It took me going to prison to realize I was a bag of worms, and it took me years of work to be somebody worthy to come back into our society, he said. In the following months, Steve persisted, even floating the notion of placing phony hand grenades on a Loomis truck to scare away the drivers, Kelly said. He goes, My name is Bruno. Ultimately, though, the heist wasnt Ghantts idea, which meant he didnt decide who else was involved. On Feb. 27, agents listened in on a call from David to Kelly and learned David's location in Mexico. "I missed my family. The next day, he was sitting next to FBI agent Mark Rozzi on a US Airways flight to Charlotte. David didn't even know Steve's name. "As soon as you start, you realize there's no going back," David recalled. Only a nickel on every dollar have been collected so far. Michelle, meanwhile, purchased new breasts for herself, along with a $43,000 diamond ring and a new convertible BMW Z3. 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I said, Ten to 15 million. But I didnt really know.. Kelly Campbell, 29, a former company employee, entered guilty pleas earlier to bank larceny, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder charges. 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 youre like, Come on parachute. Name. Its attracted workers like Ghantt. Were others involved? Dustin is the founder and co-owner of Pajiba. The FBI's final challenge is finding the remaining $2 million. . ", "Even then . Cool, I say. When I call Ghantt to discuss his involvement in the Loomis Fargo heist, he confesses that hes feeling a bit tired from a day of honest labor. Chambers got 11 years. Its hilarious. He had even scheduled a follow-up appointment at the dentist. In the meantime, the FBI was closing in looking to bust a total of 21 suspected accomplices. They picked me, he says with a rueful tone. All rights reserved. To celebrate Halloween, about seven of Steve's friends, including Eric Payne and Kelly, gathered for a party at Steve's house. He flew in an ultra-light plane. There had been no signs. Working together, they got the gate open, then drove in a caravan to the Reynolds & Reynolds parking lot. They heard Michele brag about her $43,000 ring. Twenty-one people were charged and convicted in the robbery, one of the biggest heists in U.S. history. Steve told me to tell [David] whatever was necessary to keep him happy.". "He said, 'Yeah, right,' and turned his head. FILE - Kelly Campbell, one of the 21 people convicted for their involvement in the $17 million Loomis Fargo heist, awaits sentencing for her part in the theft at her mobile home near Mount Holly, N.C. on Aug 16, 1999. He told Steve he hadn't been able to find David. His collection case closes in two years. As for his new wife, when the two just started dating, he was nervous about letting her know about his past, but he wanted to be honest. The government does not run debtors prisons, says U.S. He didnt even really question me. Butcher says the federal courts in the Western District of North Carolina have never handled a case quite like Loomis. "I said, 'I don't want him killed.' Masterminds which opens nationwide today (though youd be hard pressed to know that given the decided lack of promotion) is proof again that all the talent in the world cannot salvage a bad script, and not even a good screenwriter can make up for terrible performances. And if that gives people out there a little bit of hope, then Ive served my purpose on this earth.. And then I could hear her laughing. Steve told her to send David to Atlanta on a bus and drive back to the trailer. So he got in a cab and went to a mall. As soon as you put that first bag of stolen money in that van, theres no going back. "Things I always wanted to do, but never had the time or the money," he said. Thomas Grant, who served three years in prison for bank larceny, paid off restitution of $70,000; brother Eric Grant paid all of his $26,000; as did David Craig, $40,000; and Dennis and Sandra Floyd; $27,000. She will never get beyond the debt. Campbell was released from federal custody in 2004 after serving five years, meaning her collection case will age out in December 2024. Im married, I got one girl, shes 15 going on 30. . This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. (John D. Simmons/The Charlotte Observer via AP) I knew that the news wouldnt break until later that morning. And after two years, you're just a file." I loved it. FBI video shows agents searching the Cramer Mountain home and finding stacks of cash. But you cant get blood from a stone, Johns said. That was great. 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. So the pieces were falling into place for investigators. >> PHOTOS: The Loomis Fargo heist, 25 years later. But it didnt really hit me until later., On March 2nd, when the FBI agents walked up to Ghantt in Playa del Carmen and told him he was under arrest, Ghantt was relieved. 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. At that same time, Steve was growing sick of the calls to send more money to Ghantt, and was looking for a way to end that issue. