Then, he proceeded to load 2,800 pounds of cash into a van. . You can have your whole career and not have a case like that. Kelly drove David to the airport. In the meantime, the FBI was closing in looking to bust a total of 21 suspected accomplices. In all, agents arrested 24 people in the heist. . CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) During one overnight shift, a bumbling conspiracy of thieves just west of Charlotte stole more than $17 million from Loomis Fargo. 1997 Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle for sale at auction of items bought after Loomis, Fargo armored car facility heist by Steven Chambers, wife Michele, Kelly Jane Campbell & David Scott Ghanntt (Photo by Will And Deni McIntyre/Getty Images) The best states in the U.S. come from coast to coast. Heres your money. Then he turns around and leaves., The problem was, it was nowhere near the amount Ghantt had expected: Im looking at it, and theres maybe $8,000. I mean, cause greed is a funny animal. 2023 Cox Media Group. And so, he told her, Google my name. There was a third person with them, too, a man named Eric Grant. The barrels were Steves idea, Ghantt says. They sweated, though the night was cool. Steve bought a truck, a Rolex and a motorboat. Two days after theyd robbed the Loomis Fargo truck the very same day the police found the abandoned van in the woods Steve and Michelle Chambers walked into a bank and deposited their cut of the stolen money into their account. He says the Loomis case shows how the criminal justice system and the courts treat lower-income people differently. Thatd be the time to do it, Ghantt recalls. Next month, Payne will back in the Charlotte federal courthouse, this time to be sentenced from weapons and methamphetamine trafficking charges. A woman by the name of Kelly Campbell had worked there in 1996, and she and Ghantt had become friends in that time. Its said the current owner now has it in storage in Phoenix, Arizona. Exciting. About 200 keys dangled from it. The participants in the heist also spent lavishly on fancy jewelry, fancy cars and breast enhancement surgeries. ALSO READ: 14-year-old boy robbed at gunpoint while waiting for bus in east Charlotte, mom says. The phone rang: Kelly had a problem. So I was glad it was over. David, now 30, says he's sorry he abandoned his wife--who he says still loves him--and his family. kellis@gastongazette.com 0:04 1:38 On Oct. 4, 1997, former Kings Mountain resident David Scott Ghantt finished his shift as a vault supervisor for Loomis Fargo in Charlotte. To say nothing of their art purchases like the aforementioned velvet Elvis portrait and a painting of a bulldog dressed as General George S. Patton. He had a favorite restaurant, Zandunga, which had a mariachi band each night and a view of the Caribbean. The next day, he was sitting next to FBI agent Mark Rozzi on a US Airways flight to Charlotte. He would pay McKinney $250,000, half upfront. 1-4-3 is 'I love you.' Even still, he was 27, married and struggling to provide for his family. Of course the problem was, the money belonged to someone else. Meanwhile, outside Reynolds & Reynolds, Steve, Scott and Eric needed to move 2,748 pounds of cash, quickly, from the Loomis van into the Budget van. They agreed that after the heist, David would immediately move to Mexico, alone, but Kelly would soon join him there, with her two children. Username. Here's what Floyd recalls: After two games of pool, Steve told him, "You know, we do a lot of gambling. They tried to break the van's bulletproof windows. Three weeks later, the couple purchased, in cash, a $635,000 stone mansion. Hes going to start bringing you money. Alright. Now worried about both the FBI and McKinney, he spent even more time alone in his room. I was burned out and just didn't know it. About 10 frantic minutes later, Scott found the right key. Ghantt started at Loomis Fargo in 1994, and soon worked his way up from an armored car driver to a vault supervisor. ". And that's OK with Ghantt, who's just a few weeks shy of his 47th birthday, out of federal prison for more than a decade, married with a 9-year-old daughter . Loomis has received $978,983.79, according to Sally Butcher, an assistant clerk in the federal courts of the Western District of North Carolina who specializes in criminal debt. They stocked a wine cellar. The Columbia airport had no available flights. I didn't think I had the guts. Its hilarious. "It probably should bother me," he said. Michele received the best gift of the night. Part 2: Channel 9 speaks with the man at the center of Loomis Fargo heist 25 years ago. Campbell, a mother of two, was in the process of divorcing her. They assumed that whoever was involved would keep the cash in a safe place, like a safe deposit box. