@@soapychikin Heard about a guy who killed a kid in a fight. never went to jail, got arrested a few times after just to be checked up. Then later in life same guy managed to steal some money from the state, cant really remember how, and then the prosecutors bent every law they could to put him in jail for 10 years. Funny world were money means more than the lives of others
Exactlyyyy like bruh what?! Over a chick that doesn't give a damn about you. And the fact that it was a vault with non sequential money was the luckiest thing in the world. They deadass coulda got away
After watching so many of these types of documentaries, I've noticed that the authorities will spend more time and resources to recover money than catch killers. Not sure if I'm surprised.
After watching so many RUclips comments, I've noticed that many of them are populist bullshit with zero footing in reality. I can't even explain how dumb your comment sounds. You drew conclusions based on a few documentaries? And those documentaries were all "of these types"? And you don't realize you might be getting a biased picture? Also, it seems there are always enough gullible fools with confirmation bias that will back up any old made up bullshit.
Who'd ever pull of a multi-million $ heist and expect they're going to be able to make any big purchases in $20s anyway? It's going to be a little suspish if you're buying a car or a house? Seems like a headache to try & spend.
I worked for a retailer in Hickory, NC, and encountered David on multiple occasions for cash pickups. He was the kindest, most soft spoken man I've ever met. 30 years later, and I still can't believe he did this.
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yeah just got to that part now. Its hilarious 200 keys one van lol criminals are clowns for sure... they get to the columbian airport and no flights to Mexico
Could these guys been more stupid? As soon as I saw him with that huge bunch of keys I was wondering why he didn't just take off the key he needed, imagine going through 200 keys in the dark...dumb af
Two heists in one! Both the bank and David got robbed. I couldn’t help but root for David to get away with it though…I think the FBI agents liked him too 😂
We've had similar heists in Kenya by Wells Fargo employees, and what I have never understood is why the corporate giants would underpay these guys. Its not good to keep a hungry starving lion around young gazelles.
yeah right imagine being poor af but being around millions in cash all the time, it would be seriously hard to resist, especially if you were left alone with ALL the keys! lol
Gant mighta been better off keeping his honesty to himself tho bcz if he ever gets another job, which he most likely will at _some_ point, his employer might've saw this video too & will know Mr. Gant is not to be trusted ....
@UCdQ46g_x6QInsDnSABp48KA you never lied 🤣 he looked so sad in Mexico holding a huge L for stealing all that money, having to call ASKING for some of it & didnt get the girl eitha 🤣 smdh
I can’t believe he said that. He totally didn’t learn his lesson, even though it almost got him killed. What a doofus. Theft is wrong, no matter how easy it might be to just do it. It’s like he has no conscience. I’m glad his wife divorced him. I hope she found a better life after him. I say this as someone who doesn’t have a job or money, so don’t think I haven’t been dirt poor myself.
Actually the moral of the story is to straight bs your "accomplices" and take more than literally 300 grams of 100 dollar bills to a foreign country...
I THINK..WHEN U MAKE BAD.. BAD KARMA ALSO U WILL GET .IF UR MATERIALISTICS U SEE 95% u think Money .David ken is very confused n tired of his life maybe..he have problems in his family /little salary in his works..maybe he sacrifices his self...I think he knows everything..he just did it..
I heard a story of a guy that robbed a convenience store and when he was leaving to get away he backed into a pile of snow that had been pushed out of the parking lot and left a perfect impression of his tag in the snow. The cops were waiting on him when he arrived home
My favorite has always been that cartoon of the cop yelling, " FEEEZE, GET ON THE GROUND!" And the criminal casually says while standing still, "Wellz what is it officer? Do ya want me to freeze? Or get on the ground?" America in a nutshell
Instructions can have more than 1 step. 1. Freeze (stop what you are doing) 2. Get down on the ground. (Now get down on the ground) Not that fucken complicated. Guess what usually comes next. 3. Hands behind your back 4.Stand up "But officer... you said Feeze" 😆
He probably meant to say he would do it better next time, having learned from his mistakes... maybe only take what he needed for himself to live comfortably for the rest of his new life, without accomplices. If he had been paid enough to live comfortably doing his job, I don't believe he would have committed any crime.
@@nyreekrikorian maybe he wouldn't have. Maybe he would: It was not just that he was poor: He wanted much more than what he could get, even with a well-paid job. He also wanted this gal in his life. Altough low wages make it easier for guards to be tempted, higher wages aren't a safeguard against temptation like that.
If I had a dollar for ever time I thought to myself, “how stupid”, “what idiots”, “why.. just why”, while watching this… I’d probably have accumulated as much as they stole in this heist.
The Chambers were dumber than boxes of rocks! Especially Michelle Chambers asking the bank how much she can deposit without having to fill out any paperwork!? Only to have the bank teller do exactly that after she leaves. Filling out the "Suspicious Activity" form! LMAO 🤣 🤣 🤣
Got to admire Wells Fargo for saving investors money by entrusting 17 million dollars in untraceable cash to one guy, a guy who is having trouble making the payments on a used single wide trailer on what they pay him, and has been recently written up for leaving bundles of cash out unattended. The best part is they only find out the money is gone when his wife gets pissed he didn't show up with her midnight snack after work.
Good old white privilege. It truly does pay to be white in this country. A black man with perfect credit and a clean record would have never gotten a job like that with that much freedom.
@@TheAngryScratcher1 OH my. The racist in the back raises his hand and pukes out his usual bile. "Math is racist. I could make change for a dollar today if ya all waddent racist."
@@sharonrigs7999 you know what I enjoy? That thousands and thousands of your people are dying in the Ukraine war and plenty more are going to be dead in the coming months. Savages
RIGHT !!! 😆😆😆 David Ghantt was an idiot. If I'm the ONLY one on tape stealing the money there's NO WAY I would have to wait on others to send me money I'm the ONLY one on tape stealing. Ghantt was the ONLY one with a KNOWN association to the money and was on tape stealing it. If his accomplices would have knocked him off IMMEDIATELY after he delivered the van with the money, the police wouldn't have had a clue on where to start looking. They knew NOTHING about Ghantt's. accomplices.
I know David Ghantt personally. He dated my mom back in the 90s. He lives in Florida now doing outside construction work living a normal life. He likes to make jokes about this heist. And he also wrote a book about his life and the heist.
Did he meet your mom before he got married or was he cheating on his wife ... ? This show made it look like he had grown kids in 1997 when it shows the more eating dinner after he had vanished and nobody knew if he was dead or alive . Who knows maybe they were step kids .
This was a dramatic recreation for the purpose of telling a story. Do you believe that they actually went out and bought all of the furniture, etc. back so they could film this?
They will if there´s a proven case. Actually, it happens all the time. Ray Nagin, The Keating Five, Randy Cunningham, Edwin W. Edwards, Paul Powell, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, Warren G. Harding....both parties, mostly GOP, of course. But, you won´t hear about them if your only source for info is Fox or Newsmax....
The follow up, hiding the ill-gotten goods and converting it to wealth you can invest with, is the hardest and most important part of the heist. Any idiot can drive off route with a truck full of money and park in a concealed location. But if you can't spend it without getting caught, you haven't really gotten away with anything. Also, the best heist, Chambers would've gotten someplace for Gant to park the truck, like a warehouse or an old barn, not a field near his work. Should've emptied it and dumped it in a river as many miles away as they could've gotten.
@@tomdallas3690 They would get away with it if they waited with spending the money for a year or two. Trying to kill him was not why the FBI got them. Actually killing him makes some sense as he was the only link to the heist, but of course it's not a nice thing to do
The real mindless part about it is, that he didn't even know them and that he said that he would do it again 🤯 Actually it took me back when Florida Mega millions lottery a bunch of years ago. This Guy took $15,000 out of his Son's collage fund and spent it on lottery tickets and paid. others to check them. Absolutely mindless. The lottery at that time was about $140,000,000. I've got the ticket, hear it is🤯 Wright😏 The same mind set🤪
Trisha Zechel try to do your dirt all by your lonely (own). That way ensures only you to make sure no one talks. Loose lips 💋 or drunk night of questions is would .
1:01:34“He said we needed to talk and he was glad to see me and I told him the same.” is kind of cute in a Fugitive x Federal Agent Enemies to Lovers fanfiction way
I laughed so much throughout this video. That velvet Elvis...OMG. You can take the people out of the trailer but'cha can't take the trailer out of the people. At least not those particular people.
