Highway robbery update

Mechanical failure? What are the odds that the guys just happened to be following that truck? Sounds like an inside job.
 
Altima said:
Mechanical failure? What are the odds that the guys just happened to be following that truck? Sounds like an inside job.
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And why did the guards get out of a bullet proof vehicle :rolleyes:
 
BoliverT. said:
What to do with the hot gold?

The Brinks Mat Bullion Heist | Crime and Investigation

http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/brinks-mat-bullion-heist

The story of the largest gold heist in British history is a cautionary tale about how tenuous the concept of 'honour amongst thieves' is, especially when the prize is
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I have no idea why they went to so much trouble to smelt it down and sell it. I would have just stacked it into a big pile and have been done with it.
 
So, an armoured truck (would assume it was armoured as the company specialises in bullion transport) pulls over to the side of a highway at 7pm, all the guards get out, then a white van just happens to pull over with 3 robbers who have guns and zip ties at the ready, marches the guards into the handy nearby woods and unloads $4.8M worth of gold bars out of the truck and into their van... doesn't sound suspicious at all. How many tons of gold is $4.8M? How long would that take? No one driving by notices lots and lots and lots of gold bars being unloaded into a van at the side of the road? Would that much gold even fit in a regular van?

Smells like BS, an insider job, if not one of the guards then an ex-employee or such.
 
Golden said:
spannermonkey said:
Altima said:
Mechanical failure? What are the odds that the guys just happened to be following that truck? Sounds like an inside job.
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And why did the guards get out of a bullet proof vehicle :rolleyes:
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Three armed suspects had allegedly robbed a tractor-trailer...
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Who said it was bullet proof?
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OH well now the story says it was an everyday semi-trailer :rolleyes:
 
Actual details seem a bit scarce. One news report says that only 275 pounds of gold was taken from the truck/trailer (4400oz).

Why was 4.8M gold being transport in a non-bullet proof/armoured truck/trailer?

If it was only 4400oz taken, would make the van robbery theory a bit more realistic. Still, a lot of gold to move from the truck to the van on a highway at 7pm at night without anyone noticing?
 
AndyRoo68 said:
How many tons of gold is $4.8M? How long would that take? No one driving by notices lots and lots and lots of gold bars being unloaded into a van at the side of the road? Would that much gold even fit in a regular van?
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4400oz is only 11 x 400oz good delivery bars like this.


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It wouldn't take long at all to move, maybe a few minutes for 3 guys and any sort of commercial van would have no trouble carrying a load of around 137kg.

It still sounds very set up and organized, I hope the robbers are good at casting :lol:
 
One of the gold bars stolen in a highway heist last month has been found in South Florida, according to the FBI

The recovered gold bar weighs approximately 26 pounds and is valued between $470,000 and $500,000, according to the FBI.

Citing an active investigation, the FBI would not release any details about when and how the recovered gold bar was found. It is offering a $25,000 reward for any information about the gold bars that are still missing.
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ABC
 
A 26-pound gold bar stolen in a still-unsolved North Carolina truck heist wound its way into the hands of a Miami pawn shop owner, and the man who tried to sell it there was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison.

Miguel Bover, 49, was not involved in the March 1 robbery of 275 pounds of gold bars worth $4.8 million from a truck along Interstate 95 in North Carolina. But Bover admitted that he was approached weeks later by people he knew to sell one of the six gold bars they had, and he decided to enlist the Miami-area pawnbroker identified in court documents only by the initials G.M.

Bover pleaded guilty in July to an attempted extortion charge after his cellphone was used to make threats when the gold sale fell through. Bover did not make the threats himself but knows who did and fears for his family's safety, he said in court.

Before Bover's April arrest, the pawnbroker failed to sell the gold bar to the metals refinery when employees there became suspicious. The FBI was summoned, and as agents arrived the pawnbroker returned with a piece of the gold bar that had been sawed off the main portion. The FBI confiscated all the gold, which bore distinctive Republic Metals identifying markings, and the shop owner agreed to cooperate.
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WRAL
 
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