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$4 Million In Gold Bars Stolen In 11th Largest Heist In History
Long-time Zero Hedge readers may remember the rather surreal moment towards the beginning of the long-running German tungsten/gold repatriation saga, when Bundesbank Executive Board member Andreas Dombret assured the NY Fed that Germany wasn’t afraid of Simon Gruber (or Goldfinger for that matter) “masterminding gold heists in U.S. vaults.”
Well, since it now appears Germany is all set to ramp up its repatriation efforts (see the NY Fed’s November monthly outflow numbers), Buba may want to reconsider its stance on the threat posed by ambitious bandits, as less than 24 hours ago, an estimated 4 million in gold bars were commandeered (on the side of I-95 no less), by gun wielding desperados.
From CBS:
North Carolina authorities and the FBI are investigating the theft of an estimated $4 million worth of gold allegedly stolen during an armed robbery along Interstate 95 on Sunday evening, CBS affiliate WRAL reports.
After mechanical problems with their truck, two armed guards who were traveling from Miami to Massachusetts with a shipment of silver and gold pulled over at mile marker 114 on the Interstate.
According to the station, the sheriff's office says the guards reported that three armed men in a white van approached them, ordered them to the ground, tied their hands behind their backs and forced them to walk into some nearby woods. Investigators, who responded to the scene shortly before 7 p.m., said the men then reportedly took several barrels of gold and left while the guards were in the woods.
While it’s not clear if the perpetrators here were in fact relatives of anyone killed by John McLane, what we do know is that this was no small feat. Here’s local affiliate WNCN: “...gold robberies of this magnitude are rare. The largest gold robbery in Florida, for example, was the $2.8 million stolen in 2012.”
A quick look back at last year’s ZH post chronicling the 15 greatest gold heists of all-time reveals that yesterday’s 6:50 p.m. robbery was in fact the 11th biggest gold bullion heist ever! Below, find the original infographic.
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Someone actually made money playing Warcraft? Zug Zug... indeed.
Worthless relic.
Should have instead tried mining and refining silver. Only costs $4 an ounce to pull out of the ground, dontcha know. /sarc
yes, barbarians!!!
Were the two guards driving an armored truck or a dump truck? Doesn't make any sense. I smell an inside job.
The Federal Reserve hyper rehypothecates 1000's of tonnes of European gold and nobody gives a shit.
But some robbers steal a few pounds of gold bars from an armored truck and everyone loses their mind.
WTF
This was on WRAL early today. Most comments sniffed this as an inside job. Truck breaks down and THEN it was robbed?
Next you are going to tell me that a steel framed building with small fires collapses on its own at controlled demolition speed.
"Pull another one Larry."
pods
where was the gold heading for anyway?
Is this germany's gold being re-repatriated by uncle sam?
What about the Tattler article from 1974?
http://s6.zetaboards.com/Bill_Still_Reforum/topic/1176801/1/
Informant Dies Mysteriously
New York — On July 3, 1974, 59-year-old Louise Auchincloss Boyer died after falling from the window of her 10th-floor apartment at 530 East 86th Street. The event was ruled a probable suicide and duly reported the next day in the New York Times. Note that Mrs. Boyer was the granddaughter of none other than Col. House, the man who guided the Federal Reserve Act through Congress for Morgan, Rockefeller, Warburg and company. Although to date it has not been determined whether there was a relationship, Jackie Kennedy’s father was Hugh Auchincloss. It is known that Jackie’s grandfather helped John D. Rockefeller found Standard Oil.
Mrs. Boyer’s death torched a firestorm of controversy and rocked a previously inviolable element of Americana — the security of the nation’s gold reserves held at Fort Knox. Perhaps not coincidentally, only three days earlier, Mrs. Boyer, had been featured as an unnamed source in a spectacular story in the tabloid, National Tattler. Readers were shocked by the sensational headline:
“International Monetary Expert Sounds Alarm:
NO GOLD LEFT IN FORT KNOX!
