The $18.8 Million Armored Car Heist: Phil Johnson's Bold Gamble
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Fed up with his $7-an-hour job, a security guard at an armoured car company makes off with $18.8 million- the largest heist in U.S. history.
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I'll never understand why some shows think the audience wants the background music to be louder than the narration.
Totally! Turns so many off.
If it's outrageous I'll comment & hope they tead
Or if we even want background music
This is taken from a TV show in the 90-00s. I suspect when they converted analogue to digital, it messed up the sound levels. Or it could be the original sounded like that.
@@delledaye2035 maybe they think the voice of the narrator is pathetic
they just want to show off the knowledge that they can add music to a video over voice
Paying $7.00 an hour to guard millions should be a crime itself
Hahahahah my frnd Tibo his is a driver n he told me his tired of seeing mills everyday...I'll support what ever he thinks next
Thats alot for a day
It's all on whosever money that is.
They cheaped out big time on security and insurance. They are a special breed of Stupid.
I agree lol who gets paid 7.00 an hour
Many people forgot the fact: million dollars are NOT property of carriers. They charge service fee just some percent of it! They have to buy the vaults, armor cars, training employees, security systems, equipment, insurances....
Paying someone $7 an hour to risk their life to guard millions of dollars is like begging to be robbed
And they didn’t even provide health insurance!!!!
Crazy how the audience finds sympathy or empathy in certain stories, told in a certain way, and with specific information. Had the narrator told this story differently, with different tidbits, and different “actors”. This Man knew what job he signed up for, with benefit packages explained at orientation. They even made a song out of him!!! This country loves white criminals who middle fingers the “system”, and it’s the system that they created lol but let another “hue” do the same. Thrown the book at em lol they glorify Bonnie and Clyde’, Italian mobsters, David Koresh and Bundy, and now Donald Trump. But they hate Escobar, Chapo, Rick Ross, ….. I started this comment while I was watching this sorry and I wasn’t going to Toss race into it, because… you know…. “Race card 🥱🥱🥱😫😫” but , they made a country music song, one of the people being interviewed tried to make you feel sorry for this man… smh
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😂😂😂wow@@mikefigures5075
They aren't forced to take employment with Loomis-!!! There are other employment opportunities to look👀 in to while employed with Loomis-!!!🤔
Minimum wage. No benefits. No insurance. No overtime. Tf???
In the supposed best country on earth war maniac
My ex worked for loomis. The overtime they got would be banked to pay them for days they had off. Yes they had to pay themselves straight time for holidays by working overtime. Not sure how legal that is but its my understanding its a practice that carries on to this day.
@@bradsanders407 it's definitely doesn't carry on to this day. That would be illegal af
Yeah, and gen z thinks it's rough out here. We had to carve our success out from nothing.
I interviewed with this company once. I quickly lost interest when I learned that full- and part-time workers both worked 45-hour weeks. It was all straight-time on the excuse that it was "transportation!" The difference was that "part-timers" got no benefits. You had to work six months to become "full-time."
"We're trusting you to keep our money safe.... Here's minimum wage...."
"Don't let us down! :)"
They still don’t pay armoured guards well, few of my buddies still do it.
Yea not a great job. A guard was executed at a job near my house a few years ago. Sickening.
Be proud of yourself 🥲
This is a good point.
The audio mix of this documentary is also something criminal
Absolutely could barely hear half of it
That's so funny because I made a very similar comment only 7 minutes into the video and couldn't hear anything the narrator was saying but was able to read the stuff on the newspaper that they were showing so I got a gist of what this was about but the noise that was playing overriding some person attempting to whisper is the most ridiculous I've ever heard in my life
I suspect it is to avoid copyright detection
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Who tf was the engineer, Peter Griffin 😂😂😂
Glad to know I'm not the only one who was rooting for Phil.
Hey, in greedy capitalism, the authority already d criminals in comparison dishing trillions for war and overseas LGBTQ agenda while citizens starve
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He been out of prison since 2020 serving 22 years but cant find any new info.
Me too😀
@@twistedmindswr1159lives in ponte verde fl
These guys risked their lives for 7$ an hour. Sickening
Definitely underpaid considering what they haul & the risk involved.
