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April 7, 2024, 3:09 p.m. ET
The wild $30 million money heist from a Los Angeles warehouse Easter Sunday was apparently pulled off by a top-notch group of criminals – and so clear that it may go unsolved, an skilled says.
“This is a group that would have to have a lot of prior experience,” mentioned Scott Selby, a Harvard-educated lawyer and co-author of “Flawless,” a e book concerning the well-known Antwerp Diamond Heist, to The Publish.
“It’s like if you were a gymnast, you know, by the time you’re world-quality, you’ve already done a lot of work,” Selby mentioned of the kind of thieves who appear to have focused the GardaWorld facility within the Sylmar neighborhood final week.
The polished criminals snuck into the positioning via its roof and accessed a protected with out setting off any alarms, authorities mentioned.
About $30 million was stolen from GardaWorld in LA on Easter Sunday. ABC7
They made off with $30 million in chilly laborious money — which might have weighed 660 kilos in $100 payments, Selby mentioned.
“We know they’re good because they got in and out without anybody noticing. And so far, there’s nothing obvious that leads the LAPD and FBI to know who they are,” the skilled mentioned.
“It’s very doable that this case may go unsolved, provided that degree of talent concerned with this, the truth that already there’s been no compelling leads.
“And also just the nature of what they stole,” Selby mentioned. “I mean, you can’t work backwards. If someone sees a highly unusual diamond, they remember, ‘Hey, I know that stone.’ But nobody’s gonna be like, ‘Oh, yeah, I remember that used $100 bill.’ ”
As for whether or not the heist – which is likely one of the largest in Los Angeles historical past – may have been an inside job, Selby mentioned it’s doable.
“If you define an inside job as an insider giving key information, that could very much be the case,” he defined. “The large query I’d have if I had been the LAPD or the FBI is what sort of data with the thieves have wanted to do that job.
“Thirty million — is that the usual amount that they have there? Was there something special about this Easter Sunday, or is it just a holiday weekend that they decided to hit the place? Was there a particular weakness in that part of the roof?” he mentioned.
The warehouse held not less than $30 million — in money. ABC7
The heist instantly drew comparisons to different well-known Los Angeles robberies – together with one simply two years in the past, when robbers made off with as much as $100 million in jewels and different valuables from an armored large rig that was touring again from a gem present. That mega-theft stays unsolved.
Selby mentioned it could be even simpler for the GardaWorld thieves to make their spoils disappear, including to the notion that the latest heist may baffle investigators for years to return.
“These guys, they have cash, and these are used bills that have been picked up from, you know, supermarkets, convenience stores,” he informed The Publish.” In order that they have money, and because it’s not new, we’re not speaking about sequential serial numbers. It’s simply straight-up money.”
The GardaWorld theft additionally reminded Selby of the 1972 United Financial institution theft, which came about at a strip mall in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Police haven’t recognized any suspects. ABC7
GardaWorld holds money from native companies. AP
‘It’s an analogous MO: They went in via the roof, they managed to keep away from setting off the alarms, they took off with the money,” he defined.
“And these crooks were really clever. They cleaned everything up. But they made one mistake,” Selby mentioned of the outdated financial institution heist. “No one ran the dishwasher [at their safehouse]. … Cops fingerprinted the dishes, they found a name.”
Whereas the Sylmar heist seems extremely skilled, fixing it may come right down to an analogous mistake, Selby mentioned — and be helped alongside by 2024 expertise.
“Now it’s a whole different game, we have touch DNA,” he famous. “Just the smallest slip up, and you could get DNA from one of these criminals.”
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