Federal Reserve System Charged With Secret Sale of
U.S. Gold Supplies Overseas to Super-Rich David Rockefeller.”
The story charged that the Rockefeller family was manipulating the Federal Reserve to sell off Fort Knox gold at low prices to anonymous European speculators who were really fronting for them. Mrs. Boyer was the executive assistant to former Gov. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (remember where that name, Aldrich, came from? Nelson’s grandfather, Senator Aldrich, one of the founders of the Fed), and had served him in one capacity or another since 1944, just as her husband had served Laurence S. Rockefeller for many years before his death two years earlier.
4 million you say? So I guess that means that the FED has nothing left in their vaults now...
What's a trillion between friends?
Obvious inside job. Sabotaged truck. The punch line will probably be that the "4 million" dollar shipment was insured for the full amount but was actually $200 of tungsten with $1000 worth of gold plate.
They should go check Jeffrey Christians closet.
That should keep Comex going for another week.
These are probably the increasing incidences of gold Heists that will precede a legislated, Rooseveltian gold heist.
and its gone.
No one saw me, no one can prove it, I've got a solid alibi!!!
I really have to dig up my stack to make sure it wasn't mine?
Reports that the truck was quickly driven away by investigators... hmm thought it broke down?
DON'T you stay inside that thing and call dispatch? Nope...
75k - hmm, that troll chick dancing in her skivvies on the Orgrimar mailbox did alright for herself!
i would say the gold confiscation act stealing gold from we the people and replacing
it with ever devaluing script and then selling all the gold to china would be number 1.
Why all the fuss over this? After all, gold is only a useless relic.
I wonder how much the Annunaki have stolen.
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How about when the BIS and the Bank of England stole 740,000 oz of Czech gold and gave it to Adolph Hitler?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/10213988/Never-mind-the-Czech-gold-the-Nazis-stole....html
That is $887million in today's dollars.
That should be on the list.
That means #0 was the heist from Fort Knox
Cmon youre telling me ISIS (cough CIA) got out with the #2 stash? really? Im betting it was hot off the press consecutive serials $20 Jacksons loaded neatly on pallettes.
The bitcoin truck in the convoy remained untouched....
I would also point out that 4 mil in gold would fit inside a briefcase....so why did they use a truck?
That's our story,
and we're sticking with it;)
For those curious...200 lbs of gold or 6.5 red monster boxes. Two guys and a compact car coulda handled that.
Thats right. We all saw you get pulled from the lake after your boat went down.
Central banksters steal trillions from the world's economies every year for generations and not a peep. Some dudes steal 4 million dollars worth of a metal the banksters regard as worthless, and the story is everywhere.
Eyewitnesses to the theft report the thieves had a strange resemblence to … well … er … Barbarians!
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRF6pD-dnhwBZOYerVp...
I'd only be surprised if the cargo wasn't insured.
It was such an easy heist! I basically just walked up to the armored truck and offered them some loose cigs. They knew then that I was a serious threat and ran away quickly.
Inside job. Who knows except the shipper and receiver whats in those boxes.
At 1,200$/oz, 4 million in gold translates to 3,333.33 oz, or 208.33 lbs. Take two guys to carry it while someone else pays the armored truck drivers for helping them out. Question: How do they crate gold bullion bars?
For sure, if it was the new improved tungsten gold standard, the insiders wanted the dodgy bars out of sight and out of mind, or hypothetically conversely, the price of tungsten has suddenly skyrocketed.
Inside job - has to be - no other explanation - unless - of course - one actually believes some crew of hapless highway bandio's, look for a few bags of quarters from a vending machine harvester simply lucked into it.
Now I am beginning to undertand the motivations of our Synogress's rut to move out of tungsten illumination products - ya can't cover the FED's or the Morgue's naked short gold positions without a hell of a lot of tungsten,
Only five and a half liters of volume.
