But it was the rural, Southern backgrounds of many of the key players, along with the many botched twists and bungled turns, that led the media to dub it the hillbilly heist.. Sandra Floyd, Michele Chambers's mother, remembers the first time she saw the house. Not until David was gone did Scott realize he didn't know which key to use. David said he realized then, for the first time, he might not see the millions he thought he had coming to him. . Ghantt was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison. They stocked a wine cellar. Campbell, a mother of two, was in the process of divorcing her. I hear her typing. Clerk of Court Frank Johns of Charlotte. Chambers got 11 years. "So he stays behind and moving over two thousand pounds. I didn't think I had the guts. Steve told Scott to ignore the remaining stacks, which were mostly ones and fives. [Kelly] told me, 'Just think about it.' Hes well thought-out. A third tape he didn't know about kept recording. I hit the local library the thing that we used to do before Google, Ghantt says with a small laugh. Ghantt didn't actually meet Chambers until the night of the heist, though, according to Diamant, who would go on to write a book about it.The reason Ghantt got involved was always the . And they hit the jackpot -- FBI video shows agents recovering most of the stolen cash. I knew that the news wouldnt break until later that morning. FBI video shows agents searching the Cramer Mountain home and finding stacks of cash. Why had he ever believed he'd get it? Theres no management around. "He was speechless," said Sandra Floyd. This time, David told McKinney the truth. The robbery of some $17 million quickly became one of the wildest bank heists of the last quarter century. Is he telling the truth? The case had gotten national publicity and was the subject of numerous articles, documentaries and even a movie. She will never get beyond the debt. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded daily . Steve told her to send David to Atlanta on a bus and drive back to the trailer. Mexican police, Interpol officers and an FBI agent were watching him. . I couldn't understand why I hadn't been more successful," David said. All rights reserved. . About the same time, Kelly and McKinney received phone calls from agents who told them to open their doors. It premiered in Los Angeles on September 26, 2016 and was theatrically released in the . Hidden in it was a 3 1/2-carat diamond ring that cost $43,000. 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. David told her he'd need help moving the money, getting a new ID and leaving the country. Some family members hid money in bank deposit boxes, other friends were asked to mule cash to the Cayman Islands. A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. 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 number of people involved had ballooned after Steve started asking friends and family to help him launder the stolen cash. 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.. Kelly called David at Loomis; he told her he'd be ready for them with the cash at 6:30 or 7 p.m. Alone in the building, David was trying to finish loading cash from the vault into an unmarked white Ford Econoline van belonging to Loomis. Its hilarious. She declined to take a lie-detector test. There, Scott and Eric paced the floor as Steve tried to calm them down. . Loomis, then known as Loomis Fargo, experienced two inside jobs in 1997, for $17.3 million and $18.8 million. In 2017, for example, Paul Burks of Lexington was ordered to pay $244 million to the victims of his worldwide Ponzi scheme, Zeek Rewards. A former FBI agent who helped crack the case sat down with Channel 9 Reporter Glenn Counts to talk about the clues that led to solving the crime, and how the group got caught. What that says is, We will never forgive you for what youve done.. I had a four-hour layover there, and then from New Orleans to Cancun.. The participants in the heist also spent lavishly on fancy jewelry, fancy cars and breast enhancement surgeries. The plan was to maintain a low profile and wait for things to cool off, allowing Ghantt to return to the states and collect his cut. That first day in prison was scary, Ghantt said. Jim Gronquist was Campbells defense attorney. . In a word, "Teamwork. Cool, I say. Find 145 people named Kelly Loomis along with free Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok profiles on PeekYou - true people search. Theres less security. Ghantt worked at Loomis Fargos regional office vault in Charlotte. At the end of one session, they wound up kissing outside the pickup. Or as he tells me, How many people in the United States havent thought about robbing a bank? The Chambers home is now gated, which means Channel 9 crews cant drive up to it like we used to. As with many recent historic events, this one had been caught on videotape, a fact that a few dozen Charlotte FBI agents would learn in a hastily organized Sunday morning meeting. Was that really what it was about? Here's what Floyd recalls: After two games of pool, Steve told him, "You know, we do a lot of gambling. Steve now needed a hit man. Money. Steve also offered $100,000 to his 26-year-old cousin. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers, carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. David trusted her. You might as well take it all, Ghantt tells me. He'd even bragged that he'd killed people. Name. The next day Chambers, Campbell and few other conspirators were arrested as well. Michele told her mother she and Steve had been saving gambling winnings for the down payment. Maura Healey unveiled a proposed $55.5 billion state budget Wednesday, a plan that offers insight into some of the Democrats spending priorities during her first year as governor. Here, he amps up the most obnoxious excesses of his entire cast and lets their grating bad-improv skills run amok. And though she had been made night shift supervisor at Allied Security, she still felt she would never make the money she needed. Im a very deliberate person. . "I was trying to figure out a way to [leave my husband] and take care of my kids without having to depend on him or any other man," Kelly said. But as he later recalled to the media, as soon as he stepped through those big-box doors, he realized he was flush with cash, and he didnt need to shop at Walmart ever again. They tried to break the van's bulletproof windows. Butcher says the federal courts in the Western District of North Carolina have never handled a case quite like Loomis. "He was in tears. "I wanted to be more like my mom and dad were.". Or does it sit in an offshore account, waiting for a prison sentence to end? To protect themselves, David and Steve didn't meet or talk. He covers culture, politics, race, and other perplexing mysteries for MEL. Its in the ether. When we worked together [for Loomis], we'd joke about it. The FBI continues to search for a missing $2 million from the theft. An officer rang the doorbell. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. He rewarded Robert with $3,000 and vowed never to meet McKinney alone. But in November, money ran low. Username. People dont seem to understand human nature. He went deep-sea fishing. Twice a week over the next 12 months, we will take you back to the winter of sheep cloning and the summer of Con Air. I mean, cause greed is a funny animal. They soon realized David had stolen more money than would fit in their 55-gallon barrels. Should David be killed after he gave them the money? 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. Im married, I got one girl, shes 15 going on 30. At the party, Steve invited Michele's stepfather, truck driver Dennis Floyd, to the basement to play pool. He quickly found out when you have money, you just have different problems, Wydra said. Michele received the best gift of the night. Kelly drove her pickup to a lot across the street from the Loomis building, on Suttle Avenue in Charlotte. "I said, 'Yeah, sure.' One day, Campbell was speaking to an old friend named Steve Chambers. "You" has three. He goes, My name is Bruno. Anybody who gets caught up in the system is getting chewed up by it, the now-retired Gronquist told the Observer. Turns out, most of the thieves and their accomplices have been about as effective coming up with their court-ordered restitution as they were hiding their original crimes. More agents waited outside to arrest them. Like David, Kelly was frustrated with her marriage. "We had David Ghantt and Kelly Campbell tied together, and we had Steven Chambers and Eric Payne with unexplained wealth, but we didn't have a tie between them," Agent John Wydra said. She could walk under the trees, with the chickens and goats and dogs that live around her mobile home. But after a year, they'll cut it down to two agents. In hindsight, it doesnt surprise me a bit, Ghantt says, a bitter laugh catching in his throat. If you didnt live in the Charlotte area 25 years ago, you might not believe it. All I needed was a change of pace.". (John D. Simmons/The Charlotte Observer via AP) The Associated Press, BY MICHAEL GORDON, The Charlotte Observer. And it turned Steve into he thought he was Don Corleone all of a sudden.. The initials on the money wrapper belonged to a Loomis employee who hadn't worked there since before the heist. It, too, has changed hands several times. "I thought he was goofing around.". Steve and Michelle Chambers, who had lived in a mobile home, bought a mansion in Cramer Mountain. Campbell used to work for Loomis and continued the friendship with Ghantt, eventually hooking him up with Chambers. 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. Her only brush with the law had been a DUI arrest. Ghantt started at Loomis Fargo in 1994, and soon worked his way up from an armored car driver to a vault supervisor. Her husband gave her a brown teddy bear. By now, you probably know the names -- David Ghantt, Steve Chambers and his wife Michelle, and Kelly Campbell. Campbell left her job in the summer of 1997, but she would later use Ghantt's feelings for her to her own advantage to get him to agree to carry out the multi-million-dollar heist. Ghantt would go on to spend six and a half years in federal prison. ". 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. Speaking of his co-defendants, Ghantt says hes not currently in contact with any of them. 