Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How He Pulled Off a $17 Million Robbery | The Loomis Fargo Bank Heist
25 Nov 2024
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I had a pile of money that was about three and a half, four foot tall, nine feet long, and weighed over a ton. The F-250 van that I was loading, the armored van, when I started the back bumper was pretty high up on me. When I was done, it was pretty low. If I do this, I'm going to take enough money so that I won't have to ever come back because I won't be able to.
So you're out of the country before they even know the place has been robbed. I'm eating lunch in Mexico about the time the news breaks.
Loomis was robbed, and these two knuckleheads were living in a double-wide. They just bought a multi-million dollar mansion in this small town with cash. They're driving expensive vehicles, and the guy's a knucklehead, and somehow or another he's come up with all this cash.
Yeah, and they've decided they're going to kill me. Right. He's got a buddy. McKinney, and they're going to hire him. He's going to go down to Mexico and kill me. Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I am here with David Gant. David Gant was – he's – should I say bank robber or bank robber or – That's usually the title I end up with.
Yeah, bank robber for Loomis Fargo. One of the largest Loomis Fargo robberies in history. It was $17.5 million. And it was, they say this over and over again, that it was literally a ton of cash. And so we're going to do an interview and I appreciate you guys watching. And so check this out.
Like we were saying, I was saying earlier, I actually, I know I'm recapping all this, but I actually, prior to getting in trouble myself, watched a program on you. And then I watched another one where I think I was incarcerated and And it always reminded me of a story that I wrote in prison. And I kept going back to your story because the story I wrote was very similar to yours.
But it's one of those stories that always stuck in my mind. So when like my booking agent and my girlfriend got in touch with you, I'm sorry, my wife got in touch with you and my booking agent, like I immediately, usually people have to tell me like, I'm like, who is this guy? Can you send me a link? I don't know who that is. He did what? But as soon as they mentioned, no, no, he did this.
I was like, oh, I know exactly who you're talking about. I remember watching a documentary. I was immediately excited. That's why my wife kept texting. I was like, you've got to get this guy to come on here. He's got a great story. So anyway, that's, that's kind of how I knew the whole thing. So basically what I typically do is just start at the beginning.
Like, I'm like, I'm not, we're not in a hurry or anything. So, you know, like where, where were you born?
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