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks]. As he and Kelly met in a field behind a shooting range to refine the plan, she allowed him to believe she was falling for him. Hes well thought-out. So the original gang was all totally shocked, Wydra said. She will never get beyond the debt. As soon as you put that first bag of stolen money in that van, theres no going back. They planned to kill a man named David Ghantt, the guy who had made their extravagant new lifestyle a reality. Informacin sobre tu dispositivo y conexin a Internet, como tu direccin IP, Actividad de navegacin y bsqueda al utilizar sitios web y aplicaciones de Yahoo. "But, I hate to admit it, it doesn't faze me one bit. Things started to go south the night of the robbery. Hes a family man with a wife and daughter. White-collar criminals are pretty good at hiding their money, she said. 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened 1997. I've got a good woman.". But if you did, youll never forget it. He didn't want to abandon his parents. "I was thinking, 'They aren't paying me enough,' " McKinney recalled. Each week, Michele deposited thousands of dollars in cash. . He learned to parachute. However, the fact that a man who formerly lived in a mobile home was lavishly spending money on a luxury home ($635,000 in cash), expensive cars, and a ring ($42,000 in cash) eventually made it easy to connect the dots. The case resurfaced in the federal courts on Thursday, Sept. 1, when the U.S. Attorneys Office in Charlotte posted a public reminder in the case file of Loomis defendant Kelly Campbell that she had fallen behind in her restitution. Scott was so nervous, he said, that he couldn't help. Besides her prison sentence, Campbell must undergo mental health and drug treatment and spend two years in a supervised release program. Ghantt studied how to rob his employer . Chambers promised to wire him money in Mexico until the investigation blew over and Ghantt could return to North Carolina. ". In February 1998, the FBI tapped their phones and listened to Steve discuss depositing $2.5 million in the Cayman Islands. Ultimately, though, the heist wasnt Ghantts idea, which meant he didnt decide who else was involved. . In early December, Steve and Michele invited relatives to their daughter's sixth birthday party. We need to set up some way for me to get my money. She said, We got it all worked out. To that end, Campbell brought in her childhood friend Steve Chambers, who was characterized in the local press as a small-time drug dealer and a local fence for stolen goods, to lead the team. However, the FBI knew immediately who robbed the vault (Ghant was seen on video camera), and it didnt take long for the FBI to loop in Kelly Campbell. Tickle Me Kaczynski: How the Inventor of the Ultimate Elmo Toy Became a Unabomber Suspect, The Unexpectedly Sweet Story Behind Those Viral Semi-Truck Pregnancy Photos, I Wore Magnetic Underwear for a Week to See If It Would Give Me a Boner of Steel. When he was done, the man drove off to a nearby printing press, where the money was distributed into private vehicles amongst a handful of people. We got this guy named Bruno. His collection case closes in two years. Hed be in contact. She just called me up on the phone and said, Hey, lets meet one day after work. And then, we were talking and she says, How do you feel about robbing Loomis Fargo? Ghantt tells me. A few of the Loomis restitution cases have already been closed either because the amount was paid in full or because the 20-year clock wound down. They placed a bust of Caesar in the dining room. Its really just a matter of timing, more than anything. And she says, How much do you think wed get out of there? I said, Ten to 15 million. But I didnt really know.. Dustin is the founder and co-owner of Pajiba. Mexican police, Interpol officers and an FBI agent were watching him. "He was speechless," said Sandra Floyd. Or is the loot buried in somebody's yard? Called Masterminds, the 2016 film stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson. He pocketed the money and told Chambers and Campbell to send him his cut in Mexico. Theres less security. On his way out, he grabbed the surveillance video, hoping to cover his tracks. My knee-jerk reaction was to be angry, and then the sarcastic ass side of me started laughing about it, Ghantt said. Hidden in it was a 3 1/2-carat diamond ring that cost $43,000. Money. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers, carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. Im on the phone with Kelly [Campbell], and Im like, Hey, I really was expecting a package to arrive. There was, however, one problem with his plan. He grabbed the tapes from two VCRs that connected to 16 security cameras. With a cast like this, and Emily Spivey (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Up All Night) as part of the writing team, Masterminds shouldnt be nearly as obnoxious and dull as it is, but nothing ever clicks. Husband and wife Steven and Michelle Chambers, whose conspicuous consumption of a luxury home, a BMW convertible, breast implants and a $600 wooden Indian, among other purchases, helped the FBI solve the crime, were assessed $3.81 million and $4.8 million, respectively. It