FBI video shows agents searching the Cramer Mountain home and finding stacks of cash. Ghantt and one other employee were the last to leave. He had even scheduled a follow-up appointment at the dentist. Chambers promised to wire him money in Mexico until the investigation blew over and Ghantt could return to North Carolina. Now that Kelly believes she has found Jesus, she has become more analytical about her past. Cool, I say. Ghantt, meanwhile, was losing his patience and starting to make threats. I was expecting her to kick me out of the house., Years later, after they married and had a child together, they watched a movie based on the whole ordeal. And youre like, Come on parachute. Its about the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery also known as the hillbillly heist the second largest cash robbery in the history of the United States. You may email him here, follow him on Twitter, or listen to his weekly TV podcast, Podjiba. And though she had been made night shift supervisor at Allied Security, she still felt she would never make the money she needed. I made a joke once that was the hardest Id ever worked for Wells Fargo -- yeah, its a lot of work, Ghantt said. "I missed my family. All but one took plea deals, including Ghantt, who was sentenced to seven years in prison. . Jeffrey Guller, who at 81 is by far the oldest of the Loomis defendants, still owes almost $1.1 million on his original court debt of $1.14 million and will remain on the governments books for another four years. . The van door opened. David kissed his sleeping wife on the cheek on the morning of Oct. 4. Maura Healey unveiled a proposed $55.5 billion state budget Wednesday, a plan that offers insight into some of the Democrats spending priorities during her first year as governor. When McKinney arrived in North Carolina, the plan had changed. Soon thereafter, he met Kelly Campbell, a co-worker at Loomis Fargo. Throughout the multi-year-long case and subsequent trials, journalists often referred to Ghantt and the others as trailer trash and hillbillies. ". How many people have walked the red carpet at a movie premiere in a case that was yours?. But as soon as he drove off, I went right back in and opened the vault. Most people are going to forgive you. Campbell helped plot the robbery of Loomis Charlotte vault on Oct. 4, 1997, with David Ghantt, a Loomis supervisor who stole the money, and Steve Chambers, a longtime Campbell friend. When he landed in Cancun, his first stop was Walmart. He flip-flopped on the heist idea three or four times. The figures can be astounding. Even with several vehicles, they underestimated how much space they would need and they had to leave $3 million behind. They agreed that after the heist, David would immediately move to Mexico, alone, but Kelly would soon join him there, with her two children. Steve led the planning. Steve tried keys on a side door. Of course the most famous thing inside the home was a velvet Elvis portrait. Nah, it was always about the money, he told the agents. Clerk of Court Frank Johns of Charlotte. And so, he told her, Google my name. Informacin sobre tu dispositivo y conexin a Internet, como tu direccin IP, Actividad de navegacin y bsqueda al utilizar sitios web y aplicaciones de Yahoo. The first weekday after the heist, Michele Chambers, co-conspirator Steve's wife, walked into a NationsBank branch with a briefcase containing $5,000. About 20 ago, Campbell sent him a letter of apology, but he never responded. "As soon as you start, you realize there's no going back," David recalled. The robbery was committed by Loomis vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt, his married girlfriend Kelly Campbell (a former Loomis co-worker), Steven Eugene Chambers (a one-time FBI informant), his wife Michelle Chambers, Michael Gobbies, and four other co-conspirators. Campbell left her job in the summer of 1997, but she would later use Ghantt's feelings for her to her own advantage to get him to agree to carry out the multi-million-dollar heist. I told the lead investigator I was glad to see him.. People dont seem to understand human nature. In early December, Steve and Michele invited relatives to their daughter's sixth birthday party. Theyre meant to be trailer-park trash, but they come off as character experiments on a bad night at the Groundlings. Kelly Loomis. He was an old friend from East Gaston High School, tough and sure of himself. His name was Corey. Then we went on a mission to calculate exactly how much size-wise the money was, $11.3 million in $20 bills, and it weighed over 2,000 pounds, Wydra said. There were times when I drank really heavily.". Its kind of like that. The phone rang: Kelly had a problem. After a Gulf War stint in the Army, David got married in 1992. "He showed me a lot of money," McKinney said. Hed never really been in trouble, he wasnt a career criminal, said