I remember living in N.C when this happened. The local radio stations was making fun of this because these idiots went from living in a single wide trailer to throwing a half a million in cash on a multi million dollar home 🤣. Plus they just burned through money like Rick James in a strip club.
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Proving, there is no honor among thieves. Being locked out of the van with that key ring and bulletproof glass had me rolling. The three stooges came immediately to mind.
I notice if there is more than the usual cars in my neighborhood and I don't do anything illegal. I just watch out for theives because if they will hit my neighbors they will hit me next
Just to help you out guys, the footage on the documentary wasn’t CCTV of the actual FBI carrying out surveillance. It was a dramatic recreation so you could watch a documentary. 😂
I was a Security Manager in a casino. Rule #1- No one has all the keys. It was always a two-key, two individuals from different departments to enter any secured rooms. Vault, main bank, card & chips room. Surveillance always notified prior to approaching. Then, we could not enter until notified by Surveillance. Never entrust a single individual with all keys!
I was flabbergasted by the number of keys on that key ring, that detail just struck me as insane stupidity😵💫. Yes, security has improved for the better. Thanks for the update
His boss said that he'd recently been promoted to 'Vault Superviser' but that he wasn't very good at the job.. Really?.. Seems to me that he took the job so seriously he even took it home with him!!
If people could have earned a degree in watching true crime videos on RUclips, I would by now be a Phd holder in crime investigation. Who else love watching true story crime files? It really opened my eyes about how people are unpredictable.
I can’t help but feel so sorry for Gant. He was a straight shooter all his life until his low-life accomplices tempted him at the perfect time to convince him to do this. They give Gant a meager $30K while they hold $17 million, then gets irritated when he asks for more several months later, and decides to hire a hit man to kill him. That’s so freaking despicable.
Greed was their undoing. I agree if they had only just given Gant his share.......hahaha what idiots, especially Chambers now that's one idiot of all idiots 🤣🤣🤣
In the 90s a guard made around $5 /hour. Today it is around $11 per hour. Low pay doesn't justify crime, but I wonder if it contributes to someone, who has no criminal history, in choosing to rob their employer.
@TANKTHEARC it's not brainwashing...it's people in need of money to live and the greedy employers that don't pay. There's two ways to make money, earn it or steal it. Employers know they can pay low because if you don't want the job, there'll be someone else desperate, enough to do it for cheap.
@joan baczek it's not inflation, it's taxes...the more you make, the more they take. Mafias use extortion against business to allow the business to work in an area/field...The Feds extort it's citizens via taxes, and not only the citizens but the businesses they work for as well. It's a scheme, it's disgusting and it's one of the big problems in America...because it doesn't just stop with the Feds, some States, and even cities also tax the money you make, on top of what the Feds are taking.
EXACTLY ! thank you. It was her idea.. she conned Dave in a sexual way... she put the various players in touch.. she cooordinated communications between all... she was part of the conspiracy to commit murder. It shouldnt work that way, where the criminal who betrays their cohorts gets less time.
Ikr she's definitely a smooth talker and a smooth conspiracy to kill not only did she smooth her way into deceiving David but she did it with the FBI agents just to get a lighter sentence!? She should've gotting the more time than she did, talking about forgiving the guy she was setting up to kill what a bummer!!
@@MrSimondaniel3 She's definitely the mastermind on the whole deal but then get off with a slap on the wrist probably because she didn't go out all lavished like the reat that's her being cooperative with the FBI!! The mean thing is she was on borad to kill David even though he was the one who stolen all the cash they didn't wanna shared it with him then apologise to him for setting him up!? Talk about a bumper!!
How stupid can you be to take all the risk and trust someone else to hold on to your money and believe that they’re going to send you money as needed????
LOL What your seeing is the evidence of being married from the age of 14, this idiot can't deal with anything without a list of instructions! If it's not on the list, it's not important.
imagine being such a brainlet that you go to a bank, show off a briefcase of money, declare it is not drug money and then ask a suspicious question about how much you can deposit without leaving a signature
right and leave the money wrapped with bands from the robbery. thats like a a bankrobber trying to deposit blue stained money from the dye packs bursting. God damn, people are so freaking dumb
Rookie141 Supposedly they were to deposit the money in my country, as many do... well, they’ve could done that here without suspicion but doing it in the States... plain stupid yeah!
Kathleen I agree. These guys get robbed and killed for transporting and just picking up such large sums of money. They should be compensated for the huge responsibility of transporting all that money.
@@laraoneal7284 The bottom line is that the money is insured and Wells Fargo was one of those too big to fail banks where they don't even care about billions, let alone a couple million. The low wage security people and the manner of storing the money exactly represents the importance of it to this jew mafia.
@@petej8556 The worst thing about banks like these is that they privatize all the profit and socialize all the loss. The clowns over at the FBI, instead of working on solving real crimes like murders and pedo rings were chasing after money which was printed out of thin air for these jew institutions to gamble with because why not take huge risk when the tax payers will bail out all your losses...They even used planes to surveil small time crooks dumb enough to make deposits to other banks with WF wrappers still on 20 dollar bills. That's why try reporting any serious crime to FBI, they will do nothing but file your complaint because they have more urgent business of settling scores between politicians and protecting the jew wealth in US.
@@Max-lm2jc i agree. The sentenses where waaaaaay to small for what they did. Its not like they robbed a convenience store. They robbed 14 million dollars. EDIT: it was actually 17.3 million not 14
Unfortunately Gant was the more sensible thief, he actually thought to separate himself from the crime scene by over a thousand miles. Unfortunately for him Kelly & Chambers were greedy and senseless with their cash and spent freely while planning to kill him all along. This is the crime that was made into a film starring Zach Galifianakis.
The only reason he left the country is because he was only one who would obviously be connected to the heist. Even without the video, he would have been a prime suspect.
@Jew Dollaz No, he stole 17.3M. The FBI recovered 88% of that money, leaving 1.32M that wasn't recovered. There were 8 co-conspirators plus Ghantt. Divide 9 into that 1.32M and each one got 205,000 and some change.
@@spiderreed350 yeah i hear you on that. did they even mention if she brought some money in herself or was he just slaving away to live in a trailer park?
Crime would have been perfect if the members are loyal and respect each other shares. Moral of the story: if you can’t do anything yourself, best not to even think about it.
Aw, what’s the matter? Still salty that Biden turned out to be exactly what we said he was whereas everything you claimed Trump to be has been disproven? Get off the Trump blame- it’s just getting ridiculous at this point.
It's nice to see late 90's era.. those cars..those dresses..that VCR s 😀 just 20 mins into the video n I'm feeling nostalgia.. wanna go back to my childhood
To get away with a heist and then get caught up making excessively large cash purchases when the FBI is looking for you has to be the dumbest thing imaginable. The fool deserved to get caught.
I've never said this about suspect before, but there is something likeable about Ghantt. The way he said, "would I do it again? ... sure!" made me laugh. His interaction with the FBI when he was picked up was also comical. After watching so many gruesome murder documentaries, this one felt *relatively* lighthearted. Obviously larceny is wrong and I think longer sentences were warranted.
I scrolled way too far for this! The dude isn't evil, just simple and he was taken advantage of. At least on that one point, he's honest, bless him haha seems like a good guy at heart and just not quite there enough to understand how bad the stuff he got dragged into was
You know he was innocent when he left town and trusted his friends would send his cut! However it’s pretty darn messed up. 17M they could’ve sent him his cut and still lived large ! SMH greedy
Cannot wrap my mind around the fact that they planned and executed the heist pretty well but what they did after was there downfall. How are you able to execute a plan so detailed and exact but you blow all your tracks?? Greed does extraordinary things, can't not trust anyone.
You can trust a lot of people. But when you give 17 million to a bunch of criminals, you'd better not trust them. They don't need you anymore. They prefer you never to talk again. Trust me, they will have you killed.
It's a classic question. How could you steal an awful lot of money, without hurting anybody, and then get away with it? How do you avoid the intense search after you?
Greed does many things, but so does fear of prison. People will rat themselves out thinking they will be getting less time. In 90% of all cases the criminal convicts himself. Even where the FBI has solid DNA evidence or fingerprints it doesn't mean anything unless the criminal gives an explanation of why it was there that doesn't wash with the facts. When many criminals point the figure at one of their peers, they don't seem to be aware that, whatever happened, they are also equally guilty because they were involved too.