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 that continued after she left the company. Ghantt studied how to rob his employer . It was released in 2016 and Wydra was invited to the premiere. Campbell used to work for Loomis and continued the friendship with Ghantt,. October was "a blast," he said. Truth was, David wanted more than help leaving, he wanted company. Steve had another conversation with Kelly about killing David. With the help of Aldo, a Mexican waiter he had befriended, David found a beach apartment in Cancun. In the meantime, however, Chambers not only refused to wire money to Ghantt in Mexico, but ultimately hired a hitman (Jason Sudeikis) to take him out. He told Steve he hadn't been able to find David. And if that gives people out there a little bit of hope, then Ive served my purpose on this earth.. Without really intending to, Kelly recalls, she turned the conversation to the possibility of a heist. I mentioned it to Kelly. Now, at 7:45 p.m., with all the money finally inside the van, his aching muscles could take a breather. He'd stay up all night, boosted by coffee, waiting for the sunrise over the ocean. Its 90-minutes of mugging for the camera, but the only people who feel mugged are those that pay to see Masterminds. "We're not the type that questions everything people tell us," Floyd said. 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. Steven Chambers and David Ghantt (back) arrested 12) Loomis Fargo heist- The aftermath He became the target of a nationwide FBI manhunt and was arrested five months later near the Mexican resort of Cozumel. 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. . About 5:30 the next morning, McKinney knocked on David's door and dropped $8,500 on the bed. >> PHOTOS: The Loomis Fargo heist, 25 years later. Exhibit A was that Steve had no steady job but plenty of cash. Al hacer clic en Aceptar todo, aceptas que Yahoo y nuestros socios procesarn tu informacin personal y utilizarn tecnologas como cookies para presentarte anuncios y contenido personalizados, evaluar anuncios y contenido, obtener datos clave sobre la audiencia y desarrollar productos. Its about the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery also known as the hillbillly heist the second largest cash robbery in the history of the United States. That was pretty awesome., It felt like a dream vacation until he started running out of money. Ghantt met up with the other members of the plot and offloaded the cash. Ghantt spent a solid hour moving what ended up being 2,700 pounds of cash more than an actual ton into an unmarked company van. Dustin is the founder and co-owner of Pajiba. ", "I wouldn't do it. They also left behind a life-changing fortune in small bills $3.3 million in fives and ones that they overlooked and the two videotapes that Ghantt had pulled from the security cameras at the bank. www.loomis.com. The Loomis defendants face no additional legal jeopardy for not paying off their debts. In Florida, a Loomis Fargo employee had pulled a gun on his coworkers and gotten away with $18 million, a move that FBI agents theorize Ghantt, Campbell and other employees all sat around talking about - and what they would do with that amount of money - for a while. He has a regular life now, but 25 years ago, Ghantt was the mastermind behind the third-largest bank robbery in U.S. history. "As soon as you start, you realize there's no going back," David recalled. So they went to Mexico and arrested Ghantt in order to protect him. 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. Its a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I went down and talked to them, got to meet Zach Galifianakis and the director, Ghantt said. If we work together, we can all have plenty of pie.. In the dark, Scott inserted one key into the back door slot. 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened 1997. Steve Chambers has told agents the missing cash was stolen from a shed in Lincoln County. AP CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Kelly Campbell, the woman who helped plan the $17 million robbery of armored-car company Loomis, Fargo was sentenced yesterday to nearly six years in prison and ordered. And I think that makes it all the more funny, because it really offends my co-defendants. He told her he wanted more of "his" cash. You might as well go all the way now.". Time passed, and Campbell eventually quit her job at Loomis Fargo. And youre like, Come on parachute. I had to go in there and tell her the whole story, and she was real cool about it. Zach always plays that bumbling kind of lunatic, but hes not, Ghantt says. He would pay McKinney $250,000, half upfront. I studied up on the FBI. He took bus tours of Mayan ruins. You've violated that trust. My knee-jerk reaction was to be angry, and then the sarcastic ass side of me started laughing about it, Ghantt said. But you cant get blood from a stone, Johns said. None of the suspects had been in any serious trouble before this. Zaron Burnett is an investigative journalist and longform features writer based in Los Angeles. By late November, McKinney made a third trip to Mexico, saying he'd help David move to Mexico City. On his second trip, Steve gave McKinney David's hotel address. . "Things I always wanted to do, but never had the time or the money," he said. The robbery was committed by Loomis vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt, his married girlfriend Kelly Campbell (a former Loomis co-worker), Steven Eugene Chambers (a one-time FBI informant), his wife Michelle Chambers, Michael Gobbies, and four other co-conspirators. I missed my wife. I just had to call you., Today, Ghantt cant look back on the whole ordeal without some degree of pride. They didnt expect it.. 