retired FBI agent John Wydra. In the first heist, a regional vault supervisor loaded money into a branded truck and . Jim Gronquist, Campbells defense attorney during the Loomis case, says the financial penalties levied against his client and her co-defendants are grossly excessive and unjust, particularly since most of the stolen Loomis money was actually recovered. He placed stacks of currency on a cart and wheeled it to the van about 15 feet away, inside the building. "But I had to know.". She tried to apologize for the murder plot. Masterminds is a 2016 American crime comedy film based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery in North Carolina. She could visit friends. [Kelly] told me, 'Just think about it.' "He said, 'Yeah, right,' and turned his head. Though David had no criminal experience, he felt he could offer expert advice: He'd just finished reading a book on the FBI. He covers culture, politics, race, and other perplexing mysteries for MEL. There, Scott and Eric paced the floor as Steve tried to calm them down. The pager entry was 1-4-3. But first they wanted to know if it was a robbery or a robbery-homicide. Then, he proceeded to load 2,800 pounds of cash into a van. Zach always plays that bumbling kind of lunatic, but hes not, Ghantt says. It was released in 2016 and Wydra was invited to the premiere. All rights reserved. There is nothing of value in this movie. Going south, nobody really looks at what youre shipping. . "I said, 'I don't want him killed.' Theres less security. Loomis officials--forced to break into their own vault because David had taken the keys with him--calculated that he had stolen $17,044,000, making the second biggest heist in U.S. history, following the $18.8 million theft of an armored car by another Loomis Fargo employee just six months earlier. It all went down in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the man at the center of that heist, David Scott Ghantt, now lives in Jacksonville. There had been no signs. Jim Gronquist was Campbells defense attorney. And with Loomis, were looking at only one case. When he was done, the man drove off to a nearby printing press, where the money was distributed into private vehicles amongst a handful of people. Well she was a pretty happy-go-lucky person, he said. On Feb. 27, agents listened in on a call from David to Kelly and learned David's location in Mexico. He figured Tammy wouldn't go for it, and though his marriage had been troubled, he wasn't certain he wanted to leave her. There was a third person with them, too, a man named Eric Grant. Then another. Twenty-one people were charged and convicted in the robbery, one of the biggest heists in U.S. history. And I think that makes it all the more funny, because it really offends my co-defendants. About the same time, Kelly and McKinney received phone calls from agents who told them to open their doors. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. * I understand and. She could walk under the trees, with the chickens and goats and dogs that live around her mobile home. "I've learned that I'm a fortunate man," he said. Though Wydra is retired, 25 years ago, he was an agent with the FBI. "She said, 'What would it take to convince you to do it?' He didnt even really question me. . It was the first Saturday in October. It is based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina, which was the subject of the 2016 American comedy film Masterminds. ". In early September 1997, Kelly found herself chatting on the phone with a friend who still worked at Loomis, a 27-year-old man who, despite being married, had made no secret of the fact that he had a crush on her. Two more defendants in the $17 million Loomis Fargo & Co. robbery last year have agreed to plead guilty, and a third person entered a formal plea in court. "I wanted to be more like my mom and dad were.". These (Loomis) guys, not so much.. . I really enjoyed the little scuba diving trip. On March 1, David Ghantt left his hotel to do some laundry. In Campbells case, Gronquist says his client was buried in court-ordered debt despite the fact that she took responsibility for what she had done and cooperated with prosecutors and the FBI. Now, at 7:45 p.m., with all the money finally inside the van, his aching muscles could take a breather. They decorated their 6,000-square-foot stucco house with antiques, paintings and statues, including a six-foot wooden Indian that Michele had bought for $600. To the community, the Loomis Fargo heist was a big joke -- the largest hillbilly caper of all time. At first, David Ghantt said, "I didn't take her seriously. Then he and Campbell drove 90 miles to Columbia, South Carolina, where Ghantt planned to purchase a ticket to Mexico so he could be out of the country before news of the robbery broke the next morning. October was "a blast," he said. Probably very egotistical