The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery was a robbery of $17.3 million in cash from the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis, Fargo & Co. on the evening of October 4, 1997. The robbery.
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,