for their roles in the heist, which was branded ‘largest burglary in English legal history.’
(Top row left to right) John Collins, Daniel Jones, Terry Perkins, (bottom row left to right) Carl Wood, William Lincoln and Hugh Doyle were all caught and charged for their roles in the Hatton Garden heist
Six seasoned thieves drilled through the vault of Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd., a safe deposit company based in the London’s exclusive Hatton Garden district over the Easter Weekend in 2015
The thieves drilled through the 20-inch thick vault walls with an industrial power drill, after entering through a lift shaft
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