3,333 ounces.....that's only 7 monster boxes
Yes..thats exactyl right... you see,
The trillions you speak of that 'bankers stole' is worth..well about as much as a few digits typrd into a computer.
However, 4 million worth of gold (especially in todays artificial price) is actually worth something.
Although i do understand your point.
No worries, tungsten theft is probably only a misdemeanor.
While I do hope they solve this crime, since I don't condone theft, I would much rather they devote their resources to catching those responsible for all of the gold taken out of the federal reserve and ft Knox that is supposed to belong to the citizens of the US, Germany, etc.
Big graphic ...
They put locks on the box.
I say just carry the box .. open later.
Weld the box to the truck
I say steal the truck ... open later
Don't they have little holes on armoured trucks to shoot guns from?
We're these "Guard Dog" secured trucks?
So .. lets see .. did the highwaymen steal the gold, for real, or were they, instead, "ribbing" to hide the fact the so called gold was nothing more than a metallic "twinky", gold on the outside and a shitload of tungsten "filling" inside (juz like maw used to make)? Ya can never tell these days state financed theater of tragedy - we are all terror suspects and collateral fodder, visa vi the Diebold machines unfettered undocumented assessment of our political class employees entrusted with our authorazations - that they now use to fund homeland theater as tangible state [sponsored] "proofs", that Oceania's newest and meanest Emanuel Goldstein ever was - an dey ain't kidding - and you can take that to the bank.
Insurance claims are one way to rehypothecate gold - why didn't I think of that!!!!
Tungsten futures? Anyone? ,,, anyone?
Headline 2017 .... 4 million dollar gold heist... The culprits were seen stuffing the gold in their front pockets as they exited the truck.
The whole war in Syria is dirty and Serena Shim had proof
New Anonymous op as White House still ignores murder of American reporter Serena Shim in Turkey
Or... 'The culprits were caught with 2 Eagles each in their pocket, but by the time they were arraigned, the market 'value' had doubled to $8 million...
Actually you are not too far off.
The gold was in barrels in the back of a tractor-trailer truck. Some silver involved also.
http://www.wral.com/-4m-in-gold-reported-stolen-during-armed-robbery-along-i-95-in-wilson/14484323/
The guards are employed by TransValue Inc., which according to its website, is a Miami-based company that transports valuables between financial institutions.
Owner Jesus Rodriguez said he was unable to comment about the matter but confirmed the guards were driving a tractor-trailer. Neither was injured, he said.
The company is cooperating with authorities and is offering a $50,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
If it's like the Wall Street white collar crimes...
The guys will be caught, forced to pay a $10,000 fine, spend 60 days in jail....then they'll be released.
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Here's an even better one, pods:
"US federal government debt will be repaid without default."
maybe them 'collasping' towers
were a way to repay a debt...
Would never have happened if there was stricter gun control.
(BIG sarc)
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So what happened to those 6600 tons of Chinese gold that the Japanese stole in 1937? Why didn't China ask it back after the end of WW2?
Marcos and the lovely Emelda took it. The Marcos' estate lost a law suit in internation court brought by the guy who found it in a cave in the Philippines. A solid gold Budda was specifically mentioned. He was awarded significant damages. I'm not sure he was able to collect.
The head of the CIA George Bush wound up with Yamashita's Gold, they went after it the second they figured out that Marcos had located the stash, and thus, saved the World.
Maybe they did, and the wrong answer is what led them into Korea.
There were rumors Nixon flew to China with a lot of gold. Maybe after they got the bomb.
Lots of maybes, no photos.
everyone loses their minds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-gf29nuYYA
Alright, which one of you assholes was it?
I guess they forgot the single largest gold heist in history...
...when American's holding gold "backed" notes were just told one day that they could keep their notes, but not exchange it for the gold.
How this happened without a full scale civil rebellion must go down in history as the biggest heist and deception of sheeple ever.
