david, you know that i love you, that your family loves you, my family loves you. we believe that you are the victim here, david, and we stand by you 100%. while ghantt s friends and family members plead for his safe return, the stolen money is taken to steve chambers mobile him in a trailer park in nearby gastonia. imagine sitting on $14 million, and you struggle just buying your groceries, so you think having $14 million is going to be great. you still have a logistical problem of sitting on all this cash. what happens if someone breaks in? what happens if the trailer catches on fire? what happens if there s a problem at home and an ambulance comes or the police knock on the door? you can t hide this. i mean, it s stacked against the walls. chambers recruits several friends and family members to open safety deposit boxes at area banks. the new accomplices then stuff the containers full of bills and
more friends, but yeah, you can have a cigarette. he liked that attitude. after she leaves her job at loomis fargo, they kept in touch. kelly would talk with david after she left loomis fargo and it was during these phone conversations that the idea was planted in david s mind. the idea had been planted in kelly s mind through conversations with steve chambers the previous summer. steve chambers is a high school friend of kelly s. he is a convicted felon with a reputation as a smalltime con man. but he has a big heist on his mind. steven chambers was a burly man around town in gastonia, lincoln county, who had been involved in various scams in the past. but he was always looking for the next thing to do. he was the one who came up with this idea. he had known that kelly had worked at loomis fargo and that she knew the ins and outs of the building in working there. in 1997, he said, do you think it s possible to steal from loomis fargo?
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 you let me have a cigarette i ll be your friend. kelly said, i don t need any more friends, but yeah, you can have a cigarette. he liked that attitude. after she leaves her job at loomis fargo, they kept in touch. kelly would talk with david after she left loomis fargo and it was during these phone conversations that the idea was planted in david s mind. the idea had been planted in kelly s mind through conversations with steve chambers the previous summer. steve chambers is a high school friend of kelly s. he is a convicted felon with a reputation as a smalltime con man. but he has a big heist on his mind. steven chambers was a burly man around town in gastonia, lincoln county, who had been involved in various scams in the past. but he was always looking for the next thing to do. he was the one who came up with this idea.
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. david, you know that i love you, that your family loves you. my family loves you. authorities have been looking for 27-year-old david scott ghantt, guard and driver here, who the fbi now considers a suspect. we believe that you are the victim here, david, and we stand by you 100%. while ghantt s friends and family members plead for his safe return, the stolen money is taken to steve chambers mobile him in a trailer park in nearby gastonia. imagine sitting on $14 million, and you struggle just buying your groceries, so you think having $14 million is going to be great. you still have a logistical problem of sitting on all this cash. what happens if someone breaks in? what happens if the trailer catches on fire? what happ