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FBI Finds Gold Bar From Highway Heist In Florida
On March 1, three armed men stole $4.9 million in gold bars from two guards who had pulled over on the side of I-95 with car trouble — it was the eleventh-largest gold heist in history. Details were sparse at the time although a local CBS affiliate was able to provide the following color:
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.
For our part, we suggested Simon Gruber (or someone else whose relatives had been killed by John McLane) may have been behind the plot.
This morning, further details about the ongoing case were released after one of the missing bars turned up in South Florida. Here’s more via ABC:
One of the gold bars stolen in a highway heist last month has been found in South Florida, according to the FBI.
"We believe that additional gold bars from the robbery may still be in South Florida and we continue to need the public’s help in solving this crime,” the agency says.
Two suspects made off with approximately $4.9 million in gold bars after holding up an unmarked van on March 1 in North Carolina, authorities have said. The van was transporting about $10 million in precious metals from Florida to Massachusetts...
Days after the robbery, Wilson County, North Carolina, Sheriff Calvin Woodard Jr. said the suspects placed a traffic cone behind the van while they unloaded the gold from the trunk. That cone had the marking of a company that only does work in Florida.
“This confirms that there is a South Florida nexus to this crime,” said supervisory agent Jeff Fleck, proving yet again that nothing gets by an FBI agent.
In another example of how — through a careful examination of the facts and via the use of uncanny deductive reasoning skills — police are putting the pieces together to form a hypothesis about the heist, ABC says authorities believe it might be pertinent that the drivers apparently changed their story regarding why they pulled over and furthermore, the fact that they were robbed immediately upon stopping seems to suggest that someone knew something ahead of time.
Three suspects allegedly stole $4.8 million-worth of gold after one of the two armed guards -- the driver and another man, both inside the truck's cabin -- said that he felt sick and prompted the driver to pull over, Wilson County Sheriff Calvin Woodard Jr. told reporters today.
That account is different from what was presented in the first police report on the case, which said that a mechanical issue caused the truck's driver to pull over.
“There is suspicion at this time that this could be an inside job due to the circumstances of the robbery," a Wilson County Sheriff’s Office detective wrote in a search warrant application to get access to one of the guards' cell phones, one of two search warrants in the case obtained today.
"The fact that the truck was robbed immediately upon it pulling over at an unannounced stop is suspicious in and of itself," the document added. "It is also suspicious because there are no markings on the side of the truck that would indicate the type of cargo contained therein. The suspects also went directly to the trailer and found the gold which was in unmarked five gallon buckets. It is not believed that this is a random act due to the nature and facts of this robbery."
That sounds like a reasonable assumption to us as well.
Fortunately, police have sketches depicting two of the three perpetrators:
So if you see two men of completely indeterminate race one of which may have a goatee while the other has short hair and appears to be wearing some manner of lipstick, you can report them to the FBI and, if the information you provide leads authorities to any buried treasure, you will receive a generous reward of $25,000.
We doubt that reward will be sufficient to cause any of the suspects to turn on their compatriots however, given that each bar is apparently worth nearly $500,000.
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So, a person got caught contributing to the Clinton "Found-dation?"
"Dammit, Chelsea, I showed you how to use those zip ties."
"These are not the same ones, dad! Fuck off! Has Mom got the stuff?"
Did he look like this?
Here are the suspects:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/chelsea-clinton-talks-grow...
"Clinton Foundation Announces Another Contribution."
They probably discovered they were filled with Tungsten and threw them out.
Rush Limbaugh stole those gold bars they are in his compound in Florida guarded by Snerdly... Getting ready to fly them to his secret bat cave...
Is that Charlie Munger in a hoodie on the right?
Damn right, your just too stupid to conspire with the government to get rich like me and uncle warren and uncle corzine.. Stupid plebes,
signed your better;
John T. Chisholm: fucking scumbag
You mean 'secret bar cave', don't you?
I see what you did there
Nothing gets by an FBI agent - except 911, Oklahoma, The Clinton Fraudation, Bush's, Dick Cheney, Special flights for the Bin Laden family, oh crap I am sure I missed a bunch..
And just for your 5 minute afternoon chuckle here's James Corbett OKC: A Conspiracy Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W6KlZd6Qic
Oh heck... let's make it a two-fer Tuseday. James Corbett 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98
How nice someone finally compiled a 'Conspiracy Compilation' now you don't need 6 months to watch them all just watch the summaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XhpZU66o6A
Moar chemtrails!
+1 thanks zero. always useful to be reminded that when you change money you change everything - including the truth.
Not 3 buildings. 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkwmtVqIpoM
Correct.
Here's an even bigger conspiracy theory laugh.
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
OK, first, the armored car is carrying 10 million in precious metals but these dolts only take half? 100 bucks says the guy who asked the driver to pull over is the inside dude, ya think? He'll crack shortly, turn over the other idiots and we can go back to dreaming that we found the 500K gold bar.
If these guys wanted to cause penultimate chaos and they know their screwed and going to get jail time, they should just start calling the media and telling them that the bars have been randomly distributed all through Miami in people's backyards, alleyways, under their porches - the 2015 Great Robin Hood Golden Giveaway!! Then watch the city denigrate into chaos when the zombie free shit army starts raiding anyone's property because they thought they saw something shiny..