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Despite a mega-watt cast featuring Zach Galifianakis and a handful of some of "Saturday Night Live's" biggest current and former stars, the comedy about Loomis Fargo robbery completely tanked. Loomis has received $978,983.79, according to Sally Butcher, an assistant clerk in the federal courts of the Western District of North Carolina who specializes in criminal debt. Galifianakis seems to be playing a character out of Dumb and Dumber 3: The Dumbening; Kristen Wiig plays what could only be described as her worst SNL character; Owen Wilson plays an Owen Wilson character; and Sudeikis plays a bumbling hitman who cant pull the trigger after he finds out his target shares the same name and birthdate, which is the dumbest twist since the Martha revelation in Batman vs. Superman. Masterminds is an atrociously bad comedy, and absolutely everyone is to blame. RELATED: When you have money, you just have different problems: The Loomis Fargo heist, 25 years later, How I held it together is beyond me, Ghantt said. I did a little research into crime statistics and the local cops. You cannot fine low-income people millions of dollars. Twenty people were convicted of roles big and small in the massive 1997 armored-car warehouse heist in west Charlotte. "I said, 'Yeah, sure.' Zach always plays that bumbling kind of lunatic, but hes not, Ghantt says. In the wee hours of the morning, Chambers and the Erics drove back to the town of Vale, North Carolina, and holed up in a double-wide trailer while counting their cash. Agents raided safe deposit boxes, where they recovered more than $11 million. I was relieved emotionally because I knew there was a good chance my luck might run out, Ghantt said. Kelly Loomis. He told her he wanted more of "his" cash. Meanwhile, back in North Carolina, Ghantts wife woke up to find her husband missing. When Ghantt was on the plane home from Mexico with the FBI, he admitted to the agents that while Campbell had been integral to why hed done it and that he did indeed have a crush on her it was never his true motivation. None of the suspects had been in any serious trouble before this. Turns out, most of the thieves and their accomplices have been about as effective coming up with their court-ordered restitution as they were hiding their original crimes. Restitution is a familiar part of sentencing in federal court. From my standpoint, it was just a business deal, Ghantt said. And then I realized that a lot of people knew who I was and they had followed the case.. The platform is designed to engage citizens and government leaders in a discussion about what needs improvement across the country. He comes to my door, and hes got a brown paper bag in his hand. But the idea of all that money pulled at her. ", "I wouldn't do it. 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. Chambers, now 32, didn't grant an interview for this article, but last year, in response to written questions, he said the biggest lesson he learned was: "Family is more important and valuable than money. . The others sat in their cars across the street and watched him struggle to open the heavy gate. Then, on a mid-September day, as he reviewed a credit card bill, David did some math. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded daily . . 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. When Chambers and the two Erics were done loading the stolen millions into barrels, they abandoned the van in the woods. That was the thing that sticks in my mind to this day., ALSO READ: Man released from jail, accused of robbing banks while wearing electronic monitor, police say. Still, she wasn't happy. You've violated that trust. 1-4-3 is 'I love you.' Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. Once I start something, Im going to the end., As for how he felt in the moment, he says, Imagine me and you went on an airplane. Going south, nobody really looks at what youre shipping. . Steve bought a truck, a Rolex and a motorboat. Kelly was lying. 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.. It was an ear-biting, Pierce Brosnan-loving, comet-obsessed world, and were here to relive every minute of it. "She just called me up on the phone and said, 'Hey, let's meet one day after work.' Fourteen defendants were ordered to make restitution payments to Loomis Fargo totaling almost $19 million. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded. In the two days after the robbery, agents interviewed more than 100 people, most connected with David. Ghantt met up with the other members of the plot and offloaded the cash. Temptation to do something that you think you normally wouldnt do can change a lot of minds when its that kind of cash, and thats what it was., (WATCH BELOW: VIDEO: The Loomis Fargo heist: 25 years later). I was just going to get the money into the van. 