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. Criminals dont usually get high-paying jobs after leaving prison. He then began loading $17 million in unmarked bills inside a company van before driving away. They assumed that whoever was involved would keep the cash in a safe place, like a safe deposit box. What made her abandon an ordinary existence to commit this spectacular, doomed crime? His collection case closes in two years. Money'll turn your head, I don't care who you are. He had a favorite restaurant, Zandunga, which had a mariachi band each night and a view of the Caribbean. This robbery is the largest cash robbery on U.S. soil. And so, he told her, Google my name. Scott, 26, had a larceny conviction as a teenager, but he'd since cleaned up his act and now had a steady job, a daughter and a girlfriend. Agents noticed it two months later when it flowed to them through official channels, along with hundreds of similar reports involving other people. But things didnt quite work out that way. There were times when I drank really heavily.". Get to me. Its that kind of excitement.. He told him McKinney was in Mexico to kill somebody. So the original gang was all totally shocked, Wydra said. Her sentence was delayed until Jan. 1 so she could spend the holidays with her family. Him and I still talk every now and then. Youre supposed to get less time for cooperating, a lesser penalty, and instead, you see what she got hit with. Gronquist said. You see, there's a reason Loomis Fargo used armored cars to move large amounts of cash. Jared Hess directed Masterminds, and god bless the guy, but if Gentlemen Broncos and Nacho Libre were not proof enough that Napoleon Dynamite was a fluke, Masterminds should seal the deal. Now worried about both the FBI and McKinney, he spent even more time alone in his room. Scott didn't want to, but then he remembered the hundred-grand payday. I loved it. But I thought this is me being hard-headed Im going to ride this thing to the ground. And so thats what I did.. He added that money can be a motivator for anyone. Directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey, the film stars Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Jason Sudeikis.. Things went from bad to worse when, in November, Michelle strolled into a bank with a briefcase filled with 200 grand and asked the manager, How much can I deposit without the bank reporting the transaction? When she showed the bank manager that she really had the money to invest, the cash was still bound in Loomis Fargo wrappers. Scott Grant and Steve pulled up next to her in a Mazda. David was sentenced to 7 1/2 years. . Scott Grant and Steve pulled up next to her in a Mazda. After a Gulf War stint in the Army, David got married in 1992. So Im like, Can you get a move on with my money? After a couple of weeks passed, I get a phone call from Kelly: Okay, Brunos coming to you, blah, blah, blah. So I get a phone call from this guy, and I tell him where to meet me. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. Kelly Campbell arrested 11) Finally, the FBI successfully tracked down Ghantt and arrested him at Playa del Carmen. There was a third person with them, too, a man named Eric Grant. From my standpoint, it was just a business deal, Ghantt said. It was late in 1996. "I've learned that I'm a fortunate man," he said. There are multiples of thousands of these things coming every year. In mid-November, McKinney carried $10,000 to Cancun but wound up spending most of it on himself. As with Kelly, the worst blotch on 29-year-old Eric's record until now was a driving-while-intoxicated conviction. "I" has one letter. 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. Learn about careers at Cox Media Group. But because David's relationship with his Loomis bosses had been rocky, he says, he doesn't feel sorry about what he did to the company. When she realized Ghantt never came home from work the night before, she contacted the police and filed a missing persons report. 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. Almost 19 years after Ghantt and a group of friends from Gaston County pulled off one of the largest cash heists in U.S. history, the movie "Masterminds" will play up the caper for laughs. I've got a good woman.". He partied, met women, drank, skied and hung out at the beach. The money was heavy. Some days, the robbery seems like a memory from a different life, a choice made by a different man. She could visit friends. I don't blame him.". They paid for all of it in cash. 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