These are the dumbest criminals I ever seen. Spending money with no way of accounting for any of it. Stay in a small town where you stand out like a sore thumb. Seen with the other criminals so the FBI can connect you together. Fools!
The same goes for 'Robert'. The person that warned David that the rest of them were going to get rid of him. The one who got $2000 as a good gesture. He too, could have got the reward of $500,000.
I'm 38 and I had a pager almost all my teenage years I loved it 143 will always stay in my head as I love you even when I look at the clock I'm like it's I love you time have a good day happy New Year thanks for reminding me of the good old days
What is your point? The agent was in the car and it was night. Furthermore the subjects were not suspecting anything (unlike everyone else in the neighborhood, it seems) and didn't have the brightest criminal minds. How would you do surveillance?
Narrator : "The FBI feared that if they got too close, the Chambers would be suspicious" Accompanying film reconstruction : Two FBI agents sitting in a car directly outside the Chambers' house, using binoculars to look into their living room from about 10 yards away. (from 43:30)
The FBI would have just planted remote cameras. And they would have used drones to monitor the Chambers' house. And they could have listened to conversations inside the house through the PC.
Can't believe everyone knows about the suspicious activity with the FBI car parked up outside except the chambers!? That one had me scratching my head asking how???😂😂
Just an fyi, the polygraph test has been proven to be completely unreliable in detecting honesty or dishonesty. There is no reason to take it unless you just want to for the fun of it. Realize that if you "fail" it and you are innocent, the inspectors will probably focus more energy on you, and the guilty party will have an advantage.
David was my pen pal when I was a teenager and he was in prison his aunt and my grandmother was best friends, he really was a nice guy who seemed to turn his life around after this mistake I haven’t spoken with him in years probably since the early 2000s I sent him a bracket and they sent it and my letter back and was never able to get a letter to him. I was troubled youth and his stories he’s write about kinda scared me straight.
It was not a robbery; it was either a burglary or theft case. Robbery is a crime against a person or persons, whereas theft or burglary is a crime against property.
Dang, his abandoned Loomis van would have been a great find to stumble on to!!!..im afraid the FBI would have only recovered a few hundred thousand out of it if i would have found it first...lol!
This Gant guy was totally used so badly. I feel sorry for him. Most interesting heist story I’ve ever heard. If they haven’t made a lifetime movie on this by now they should. Fascinating narrative.
well, why do you believe everything they tell you? That is a serious problem in the United States, people do not think for themselves, you let them tell you a truth that we do not know if it is.
Actually, I’ve read about this case. Steve Chambers was the mastermind behind it. Kelly’s job was mainly to be a go between and to lure Ghantt into it with promises of a happy ever after millionaire life. No worse than what Ghantt did to his own wife. Kelly’s sentence was just under 6 years while David Ghantt’s sentence was 7-1/2 years. Not much difference. And Kelly was the only one who cooperated with authorities enabling them to put approximately 20 people behind bars. allthatsinteresting.com/loomis-fargo-heist-david-ghantt
All too often in the past, they would not arrest women whom engaged in over the top crimes when all the evidence was in their face, likely because leo is mostly men, and view themselves as knights protecting women and children, they go looking for a man to charge. this was the 90's mentality.
David Ghantt was a 100% MORON. He steals $17 mil and then gives it up to strangers as soon as he leaves Loomis ? He walks away with only $30K of $17 mil ? He did it for the love of a woman he had only kissed once ? The best that I can say for David is that he was a Naive and Gullible puppet for others. I mean that he was too STUPID to ever think of robbing Loomis on his own. His work GF Kelly just played this SUCKER like a fiddle. He's lucky that being a DUMMY isn't a crime because he would deserve a life sentence just for that. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
Someone smarter than Ghant (99% of the world) who was serious about robbing Loomis would've realized that he didn't even need $17 mil to have a great life. $4 mil would've been plenty (and easier to handle) if he had been smart enough to choose a destination where that would make him wealthy. Also, finding a nation with no extradition treaty with America would've been a priority. Some criminals have found Costa Rica to be such a place and have left the FBI helpless to touch them. This is yet another case where the criminal was caught NOT because the cops were so Smart, but only because all the criminals here were Just SO Stupid. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@raeRenae1Although, he'll be paying restitution his whole life. If he doesn't pay, I'm sure the feds will take it from his paycheck. I mean that's the American way unless the person has power or money in the USA.
Wow, this was quite something. I loved the calmness of the FBI in handling matters, I also love that Ghantt was so honest on whether he can do the same kind of act again. Great documentary, keep up the great work guys.
"...the calmness of the FBI in handling matters." You know, I'm not sure that you will ever see video of them being portrayed differently, deserved or not.
Actually he is very stupid saying that. What will his future be, when everyone knows that he sincerely will do it again. Honest, yes. But also stupid. His only option after that interview is to continue being criminal.
Poor Ghantt ended up being like the “Guy Fawkes” of this plan; used and set up by people he felt he could trust. That guy who had the courage to warn Ghantt cared about him more than that chick did. :-(
You must be crazy.He said he’d do it again.I think you wouldn’t admire him so much,if your money was involved.And what about his abandoned wife and children?Thank goodness he’s stupid,or he may not have been caught.
"Here's the plan: You steal all the money and leave it with us, then You piss off to Mexico and We'll send your share on to you, honest" "Duh. Ok" What a sucker.. I feel sorry for him.
@@sheilaboston7051 That dude obviously never committed a single crime in his life. You can't just go from living a straight life, to robbing $17 million. You need to learn young what kind of people you can and can't trust, but he clearly never took the time to learn. It hurt so much just to hear his side of the story, and all the mistakes he made, and obviously didn't learn from.
That mayor started sweating it after noticing that car at the end of her driveway every time she left and when she brought it up to the police chief, all he said was yea we know we have it under control. I bet she started to "clean up" and start covering her tracks. She probably thought they were closing in on her and any moment they would bust through her door with a swat team. HAHAHAHA
It’s amazing how quickly the law can act when it’s the banks money.
Exactly. When it comes to missing people, there’s cold cases.
@@soapychikin Heard about a guy who killed a kid in a fight. never went to jail, got arrested a few times after just to be checked up.
Then later in life same guy managed to steal some money from the state, cant really remember how, and then the prosecutors bent every law they could to put him in jail for 10 years. Funny world were money means more than the lives of others
Agreed, when it's a missing person it's so different right!
They acts even faster to ride off public money
The only way they would have solved it quicker would be if Gant and the gang were black.
"I don't know your name; but I just stole $17M. And here's the key to the van."
"And oh, don't forget to send me my share."
lol
Exactlyyyy like bruh what?! Over a chick that doesn't give a damn about you. And the fact that it was a vault with non sequential money was the luckiest thing in the world. They deadass coulda got away
@@SupaFlyMagic And Unmarked! 😆
And to top it off the guy put a Hit on his head...
They say love is blind but love can turn you into a stupid as well.
I don't know why but I absolutely love the early 2000's feel of the presentation.
Nostalgia at its FINEST 🎐🏆
1999
It's because everything has gone downhill since the 90s
So true.... @@V_for_Vovin
I really enjoyed this too.
1:34:15 They had 17 million and still borrowed a $20 shovel from the neighbour LMAO
They are weird. They also ditched 3M n then sent the guy 8k when he asked for 50…
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@@annea5781Bagman commission?
pentagon spends this kind of money on office lunch break & yet its unaccounted for too !
@@marymcquaid7291 they were to stupid to get away with it
After watching so many of these types of documentaries, I've noticed that the authorities will spend more time and resources to recover money than catch killers. Not sure if I'm surprised.
Approval-seeking nonsense.
Facts..
True
After watching so many RUclips comments, I've noticed that many of them are populist bullshit with zero footing in reality.
I can't even explain how dumb your comment sounds. You drew conclusions based on a few documentaries? And those documentaries were all "of these types"? And you don't realize you might be getting a biased picture? Also, it seems there are always enough gullible fools with confirmation bias that will back up any old made up bullshit.
YEAH
Man, how dumb is that couple buying all that stuff in cash, with 20's, right after a big heist like that in the same town.
this, just wow
Broke people whole goes from rag to rich are stupid and dum
Who'd ever pull of a multi-million $ heist and expect they're going to be able to make any big purchases in $20s anyway? It's going to be a little suspish if you're buying a car or a house? Seems like a headache to try & spend.