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. "But I had to know.". Twenty-five years ago, a small group of rural North Carolinian amateur bank robbers pulled off the second-largest heist in American history. Kelly's company. Then FBI agent Wydra watched Steve's wife, Michele, deposit about $8,000 at a Gaston County, N.C., bank. All but one of the 24 defendants pleaded guilty, and the one who didnt take the deal was convicted. She could visit friends. Though he never found the right moment to carry out the hit, McKinney did find time to make a friend--a shady character named Robert, to whom he revealed more than was prudent. You might as well go all the way now.". The bash had a Cinderella theme, with a three-tiered cake that looked like a castle. On the radio, the "John Boy and Billy" show played the song "Take the Money and Run. Besides her prison sentence, Campbell must undergo mental health and drug treatment and spend two years in a supervised release program. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The problem with the movie, however, is that the talented cast had no idea what the hell they were trying to do. Then, he proceeded to load 2,800 pounds of cash into a van. Like David, Kelly was frustrated with her marriage. I'd probably change jobs. On his second trip, Steve gave McKinney David's hotel address. I couldn't understand why I hadn't been more successful," David said. ", "I said, 'If you drive a truck, you're always in a financial bind. In the first heist, a regional vault supervisor loaded money into a branded truck and . The modern company was formed in 1997 by the consolidation of two armoured security concerns, Wells Fargo Armored Service and Loomis Armored Inc. Their international network covers over 200 operating locations in the US and eleven western European countries. And though she had been made night shift supervisor at Allied Security, she still felt she would never make the money she needed. I told the lead investigator I was glad to see him.. When he walked onto the plane, he was wearing big, tall cowboy boots, where hed stuffed a majority of the smuggled cash. 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. It premiered in Los Angeles on September 26, 2016 and was theatrically released in the . The towns booming construction industry attracts workers from around the country. He longed for the middle-class lifestyle of his childhood, with its private religious-school education and Disney World vacations. * I understand and. Theres no management around. Why do we feel its so necessary to treat people like this, to say, OK, well just ruin the rest of your life because you made a bad decision., Punishment should not last a lifetime. ". Thanksgiving and Christmas were difficult. The whole town I was staying in was 98.9 percent Mexican, except for when the cruise ships were in, Ghantt recalls. Criminals dont usually get high-paying jobs after leaving prison. Given his position at the bank, hed be the one to pull off the robbery, and he intended to be ready. Records show the government has garnished his Social Security checks. He had an endearing smile, a beautiful wife and two children. Instead of lobster, the man who stole $17 million survived on home-cooked pasta and grilled cheese sandwiches. One day, Campbell was speaking to an old friend named Steve Chambers. Or that it was an inheritance. There was a third person with them, too, a man named Eric Grant. "For the first year, they're all over you. And when everybody else voted to kill me, she voted with them, he explains. What that says is, We will never forgive you for what youve done.. An officer rang the doorbell. You can have your whole career and not have a case like that. Ghantt was missing and no one, not even his wife, knew where he was. Kelly was no criminal. Time passed, and Campbell eventually quit her job at Loomis Fargo. Ghantt didn't actually meet Chambers until the night of the heist, though, according to Diamant, who would go on to write a book about it.The reason Ghantt got involved was always the . She could spend time with her children and parents. Scott Grant and Steve pulled up next to her in a Mazda. He had stolen $17 million from Loomis Fargo. But things didnt quite work out that way. Throughout the multi-year-long case and subsequent trials, journalists often referred to Ghantt and the others as trailer trash and hillbillies. The case had gotten national publicity and was the subject of numerous articles, documentaries and even a movie. David, the international fugitive, lived it up, too--for a while. "I said, 'That's all they gave me,' " McKinney recalled. But if you did, youll never forget it. 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.. 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. When McKinney arrived in North Carolina, the plan had changed. 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.. Mexican police, Interpol officers and an FBI agent were watching him. How did they get away with stealing more than $17 million? It will be some time before she can commune with domestic animals again. Steve, who had sworn Kelly, Eric and Scott to secrecy the night of the theft, named them all to the FBI. The FBI continues to search for a missing $2 million from the theft. Its everything thats coming north.. They didnt expect it.. On March 1, David Ghantt left his hotel to do some laundry. 