In that time minimum wage was 4.75. So that's almost double the wage
$7 is fair it's not like he's on his feet all day 😂😂😂
@@BobbyGazoAbsolutely too much after all $56 dollars a day before taxes was way too much for the gravy job he did.
Not double min wage. 50% higher. Big difference
Man I was hoping he would have gotten away with it...
We were too ... we had so much hope for the fella...??? Damn..
Facts ..
Same here
@@masoncross-om3oc he was to stupid
Me too but his dumbaxx had to go back to the US. SMH
These dudes always pull off the wildest heists, but get caught the dumbest way possible..
The smartest people make the dumbest mistakes that's how they get so smart
@@ScorpioLeader-bx8rdlol what???
@@BlackJoker-w5t he's saying you learn from your mistakes
@@ScorpioLeader-bx8rd some mistakes are too costly and some there is no recovery, case in point
The producer of this video, had a side gig of playing music in a small band.
He was so proud of his band that he used the music as back-round noise in the video, hence the reason no one can hear the narration... hahahaha
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👏🏻💯‼️👍🏻🏅☺👂🙉😂🤣😂 I BET HIS SIDE GIG ONLY LASTED ONE NIGHT AT EACH VENUE. 😂👏🏻
He is losing his ability to hear being with that band 😂 and now everything is over the top.🤬
Damn it, I'm extremely sad he got caught, all that money and no freedom
Why didn't he spend it?
@@genghiskahn1989 to avoid suspicion
@@genghiskahn1989 Lots of things and research that goes into bank robberies, or robberies in general. The planning thats required is ridiculous. You could execute everything perfectly and lose it all after accidently spending some money with new sequential serial numbers... no way he would do that without checking and clearly he didnt have time to do that
It was not his money.
The background music is overkill
It’s way too overpowering lol
Your mom is overkill
ok
@Mike Walsh it was the 90s we didn't care God damn.
Yanks
Much respect to him for trying get away with all that money. I can definitely understand his financial pain.
Music drowns out the narrative.
@Nica background music
This is like the 4th loomis story im watching maybe loomis should pay their employee's more so they're not tempted to steal????
As of now they actually pay quite well. Still not as much as I'd like, but it's significantly more than what is considered a living wage locally.
True
Along with healthcare beniffits, a dental plan & a good pension after 15-20 years.
This is 100% true . I’m currently renting an apartment right near a railroad track. I’m in my 50’s but when I was 17 , I was the passenger in a friends car. We were right behind an armored truck and as it went over the tracks and the bump in the road both back doors opened up and two large bags of coins and a couple of locking money bags fell out of the truck into the road. I told my friend to pull on the side of the bags so I could reach down and grab them. Instead he drove over them so I jumped out of the car and by then a bunch of other cars stopped and saw what had happened. One of the bags ripped open and there was change everywhere. The guys in the truck were clueless that it happened but I told a guy driving by to go catch the truck and tell them to come back. To this day I wonder how much money was in those locked bags. Haha
The narrator sounds like he recording this laying down on his bed
😂😂😂😂😂😂 You stuuuupiiiddd but ikr
laying in my bed
And is got f.. with his hands on the synthesizer (called background music)
Hilarious 😆
Lol😂😂😂😂
7 dollars per hour in 1997 is roughly $11.25 an hour today.
Still far too little
@Siccboy78 Many municipalities are raising the minimum to $15 an hour.
Of course, this will accelerate the elimination of many jobs.
Way below minimum wage
Wow I never thought about it like that. $11.00/hr nowadays isn’t that bad.
@fakhrwalker2676 yes it is
Yeah for sure.... the company had been stealing from their employees for years.
That sucks was hoping he’d get away with it
Thieves always pull for thieves.
@@pep590 boot licker
And they say: Theres no honour among thieves...😆
At least he Didn't Spin around & Say Whoooaaah!