@@BjAn you could tell she was dumb by how she was talking
That's why it's called the Dumbest Heist 😂
The real crime? The Elvis painting
I worked for a retailer in Hickory, NC, and encountered David on multiple occasions for cash pickups. He was the kindest, most soft spoken man I've ever met. 30 years later, and I still can't believe he did this.
And he said he would do it again 😂
He was a very nice man he's never stolen 17 million before 😅
Who was the man who jumped out of an airplane over the midwest?
No, he just stole $16 million! LOL!
@@charlesosbun9381 Well stealing 16 million doesn't prove your not a nice man
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thanks!!
THE BEST PART WAS, WHEN THEY WERE OPENING THE VAN WITH A BUNCH OF KEYS, THAT WAS SO FUNNY.
yeah just got to that part now. Its hilarious 200 keys one van lol criminals are clowns for sure...
they get to the columbian airport and no flights to Mexico
Yeh there were a gazillion keys on that one ring huh lol
Could these guys been more stupid? As soon as I saw him with that huge bunch of keys I was wondering why he didn't just take off the key he needed, imagine going through 200 keys in the dark...dumb af
@@samking2094 well he did all this for a woman he kissed. once.
And they tried using rocks to break bulletproof windows 😂😂
Two heists in one! Both the bank and David got robbed. I couldn’t help but root for David to get away with it though…I think the FBI agents liked him too 😂
plus they were about to kill him -kelly was the head of all this and should be charge more than 5 years
The fact that he blew approx 30,000 in less than two months is the exact reason why his wife kept him on a strict budget lol
I SEE WHAT YOUR SAYING ,,BUT WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE 17 MILLIONS ,,THATS NOTHING
😂 crazy amount to spend even for today !!!
@@PRVIVETV nah, I’d still budget. I’d be banging mad hookers all over my state, except the big city and going to strip clubs.
With 17mil I would spent that 30k in one week 😂😂🤣🤣
Probably why they had 30 years worth of debt too
We've had similar heists in Kenya by Wells Fargo employees, and what I have never understood is why the corporate giants would underpay these guys. Its not good to keep a hungry starving lion around young gazelles.
yeah right imagine being poor af but being around millions in cash all the time, it would be seriously hard to resist, especially if you were left alone with ALL the keys! lol
In Kenya, when exactly are people not breaking the law?
Impressive analogy!
Well said!
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What I don't like about this entire story is that banks actually get benefited, and they are the biggest stealers
This is how a documentary should be made!! Great story telling great narration and beautiful job done by the actors!!
Yes you're right
Durrrrrrrrrr
Well it is a Discovery Channel series so hardly surprising
"Mastermind"
This was a weekly TV show back in the 90s-early 2000s. We used to watch it every week.
That was a great story. I don't hardly ever watch something so long. This was the best I have seen in years. Thank you.
Wow, I really felt for this David Gant guy. And I loved his honesty about saying he would do it again if he had the chance.
He's out by now...wonder what he's doing? 🤔
Gant mighta been better off keeping his honesty to himself tho bcz if he ever gets another job, which he most likely will at _some_ point, his employer might've saw this video too & will know Mr. Gant is not to be trusted ....
@UCdQ46g_x6QInsDnSABp48KA you never lied 🤣 he looked so sad in Mexico holding a huge L for stealing all that money, having to call ASKING for some of it & didnt get the girl eitha 🤣 smdh
Ghantt, not "Gant."
I can’t believe he said that. He totally didn’t learn his lesson, even though it almost got him killed. What a doofus. Theft is wrong, no matter how easy it might be to just do it. It’s like he has no conscience. I’m glad his wife divorced him. I hope she found a better life after him.
I say this as someone who doesn’t have a job or money, so don’t think I haven’t been dirt poor myself.
Better than most thrillers. Moral of the story is you can't trust anyone.
No, the moral is ,thow shall not steal
@@neilgibbons2532 What if you steal don't get caught and don't tell anyone?
Actually the moral of the story is to straight bs your "accomplices" and take more than literally 300 grams of 100 dollar bills to a foreign country...
I THINK..WHEN U MAKE BAD.. BAD KARMA ALSO U WILL GET .IF UR MATERIALISTICS U SEE 95% u think Money .David ken is very confused n tired of his life maybe..he have problems in his family /little salary in his works..maybe he sacrifices his self...I think he knows everything..he just did it..
@@neilgibbons2532 no, like in goodfellas , no major purchases for a long while
What i love doing is watching thesw documentaries on youtube then go through the comments which are enjoyable and paints a picture of what to expect
Some times it can spoil it, so you gotta be careful. But I do the same.
Lol me too
Same
Same here.
Secret of committing a crime is do it alone and tell nobody not even your mother wife anyone.
I heard a story of a guy that robbed a convenience store and when he was leaving to get away he backed into a pile of snow that had been pushed out of the parking lot and left a perfect impression of his tag in the snow. The cops were waiting on him when he arrived home
I would have been fooled because it would be backwards.
My companion of 12 years spoke of this crime. The issue is that the tag was paper
With all the millions, I wonder why the security at the warehouse was worse than that of a supermarket?
@Barry Baz yeah.. i also watched about the other robbery.. they never learned!!!
Because they try to save costs at the wrong end - same old story.
I don't think supermarkets have safes as big as that.
This was an inside job.
insurance
90's
They had more keys than sense. I like the nice cop screaming "GET DOWN ON THE GROUND" as he throws him on the comfy bed !
My favorite has always been that cartoon of the cop yelling, " FEEEZE, GET ON THE GROUND!"
And the criminal casually says while standing still, "Wellz what is it officer? Do ya want me to freeze? Or get on the ground?"
America in a nutshell
Instructions can have more than 1 step.
1. Freeze (stop what you are doing)
2. Get down on the ground. (Now get down on the ground)
Not that fucken complicated.
Guess what usually comes next.
3. Hands behind your back
4.Stand up
"But officer... you said Feeze" 😆
DAVID:"Yah, I'd do it all over again"
Judge watches interview...
Early release denied at probation hearing
Exactly what I was thinking lol, dumbass.
@@lukemeers9336 i don’t think he care if he doesn’t get out early
Lol
He probably meant to say he would do it better next time, having learned from his mistakes... maybe only take what he needed for himself to live comfortably for the rest of his new life, without accomplices. If he had been paid enough to live comfortably doing his job, I don't believe he would have committed any crime.
@@nyreekrikorian maybe he wouldn't have. Maybe he would: It was not just that he was poor: He wanted much more than what he could get, even with a well-paid job. He also wanted this gal in his life. Altough low wages make it easier for guards to be tempted, higher wages aren't a safeguard against temptation like that.
If I had a dollar for ever time I thought to myself, “how stupid”, “what idiots”, “why.. just why”, while watching this… I’d probably have accumulated as much as they stole in this heist.
😂😂😂 You are just as comical as Gantt
The Chambers were dumber than boxes of rocks! Especially Michelle Chambers asking the bank how much she can deposit without having to fill out any paperwork!? Only to have the bank teller do exactly that after she leaves. Filling out the "Suspicious Activity" form! LMAO 🤣 🤣 🤣
Got to admire Wells Fargo for saving investors money by entrusting 17 million dollars in untraceable cash to one guy, a guy who is having trouble making the payments on a used single wide trailer on what they pay him, and has been recently written up for leaving bundles of cash out unattended. The best part is they only find out the money is gone when his wife gets pissed he didn't show up with her midnight snack after work.
Good old white privilege. It truly does pay to be white in this country. A black man with perfect credit and a clean record would have never gotten a job like that with that much freedom.
@@TheAngryScratcher1 OH my. The racist in the back raises his hand and pukes out his usual bile. "Math is racist. I could make change for a dollar today if ya all waddent racist."
@@TheAngryScratcher1 You sure seem to enjoy feeling sorry for yourselves
@@sharonrigs7999 you know what I enjoy? That thousands and thousands of your people are dying in the Ukraine war and plenty more are going to be dead in the coming months. Savages
@@TheAngryScratcher1 OK so your trying to say there's not a single black or ethnic person working in a bank or cash depot in USA 🤣🤣👎
imagine stealing all that money and then giving all of it to people who did nothing to help other than taking it off your hands
The the power 😺😺😺 and a man the probably never had luck with women
No,I can't, I would kill those others for sure.1 by1.
@@rjb1987xx he was married.
