The $4.3 Million Halloran Hotel Gem heist [#173]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Are you ready for twists, turns, British royalty and learning what a "push-in" robbery is? Well check out our latest episode about Darius Guppy (like the fish, as in it's named after his family) an aristocrat connected at the highest level, this dude was BFFs with Boris Johnson and was Princess Dianna's brother's best man. Darius and his buddy, Benedict Marsh were victims of huge gem heist in the big apple....or were they? Wait...What? Find out on this wild episode of Heist. HHHEEEIIIST!
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Heist, we cover a heist in a way we've never covered it before. Try to keep up. |
| 0:07.4 | Hoist! |
| 0:11.0 | Hiest podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to Episode 173 of Heist Podcast, the True Crime Podcasts podcast without any of that gross murder. I'm Simon. |
| 0:23.1 | And I'm Matt. And Matt, how you doing, man? Doing good, man. Feeling better. I'm back to normal. |
| 0:29.5 | Yeah. I've heard last episode is a little rough. But feeling good. It's a beautiful Sunday morning. |
| 0:35.3 | And yeah, I feel we've got a real fun episode coming up. We've dried up I feel like we're different people we're both like reborn it's great it's wonderful to see uh yeah we got a really exciting episode today I'm excited to try something new um so I don't want to I don't know draw that out much. Should we just get right into Heist News? |
| 0:54.9 | Let's do it. All right. |
| 0:57.4 | Heist in the News. |
| 1:00.4 | All right, this first piece of news comes in from a great member of Heist Nation Murray, |
| 1:05.6 | and it's an ABC News article. It's a lot of twists and turn. It's a good one. It's got everything we like. |
| 1:11.7 | Everything. |
| 1:13.1 | Headline reads, English police hunting cannabis farm instead uncover Bitcoin mine. |
| 1:18.7 | Ooh. Interesting. Classic, classic investigation, new school discovery. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah. Police in Central West west England have uncovered a cryptocurrency |
| 1:30.2 | mining operation while executing drug warrants. Officers raided property in Sandwell near Birmingham |
| 1:36.4 | on suspicion that there was a cannabis farm. However, they uncovered 100 computer units running |
| 1:42.1 | as part of what West Midlands police describe as a Bitcoin mining operation. |
| 1:47.8 | So I have a suspicion. I have a suspicion because I know I know this, which is they often, if they're like, if a high, a one tell of like a hydroponic growop is that the energy's going bonkers. |
| 2:03.7 | So another thing I know about Bitcoin mining is it requires a crazy amount of energy, right? |
| 2:10.3 | That's why they're starting to get a little bit of blowback because it's so unenvironmental friendly. |
| 2:15.9 | Yeah, big time for sure. It's going to, it might look like they're running look like they're running a grow-op, but they're not. |
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