This should have been an episode of “when keeping it real goes wrong” by Dave Chapelle. 😂
When you’re paid $7HR……keep an eye on these millions for us.😂
Crazy that he did everything perfectly, yet a small mistake such as saying a simple phrases in a "suspicious" way and leaving behind a receipt is what officially costed him 25 years in prison
No such thing as a perfect crime
Always room for improvement 🤦🏻♂️
He did nothing right. No plan to hide his identity or deal with witnesses. Locked his keys in the van. Wasted time with kidnapping. Had no plan to take the money with him. Left a paper trail of his fake identities at his home. What did he do right?
@@lordcarve if he took the files for the other two employees, took them on a big offshore fishing trip and threw them in bound with chains and concrete blocks, then it could very well be made to look like one of them did it.
Should have told the border agent he was in mexico for the hookers.
Love when you’re watching an interesting narrative video and the music drowns out the narrator
It drows u in..
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I wonder if when they recorded the narration, they told the guy "we want you to speak just loud enough it will blend in the with background music perfectly" lol or maybe they were just really proud of the music 🤷♂️
Yeah this is ridiculous haha what did you say I’m sorry the music was swelling
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I don't know... I think the music really adds to the mystery of it all.
Mysteries such as, what did he just say? Is the narrator still talking? Was he locked in the vault while recording this?
Or just plain stupid !!
He should have had crates in the storage unit ready for the money. Puts it in, nails it shut quickly. Contracts with a courier service to pick it up and ship it. Done.
Dang sounds like you got a handle on this one!
Unless the feds got their before the courrier
"Im trusting you to take care of millions of dollars here is 7 dollars an hour"
At least he Didn't Spin around & Say Whoooaaah!
the real crime here is the minimal amount of pay with 0 benefits this guy was getting
"He felt like he was getting underpaid..." FELT??? DUDE HE *WAS* UNDERPAID
In 97' I was 15 working on a cattle ranch making 6$ hr cash, no taxes.. this guy definitely underpaid
"He felt he and others were underpaid".... That's an obvious fact.
Imagine finding millions in unmarked cash inside a storage unit.
Today's FBI would have moved the money at 2AM and said the total found in the storage locker was only $87.
Maybe he was planning to keep the money until the statute of limitations was up.
First off you know the storage unit not going to call anybody for that one😅 They’re just gonna upgrade their units😅
You can watch all the crime shows ever made, memorize every blunder and you'll still do something that'll get you caught.
@titlewave Money was in US though. Would you risk crossing illegaly border for 20M dollars?
I don't think anyone is watching this to rob a bank the next morning, but ok...
You correct, some one somewhere they think they can do better, until they get caught, but why.
@@mbusotwala5765 God.
Not really. All these shows exist because only the people who got caught make a good story. The ones that got away you never heard of.
Please hire me to mix your sound. I will accept 7$ per hour with no benefits and promise not to rob you.
Lol..
the money is federally insured and he did not hurt anyone. This guy is a role model.
“Federally insured” means paid out in federal tax dollars. For those of us that actually pay federal taxes as opposed to living off of them, that hurts.
@@libertyesq Government is going to get every penny they can and squander it anyway pal..
It’s just less 💵 they’ll be able to squander (And I use the term “squander” to put it nicely)
@@205ken4 I agree the government squanders it, but giving it to a private company that hires thieves is also squandering, not sure where you see a distinction between the two. Under your premise, anyone could rationalize stealing tax dollars.
Role model??
Stole
Kidnapped
Held two men at gun point that probably had a family
There is always at least one dumbass in each comment section an I guess you wanted to be the one in this section
@@dewalt4594 lol this is called RUclips, people love dumb comments. fucken lol. U hating ?
there ya go , when i find a time machine im goin back to that locker right after he leaves for mexico.
@@mannyfrommiami2622 is it real bitcoin is that much worthy
i wished it too
They say they won't extradite ,but normally bend quite readily with a bit of pressure from the state department in the US. you can believe that.
Problem with small criminals is they plan the heist but not thereafter. They should first study the big criminals; bankers, insurers etc and learn to plan ahead post the heist.
Sure, big time criminals rule the world
Unfortunately the 1930's John Dillinger era bank robber's didn't plan very far ahead either.
Big criminals: bankers, insurers. Ouch. That's probably true though. It's sad when the establishment is the problem.
