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Sep 29, 2016 · Learn how a vault supervisor and his accomplices pulled off the second largest cash robbery in history in Charlotte in 1997, and how their mistakes led to their arrests. The heist inspired the new movie "Masterminds" starring Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.
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Plot. In March 1997, Loomis Fargo & Company has been robbed of $18.8 million in Jacksonville by company security guard Philip Noel Johnson, Steve Eugene Chambers and Kelly Campbell, a former employee of Loomis. They also involve Loomis armored car driver David Scott Ghantt.
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- The Hit That Fell Short
- The Aftermath of The Loomis Fargo Heist, The True Story Behind Masterminds
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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...
David Ghantt, a vault supervisor for Loomis Fargo, planned and executed a $17.3 million heist in 1997 with two accomplices. But his plan backfired and he was caught and convicted after a manhunt and a movie adaptation.
The 2016 movie “Masterminds” is based on the true story of the 1997 Loomis Fargo bank robbery in Charlotte, North Carolina. The robbery resulted in the theft of $17.3 million in cash from the regional office vault of Loomis, Fargo & Co.
May 3, 2024 · Is Masterminds based on a true story? Yes, Masterminds is based on a real-life case known as the Loomis Fargo robbery. "It's a comedy. Not a documentary.
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Sep 29, 2016 · David Scott Ghantt, who stole $17 million from Loomis Fargo in 1997, talks about his life after prison and his role in the movie 'Masterminds'. The article also covers the background, the arrests and the aftermath of the caper that became a national joke.
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.