of me, I thought, Yeah, sure, I can beat them, theyre college smart and thats about it, Ghantt said. The Loomis case is another example where the amount of restitution ordered vs. what is actually paid are two dramatically different numbers. First, in January, he tried to get someone to take some millions down to Mexico. In February 1998, the FBI tapped their phones and listened to Steve discuss depositing $2.5 million in the Cayman Islands. . Steve told Scott to ignore the remaining stacks, which were mostly ones and fives. As it turned out, Ghantt was zipping up his scuba suit in Mexico. For reasons that remain obscure, Robert spilled the beans to David. The Chambers home is now gated, which means Channel 9 crews cant drive up to it like we used to. The platform is designed to engage citizens and government leaders in a discussion about what needs improvement across the country. It was late in 1996. Money'll turn your head, I don't care who you are. In addition to their extravagant spending, Michelle Chambers made the mistake of loudly asking a bank teller how much cash she could deposit in her account without it being reported to the feds, and then said, its not drug money.. Theres barely a laugh in the entire film, which looks like it was shot entirely in one take while the actors were still working out their characters. Twelve hours later, at 6 that evening, Eric Payne drove a rented Budget van to his workplace, a graphics company on Performance Road in western Mecklenburg County called Reynolds & Reynolds, which was closed for the night and had a secluded parking lot where they intended to transfer the cash. Kristen Wiig plays Kelly, who really wasn't that into David, but convinced him to take a fortune from Loomis Fargo in the fall of '97. Even still, he was 27, married and struggling to provide for his family. Steve Chambers has told agents the missing cash was stolen from a shed in Lincoln County. Its everything thats coming north.. I threw you out, and then threw the parachute after you. She came from a blue-collar background, a high school dropout who had grown tired of working in a mill and gotten an equivalency diploma. One day, the two employees were in the break room and got to talking about the news of the day a massive bank heist that just occurred in Florida by someone at their company. At the time of the real robbery, Chambers was facing criminal charges hed written 30K worth of bad checks and was facing jail time for it. He para-sailed, power-skied and scuba-dived. But as he later recalled to the media, as soon as he stepped through those big-box doors, he realized he was flush with cash, and he didnt need to shop at Walmart ever again. At the sight of all that money, Scott and Eric had the same thought: They'd made the worst mistake of their lives. The plan called for David to leave the vault door ajar, then maneuver a few minutes alone at the end of his shift, long enough to loot the cash, then pass it to Kelly and Steve. Now, I kind of know something is fishy., Alone in Mexico with limited cash, Ghantt thought about turning himself in. When he said, 'I'll give you $20,000 to hold a million,' I said, 'Sure.' By now, you probably know the names -- David Ghantt, Steve Chambers and his wife Michelle, and Kelly Campbell. Steve and Michelle Chambers, who had lived in a mobile home, bought a mansion in Cramer Mountain. I told them, Take it, box it up, and youll be able to ship it to me in Mexico. Back in the 1990s, you couldve probably boxed up a hot pink elephant and shipped it to Mexico; no one wouldve ever noticed. Agents raided safe deposit boxes, where they recovered more than $11 million. (John D. Simmons/The Charlotte Observer via AP) The Associated Press, BY MICHAEL GORDON, The Charlotte Observer. He added that money can be a motivator for anyone. They assumed that whoever was involved would keep the cash in a safe place, like a safe deposit box. On his second trip, Steve gave McKinney David's hotel address. It was his goodbye. Sweat soaked David's uniform. . The whole town I was staying in was 98.9 percent Mexican, except for when the cruise ships were in, Ghantt recalls. Because lets be brutally honest: Theyre not wrong, okay? Michele tells me you're in a financial bind. Search Tools . They also left behind a life-changing fortune in small bills $3.3 million in fives and ones that they overlooked and the two videotapes that Ghantt had pulled from the security cameras at the bank. and "I love money!" I said, Listen, You all need to get your shit together, or Im just going to walk over here to the government building and tell them who the fuck I am. That lit a little fire under her ass, for a bit.. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded. I said, Probably, the best time would be on the weekend; theres fewer people there. We spoke with the inside man, David Ghantt, to get the real story. They found Ghantts truck, and in it were his keys, some personal items and his wedding ring. He hadnt checked ahead of time if the airport had any available flights, let alone if it would even be open. He quickly found out when you have money, you just have different problems, Wydra said. Nosotros, Yahoo, somos parte de la familia de marcas de Yahoo. Too many questions remained: Where was the cash? In Florida, a Loomis Fargo employee had pulled a gun on his coworkers and gotten away with $18 million, a move that FBI agents theorize Ghantt, Campbell and other employees all sat around talking about - and what they would do with that amount of money - for a while. That led to better jobs, like the one at Loomis. He drove to the edge of the Loomis compound, which was surrounded by a chain-link fence. So they went to Mexico and arrested Ghantt in order to protect him. White-collar criminals are pretty good at hiding their money, she said. If you want to go ahead and go, I got it. "Things I always wanted to do, but never had the time or the money," he said. She could spend time with her children and parents. The theft at the time the second-largest cash robbery in U.S. history has been the brunt of mocking movies and books, mostly on how the thieves, who had little money to begin with, could not control their spending habits once they did. Kelly had no problem fanning the flames of their old flirtation. The cart held about $2 million, and the thief made multiple trips. When neighbors asked where they got their money, Steve said hed played in the NFL. Exhibit A was that Steve had no steady job but plenty of cash. They paid for all of it in cash. I said, It comes down to picking the right day, and the right time of the month, and all that good stuff. I even told her, It wouldnt be all that difficult. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded daily by millions of dollars worth of temptation. Then, I started loading the van., Money, when bound in bulk and stacked in canvas bags, is heavier than you might expect. Time passed, and Campbell eventually quit her job at Loomis Fargo. If you didnt live in the Charlotte area 25 years ago, you might not believe it. Search by Name Search . I mean, cause greed is a funny animal. In the meantime, the FBI was closing in looking to bust a total of 21 suspected accomplices. Kelly Campbell, 29, a former company employee, entered guilty pleas earlier to bank larceny, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Jared Hess directed Masterminds, and god bless the guy, but if Gentlemen Broncos and Nacho Libre were not proof enough that Napoleon Dynamite was a fluke, Masterminds should seal the deal. There it was, "The Heist." Everybody seemed stunned. Come for the Chumbawamba, and stay for the return of the Mack. Three weeks later, the couple purchased, in cash, a $635,000 stone mansion. The FBI was also surveilling Kelly Campbell and followed her to a pay phone that she used to place calls to Mexico. David said he realized then, for the first time, he might not see the millions he thought he had coming to him. You can seize property. I couldn't understand why I hadn't been more successful," David said. She asked about the limit for a cash deposit before "paperwork" was required. That sounds like a lot of money until its compared to the $18,930,201.26 the group was ordered to pay. Was that really what it was about? He says the Loomis case shows how the criminal justice system and the courts treat lower-income people differently. There was a little voice in my head that said, 'Don't do it. At first, I just blended in with the tourists and picked up a few translation books, Ghantt explains. His assignment was to deliver the cash to David and keep him happy until they could find a way to kill him, McKinney said. Twice a week over the next 12 months, we will take you back to the winter of sheep cloning and the summer of Con Air. 1-4-3 is 'I love you.' I mentioned it to Kelly. Ghantt was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison. And robbing a truck was dangerous. But in November, money ran low. There was, however, one problem with his plan. Kelly was lying. Or as he tells me, How many people in the United States havent thought about robbing a bank? As with many recent historic events, this one had been caught on videotape, a fact that a few dozen Charlotte FBI agents would learn in a hastily organized Sunday morning meeting. ". The plan was to split the money three ways: Chambers, Campbell and Ghantt would each walk away with what Ghantt estimated to be $5 million a piece the kind of money that changes lives forever. By late November, McKinney made a third trip to Mexico, saying he'd help David move to Mexico City. To that end, Campbell brought in her childhood friend Steve Chambers, who was characterized in the local press as a small-time drug dealer and a local fence