premiered in Los Angeles on September 26, 2016 and was theatrically released in the . A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. It took me going to prison to realize I was a bag of worms, and it took me years of work to be somebody worthy to come back into our society, he said. Warning! There are multiples of thousands of these things coming every year. How many people have walked the red carpet at a movie premiere in a case that was yours?. In early September 1997, Kelly found herself chatting on the phone with a friend who still worked at Loomis, a 27-year-old man who, despite being married, had made no secret of the fact that he had a crush on her. ALSO READ: Leader of $3M check theft, bank fraud scheme in Charlotte area sentenced to prison, The hillbilly outfit did more that just drop a few breadcrumbs. Nosotros, Yahoo, somos parte de la familia de marcas de Yahoo. "I wanted to be more like my mom and dad were.". Ghantt was missing and no one, not even his wife, knew where he was. He goes, My name is Bruno. Her only brush with the law had been a DUI arrest. Campbell used to work for Loomis and continued the friendship with Ghantt,. They didn't know it, but they were leaving $3.3 million behind. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. This is where it starts to unravel, Ghantt tells me with a wry laugh. And it turned Steve into he thought he was Don Corleone all of a sudden.. This was in the 1990s the Columbia Airport back then was closed at around 9:30, 10 oclock. Truth be told, Ghantt had something of a crush on Campbell, and so, he told her exactly how hed pull off such a heist. Learn about careers at Cox Media Group. There used to be a consulate in Cancun. All of the defendants are out of prison -- the longest sentence was 11 years. He realized that if they met the minimum monthly payments, the bill would take 30 years to pay. Steve told me to tell [David] whatever was necessary to keep him happy.". In Campbells case, Gronquist says his client was buried in court-ordered debt despite the fact that she took responsibility for what she had done and cooperated with prosecutors and the FBI. . In mid-November, McKinney carried $10,000 to Cancun but wound up spending most of it on himself. Theres barely a laugh in the entire film, which looks like it was shot entirely in one take while the actors were still working out their characters. Find 145 people named Kelly Loomis along with free Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok profiles on PeekYou - true people search. Then another. Michele tells me you're in a financial bind. Ghantt was caught on videotape loading large amounts of cash into a truck. You might as well take it all, Ghantt tells me. And I was thinking about just showing up there. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery. This machine is the property of Loomis. She asked about the limit for a cash deposit before "paperwork" was required. This meant a bump in pay, up to $8.15 an hour. The authorities didn't know yet how much was missing from the armored-car company, but Steve did. Campbell used to work for Loomis and continued the friendship with Ghantt, eventually hooking him up with Chambers. Kelly drove her pickup to a lot across the street from the Loomis building, on Suttle Avenue in Charlotte. I said, Listen, You all need to get your shit together, or Im just going to walk over here to the government building and tell them who the fuck I am. That lit a little fire under her ass, for a bit.. Campbell helped plot the robbery of Loomis Charlotte vault on Oct. 4, 1997, with David Ghantt, a Loomis supervisor who stole the money, and Steve Chambers, a longtime Campbell friend. Or that it was an inheritance. Kelly Campbell, 29, a former company employee, entered guilty pleas earlier to bank larceny, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Then, on a mid-September day, as he reviewed a credit card bill, David did some math. The towns booming construction industry attracts workers from around the country. You're an idiot.'". People dont seem to understand human nature. Hes very articulate. . At first, I just blended in with the tourists and picked up a few translation books, Ghantt explains. And to me, if it pisses them off, Im all for it.. By March, Steve Chambers decided he needed to do something more drastic about Ghantt, making plans to send a hitman to Mexico to silence him for good. In addition to their extravagant spending, Michelle Chambers made the mistake of loudly asking a bank teller how much cash she could deposit in her account without it being reported to the feds, and then said, its not drug money.. In the two days after the robbery, agents interviewed more than 100 people, most connected with David. But it didnt really hit me until later., On March 2nd, when the FBI agents walked up to Ghantt in Playa del Carmen and told him he was under arrest, Ghantt was relieved. ALSO READ: Suspect from south Charlotte bank robbery found, CMPD says. Youre supposed to get less time