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So can Yellen, Krugman and Bernanke account for their whereabouts at that time? I bet that gold is on it's way to Germany.
Not to a government vault, it's not.
"I smell an inside job"
'zactly!
My first thought too Cog.
Yeh- anonymous white vans trail all suspected gold bearing trucks in the event they have an unexpected roadsidew breakdown.
Absolutely... engine trouble? Guards exited the vehicle? Smells like an inside job.
The CIA strikes again -- they obviously need more funding for the new wars they are starting .....
The news story was sort of interesting but the add-on article about top gold heists was mostly bullshit.
There is no way that China had 6,700 tonnes of gold in 1937. I would be surprised to learn they had even that much silver back then. It was only 50 years earlier that China was impoverished by being forced to buy opium by British Jews. China had been getting much of the British silver in exchange for silk, tea and china and Britain had no goods that Chinese were interested in. They were forced to buy opium which was produced in India by Jews and pay in specie. A Jew owned British government even went to war with China when the Chinese authorities tried to stop the trade.
Speaking of Jews .... The 10 coins stolen from the mint had a value of $200 at the time. Just because Jews stole them does not mean that the government acting improperly by seizing them. The theft was $200 not 14 or so million.
And of course they mention the Nazi gold .....PUULLLEEEEZZZE.....
Good grief.... when does this bullshit get to be too much for the average person to swallow.
Even if Japan did, the war went on for 8 years after 1937.
So where did the gold go? Well, logically it would go to cronies, and be spent in the war effort.
Getting rich honestly is hard enough. Thats why billionaires tend to 'innovate' fraudulent ways to get (filthy) rich. Like rehypothecating gold, or financing both sides in a conflict, or using 30-1 leverage and engaging in insider trading, or doing a triangular trade for rum, to trade for slaves, to grow sugar, to make rum.
Or like in the Opium Wars, trading opium for precious metals, as mentioned...
The Japanese gold was known as 'Yamashita's Gold':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold
An interesting book that supposedly figured out what happened:
'Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold' http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249237.Gold_WarriorsHonestly, my first reaction is that this is BS. Or if it actually did exist has been thoroughly stolen by our Oligarchs.
It's always the Jews' fault, isn't it, you slimy little bastard?
Uh no....it's not always their fault. In the two cases I pointed out they sure played the prominent role and were clearly instigators. One case involved scamming a few gold coins. The other case led to the addiction and subsequent deprivation of millions. God knows how many perished over the flood of opium, never mind the actual wars that took place when decent Chinese tried to resist.
I really don't know if it was a Jew who came up with the idea of forcing a nation to allow the open sale of opium to its citizens in order to address a balance of trade issue. I do know that Jews made huge amounts off that trade.
The Nazi gold ......Good grief.....we are watching the US buy traitors to their respective nations all around the world. They are selling or giving their national heritage away for a little power. Once the traitor has power, the gold disappears. Nothing going on there, but; them ole Nazis....now thats a different story.
Wouldn't be the first time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Loomis_Fargo_Robbery_in_North_Carolina
Now they can claim they had gold. Gold re-laundering operation.
$4 million. Wow! The team can split up the loot and live a fairly comfortable life in an apartment forever! What a score. 4 whole millions!
Knowing that area it would not surprise me if it was a heist as it is in nearby rocky mount nc that has the worse crime rate in the state. The latest trend has been home invasions with multi gunmen. Not saying it isn't an inside job but if so they picked the right area.
Italian Job
No yield. I guess they'll eat it.
I know that a lot of you here are stackers. Apparently the guys that took this shipment are just better at accumulating gold and silver
than most of us here - less patient and ethical anyway. Or, this shipment was rehypothecated by the FED and the bill is due and they
set this up so they could have insurance pay-up and have another pile to re-rehypothecate. My guess is that you will see more and more
stories like this one.
These guards should have come up with a better plan. What is it with North Carolina armored car guards?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Loomis_Fargo_Robbery_in_North_Carolina
It seems the Fed will go to any lengths to procure some Gold for Germany. The short fat robber was Yellen.