Would be better in DC or NYC - more media to fuel the frenzy.
Looks a little like Varoufakis and Lafazanis.
looks more like Pedro and Leroy to me. This had to have been an inside job right from the beginning.
You know...like the Lufthansa heist!
The third perp was Corzine.
"Ewwww, Dad! Putchur penis away, I'm not one of your Monicas! I'm your daughter!"
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Why would they want a barbarous relic and not some neat green paper instead?
Gold, what a fun and entertaining "tradition"!
Are you counting Roosevelt and Kissinger in your "greatest gold heists in history"? Because they are #2 and #1.
Guy on the right is the Bernank.
lol'ed at this.
The guy on the right looks black...can I say that?
dats raysis
It be spelled rasis, u kraker.
youri. i see max is down again. any news?
"Let's go, Bill, there are no female guards on that truck!"
"OK, honey."
"Put it back in your pants, Dad!"
"OK, Baby, I was just thinkin' ahead."
done corzined dat gold birtchez. too bad their name isn't cohen because if it was the cops never would have doubted their story.
Does this mean Gold Demand is higher than ever? (Keep stacking?)
Note to self. Pick up a few of these Florida only cones. Steal the Gold. Leave the cones. Head to Maine.
Actually get a few traffic cones with FRBNY stamped on them, no need for an investigation, since they'll know the gold is safe!
JCP&L left a cone at my property last year. They didn't pick it up so I kept it. The funny thing is, it says PSE&G on it.
If they were ZH readers they would have known enough to have a boating accident. Lots of places in Florida to have such.
...another note to self; Tomorrow, go burn the orange cones, ripped off during last night's binge drinking...
Brilliant fuckin detectives, must've never been to a high school kegger.
"Bill, why do voters suspect we steal money and grab influence?"
"I told you not to take the White House Silverware, Hill."
"But we were broke! Down to our last million bucks! How else could I get Chelsea a rich Jew?"
Gold Investing: What is the “Barbarous Relic” Really Worth?
http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2012/09/05/gold-investing-whats-t...
John Maynard Keynes once famously called gold the “barbarous relic,” suggesting that its usefulness and, hence, it’s value, is antiquated. So the question really is, or should be, is gold useful today? If so, what is its value? And how much should you pay for it?
In July of 2011, US Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was asked pointedly whether or not gold was money. He said no. Milton Friedman once famously said, “Money is what money does,” meaning if people use it as a medium of exchange, it doesn’t matter what they call it. For instance, convicts often trade cigarettes for goods and services, so in prison, cigarettes are money. Likewise, for most of human history, gold has been a medium of exchange, albeit with numerous iterations and evolutions — until 1971, when Nixon took the world off of the gold standard, proclaiming, “We’re all Keynesians now.” Many people certainly think of gold as money. Interestingly, governments the world over own large amounts of gold and have recently begun increasing their ownership of gold. My question: If it ain’t money, why would they own it all? Mr. Bernanke says “tradition.” Seems like an awfully expensive tradition to maintain. Maybe there’s more to it. ...
I hope they're on a beach somewhere earning 20%.
The guy on the left is obviously Hermann Goering.
If the guy on the right is holding a Capital One card, I know who he is, too.
LOL
Rush Limbaugh and Chris Rock robbed a truck?
I got the impression that it was Obama's son and Bibi's son. Maybe McCain's son.
I don't know guys, they look like Canadians!
Since most Canadians are hyphenated-Canadians, I'd peg them as a Jamaican-Canadian and a Ukrainian-Canadian. ;-)
The mesomorphs did it again, Professor Lombroso.
looks like the accomplice in the murrah massacree
Gordon Brown.
Rasis.
Uncanny, Lieutenant Columbo.
The suspects are clearly Al Gore and Ben Bernanke.
An another note, how long would it take for three men to move a quarter of a ton of gold? Not an easy feat.
thats only 500 lbs
Actually I was also wrong, it's 250oz, an eighth of a (US) ton. Product of being educated in the metric system! I'll go back to sleep.
Sounds like a future Hollywood movie to me.
Starring The Rock, with fifty extra pounds.
it's called cash settlement with a twist. drive an empty truck. report a robbery and have the ensurers pick up the tab. it's all in the cufflinks.
The guy on the left looks like Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedqV4Gl_us
"You're entering a world of pain"
Why would you not melt it down as soon as possible to get rid of identifying marks............
Smart enough to get a way with all that gold and too dumb to hide it..................
Just unreal............
I work in the precious metals industry and was told by one of the legitimate parties involved in the transaction that the gold was being transported from Republic Metals in South Florida and was heading to United Precious Metals in New York, not Massachusetts.
finding that gold bar was almost as easy as finding passports. was it at pawnstars pawnshop?
not since lehman.
Ukraine
Maybe like melt the gold and recast it? Then they can like never know whose gold it is. Just a thought.
ya. i do roofing, concrete drives, drywall and melt stolen metal in my shed.
I really hope this story is routinely updated. This story cracks me up.
Beats the shit out of Bitcoin stories and Clinton stories with one hand tied behind it's back.
Bitcoin? What is that?
First perp's a dead ringer for Francis Buxton. You'll be sorry, Pee Wee Herman!