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Armored

BONUS: Tales of the Take

Armored

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True Crime

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Host Jake Brennan catches up with FBI agents who worked some of the most notorious cases featured in the series. Plus, learn the inside details about an armored truck robbery that didn't make it into the season's 10 episodes.

Transcript

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Over the past ten episodes, I've told you some pretty wild stories about individuals

0:07.7

or groups of people who are helpent on getting rich quick.

0:12.3

These robbers broke so many laws and often left innocent victims as collateral damage

0:17.3

in their wake.

0:19.0

While compiling the research and information for this series, it was important to our

0:23.2

whole team that we find the right balance between understanding the details of these crimes

0:27.9

without glorifying the people responsible.

0:31.1

So for today's special bonus episode, we decided to interview a few of the FBI special

0:35.8

agents who worked some of the cases featured in this series.

0:41.3

This is Armored, the untold stories of murder, mayhem, and million dollar heists.

0:57.9

Let's keep things off by going back to the case from episode 1 that detailed the violent

1:16.2

armored truck robbery gang who plagued Houston, Texas in 2015 and 2016.

1:22.8

This story involved Red Batista and his friends who for months murdered armored truck

1:27.4

guards from a distance via a mobile sniper platform and then rushed in and stole money

1:32.1

bags in a matter of seconds.

1:33.9

FBI special agent Jeff Cofflin was one of the lead investigators on that case and remembers

1:39.5

well the fall of 2016 when things hit a fever pitch.

2:01.7

Cofflin says what stood out to him most about Red Batista and his crew was the fact that

2:06.4

they were so well organized and in his opinion, they're at mode and fit the behavioral

2:11.4

pattern of what the FBI and Houston commonly saw in armored truck robberies.

2:16.4

You know, I don't think the intent usually is to kill somebody.

2:20.0

I think the intent is surprise the person and scare them so much that the guard basically

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