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 david ghantt. authorities have been looking for 27-year-old david scott ghantt,
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 with kelly campbell. coming up, the fbi taps the phones of campbell and chambers and realizes that david ghantt s life is in
after watching the movie the town two weeks earlier. it s then that authorities change the charge against edwards from her failure to pay back her old employer for the theft of $20,000 to a federal indictment for bank robbery. at trial, navahcia edwards pleads not guilty. her defense attorney claims the testimony of two bank tellers who say they could see edwards black skin through the eye holes of the mask is wrong. they point to a surveillance image that shows the female bank robber s arm is white. the defense goes on to claim a white robber used face paint to describe herself as a black person to confuse witnesses. whether it s overexposure or something in the film where race became an issue here, where was it caucasian suspect or african-american, it was just because of this little fabric where the robe came back and the glove exposed part of the skin.
u.s. district judge matthew kennelly decides to settle the matter for himself. the judge had put on the mask in his chambers to see, in fact, if he could see any of his own skin. when the judge looks in the mirror with a mask on, he says it s obvious he can see his own skin through the eye holes. he believes the testimony of the bank tellers, who said the robbers were african-american. navahcia edwards is found guilty of theft, bank robbery, and conspiracy. police are not surprised edwards is convicted, despite her best efforts to mimic the robbery in a hollywood movie. i ve been here in palos heights 23 years, and in terms of it being an oddity and unusual, this would probably rank at the top of all the cases i ve ever handled. they went to some pretty good extremes to actually mimic the movie, all the attempts to conceal their identity, construct what drawers to open. what they did was give us more leads to find out who they were faster.
edwards is charged with theft, but she could escape conviction if she pays the money back. detectives discover in an effort to raise more funds, edwards has a new job. she has an online website advertising her as an adult model and x-rated actress. it s not often, at least i haven t found it in my career, where you re investigating a bank robbery suspect and they are an escort, who are sending photos of themselves on the internet. that was a first for me. police now believe edwards plotted to rob her old bank to pay back her debt and then some. through tracking edwards credit card purchases, detectives find proof that she bought the nun masks online and the zip ties from a local hardware store. credit card statements also show she rented a silver chevrolet, the same make and model as the getaway car, a week prior to the bank robbery. the fbi obtains a search warrant