@@spiderreed350 But was he happily 🤔
RIGHT !!! 😆😆😆
David Ghantt was an idiot. If I'm the ONLY one on tape stealing the money there's NO WAY I would have to wait on others to send me money I'm the ONLY one on tape stealing. Ghantt was the ONLY one with a KNOWN association to the money and was on tape stealing it. If his accomplices would have knocked him off IMMEDIATELY after he delivered the van with the money, the police wouldn't have had a clue on where to start looking. They knew NOTHING about Ghantt's. accomplices.
I know David Ghantt personally. He dated my mom back in the 90s. He lives in Florida now doing outside construction work living a normal life. He likes to make jokes about this heist. And he also wrote a book about his life and the heist.
7 years is no time at all, makes it worth trying.
Did he meet your mom before he got married or was he cheating on his wife ... ?
This show made it look like he had grown kids in 1997 when it shows the more eating dinner after he had vanished and nobody knew if he was dead or alive .
Who knows maybe they were step kids .
When you found out he was the one who did the heist were you surprised or did it seem like yeah you could easily believe it about him ?
B
Sure you do buddy.
Yeah bollox pal
My God... the items removed from the Chambers' home shows that money definitely can't buy you taste. Those ridiculous items!
I so would have bought that Elvis on black velvet from the auction.
What??! That's a beautiful Elvis painting! Shame on you!
You can, however, hire an interior designer
This was a dramatic recreation for the purpose of telling a story. Do you believe that they actually went out and bought all of the furniture, etc. back so they could film this?
A velvet painting of Elvis? seriously?!!?
I wish the FBI would investigate the fortune of politicians as thoroughly…
They will if there´s a proven case. Actually, it happens all the time. Ray Nagin, The Keating Five, Randy Cunningham, Edwin W. Edwards, Paul Powell, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, Warren G. Harding....both parties, mostly GOP, of course. But, you won´t hear about them if your only source for info is Fox or Newsmax....
It does. They investigate the fortune of politicians who stand in the way of the establishment politicians that they support
Could start with N. Pelosi, the others are in plain sight
@@norman7527 What are you wailing for, sue her!
Right!?
They had us in the first half not gonna lie. This was looking like the best heist in American history.
Misleading title. This was a great heist. If they hadn't tried to kill him they likely get away with it.
@@tomdallas3690 I agree, the actually heist was very good. But what they did after is what screwed it up.
The follow up, hiding the ill-gotten goods and converting it to wealth you can invest with, is the hardest and most important part of the heist. Any idiot can drive off route with a truck full of money and park in a concealed location. But if you can't spend it without getting caught, you haven't really gotten away with anything.
Also, the best heist, Chambers would've gotten someplace for Gant to park the truck, like a warehouse or an old barn, not a field near his work. Should've emptied it and dumped it in a river as many miles away as they could've gotten.
@@tomdallas3690 They would get away with it if they waited with spending the money for a year or two. Trying to kill him was not why the FBI got them. Actually killing him makes some sense as he was the only link to the heist, but of course it's not a nice thing to do
When you have this many people involved, as well as being so greedy, they were bound to get caught.
The real mindless part about it is, that he didn't even know them and that he said that he would do it again 🤯 Actually it took me back when Florida Mega millions lottery a bunch of years ago. This Guy took $15,000 out of his Son's collage fund and spent it on lottery tickets and paid. others to check them. Absolutely mindless. The lottery at that time was about $140,000,000. I've got the ticket, hear it is🤯 Wright😏 The same mind set🤪
He at least send some money home for his wife
trisha zechel; if all, or most of the involved had any brains (IQ), they could have gotten away with it! They almost did!
@@@wb6csh three can keep a secret if two are dead.....
Trisha Zechel try to do your dirt all by your lonely (own). That way ensures only you to make sure no one talks. Loose lips 💋 or drunk night of questions is would .
I know the guy that called in the van,was kicking himself after finding out what was inside 😂
1:01:34“He said we needed to talk and he was glad to see me and I told him the same.” is kind of cute in a Fugitive x Federal Agent Enemies to Lovers fanfiction way
Yea lol
I laughed so much throughout this video. That velvet Elvis...OMG. You can take the people out of the trailer but'cha can't take the trailer out of the people. At least not those particular people.
He has roadside assistance on his Homeowners Insurance policy, I'll bet!
Kinda rude, not everyone can afford what is deemed a standard home...
Bet you live in a palace 💩
Elvis Presley is the greatest performer of all time. The man been dead since 77 and still brings in 45 million annually. He is a national treasure.
Me too, their not the sharpest tools in the shed especially that David lol
I remember living in N.C when this happened. The local radio stations was making fun of this because these idiots went from living in a single wide trailer to throwing a half a million in cash on a multi million dollar home 🤣. Plus they just burned through money like Rick James in a strip club.
Yeah, just so happened to have $5M here in my Trailer. Think I'll just pick up and move. Nobody will notice
😅😅.... good one on the Rick James quip.
Ever see the movie The Masterminds with Zach Galifinakis? It's based on this actual story
$17M heist, and they barely even left town. Real criminal geniuses...
Would’ve been in a country that hates the us
@@ramsesii2196 they could've left the state, at least.
@@nocomment1212 fr fr. Should’ve left with out a peep and came back in 10-15 years
Even worse, they bought a velvet Elvis!
@@ramsesii2196
or never came back
Tremendously produced documentary. Bravo. The story flowed so smoothly.
Who are you to give life advice to people you don't know.. unless you're a preacher..TOM DALLAS😀..
I'm joking good comment
It didn’t have to be almost 2 hours I had to skip around because it dragged out…
And yes - he totally looks like Boris Becker
@@jasoncutshaw8401 169 likes for Tom Dallas for your 1 like. That 1 like is probably your own too.
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Kudos! Love watching this documentary. Poor Ghantt, he made his accomplices rich while he ran with only $30K, dumbest thing to do.
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Proving, there is no honor among thieves. Being locked out of the van with that key ring and bulletproof glass had me rolling. The three stooges came immediately to mind.
Couldn't they have rung ghantt or Kelly and ask them to come back and ghantt show them the right key?
43:00 “the FBI fear if they got too close” as they sit opposite the front door day and night with binoculars 😂
Inside a gated community!!!
😂😂😂
I notice if there is more than the usual cars in my neighborhood and I don't do anything illegal. I just watch out for theives because if they will hit my neighbors they will hit me next
Just to help you out guys, the footage on the documentary wasn’t CCTV of the actual FBI carrying out surveillance. It was a dramatic recreation so you could watch a documentary. 😂
@@theres1500 Right, its just funny how that was overlayed them literally sitting on his door step. They had to have done it intentionally!
I was a Security Manager in a casino. Rule #1- No one has all the keys. It was always a two-key, two individuals from different departments to enter any secured rooms. Vault, main bank, card & chips room. Surveillance always notified prior to approaching. Then, we could not enter until notified by Surveillance. Never entrust a single individual with all keys!
I was flabbergasted by the number of keys on that key ring, that detail just struck me as insane stupidity😵💫. Yes, security has improved for the better. Thanks for the update
What about giving all the keys to the most trustworthy guy on each shift? That would work, right?
Stealing is easy , spending safely is the difficult part .Many criminals and lottery winners learn that the hard way .
Yeah stealing 17 mil is soo easy right?
@@jek93milani If you had watched the vid you would have understood . They got caught while spending it . It's comparative .
I can tell you the feds track large cash purchases. As someone who has experience with BTC transactions, very little escapes their notice.
shoulda waited a few years to start spending and launder it through the casinos
tell me how to get it the rest i will findout myself
How no one found that van and its contents before the FBI is amazing
.what a daft place to leave it, connecting it to a robbers workplace😊
@@peteminers236 Well to quote Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. "They're hicks Rita."
His boss said that he'd recently been promoted to 'Vault Superviser' but that he wasn't very good at the job.. Really?.. Seems to me that he took the job so seriously he even took it home with him!!
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YESSSS!!!!
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Lol good one!
All that ..... just to sit by the pool, read comic books and go home to a sad and lonely hotel room.
I'd love it
That's a peaceful life man..new name for you;The Sling Blade Mind!!
Some people only want "enough" and nothing more.
At least he could smoke in bed now
Don't forget the Eagles CDs
If people could have earned a degree in watching true crime videos on RUclips, I would by now be a Phd holder in crime investigation. Who else love watching true story crime files? It really opened my eyes about how people are unpredictable.
I would have also earned that degree and I agree these are eye openers.
They really don't show any investigation doh, just small parts.