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. Getting restitution, its like pulling teeth.. He recalled that another agent, Phil King, said, "Hey, there was an article in the [Charlotte] Observer about beeper codes. Called Masterminds, the 2016 film stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson. But what did that mean? He and his wife, Tammy, lived in a mobile home in Kings Mountain, N.C. Money was always tight. 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. The initials on the money wrapper belonged to a Loomis employee who hadn't worked there since before the heist. "She said, 'What would it take to convince you to do it?' In the meantime, however, Chambers not only refused to wire money to Ghantt in Mexico, but ultimately hired a hitman (Jason Sudeikis) to take him out. I had a four-hour layover there, and then from New Orleans to Cancun.. Not until David was gone did Scott realize he didn't know which key to use. We got to the end of the day, and he was acting like he wanted to linger. According to Butcher, Campbells last official payment came in June 2021 when the government appears to have seized a tax refund of $81.24. He became the target of a nationwide FBI manhunt and was arrested five months later near the Mexican resort of Cozumel. They discussed it further, and Campbell asked him when they should do it. Though Wydra is retired, 25 years ago, he was an agent with the FBI. I didnt pick the heist team. Kelly Campbell, 29, a former company employee, entered guilty pleas earlier to bank larceny, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder charges. 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. "I" has one letter. and "I love money!" 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened 1997. 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. David kissed his sleeping wife on the cheek on the morning of Oct. 4. On Nov. 12, a confidential informant told the FBI about Steve Chambers's move from mobile home to mansion. At first, David Ghantt said, "I didn't take her seriously. His collection case, which closes in November 2026, got credit for the couples $540,000 house on Cramer Mountain in Gaston County, Butcher says. Kelly would only discover later that leading up to the heist, Steve had been writing bad checks, $17,000 worth, for which he would later be convicted. Scott didn't want to, but then he remembered the hundred-grand payday. He wouldn't give me the opportunity to say anything else. Some amateur thieves might turn to movies and TV shows for lessons on criminal behavior. First, in January, he tried to get someone to take some millions down to Mexico. At 6 that morning, FBI supervisor Rick Shaffer led 12 agents and several Gaston County police officers up a winding road on Cramer Mountain to Steve's home. . Here, he amps up the most obnoxious excesses of his entire cast and lets their grating bad-improv skills run amok. Where I was going was right there near the Cayman Islands. Her case closes in 2025. Some family members hid money in bank deposit boxes, other friends were asked to mule cash to the Cayman Islands. The FBI says Chambers hired a hitman to tie up the ultimate loose end -- Ghantt. Most people are going to forgive you. We need to set up some way for me to get my money. She said, We got it all worked out. People dont seem to understand human nature. 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. Youre supposed to get less time for cooperating, a lesser penalty, and instead, you see what she got hit with. Gronquist said. Para obtener ms informacin sobre cmo utilizamos tus datos, consulta nuestra Poltica de privacidad y la Poltica de cookies. However, the fact that a man who formerly lived in a mobile home was lavishly spending money on a luxury home ($635,000 in cash), expensive cars, and a ring ($42,000 in cash) eventually made it easy to connect the dots. More than half of the amount came from the seizure of a luxury home purchased by husband-and-wife defendants during their post-heist spending spree. 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. The cash was covered with dog food. He rewarded Robert with $3,000 and vowed never to meet McKinney alone. But he tried to keep his face averted, so David wouldn't be able to ID him. real kelly campbell loomis fargo heist. Michele told her mother she and Steve had been saving gambling winnings for the down payment. On the evening of October 4, 1997, one man loaded $17.3 million in cash from the vaults of Loomis, Fargo & Co. into the back of a van. There it was, "The Heist." Kelly relayed his message to Steve. The van door opened. 