for stolen goods, to lead the team. Or that hed gotten lucky gambling. Baltimore leaders have agreed to pay a $6 million settlement to the family of a driver who was killed during a 2010 police chase involving Gun Trace Task Force officers, Four family members from Australia who were injured during a crash-landing of a sightseeing helicopter in December are suing a Las Vegas-based tour operator, Massachusetts Gov. The others sat in their cars across the street and watched him struggle to open the heavy gate. But it was the rural, Southern backgrounds of many of the key players, along with the many botched twists and bungled turns, that led the media to dub it the hillbilly heist.. Al hacer clic en Aceptar todo, aceptas que Yahoo y nuestros socios procesarn tu informacin personal y utilizarn tecnologas como cookies para presentarte anuncios y contenido personalizados, evaluar anuncios y contenido, obtener datos clave sobre la audiencia y desarrollar productos. Of course the problem was, the money belonged to someone else. Just head on out. And so, he did. He recalled that another agent, Phil King, said, "Hey, there was an article in the [Charlotte] Observer about beeper codes. 1997 Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle for sale at auction of items bought after Loomis, Fargo armored car facility heist by Steven Chambers, wife Michele, Kelly Jane Campbell & David Scott Ghanntt (Photo by Will And Deni McIntyre/Getty Images) ', "He asked me if I'd mind holding some money for him. It premiered in Los Angeles on September 26, 2016 and was theatrically released in the . Husband and wife Steven and Michelle Chambers, whose conspicuous consumption of a luxury home, a BMW convertible, breast implants and a $600 wooden Indian, among other purchases, helped the FBI solve the crime, were assessed $3.81 million and $4.8 million, respectively. Ghantt would go on to spend six and a half years in federal prison. "I said, 'Yeah, sure.' In mid-November, McKinney carried $10,000 to Cancun but wound up spending most of it on himself. I thought, Okay, if I get out of that bubble because the cops depend on that, even the feds my chances to get away go way up.. In early November, Steve lured the real Mike McKinney, an ex-Marine, to North Carolina from his Illinois home. The money weighed as much as a compact car and he did it all by himself. David was excited, jabbering about their future together. Now he offered to pay him to carry cash to David--Steve said he was a friend hiding out after a bad drug deal, McKinney recalled. I was burned out and just didn't know it. Still, she wasn't happy. I was relieved emotionally because I knew there was a good chance my luck might run out, Ghantt said. Hes going to start bringing you money. Alright. I hear her typing. She later hired someone to kill Ghantt, though the murder never took place. Kelly, using David's cell phone, kept beeping him. He appeared happily matched with his high-spirited wife, Michele, and the two children from her first marriage. So the pieces were falling into place for investigators. Kelly had recently left a job driving an armored-car for Loomis, Fargo & Co. "He's the one who brought it up first," said Kelly, a year after her arrest. They set the date, Oct. 4, a Saturday when David knew he could be alone in the building after his shift. . So its one thing to go from up here, thought, to action, he said. Not Ghantt. . . Together, they drove in a convoy to an industrial warehouse eight miles away, where Eric Payne, a fourth accomplice was. That first day in prison was scary, Ghantt said. As with Kelly, the worst blotch on 29-year-old Eric's record until now was a driving-while-intoxicated conviction. So Im like, Can you get a move on with my money? After a couple of weeks passed, I get a phone call from Kelly: Okay, Brunos coming to you, blah, blah, blah. So I get a phone call from this guy, and I tell him where to meet me. I did every touristy thing you could possibly do while I was down there. By using this website, you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad Choices. Time passed, and Campbell eventually quit her job at Loomis Fargo. Scott was so nervous, he said, that he couldn't help. . After years of reflection and time in prison to work on himself, Ghantt was able to find a way to a better version of himself. Depression had led to smoking a lot of marijuana and taking Prozac, a combination she figures affected her judgment. "You" has three. At the end of October, Kelly was sentenced to 5 years 10 months in prison. ALSO READ: Leader of $3M check theft, bank fraud scheme in Charlotte area sentenced to prison, The hillbilly outfit did more that just drop a few breadcrumbs. The FBI (Leslie Jones, Jon Daly) made easy work of the case, however, and everyone involved was eventually arrested and imprisoned. 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