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Armored

Inside Men

Armored

audiochuck

True Crime

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In September 1997 one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history went down in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with $18.9 million in cash and evaded capture for years. Their eventual demise? A rookie mistake.

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0:00.0

When criminals pull off risky armored truck heists that net them millions of dollars in

0:08.0

a single take, that's the easy part.

0:11.0

At least according to FBI agents we've consulted for this show, it's a shocking notion because

0:16.3

most of us probably imagine the hard part is planning the robbery.

0:21.0

Coordinating when and how to hold up an armored truck that's usually driving smack dab

0:24.9

in the middle of busy streets.

0:28.0

The most difficult part of these kinds of robberies is living with the cash immediately

0:32.0

after the fact.

0:34.0

FBI experts say when you steal millions of dollars you can't spend it all at once or

0:38.3

just go put it in your bank account without raising red flags.

0:42.3

More often than not, the money becomes a burden if it's all in one place.

0:46.7

So most perpetrators hide it in various places.

0:50.4

But stashing it here and there presents another problem.

0:53.2

You have to go back and forth to retrieve the cash without anyone around you noticing

0:57.1

because if you're caught with it, it's goodbye to your sweet life of flying under authorities

1:02.0

radar.

1:03.0

The FBI says figuring out what to do with millions of dollars you're not used to having

1:07.0

is a lot harder than people imagine.

1:09.6

Where to put the money and what to do with it becomes exponentially more challenging when

1:13.7

a crew of people are involved in a robbery.

1:16.3

In each of them takes a different approach to how they spend or hide their cut.

1:21.2

This is armored, the untold stories of murder, man, and million dollar heists.

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