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Dude was in another country calling back to ask for money like: "Its my money and I need it NOW!!!😂😅🤣😂😆🤪
"apparently it didn't occur to them that armored vans have bullet proof glass" narrator straight up calling them dumb
That whole scene they looked like cavemen 😂
In the uk we would call them dickheads
LOL
lol
they're from charlotte, NC lol
I can’t help but feel so sorry for Gant. He was a straight shooter all his life until his low-life accomplices tempted him at the perfect time to convince him to do this. They give Gant a meager $30K while they hold $17 million, then gets irritated when he asks for more several months later, and decides to hire a hit man to kill him. That’s so freaking despicable.
Yep, if they hadn't been so greedy, they ALL would have gotten away with it.
Seriously? He showed no remorse in the prison interview.
Greed was their undoing. I agree if they had only just given Gant his share.......hahaha what idiots, especially Chambers now that's one idiot of all idiots 🤣🤣🤣
I don't feel sorry for Gant one bit- he said at the end he'd do it again. He's just got it in him.
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In the 90s a guard made around $5 /hour. Today it is around $11 per hour. Low pay doesn't justify crime, but I wonder if it contributes to someone, who has no criminal history, in choosing to rob their employer.
It don’t matter how much you make the more you make per hour the higher inflation.
In 1997 made $7.25 an hour cleaning cars at age 18. So I think you're wages are a little off but I see your point.
@@joanbaczek2575 they brainwashed you folks to keep your pay low . no one can pay rent on $7 an hour in 2021
@TANKTHEARC it's not brainwashing...it's people in need of money to live and the greedy employers that don't pay. There's two ways to make money, earn it or steal it. Employers know they can pay low because if you don't want the job, there'll be someone else desperate, enough to do it for cheap.
@joan baczek it's not inflation, it's taxes...the more you make, the more they take. Mafias use extortion against business to allow the business to work in an area/field...The Feds extort it's citizens via taxes, and not only the citizens but the businesses they work for as well. It's a scheme, it's disgusting and it's one of the big problems in America...because it doesn't just stop with the Feds, some States, and even cities also tax the money you make, on top of what the Feds are taking.
I've watched this episode over Ten Times.1 of the greatest of all time
I agree
There is a movie The Masterminds based on this.. Zach Galifinakis from the hangover plays David... its pretty funny
I was living in Charlotte when this happened. It's wild to see the details
Get a job u loser
what a shocker that the woman that set all of this up gets the lightest sentencing.
i suppose that's not the way we should see it, for breaking the law each and every one bears his/her oneself responsibility
She did not kill him. She did not steal the money herself. Wow, what a surprise she got the lightest.
@@voornaam3191 every person there is equally responsible
@@voornaam3191 She initiated the heist and help commit it. Plus she conspired to commit murder on tape. Yeah she should of got life in prison.
@@just_saying_facts3856 Thank you for the info
LOL The guy was so honest, "Sure, I'd do it again!" It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, isn't it 🤔😂🤣
"They're the only one who doesn't notice the FBI surveillance in that neighbourhood" 😂😂
The FBI boss is damn handsome though 😘
then it would be a twice in a lifetime opportunity wouldn't it?
bang goes his parole
@@jameskid81 LOL I never thought about that
Kelly should have gotten the most years since she started the ball rolling and planed it out while deceiving David.
EXACTLY ! thank you. It was her idea.. she conned Dave in a sexual way... she put the various players in touch.. she cooordinated communications between all... she was part of the conspiracy to commit murder. It shouldnt work that way, where the criminal who betrays their cohorts gets less time.
She smoothed it out to a level surface while deceiving David?
Ikr she's definitely a smooth talker and a smooth conspiracy to kill not only did she smooth her way into deceiving David but she did it with the FBI agents just to get a lighter sentence!?
She should've gotting the more time than she did, talking about forgiving the guy she was setting up to kill what a bummer!!
@@MrSimondaniel3 She's definitely the mastermind on the whole deal but then get off with a slap on the wrist probably because she didn't go out all lavished like the reat that's her being cooperative with the FBI!!
The mean thing is she was on borad to kill David even though he was the one who stolen all the cash they didn't wanna shared it with him then apologise to him for setting him up!?
Talk about a bumper!!
And she assisted planned murder
How stupid can you be to take all the risk and trust someone else to hold on to your money and believe that they’re going to send you money as needed????
LOL What your seeing is the evidence of being married from the age of 14, this idiot can't deal with anything without a list of instructions! If it's not on the list, it's not important.
your solution?
@@Dalauan_Sparrow working a real job
Love is blind. Love is a man-made emotion... the world would be far better off without it.
Like a bank?
imagine being such a brainlet that you go to a bank, show off a briefcase of money, declare it is not drug money and then ask a suspicious question about how much you can deposit without leaving a signature
right and leave the money wrapped with bands from the robbery. thats like a a bankrobber trying to deposit blue stained money from the dye packs bursting. God damn, people are so freaking dumb
Rookie141 Supposedly they were to deposit the money in my country, as many do... well, they’ve could done that here without suspicion but doing it in the States... plain stupid yeah!
That's what too much TV will do to you. Sometimes I *do* blame the parents.
literally begging to get caught sm
lol no need to imagine,i'm sure it happens a lot lol
The security company should be ashamed for not paying their employees a decent wage. Great work by the FBI. Great show.
Kathleen I agree. These guys get robbed and killed for transporting and just picking up such large sums of money. They should be compensated for the huge responsibility of transporting all that money.
@@laraoneal7284 The bottom line is that the money is insured and Wells Fargo was one of those too big to fail banks where they don't even care about billions, let alone a couple million. The low wage security people and the manner of storing the money exactly represents the importance of it to this jew mafia.
Perfectly acceptable for the bankers to steal billions from the people but when one minimum wage servant tries it!
Different story altogether.
@@petej8556 The worst thing about banks like these is that they privatize all the profit and socialize all the loss. The clowns over at the FBI, instead of working on solving real crimes like murders and pedo rings were chasing after money which was printed out of thin air for these jew institutions to gamble with because why not take huge risk when the tax payers will bail out all your losses...They even used planes to surveil small time crooks dumb enough to make deposits to other banks with WF wrappers still on 20 dollar bills. That's why try reporting any serious crime to FBI, they will do nothing but file your complaint because they have more urgent business of settling scores between politicians and protecting the jew wealth in US.
He’s dumb as a doorknob... If anyone can do your job don’t expect a high wage.
"would you do it again?" -Yeah, sure
LOL
He wouldn't say that if it was a life in a maximum security prison, or a death sentence. 7 years in some nice place with a tennis court is a joke.
@@Max-lm2jc i agree. The sentenses where waaaaaay to small for what they did. Its not like they robbed a convenience store. They robbed 14 million dollars.
EDIT: it was actually 17.3 million not 14
When I heard him said that to my self if he only had a brain🧠🧠🤣🤣
7 years and 11 was a joke. But I am sure most of the home items was already there. So the insurance company made out in the deal. .
@@Roadking556 he didn't deserve it
I watched this before. He is so gentle I kinda wish he didn’t have to go to jail. Just a humble thief.
Hmmm
The ones that wanted to KILL Gant should spend more years locked.
Does she get the death penalty
correct
The death sentence. Known as life incarcerated without parole.
I want to see the people who plotted Gant's elimination to get ten years added to their sentences....
Yeh that’s crazy but at least the scumbags will be paying the bank back for the rest of their lives.
Gotta love the end when dude was asked if he would do it all over again. At least he's honest.
I would think the parole board wouldn’t like that
Shows his true criminal mind, or just stupid🤣
@@BrianSmith-yq7ys he's been out of prison for year's now.
Unfortunately Gant was the more sensible thief, he actually thought to separate himself from the crime scene by over a thousand miles. Unfortunately for him Kelly & Chambers were greedy and senseless with their cash and spent freely while planning to kill him all along. This is the crime that was made into a film starring Zach Galifianakis.
@@80sCrazyCatDadNGunAddiction how is it as far from the truth like reno 911? Explain to me the differences other than the comedic bits.
The only reason he left the country is because he was only one who would obviously be connected to the heist. Even without the video, he would have been a prime suspect.
What’s the name of the film?
@@_.LifeOfSunShineee Masterminds
??.. Really...? What was the name of the movie????
If You steal over $17 mil In unmarked cash and stay in the same country You deserve to get caught
He only took $30,000 🙄 🤦🏿♂️
@@jewdollaz305 the other guy and his wife. They stole the money too.
