they re just trying to move it from place to place. they pick some up, they drop some off, and in the off hours, they stick it all in the vault. they are putting it on pallets, remember, we re talking about large sums of it. and they separate it by different methods, bar codes, and shrink wrap. for months, david scott ghantt had been plotting to make a move. he s in love with a former loomis employee, kelly campbell. she tells ghantt they will hide out together in mexico. each will bring their share of the cash, which could total more than $10 million. they will quietly spend the rest of their lives in love, living off the stolen money. what ghantt doesn t know, is kelly campbell is lying. kelly started at loomis fargo in 1996. she was attractive, dirty blond hair, and an attitude that drew him to her. she and david got to know each other when he asked to have a cigarette. he went up to her one day and kind of said in a flirty way, if
ghantt is not exactly muscular. at 6 1 and 165 pounds, he s in no shape to quickly load the money. each cart holding about $2 million in cash takes ghantt seven to eight minutes to transfer into the unmarked van. you could tell he was struggling. imagine just moving over a ton of stone. he was sweating, he was struggling. it took him two hours to load up this truck, and you can see him, he s just wiped out. and in between he keeps getting text pages, right, messages. the messages are coming from kelly campbell, who s waiting outside with steve chambers and the rest of the crew. ghantt will not rest until he loads all the money, which takes him until 7:45. now he closes the vault and sets the vault security timer so that the door cannot be opened for more than two days. he takes the vault keys with him, as well.
somebody who might be able to prove it off. the team assembled might be his undoing. ghantt might be the one committing the actual robbery, but steve chambers is the ring leader behind the operation. there s a lot in this tale that owes to hollywood depiction of crime. steve chambers was a fan of reservoir dogs. in reservoir dogs the thieves do not know each other s names. and the reason for that is when the police come to get them later on, they won t be able to identify each other. it was a saturday, and david worked that day with a trainee, who obviously was very new to the company and did not know the ropes. david was relying on this. he figured he would tell the trainee when it was okay to leave. in fact, david actually at the end of the shift, left the door of the vault ajar, normally it would have been closed. the trainee didn t know to ask about this. the vault is a fortified gray room. it is rectangular in shape. shelves and file cabinets line its walls with push car
one of the straps bore the initials of a loomis fargo employee who had counted currency prior to the theft of the $17 million. that conclusively tied that deposit and that currency to the loomis fargo theft. we just needed to find a connection between david scott ghantt and steve and michelle chambers. it was obvious from evidence gathered at the scene, david scott ghantt was the person who d removed the money. but we didn t know, truly, if it was by course of his own free will. and once we took a closer look at kelly campbell, stories weren t matching up. police identified kelly campbell early on as a suspect. she used to work at loomis fargo, and she is a known acquaintance of david ghantt. fbi agents questioned campbell at her home, but she admits nothing. kelly had said that she hadn t stayed in touch with him since she left loomis. kelly had said she wasn t very close to him. and we had conflicting reports that said otherwise. we knew something was amiss, something was awry
ghantt s accomplices finally open the van after trying nearly half the keys. it was more cash than any of them could have imagined. they didn t fully understand how much cash was in the loomis facility when they took it. transferring the money from the back of the van, they were putting it into three blue barrels. steve had this idea that if they got stopped for speeding or just, you know, a vehicle stop of any kind, he would make it look like he was haoing off three barrels of dog food. which in retrospect doesn t make a lot of sense because who has three barrels of dog food, you know, at midnight on saturday night. based on a lot of time trying to go through and say where are the 100s, where are the 50s, where are the 20s, they were working their way down through the currency. when the barrels were full, they left, and they left about $3.3 million behind. when police and fbi responded to the robbery the next day, the only employee not to show up for work is vault supervisor dav