80's Hollywood Tunnel Heist [#135]

Heist Podcast

Matt And Sie

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In 1986 a mysterious heist crew tunneled into the First Interstate Bank in Hollywood, California. They got away with millions of dollars and sped down the Los Angeles underground flood tunnels on ATVs. This is a heist we've been trying to cover for a year now, it's possibly one of the coolest heist stories we've ever come across. A full Hollywood level heist, and not just because it happened in Hollywood, the story is full on nuts and is chalk full of sweet heist lessons about alarm systems and vault technology. CHECK IT OUT!

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0:00.0	They say crime doesn't pay, but maybe it does if you get away with it.
0:05.9	Heist.
0:13.0	Hello, everybody.
0:15.3	Welcome to another episode of Heist podcast.
0:18.2	I'm Simon.
0:19.2	And I'm Matt.
0:20.1	And this is episode 135 of the true crime
0:24.9	podcast without any of the murder. Matt, how you doing today, buddy? I'm doing good. Feeling great.
0:30.7	I'm super stoked on the heist we have for this episode because it's a real banger. I think a lot of
0:36.4	Heist Nation is going to like it. This is gold, dude. This is what we live and breathe for. You know what I mean? Yeah, we've had some sniffs of this heist for a long time and heard whispers of it. This is finally the time where we actually were able to lock down, get some Primo information on it. It's awesome. It's movie-level heist.
0:55.4	Oh, dude, totally, totally. I mean, we got to get through some heist news. So maybe we should get through some, not to belittle it, because this is pretty crazy heist news. Do it. Heist in the news. All right, here we go. So the headline here is thieves make off with 9 million euros in armed cash heist in Lyon.
1:15.9	Thieves made off with 9 million euros in cash in the southeastern French city of Leone on Friday in an armed attack on an armored security vehicle, prosecutor said.
1:24.6	The theft is believed to be the biggest such cash heist in France since notorious robber
1:29.0	Tony Musulin. Have we covered him? No, I'm intrigued. We've got to have to read about that. In 2009,
1:35.4	made off with 11.6 euros, most of which was subsequently recovered. The vehicle was attacked at around
1:42.0	9 a.m. local time by several armed individuals as it came out of a branch of the Bank of France in Lyon.
1:48.0	No one was injured in the attack on the vehicle belonging to the Luma security company, but the losses amount to 9 million euros.
1:56.5	The perpetrators managed to immediately flee after committing the act.
2:00.0	And this is where things get pretty crazy because this harkens back to one of our favorite heist movies.
2:04.8	Yeah.
2:05.2	Local reports said two vans blocked the armored vehicle, one in front and one behind.
2:10.6	The robbers threatened the driver, took the money, and fled in two vehicles later found burnt.
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