I think I'll put *Wonder* on my no-watch-list and go find some real news on this caper.
That dude just got out of prison 10 days ago.
Nice follow up, I was thinking that should be soon if it was 25 years
Good for him.
He was released from prison in oktober 2019
And his broke
At the end they say the only found a couple hundred thousand he stole nearly 20 mill you all really think hes broke
Maybe there should be 4 well-paid guards on each team. One to escort and guard the delivery guard. Another to guard the truck outside at the rear. And of course, the driver of the truck keeping an eye on the front.
7:25 per hour, think about that for a second. disgraceful. It's not surprising that a grossly underpaid employee, who collects millions for the employer, one day decides he needs to be fairly compensated. this is just one example of how little respect these companies have for their employees. How arrogant this company was, and frankly, how stupid, too
He could go get another job right?
Its as if Wonder tried to avoid copyright claims from themselves.
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2:00 Imagine someone rob them there at the scene, but they don't know it is a film crew there making a documentary 😂😆
Ofc it’s fake money or just prob bags🤦
$7 an hour is brutal for that dangerous job.
For a heist like that he sure is very calm
The crime was under paying job in a dangerous environment
Narrator is also underpaid.
They get a SAG contract
It was 39.00$ in the pocket...@hour
and his voice is so popular..
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Aaah, the background music
It’s crazy how he’s already out of prison! 😳
By my experience of this video it wasn’t not all about the money the guy was lonely
And very depressed. And horribly underpaid.
he earned his overtime but Fed robbed him 🤣😂
I feel sorry for him. He was, at one time, a dedicated employee with the hopes of a healthy future with a family.
If I were the custom, I would have him let go. Because I would not waste my time to pity the rich man's loss of money.
$7 with no benefits? I would do the same. That's crazy. I would of applied for that job specifically to rob them.
LOL
I tell them I'll work for free first two weeks to show I'm loyal, trustworthy and dependable
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He didnt get away but best believe he had a good time an some his family members got some money out the deal an hopefully had a good life he ridked it all for his family
It's such a risky dangerous job being a armored truck security ND getting 7 dollars an hour and no overtime that's cruel and inhumane treatment
I like watching this kind of documentary when i am broke and struggling to pay my rent with a month behind
Oh! Damn. I wish he get to spend at least half of the money.
70 cents, they had to throw that in there LMFAO
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This is a lesson to pay your employees well if you don’t want them to rob you.
I am not sure that the company increased the salaries of its employees after this heist. It doesn't work like that. especially since in the end, the company won by getting the money back ...
Employers should go to prison for paying cheap wages.
Pay them more and they won't steal from you
Friendly tip… lower the background noise when narrating…
Be thankful for what you have.
This is a really interesting story. Phil Johnson set up an effective system.
The background in this video is accurate. A 1997 Ford Crown Victoria police car and late '90s Ford E250 Econoline van were shown, accurately setting the scene.
This video is well done.
Thank you.
How could you extradite from anywhere in the world when some countries do not have extradition treaties with you?
HAD HE PHILIP BOUGHT AN RV INSTEAD OF PUTTING THE MONEY IN STORAGE , HE COULD HAVE EASILY LEFT THE COUNTRY FORVER. THE HAVING TO COME BACK WHAT DID HIM IN!!!
@Winston McGee nah dude, he could have gone and purchased a second hand one from the hood. Who says he needed a new RV? even a Kombi van with a bed could have been sweet
He would of better off trying that or stealing what he can get and fleeing
Rv is the way to go … all of a sudden u become invisible…
7 dollars an hour for carrying thousand of dollars wow... now we get paid 16 dollars an hour to flip burgers 😃
This was 1997. My first job was Taco Bell and I got $5.15HR😂 I was 16 and didn’t pay rent
Nice , 7 an hour , no health insurance, no dental plan and its hazardous 😂😂 nice let that sink in
I was rooting for him ..
That's why I push my children to get HIGHLY EDUCATED!
I know plenty of highly educated people still working jobs that they didn't pay to go to school for just because ur highly educated doesn't mean anything
whatever you are trying to drown out with the music ruins this video
So why aren't the 2008 crash bankers in jail?