@Jew Dollaz No, he stole 17.3M. The FBI recovered 88% of that money, leaving 1.32M that wasn't recovered. There were 8 co-conspirators plus Ghantt. Divide 9 into that 1.32M and each one got 205,000 and some change.
@@fluffin4bean I'm talking about the simp guy who got finesse by the girl... That was his only cut didn't you watch the story?
@@rhondaallan4680 the dude got finesse by his female coworker is the one that only received 30 grand...wth were you watching
This episode is always worth a watch, I often come back to watch it as well as the Mecklenburg 6 death row Escape, two of my favorites.
Cc
Just my type🥰🥰
@@cheyennedavis6450 y0
Go watch the movie based on this story. The Masterminds with Zach Galifinakis... it's funny af
I'll try that one next thanks
I thought the chaos of the keys were hilarious. Twas really a dumb moment🤣
All the actors were really good in re enacting the events.👏
In all this I feel bad for his wife, leaving his wife for another woman who ended up betraying him I'm glad she divorce him I also would've left him
Yeah but she treated him like a dog,don't let him spend a dime when he's the one who worked for it.screw her.
@@spiderreed350 yeah i hear you on that. did they even mention if she brought some money in herself or was he just slaving away to live in a trailer park?
@@spiderreed350 000pp0000pppppppppppppppppppppp
She was watching the money like she was because they ran up the credit cards. So it's no excuse for what he did
@@spiderreed350 She was watching the money like she was because they ran up the credit cards. Don't blame her for what he did.
Crime would have been perfect if the members are loyal and respect each other shares. Moral of the story: if you can’t do anything yourself, best not to even think about it.
They made a huge mistake trying to play David
The Chambers were very greedy.
True
Trump and the peoples support him also the same. FBI. If this man he able to continue in the role organizing most of us will be victim.
Aw, what’s the matter? Still salty that Biden turned out to be exactly what we said he was whereas everything you claimed Trump to be has been disproven? Get off the Trump blame- it’s just getting ridiculous at this point.
It's nice to see late 90's era.. those cars..those dresses..that VCR s 😀 just 20 mins into the video n I'm feeling nostalgia.. wanna go back to my childhood
To get away with a heist and then get caught up making excessively large cash purchases when the FBI is looking for you has to be the dumbest thing imaginable. The fool deserved to get caught.
Don’t think they knew they was being watched but def woulda left America to a country that can’t extradite u
@@Ninosfunnyshorts lol ok
Yeah, total idiot. I’d have spent it all on lotto tickets asap, and when I won, everyone would win!!
@@JenBee1 if it was me, i would give them money and a plane ticket or would send them far far away as quickly as possible..
@Nino. Yeah and just pack all the money in your luggage……… Eeeediot!!!
"They feared if they got too close, the chambers would become suspicious" _literally sits 2 feet from the front door with binoculars_
That was a dramatic recreation.
I seriously doubt that the police and FBI actually sat that close to their house.
The FBI could have installed cameras and checked them periodically. Outside at different angles all around the house.
Those mofos followed me for 6 months and i never seen them..
Actually I think they probably could have as stupid as these guys were!!!!
imagine being so stupid and thinking the fantasy film, made for our entertainment, is how the FBI actually do things in real life.
I've never said this about suspect before, but there is something likeable about Ghantt. The way he said, "would I do it again? ... sure!" made me laugh. His interaction with the FBI when he was picked up was also comical. After watching so many gruesome murder documentaries, this one felt *relatively* lighthearted. Obviously larceny is wrong and I think longer sentences were warranted.
I scrolled way too far for this! The dude isn't evil, just simple and he was taken advantage of. At least on that one point, he's honest, bless him haha seems like a good guy at heart and just not quite there enough to understand how bad the stuff he got dragged into was
"something likeable about Ghantt ... 'would I do it again? ... sure!'"
You find likable a guy who has no conscience?
You know he was innocent when he left town and trusted his friends would send his cut! However it’s pretty darn messed up. 17M they could’ve sent him his cut and still lived large ! SMH greedy
What i love doing is watching thesw documentaries on youtube then go through the comments which are enjoyable and paints a picture 🥺🥺🥺
Cannot wrap my mind around the fact that they planned and executed the heist pretty well but what they did after was there downfall. How are you able to execute a plan so detailed and exact but you blow all your tracks?? Greed does extraordinary things, can't not trust anyone.
You can trust a lot of people. But when you give 17 million to a bunch of criminals, you'd better not trust them. They don't need you anymore. They prefer you never to talk again. Trust me, they will have you killed.
It's a classic question. How could you steal an awful lot of money, without hurting anybody, and then get away with it? How do you avoid the intense search after you?
Greed does many things, but so does fear of prison. People will rat themselves out thinking they will be getting less time. In 90% of all cases the criminal convicts himself. Even where the FBI has solid DNA evidence or fingerprints it doesn't mean anything unless the criminal gives an explanation of why it was there that doesn't wash with the facts. When many criminals point the figure at one of their peers, they don't seem to be aware that, whatever happened, they are also equally guilty because they were involved too.
joker THE DARK KNIGHT
Dumbasses I guess
These are the dumbest criminals I ever seen. Spending money with no way of accounting for any of it. Stay in a small town where you stand out like a sore thumb.
Seen with the other criminals so the FBI can connect you together. Fools!
When fools steel they start show off.
How about the stupid part where they try depositing thousands of dollars of cash to the bank and mentioning to the teller its bot drug money
Perps are so dumb, and it is a good thing. Otherwise the law couldn't catch them.
The guy in Mexico that recognized David, didnt know how close he was to a 500, 000 k reward.
The same goes for 'Robert'. The person that warned David that the rest of them were going to get rid of him. The one who got $2000 as a good gesture. He too, could have got the reward of $500,000.
😆..all ignorant
@@dennispetrovic8466 Robert didn't have a clue about the heist, though. He thought he was a drug dealer.
@@tomdallas3690 ok
101 bitches!
So funny the FBI had no idea what the pager code 143 meant!! It means "I Love You"
I'm 38 and I had a pager almost all my teenage years I loved it 143 will always stay in my head as I love you even when I look at the clock I'm like it's I love you time have a good day happy New Year thanks for reminding me of the good old days
@@annacruz4085 You have a wonderful New Year also
When the narrator said they didn't know what it meant, I shook my head. There is NO way the FBI didn't know what that meant.
It was The Wonderful "Mr Rodgers" favorite #! I have the numbers tattooed!
43:38 they feared if they got too close the chambers will become suspicious ( holding a binocular in the yard).
What is your point? The agent was in the car and it was night. Furthermore the subjects were not suspecting anything (unlike everyone else in the neighborhood, it seems) and didn't have the brightest criminal minds. How would you do surveillance?
Guys, you realize that this was a reenactment?
Hahahaha this is the funniest comment
"Yes I'd do it again"
That will sound good at any parole hearing.
They say that honesty is the best policy.
I bet the police got dna off the poo stains off the stockings the theives wore
No parole when doing fed time
He got like 7 years that’s nothing. He doesn’t care😩Also,The doc looks old he’s probably already out
That was a Federal sentence. There is no "parole". 'Ya does all the time.
Narrator : "The FBI feared that if they got too close, the Chambers would be suspicious"
Accompanying film reconstruction : Two FBI agents sitting in a car directly outside the Chambers' house, using binoculars to look into their living room from about 10 yards away. (from 43:30)
Creative liberty on recreating events. FBI would never do something as obvious as that...would they?? ;) lol!
The FBI would have just planted remote cameras. And they would have used drones to monitor the Chambers' house. And they could have listened to conversations inside the house through the PC.
Can't believe everyone knows about the suspicious activity with the FBI car parked up outside except the chambers!?
That one had me scratching my head asking how???😂😂
@@sionk5909 it is because the story took artistic liberties. The story is unrealistic and has many inconsistences.
@@laserleftfootttt7683 Really how so ?
Just an fyi, the polygraph test has been proven to be completely unreliable in detecting honesty or dishonesty. There is no reason to take it unless you just want to for the fun of it. Realize that if you "fail" it and you are innocent, the inspectors will probably focus more energy on you, and the guilty party will have an advantage.
Fact
I think it’s actually reliable but it’s not submissible in court
@@jessiec2220_admissible._
There is reason why it isn't admissable in court.
Google, the lie behind the lie detector. It isnt reliable.
