- A gang stole £30million from a secure vault in Los Angeles on Easter Sunday
- The managers of the GardaWorld facility in San San Fernando
- The gang appears to have gone around all security systems in the facility
Brazen thieves stole $30 million in an audacious Easter Sunday burglary at a Los Angeles money storage facility in one of the largest cash heists in city history.
The raid on Sunday night was carried out under the cover of darkness at the cash vaults held at the GardaWorld facility in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley, on the northeastern edge of LA, where cash from businesses across the region is handled and stored, cops said.
It is thought the gang broke in through a hatch on the roof and some how circumnavigated the security systems to access the vaults and escape without raising the alarm.
While there did not appear to be any damage done to the roof, local news footage showed a patched up hole on the southeastern side of the building.
Debris lay around it, though it is unclear what this may have been used for or if it was related to Sunday’s theft.
Law enforcement sources said that very few people would’ve known about the massive amounts of cash being stored in the safe that was stolen from
Local media reported that the thieves targeted the GardaWorld facility in Sylmar (pictured)
Local news footage showed a patched up hole on the southeastern side of the building (pictured)
LAPD Commander Elain Morales said cash for businesses across the region is held at the facility.
The operators of the business, whom police did not themselves identify, did not discover the massive theft until they opened the vault on Monday.
Law enforcement sources told the LA Times that very few people would’ve known about the massive amounts of cash being stored in the safe that was stolen from.
The LAPD said it it working with the FBI to solve GardaWorld case. Authorities believe that a crew was responsible for the break-in, though no information about potential suspects was immediately available.
The break-in is among the largest cash burglaries in Los Angeles history.
The next biggest case was the Dunbar Armored robbery in 1997, in which six men robbed a similar facility to GardaWorld.
The six men took the 2024 equivalent of $36.5million from the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street in downtown LA.
The theft comes nearly two years after as much as $100 million in jewels and other valuables were stolen from a Brink’s big rig at a Southern California truck stop.
The cargo trailer was heading for a jewelry show in Pasadena, and the driver decided to stop at a rest stop, before someone broke in and stole the cargo.
To this day, the thief, or thieves, still have not been caught.
Across the pond, the Sylmar robber has drawn comparison to the Hatton Garden heist in 2015, in which up to $23.4 million was stolen from a safe deposit facility in London’s exclusive Hatton Garden district.
The burglars drilled through the 20inch thick vault walls of the vault over the Easter Weekend, a public holiday in the UK.
The thieves then took millions of dollars worth of valuable away in wheelable bins.