for cooperating, a lesser penalty, and instead, you see what she got hit with. Gronquist said. Steve and Michele invited everyone back for a Christmas party, where they gave Michele's stepfather a special gift--the pickup truck he'd always wanted. They decorated their 6,000-square-foot stucco house with antiques, paintings and statues, including a six-foot wooden Indian that Michele had bought for $600. The bigger the amount, however, the bigger the damages to victims that likely will never be repaid: Amy Paynes collection account was closed in 2020 with her having paid $53,000 of the $274,000 she owed. The Chambers home is now gated, which means Channel 9 crews cant drive up to it like we used to. Galifianakis seems to be playing a character out of Dumb and Dumber 3: The Dumbening; Kristen Wiig plays what could only be described as her worst SNL character; Owen Wilson plays an Owen Wilson character; and Sudeikis plays a bumbling hitman who cant pull the trigger after he finds out his target shares the same name and birthdate, which is the dumbest twist since the Martha revelation in Batman vs. Superman. By now, you probably know the names -- David Ghantt, Steve Chambers and his wife Michelle, and Kelly Campbell. Kelly Campbell, 29, a former company employee, entered guilty pleas earlier to bank larceny, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Baltimore leaders have agreed to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who was killed during a 2010 police chase involving Gun Trace Task Force officers, Four family members from Australia who were injured during a crash-landing of a sightseeing helicopter in December are suing a Las Vegas-based tour operator, Massachusetts Gov. Ghantt would go on to spend six and a half years in federal prison. It didnt take the local police long to put the pieces together. and "I love money!" So its one thing to go from up here, thought, to action, he said. Eric watched. With the help of Aldo, a Mexican waiter he had befriended, David found a beach apartment in Cancun. They hatched the idea half-jokingly, over a game of Uno, never dreaming they were about to make Bonnie and Clyde look like bottom feeders. I did every touristy thing you could possibly do while I was down there. How did they get away with stealing more than $17 million? . The FBI now knew Chambers had Loomis cash. Then FBI agent Wydra watched Steve's wife, Michele, deposit about $8,000 at a Gaston County, N.C., bank. Its 90-minutes of mugging for the camera, but the only people who feel mugged are those that pay to see Masterminds. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded. So yeah, Im kind of proud of it.. You see, there's a reason Loomis Fargo used armored cars to move large amounts of cash. Reach our Customer Contact Center by calling 877.877.0560 from 6:30 AM to 11:30 PM CT every day or by completing the provided form. Now that Kelly believes she has found Jesus, she has become more analytical about her past. David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis), an employee of Loomis Fargo, robbed his own vault, left the $17.3 million in cash with his co-conspirators, Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig) and Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) and fled the country to Mexico. Besides her prison sentence, Campbell must undergo mental health and drug treatment and spend two years in a supervised release program. I think I always knew that, but lost my way for a while.". Kelly said she had reason to believe Steve might be able to pull off a heist. The principals here are David Ghantt, a driver for Loomis, Fargo and Co.; Kelly Campbell, the woman Ghantt had a crush on, and who convinced him to commit the crime; and Steve and Michele Chambers. When he walked onto the plane, he was wearing big, tall cowboy boots, where hed stuffed a majority of the smuggled cash. David trusted her. By the time the month concluded, the couple had purchased a 7,000-square-foot stone mansion in a gated country club community. Loomis officials--forced to break into their own vault because David had taken the keys with him--calculated that he had stolen $17,044,000, making the second biggest heist in U.S. history, following the $18.8 million theft of an armored car by another Loomis Fargo employee just six months earlier. I hear her typing. Steve Chambers has told agents the missing cash was stolen from a shed in Lincoln County. The mystery 1-4-3 caller had been Kelly, though agents didn't know it yet. Theyre meant to be trailer-park trash, but they come off as character experiments on a bad night at the Groundlings. His wife, Tammy, was as shocked as Loomis officials. Scott Grant and Steve pulled up next to her in a Mazda. According to Butcher, Campbells last official payment came in June 2021 when the government appears to have seized a tax refund of $81.24. He was also a former FBI informant who had tipped the bureau off to a planned robbery of a Loomis Fargo armored truck that never came to fruition. . Like David, Kelly was frustrated with her marriage. Copyright 2022 TheAssociated Press. Well she was a pretty happy-go-lucky person, he said. She never really worried about the moral end of it--she was focused only on getting what she wanted out of life, what so many others seemed to have in this booming part of the South. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. This month marked 25 years since one of the biggest armored car heists in U.S. history. We spoke with the inside man, David Ghantt, to get the real story. He loves his motorcycle and enjoys going fishing and, while hes sorry for the past, hes not ashamed to talk about it. He allegedly hired a hitman to take Ghantt out, tying up the ultimate loose end. At 6-1 and 220 pounds, Steve was stocky and imposing, a fast talker with a brown goatee. He couldn't even bear to stick around for the final tally--though when he left he didn't forget to take $6,000, the first cut of his expected $100,000 share. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers, carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. The plan was to split the money three ways: Chambers, Campbell and Ghantt would each walk away with what Ghantt estimated to be $5 million a piece the kind of money that changes lives forever. It had been drilled into my head that if you give me a team of five good people, I can go anywhere, do anything," David explained. Well they were in some sense celebrities, Gronquist said. She was like, Well, at least you had guts, he says. That week, the FBI designated the theft its 142nd "major case," putting it on a list--begun in the 1970s--that includes such other infamous crimes as the World Trade Center bombing. Except the person he offered $150,000 to mule $2.5 million down to Ghantt in Mexico turned him down and instead went to the FBI. I really enjoyed the little scuba diving trip. Ghantt, who by then was long out of prison, served as a consultant. Kelly Campbell is scheduled to be sentenced in October. The next day Chambers, Campbell and few other conspirators were arrested as well. Chambers and Campbell were waiting for him in the Loomis Fargo parking lot, both in separate vehicles. Working together, they got the gate open, then drove in a caravan to the Reynolds & Reynolds parking lot. So he got in a cab and went to a mall. The number of people involved had ballooned after Steve started asking friends and family to help him launder the stolen cash. Will Vin Sant Leave You Jacked or Scammed. Twenty-one people were charged and convicted in the robbery, one of the biggest heists in U.S. history. Given the presence of the surveillance tapes and a gun belonging to Ghantt, they started with Ghantts phone and pager records and discovered a pattern they attributed to an accomplice. He flip-flopped on the heist idea three or four times. Only a nickel on every dollar have been collected so far. "We kept going, '1-4-3, 1-4-3,' " recalled Vic O'Korn, assistant special agent in charge of Charlotte's FBI office. It wasnt a big hit, but Ghantt, who was played by Galifianakis, gives it a rave review. "I felt that if I didn't do something, I was going to snap," David said. Her sentence was delayed until Jan. 1 so she could spend the holidays with her family. What made her do it? And after two years, you're just a file." "As soon as you start, you realize there's no going back," David recalled. But as soon as he drove off, I went right back in and opened the vault. The FBI's final challenge is finding the remaining $2 million. Then Steve pushed Scott inside, and he began throwing plastic-wrapped bundles of tens, twenties, fifties and hundreds to Eric and Steve, who placed them in three blue 55-gallon barrels. The pager entry was 1-4-3. Based on a true story, the premise itself is fascinating, which makes Masterminds all the more a waste. Steven Chambers and David Ghantt (back) arrested 12) Loomis Fargo heist- The aftermath "We're not the type that questions everything people tell us," Floyd said. Federal prosecutors would ultimately charge 21 defendants in the case, including the Floyds, who were charged with (and pleaded guilty to) money laundering. "That would be living on the run, and I didn't want my kids to live that way. Name. Scott Grant and Steve pulled up next to her in a Mazda. Most people are going to forgive you. Punishment needs to be fair and realistic. Things were spiraling fast. Theres some things I want to do., Ghantt planned on traveling from Mexico to the Cayman Islands, bypassing customs along the way. He figured Tammy wouldn't go for it, and though his marriage had been troubled, he wasn't certain he wanted to leave her. On Nov. 12, a confidential informant told the FBI about Steve Chambers's move from mobile home to mansion. Zaron Burnett is an investigative journalist and longform features writer based in Los Angeles. Some family members hid money in bank deposit boxes, other friends were asked to mule cash to the Cayman Islands. 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