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. Ghantt started at Loomis Fargo in 1994, and soon worked his way up from an armored car driver to a vault supervisor. Then he was driving in the darkness with a van full of cash. Guller was the attorney for Steven Chambers, who came up with the original idea for the Loomis theft. But in November, money ran low. Punishment needs to be fair and realistic. Basically, he needed a score to make his problems go away. At the end of one session, they wound up kissing outside the pickup. Too many questions remained: Where was the cash? She was like, Well, at least you had guts, he says. Steve led the planning. But I thought this is me being hard-headed Im going to ride this thing to the ground. And so thats what I did.. AP CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Kelly Campbell, the woman who helped plan the $17 million robbery of armored-car company Loomis, Fargo was sentenced yesterday to nearly six years in prison and ordered. There was, however, one problem with his plan. Ghantt spent a solid hour moving what ended up being 2,700 pounds of cash more than an actual ton into an unmarked company van. They sweated, though the night was cool. Hes a family man with a wife and daughter. Ghantt would go on to spend six and a half years in federal prison. "Love" has four. He added that money can be a motivator for anyone. In all, agents arrested 24 people in the heist. White-collar criminals are pretty good at hiding their money, she said. "I was trying to figure out a way to [leave my husband] and take care of my kids without having to depend on him or any other man," Kelly said. "He was speechless," said Sandra Floyd. Or that hed gotten lucky gambling. The bigger the amount, however, the bigger the damages to victims that likely will never be repaid: Amy Paynes collection account was closed in 2020 with her having paid $53,000 of the $274,000 she owed. Truth was, David wanted more than help leaving, he wanted company. Many of the lesser players in the conspiracy have been the most effective in paying their debts. . They placed a bust of Caesar in the dining room. But being the vault supervisor at Loomis Fargo had one perk -- exposure to tons of cash. The number of people involved had ballooned after Steve started asking friends and family to help him launder the stolen cash. David said he realized then, for the first time, he might not see the millions he thought he had coming to him. Based on a true story, the premise itself is fascinating, which makes Masterminds all the more a waste. Hed be in contact. How many people have walked the red carpet at a movie premiere in a case that was yours?. Since then, there have been numerous articles, books, documentaries and even a movie about this gang -- the gang that couldnt shoot straight. Some days, the robbery seems like a memory from a different life, a choice made by a different man. The first weekday after the heist, Michele Chambers, co-conspirator Steve's wife, walked into a NationsBank branch with a briefcase containing $5,000. What purpose does that serve other than to denigrate that person into abject poverty?. The Evergreen State takes the top spot again in the U.S. News Best States ranking on the strength of its tech sector and other industries. Him and I still talk every now and then. Ghantt, meanwhile, was losing his patience and starting to make threats. David Ghantt was just an average Joe with an average low-wage job. And robbing a truck was dangerous. Down in Jacksonville, a Loomis Fargo employee took $18 million from an armored van he was driving. He said at first, they were very proud of what they had been able to do. This robbery is the largest cash robbery on U.S. soil. Jim Gronquist was Campbells defense attorney. Besides her prison sentence, Campbell must undergo mental health and drug treatment and spend two years in a supervised release program. About 10 frantic minutes later, Scott found the right key. And to me, if it pisses them off, Im all for it.. In early December, Steve and Michele invited relatives to their daughter's sixth birthday party. Scott Grant and Steve pulled up next to her in a Mazda. Nosotros, Yahoo, somos parte de la familia de marcas de Yahoo. While Ghantt trusted Chambers enough to leave his cut behind, Chambers had other plans. In a word, "Teamwork. When she realized Ghantt never came home from work the night before, she contacted the police and filed a missing persons report. So much so that one suspicious neighbor called the FBI. They stocked a wine cellar. When did you conclude Yeah, Im actually going to do this? Counts asked. If you want me to leave, Ill leave. Then, Ghantt went into another room. He allegedly hired a hitman to take Ghantt out, tying up the ultimate loose end. Michelle Chambers paid off only $27,000. He partied, met women, drank, skied and hung out at the beach. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded daily by millions of dollars worth of temptation. She never really worried about the moral end of it--she was focused only on getting what she wanted out of life, what so many others seemed to have in this booming part of the South. Why had he ever believed he'd get it? His new life in Mexico had begun. Kelly drove her pickup to a lot across the street from the Loomis building, on Suttle Avenue in Charlotte. Money. Kelly told the FBI she had done drugs with David but denied knowing about the theft. ', "He asked me if I'd mind holding some money for him. And I was thinking about just showing up there. 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