In China a few years ago geek guys who "grinded" their avatar could sell them on Ebay, some of them could make 100,000 $ per month...
I sold my lvl 80 shaman for $50 to some desperate dope at an internet cafe. At the time I thought, who the F! is this guy paying money for some pixels in a game? Then I looked online and saw people selling more poorly geared characters for several hundred dollars.
Sounds like JP Morgone is getting desperate.
Entertaining, but once again "The ladder is leaning against the wrong wall", and thus guys like Dimon and Bankfine are laughing their butts off:
These examples are K-Garden stuff, compared to the Major League heists that their business are engaged in -- and the "best part" is that it's all legal.
"Hey, look over here: A Unicorn..."
they should have stolen shares of Facebook...
morons!
Good luck fencing it....
I watched two dudes in India turn a cold coin into a necklace with little more than a propane burner and some small hand tools. That's the beauty of precious metals. Just melt it down and turn it into something else.
I heard that melting a .999 gold bar would turn it into .99 tungsten.
LOL! Maybe so these days. I was shocked at the amount of other metals in that coin. The coin was from Qatar...
What other metals could you discern?
I refine Gold from scrap Karat Jewelry as well as Electronics.
The only way I can discern any other metals is by Chemical Assay.
If I can see another metal then it is Plated Crap.
I call Bullshit.
I don't know what they were. There was gold, then there was silvery stuff. That's all I saw. The Indian dudes separated it out.
cold coins lol . Sounds legit . Indians have fetish for the barbaric relic .
Fencing them will only be a problem if the bars look like this:
http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/9/95/IJ-GoldBarsa.jpg/500px-IJ-GoldBarsa.jpg
If not; you need not fear the Russian Mafia...
Strangely enuff, some gold bars just popped up for sale on Ebay ... with Free Shipping !
No thanks.
No eBay Gold Plated Tungsten for me.
Hopefully they will be stupid and not change the form of it.
I hope that they get caught and prosecuted.
I hate thieves,..especially Gold thieves.
If the form is changed and as a result is unidentifiable then it will be far too easy to sell.
Demand for Physical Gold is nearing all time highs...especially at these low prices. Far too many people want it.
I hope that none of that Stolen Gold ever makes it to me as I do not want the "benefit", rather the Spiritual Karma, of an ill gotten gain.
Fencing malleable metal, thats the least of their worries. Fuck, make bullets out of it and kill vampire squids, wonder if they can put down a cloven hoofed Corswine with one.
200 pounds of stolen gold.....not even news.
228.57lb to be a bit more precise.
47cm (18.5in) cube.
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1200lbs.
228.57lb to be a bit more precise.
47cm (18.5in) cube.
Uh, no.
Pure Gold has a density of 0.698 Lbs./cubic inch.
228.57 pounds would equal 327.46 cubic inches.
That's a cube ~ 6.9 inches on a side.
Ragner Danneskjold where are you?
Probably at the Gulch...working out the details of using the car.
The fucking Fed did it.
Sounds kind of insidy to me....truck breaks down..the guards go outside and have a smoke I guess...and robbers show up...not even a good Drive in Movie plot...
Too distinct to be random for sure. Whether inside or remote disabling device, something stinks worse than the hog farms off I95.
Mike H, -- your's is an uneducated nose.
Yes, a remote disabling device. Must have been a Mercedes truck. Did the engine explode?
Would make for a decent Keanu Reeves vehicle, though. Literally. It sputters from the start and breaks down less than halfway through.
"They were never caught"
Ah, music to my ears.
So at least ten people celebrate theft and dishonesty on ZH?
Then you bitch about and whine about being stolen from. And then you wonder why you deserve it?
Laughable.
No sweat.
Jesus will check their 'spritual karma' load and make them come back as dung beetles.
I guess he has a Fluke meter or something.
