The Norco Robbery [#79]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
May 9th 1980, Two doomsday preppers and some buddies attempted to rob the Norco branch of the Security Pacific bank in riverside county. It was supposed to be your classic, everyday heist to pay for an apocalypse fortress in Utah. But the insane shoot out that transpired during the robbery completely changed how police officers are armed and operate in the US. It's a wild story. Check it out.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever wondered why the police have access to machine guns, this is the |
| 0:06.5 | heist that made that come to be. |
| 0:13.1 | Hiast podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to another episode of Heist podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Simon. And I'm Matt. And this is episode |
| 0:23.0 | 79 of the True Crime Podcast Without the Murder Heist Podcast. How you doing, Matt? |
| 0:29.0 | I'm doing good, doing good. Good. Excited that we get a lot of new listeners. |
| 0:33.7 | Yeah, lots of new listeners, lots of new people reaching out. So thank you very much if you |
| 0:38.1 | have. And if you haven't, we'd love to hear from you. I mean, I think the one thing we should say off the top about this one is we pride ourselves on being the true crime podcast with at the murder. Bit of murder this one. Yeah, sometimes there's a murder every once in a while. There's a murder. And this one has, it has one or two. |
| 0:55.1 | It's got a few murders. |
| 0:56.1 | It gets a few, a little murdery. |
| 0:57.7 | So, yeah, hopefully you still like us. Hopefully you don't judge us for be smirching our tagline. But I think it's a great story and I'm excited to talk about it. It's a crazy story. I think it's worth telling even though there's a murder or two in there. And to go from something that happened with Mary Antoinette to this is a pretty incredible leap. So it's pretty fun. You never know what we're going to talk about in a Heist podcast. You never know. And usually they do know, though, that the first thing we're going to talk about is high sno news, Matt. See that segue? That was good. Should we get into it? |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. All right. |
| 1:32.3 | Heist in the news. |
| 1:35.4 | Okay. So, |
| 1:37.0 | this piece of heist news comes in from our listener, friend, Ray. |
| 1:41.7 | Thank you very much for sending this in. |
| 1:43.2 | It comes from CBS News. |
| 1:44.9 | Fayetteville Police baffled after heist at local Best Buy. |
| 1:48.9 | This is in Fayetteville, Arkansas. |
| 1:51.4 | Fayetteville Police are still baffled after what seems like a heist straight out of a movie |
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