What the hell wrong with you working for company that only pays a guard $7.00 an hour with no healthy insurance. They should've been paid like $16.00 to 20.00 dollars an hour with all the health benefits
But alot of those bags have paperwork in them, receipt tally etc. I remember one case, they robbed an armored car and all they got was bags full of paperwork, no money.
7 dollars an hour! 7 dollars an hour! 7 dollars an hour! OMG!
In 1992! in 1992! In 1992! When you have no skills! OMG!
Many people forgot the fact: million dollars are NOT property of
carriers. They charge service fee just some percent of it! They have to
buy the vaults, armor cars, training employees, security systems,
equipment, insurances....
Why is the background music louder that the narrator!?🤦🏼♂️
Ignorant people put this together.
$7 an hour, no benefits and you put your life on the line to protect someone’s else’s money I see why some of these armored employees are robbing the company
The security at that Lumis Fargo facility was joke- it should be staffed by the permanent staff- they should have had the corporate staff there surely they worked all hours because of customers. Johnson could easily have completely obscured his robbery by simply wearing a mask on re-entry and then simply said later I went home it must have been a bank robber.
Yeah
Right
I was on the way to the mailbox to look for my Phil Johnson check and then the narrator says but then he got careless LMAO😅
The background music is too loud that most of the narration are seem to be the background music, lol.
We have one like him in south Africa called Thabo Bester, a very smart dude.
“Average guy” doesn’t steal 20M
you might be surprised. Watch " Owning Mahoney" about a Toronto Bank Manager who stole/ borrowed tens of millions to support his gambling addiction. A great movie for sure.He almost broke Atlantic City,had them for Ten million at one time I believe.Then he .... oops! won't spoil it for you.
@@andymilic4093 ahah that’s a real good way to get me to watch it… matter of fact I’m going to watch it tonight 😂 that being said having a casino for 10m while borrowing millions of dollars to support your addiction does indeed make you not the average guy 😂😂
I like the narrator and the way he says it.
while saving money on Guard's salary, firm paid 500000 dollars. good lesson
Imagine the rollercoaster of emotions you’d go through when you lay back, close your eyes & reminisce about how great of a feeling to go from making $7.00/hr. grinding & paying your taxes, _to_ $20,000,000 in 2hrs.
…Then you open your eyes & remember you’re in prison making $0.07/hr. hammering out license plates & half of your earnings go towards paying off that $59,000 loan Loomis gave you just to know what it felt like to be a multimillionaire for little bit. 😂
After watching this...I have learned that I have to prepare As Early as possible for my End result. 20 M dollars👌
Love love your stories keep up the good work
Yeah that last part up, how easily they found the cash and the books to make him seem ignorant and discredit him.
After being un paid for so many years I don’t blame him one bit!! lol 😂
I hate when I turn my captions on because A sentence is just too inaudible and, they can’t even write the captions for that sentence Bc I guess they didn’t understand him either 😭
Sometimes i think the people who type in the closed captions make 7 dollars an hour. Ive seen cop shows where the spelling was so bad, you wanted them to go to jail and get an education..
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He had those Randy Orton eyes when he grabbed that gun
Most interesting bank heist I ever heard about...but it always has a bad ending...greed leads to an unfortunate end in the long run...
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent reenactments enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Had he kept in Mexico for good. Good chance he would be residing there today ( 2023 ).
Turn down the music damn .
At least he cracked the glass 😂😂😂😊
Let’s face it we all clicked this video because of the quarantine lol
With all that cash, why didnt he call a locksmith to open the van. 😂😂😂
Would be nice if he put some money in every mail box he pass along . He would be a greatest hero in the world . God will love him for what he done
oh nah that’s dirty money i’m not sure if i would take that
@@alphabuni5085 liar
@thomasstarter9904 - Putting anything inside a U.S.Mail Box (other than U.S.Mail) is ... ILLEGAL !!
@@alphabuni5085oh please!!!
He earned $7 an hour risking his life, while California just raised the minimum wage from $20 to $25 an hour for flipping hamburgers.
My favorite part is the bb gun in his left hand..
Locked the keys in the van. Hilarious.