David was my pen pal when I was a teenager and he was in prison his aunt and my grandmother was best friends, he really was a nice guy who seemed to turn his life around after this mistake I haven’t spoken with him in years probably since the early 2000s I sent him a bracket and they sent it and my letter back and was never able to get a letter to him. I was troubled youth and his stories he’s write about kinda scared me straight.
Right
He’s not nice.Ask his abandoned wife and children.He’s a worm.
I'd feel bad for the guy for getting played except he left his wife and family for this chick so karma!
Well you know what they say: love is blind; definitely was in this case XD
@Gabriela Martinyuk What did I miss? Looks like the wife was trying to stay on top of the bills.
He is an adult he made his wrong choice.
Karma doesn't bring restitution. There's a big misinterpretation of what Karma is.
@Terry Melvin
BUT! I betca he would go SOLO...
Wow..."would I do it again? Yeah". That honesty says it all lol. Love this guy haha.
This loomis-type robbery happened many times,at least once in spain
It was not a robbery; it was either a burglary or theft case. Robbery is a crime against a person or persons, whereas theft or burglary is a crime against property.
Facts
Facts
Dang, his abandoned Loomis van would have been a great find to stumble on to!!!..im afraid the FBI would have only recovered a few hundred thousand out of it if i would have found it first...lol!
I'll pass, thank you.
They'd have found NOTHING if i had came across it.
aaaaaand your on the fbi watchlist. congratulations lol
That vAn would of been burnt to a crisp
😂 If you've watched Shallow Grave, you know you won't.
This Gant guy was totally used so badly. I feel sorry for him. Most interesting heist story I’ve ever heard. If they haven’t made a lifetime movie on this by now they should. Fascinating narrative.
They've made a comedy "mastermind."
Woke Joke Yea right. Haha
It’s on Netflix now. I just watched it last weekend. It is so funny. Check it out!
The movie is called; "Masterminds" it's on Netflix.
@@laraoneal7284 it's not an yeah right. It's true. Do research before you try to shut down facts someone gives you. Girl watch it. Great movie.
Lmao...THEY LEFT THE MONEY BANDS ON WHEN THEY WENT TO DEPOSIT IT?!?!
Should have listened to Lefty and carried it in a roll like a wiseguy.
These people must be the worlds most dumbest criminals I have ever heard of... I seriously regret watching this documentary.
@@sto2779 😂😂
well, why do you believe everything they tell you? That is a serious problem in the United States, people do not think for themselves, you let them tell you a truth that we do not know if it is.
@@UnGenX I'm not sure what your referring to...
'143' and they don't know what it means!! 😂😂😂 Oldest pager code ever! I Love You
Kelly. Was the master mind she set everything in motion
Kellys overweight. Probably has pungent personal smells :-(
It's about the person that used his authorisation to steal that much money
And got the lightest sentence.... It was her brainchild
Actually, I’ve read about this case. Steve Chambers was the mastermind behind it. Kelly’s job was mainly to be a go between and to lure Ghantt into it with promises of a happy ever after millionaire life. No worse than what Ghantt did to his own wife.
Kelly’s sentence was just under 6 years while David Ghantt’s sentence was 7-1/2 years. Not much difference. And Kelly was the only one who cooperated with authorities enabling them to put approximately 20 people behind bars.
allthatsinteresting.com/loomis-fargo-heist-david-ghantt
All too often in the past, they would not arrest women whom engaged in over the top crimes when all the evidence was in their face, likely because leo is mostly men, and view themselves as knights protecting women and children, they go looking for a man to charge. this was the 90's mentality.
"The first thing we noticed is there was nothing noticeable". With that guy on the job you knew it would take a while to solve this one.
All the money was gone. That was noticeable.
It would appear a crime has taken place.
Wonderful, Sherlock. Ty.
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣
With 17 million bucks in cash missing they are scratching their heads wondering what the motive was.
@@retiredkidbuck 🙈😆😆 total buffoons
I really hoped David would have gotten away with it.... I was rooting for you Dave!!!!
Same😂😂
Saaaaame lol
Same he doesn’t seem like a bad dude lol his friends though...
David Ghantt was a 100% MORON. He steals $17 mil and then gives it up to strangers as soon as he leaves Loomis ? He walks away with only $30K of $17 mil ? He did it for the love of a woman he had only kissed once ? The best that I can say for David is that he was a Naive and Gullible puppet for others. I mean that he was too STUPID to ever think of robbing Loomis on his own. His work GF Kelly just played this SUCKER like a fiddle. He's lucky that being a DUMMY isn't a crime because he would deserve a life sentence just for that. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
Someone smarter than Ghant (99% of the world) who was serious about robbing Loomis would've realized that he didn't even need $17 mil to have a great life. $4 mil would've been plenty (and easier to handle) if he had been smart enough to choose a destination where that would make him wealthy. Also, finding a nation with no extradition treaty with America would've been a priority. Some criminals have found Costa Rica to be such a place and have left the FBI helpless to touch them. This is yet another case where the criminal was caught NOT because the cops were so Smart, but only because all the criminals here were Just SO Stupid. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
7 years? Lol no wonder he said he would do it again.
Exactly I mean why not that’s light time.
It's a non violent robbery to a bank.
It's a harsh sentence if you ask me.
He probably parolled in 4 or 5 years..
7 years is light time? The average person lives to be about 75. Thats about 1/10 of your life....
Do you know what its like in prison? I bet not.
@@raeRenae1Although, he'll be paying restitution his whole life. If he doesn't pay, I'm sure the feds will take it from his paycheck. I mean that's the American way unless the person has power or money in the USA.
Wow, this was quite something. I loved the calmness of the FBI in handling matters, I also love that Ghantt was so honest on whether he can do the same kind of act again. Great documentary, keep up the great work guys.
"...the calmness of the FBI in handling matters."
You know, I'm not sure that you will ever see video of them being portrayed differently, deserved or not.
Actually he is very stupid saying that. What will his future be, when everyone knows that he sincerely will do it again. Honest, yes. But also stupid. His only option after that interview is to continue being criminal.
Poor Ghantt ended up being like the “Guy Fawkes” of this plan; used and set up by people he felt he could trust. That guy who had the courage to warn Ghantt cared about him more than that chick did. :-(
Yes. He knew who the real rats were
You must be crazy.He said he’d do it again.I think you wouldn’t admire him so much,if your money was involved.And what about his abandoned wife and children?Thank goodness he’s stupid,or he may not have been caught.
"Here's the plan: You steal all the money and leave it with us, then You piss off to Mexico and We'll send your share on to you, honest"
"Duh. Ok"
What a sucker.. I feel sorry for him.
@MrPitjoey He didn't know about the others - he thought it was just him, Kellie and Chambers.
@@sheilaboston7051 That dude obviously never committed a single crime in his life. You can't just go from living a straight life, to robbing $17 million. You need to learn young what kind of people you can and can't trust, but he clearly never took the time to learn. It hurt so much just to hear his side of the story, and all the mistakes he made, and obviously didn't learn from.
There’s a movie on NetFlix based on this heist , it has Kristen Wiig, Zach Galifanokis , Owen Wilson and is funny AF.
@@kingdingaling2469 . Sweet, do you know the title?
Ta 🙂
@@justjones5430 Masterminds lol it's hilarious
That velvet painting of Elvis was a dead giveaway...🤣
Magnificent story telling and the actors gave justice to the story. Well done.
The comedy movie Masterminds was based on this robbery 😂…. It’s hilarious.
LOL because this is from an actual TV show…not a YT doc
Steve's actor was so good at playing Mastermind douchebag 😎🤣☺️
I love the part they are waiting on AMW and eating like for real. Even the guy that throws his napkin at the TV. I do that when watching a game. 😂
@@commiezombie2477 k
That mayor started sweating it after noticing that car at the end of her driveway every time she left and when she brought it up to the police chief, all he said was yea we know we have it under control. I bet she started to "clean up" and start covering her tracks. She probably thought they were closing in on her and any moment they would bust through her door with a swat team. HAHAHAHA
Nice one!
😅that's exactly what came to my mind watching that scene
They got off with wrist slaps. That Kelly Jezebel should have gotten 25 yrs minimum for luring Gant'z into this.
Count the money that didn't get recovered.
How many bribes can it cover?
She is Evil....karma awaits her for sure...
David Gant is a likable down to Earth guy, someone I could be friends with. I liked his honesty when asked if he would do it again, sure I would.