Relax Tom, the whole thing was insured up to 100M in fiat.
Krugman would say nothings been lost or stolen, just a rounding error ;-)
It was insured but thats the last time I use them to haul my shit around. I just contracted with Jeb's Moonshine Hauling and bushhogging service to transport it next tme !!!
remove "laughable" and replace with /sarc
FIFU
Just buy some paper gold ETF....UNLESS you are married...then bury the physical BITCHEZ
And noone that was traveling along one of the busiest highway corridors in the world saw shit.
right...
Anyone know where John Corzine is these days?
Trouble with the truck they seys.
Corzine is probably advising Holder to check into the whereabouts of any ZH members living in NC right now...
I thought the largest heist of gold in history is the "disappearance" of thousands of tonnes from Fort Knox.
No Kelly's Heros?
I have some in my tank.
Good Vibes, man.
Ha Ha Ha...the Fed stole that today in .00001 second!
I had similar thoughts. There's an amazing silence on the theft of gold from Libya, Ukraine and anywhere else the Central banksters can get it from to support their Ponzi scheme.
it was Apple employees
Those farging iceholes...
I am going to call bullshit on this one. Sounds like to me that someone was asked to deliver on some gold they claimed to have in stock.
Nice theory! Someone called in 200 lbs of Comex gold and Comex said "Uuuh.... Sure... Let me get my manager on the line..."
when things get tough, you have to steal.
that comes right after the lying.
No mention of the gold heist from the twin towers on 09/11/2001
Or the $3 TRILLION announced as missing from the Pentagon the day before the 9/11 attacks.
Or the $3 TRILLION announced as missing from the Pentagon the day before the 9/11 attacks.
Correction, 9-09-2001.
Or the change in ownership just a week prior.
Or the insurance collected for their little "jew lightning modified by planes" murder/arson job.
Jewish lightning brought down Building 7? Say it ain't so! These people (Larry Silverstein-esque billionaires) have suffered enough!
WTC 6 was just as strange, if not stranger:
http://killtown.911review.org/wtc6.html
Study the actual damage through the central 'hole'. Not falling debris, and if it was blown, why didn't it collapse?
We'll never know the truth, but we know the lies.
bULLSHIT.....HAD TROUBLE WITH THE TRUCK Fucking inside job.
Encouraging to see an honest day's work in the "market" for a change.
$4 million is not very much gold.
Perhaps not now, but give it a couple of years & that 4million will be worth 20million or more.
Like 911 this reeks of an Inside Job.
To da moooon!
Or is that silver?
The Golden Rays of the warm and nourishing Sun or is it the shimmering Silver Light of the Moon?
Does that help answer your question?
Enough to retire on, if you can unload it.
If my math is right, it's just under 1/1,000,000th of what the Fed added to it's balance sheet over the past few of years through QE.
Like, they wouldn't stay locked in their truck on the side of the road. All three were outside.
U-huh. Yep.
Barbaric. Truly barbaric.
Ok, so now I can imagine the scenario that leads to the catastrophic collapse everyone has been waiting for, it goes like this...
Lloyd Blankfein is held up by robbers. But when he hands them the tens of thousands of dollars he has on hand, they stare at it like he has just handed them a jar of warm sputum. "Get fucked!", they say. Then they demand his wedding ring, gold necklace and wristwatch.
As soon as they leave, he gets on the phone, screaming, "Sell! Sell it ALL! It's WORTHLESS! No one WANTS it!"
In a totally unrelated story, some one has several barrels of tungsten up for bid on Ebay.
As my truck went chug, chug, chug
I met a van with seven thugs
Every thug had seven packs
Every pack with golden stacks
Every stack had several ounces
Ounces, stacks, and packs
How many were Deutschland bound?
German repo agents.
Counter-parties verifying its authenticity.
Set up? Come on! "Mechanical problems" with the truck? And it was at THAT moment that they were robbed? You've got to be kidding me.