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- It’s based on the true story of David Ghantt (Galifianikas), a vault supervisor at the Charlotte Loomis Fargo depository in Uptown Charlotte that was involved in the second largest cash robbery in history, making off with $17.4 million ($25 million today).
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Sep 29, 2016 · It’s based on the true story of David Ghantt (Galifianikas), a vault supervisor at the Charlotte Loomis Fargo depository in Uptown Charlotte that was involved in the second largest cash robbery in history, making off with $17.4 million ($25 million today).
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Sep 30, 2016 · Masterminds: Directed by Jared Hess. With Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Ross Kimball. A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery.
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- Biography, Comedy, Crime
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- 2016-09-30
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David Ghantt, a Gulf War veteran, had never been in trouble with the law. He was also married. But neither of those things would matter after he met Kelly Campbell. Campbell was another employee at Loomis Fargo and she and Ghantt quickly struck up a relationship, one that Campbell denies was ever romantic though FBI evidence says otherwise, and one...
Ghantt, Chambers, and Campbell came up with the following plan: Ghantt would remain in the vault after his shift on the night of the heist, Oct. 4, 1997, and let his co-conspirators into the vault. They would then load as much cash as they could carry into a van. Meanwhile, Ghantt would take $50,000, as much as could legally be carried across the b...
On October 4, Ghantt sent home the employee he was training and disabled two security cameras near the vault in preparation for the heist. Unfortunately, he failed to disable the third camera. “I didn’t even know about it and overlooked it,” he said. And so this third camera caught everything that happened next. Ghantt’s accomplices soon showed up ...
Meanwhile, David Ghantt was relaxing on a beach in Cozumel, Mexico. He left his wedding ring behind and spent his days spending money on luxury hotels and scuba diving. When asked what the “dumbest thing was” that Ghantt spent money on, he admitted: “The 4 pairs of boots I bought in one day [shrug] what can I say they were nice and I was impulse sh...
In the end, eight co-conspirators were indicted for the Loomis Fargo heist. Because the money in the vault was largely from banks, the crime was technically a bank robbery and thus a federal offense. In total, 24 people were convicted. All but one of the indicted pleaded guilty. Also charged were several innocent relatives that the robbers had enli...
Oct 3, 2016 · In real life: False. Ghantt was in fact hiding out in Mexico using McKinney’s I.D., which had been sold to Chambers months earlier. But McKinney never stopped trying to kill Ghantt – although ...
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Apr 3, 2023 · In 2016, Zach Galifianakis was a guest on "Conan," whose host asked about the circumstances — and weirdness — of interviewing the sitting president of the United State. Galifianakis told a story about how just before the interview, he was dining in a White House restaurant and saw a dessert menu offering something called "Chocolate Freedom."
Sep 29, 2016 · WLOS — CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The long-awaited Masterminds movie shot here in the mountains is finally on the big screen, though the true story that inspired it may be hard to live up to. As you...
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