Three Men Rob Truck Drivers At Gunpoint, Steal $4.8 Million Worth Of Gold

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Jonathan Constante - Opposing Views


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Police are searching for three suspects who robbed two security guards at gunpoint and stole $4 million worth in gold and silver on March 1, the Associated Press reports.

Wilson County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies were called to Interstate 95 after two security guards who worked for Transvalue Inc. in Miami said they were robbed at gunpoint.

The security guards told investigators they were on their way to Massachusetts to deliver a shipment of gold and silver. They came across some mechanical issues and pulled over along the northbound lanes of I-95.

That’s when a white van stopped nearby and three armed men approached them.

The guards said they were told to get down on the ground and had their hands tied behind their backs. The armed robbers then marched them into the nearby woods.

The suspects proceeded to unload several barrels of gold and silver from the truck. The estimated value of the items stolen, including 275 pounds of gold bars, was $4.8 million, ABC News reports. The robbers left the guards in the woods and fled the scene.

Spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Charlotte field office Shelley Lynch said agents are working with the local sheriff to determine whether a federal crime has been committed.

Authorities in Wilson County said the case is still under investigation.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

How convenient there was a mechanical issue with the truck and robbers armed and prepared. :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yeah, I thoight that armored car drivers were supposed to remain in their vehicles and that everything was bullet proof on them :-k

[deebakes]

:fbd:

[redred]

inside job :lol:

you'd think they'd also be riding with a few back up cars full with people with guns with that much on board

[Hal-9000]

How convenient there was a mechanical issue with the truck and robbers armed and prepared. :lol:


yes :lol:...proximately and timing is everything :tup:



and ...



...unload several barrels of gold and silver from the truck


barrels when the gold is in bars? :-k

[FBD]

yup, this is called rehypothecation via insurance fraud.


these people discovered they had tungsten filled gold bars, and contrived a way to have them stolen so that they could collect the insurance money on the real value of what they thought they possessed.

[redred]

:facepalm:

[FBD]

:lol: poor red, I feel bad for you brother, nothing's believed without the official stamp on it.


:facepalm:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:facepalm:

[redred]

:shrug:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

yup, this is called rehypothecation via insurance fraud.


these people discovered they had tungsten filled gold bars, and contrived a way to have them stolen so that they could collect the insurance money on the real value of what they thought they possessed.

http://i.imgur.com/hjk4d.jpg

[FBD]

amusing :) tell me, if you had invested in 5 million in gold bars, and you tested one just for the fuck of it and found that each bar had 3 tungsten rods down the middle - and the entity you bought it from is either unwilling or unable for whatever reason to make good on this, what is the quickest and easiest way to make your loss whole?

just a coincidence that robbers were on the truck right away? and the drivers just got right out and complied and laid down their weapons? and investigators quickly removed the disabled truck from the scene???

5 million, that gets transferred in barrels in a tractor trailer truck? :rofl:

this is two hundred and ten pounds of gold we're talking about, here.

cmon are you fuckin kidding me? :lol:





I hate it whhen that ctrl v gets stuck :shifty:

[FBD]

what if out of your big stack you bought 15, 20 years ago, you decided to have tested just for the hell of it...and if you're real ballsy, hey, just cut one right in half...


http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/03/bar3_0.jpg

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/03/Bar4_0.jpg

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/03/Bar2_0.JPG

Of course, these days an ultrasound can just be used to find a tungsten rod inside of a bar of gold.

Regardless, the quickest most immediate and under the surface way to be made whole is for the lot to disappear via insured robbery.

[redred]

http://i.imgur.com/hjk4d.jpg

:lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

ABC News


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Police suspect that the alleged armed robbery of a truck transporting bars of gold in North Carolina was an inside job as more details about the highway heist have emerged, according to search warrant application that was obtained by ABC News.

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."

The second search warrant application was to get access to the truck and the trailer it was pulling.

Woodard told reporters today that the case was "suspicious," but declined to reiterate the theory expressed in the search warrant that the robbery could have been an inside job.

Woodard shared sketches of the three suspects who allegedly bound the hands of the driver and the passenger, and a photo of a traffic cone that was placed behind the truck as the suspects allegedly removed the gold from the vehicle after breaking a lock on the back. The traffic cone had the marking of a company that only does work in Florida.

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The truck was bringing gold and silver to Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and being driven on I-95 by armed guards employed by a Miami-based company, TransValue Inc., Woodard said.

One of the search warrants states that approximately $5 million-worth of silver was left in the truck, meaning that when the truck left Miami on Sunday morning, it had close to $10 million in metals inside the back compartment, which, the sheriff said, was protected solely by a Master lock on the door.

"The suspects attempted to steal the truck and trailer but could not get the truck started," according to one of the search warrants. "The truck was in proper working condition so the suspects had to [have] not been experienced in the operation of a commercial motor vehicle. The suspects loaded the gold in the minivan and fled the scene."

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The metal was owned by Republic Metals Corporation in Opalocka, Florida, according to a search warrant. The company did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment.

The police said they were seeking a search warrant for the phones of the armed guard who felt sick because of the suspicious nature of the case, but Woodard said at today's news conference that the driver and the passenger have not been considered suspects. Both men have been interviewed separately several times by police, Woodard added.

Woodard noted that the driver and the passenger apparently violated their company’s policies by exiting the vehicle without their firearms and leaving the firearms inside the truck.

[Hal-9000]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120696/

[FBD]

the insurance status will determine how far inside the inside job goes.