Theres no management around. FILE - Kelly Campbell, one of the 21 people convicted for their involvement in the $17 million Loomis Fargo heist, awaits sentencing for her part in the theft at her mobile home near Mount Holly, N.C. on Aug 16, 1999. He appeared happily matched with his high-spirited wife, Michele, and the two children from her first marriage. Although David was in on most of the planning, one discussion between Steve and Kelly was kept a secret. This time, David told McKinney the truth. As he and Kelly met in a field behind a shooting range to refine the plan, she allowed him to believe she was falling for him. FILE - Kelly Campbell, one of the 21 people convicted for their involvement in the $17 million Loomis Fargo heist, awaits sentencing for her part in the theft at her mobile home near Mount. When he said, 'I'll give you $20,000 to hold a million,' I said, 'Sure.' Back then, it was one of the hotspots for hiding money. Ghantt planned to live off the interest for the rest of his life. A few of the Loomis restitution cases have already been closed either because the amount was paid in full or because the 20-year clock wound down. Here's what Floyd recalls: After two games of pool, Steve told him, "You know, we do a lot of gambling. The barrels were Steves idea, Ghantt says. Not Ghantt. In one case, the restitution for a Loomis defendant may be a moving target. David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis), an employee of Loomis Fargo, robbed his own vault, left the $17.3 million in cash with his co-conspirators, Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig) and Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) and fled the country to Mexico. Called Masterminds, the 2016 film stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson. He took bus tours of Mayan ruins. The next day, Kelly drove back to Steve's mobile home to watch the news with Steve and Michele. . I studied up on the FBI. You can garnish wages. When I put that cash in the back of the car, by the time I got to the office the whole car smelled like that. I mean, cause greed is a funny animal. Ghantt started at Loomis Fargo in 1994, and soon worked his way up from an armored car driver to a vault supervisor. The FBI heard about the plot and agents knew they could no longer wait. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. This month marked 25 years since one of the biggest armored car heists in U.S. history. What made her abandon an ordinary existence to commit this spectacular, doomed crime? In mid-November, McKinney carried $10,000 to Cancun but wound up spending most of it on himself. It was his goodbye. Michelle Chambers paid off only $27,000. I thought, Okay, if I get out of that bubble because the cops depend on that, even the feds my chances to get away go way up.. Campbell, a mother of two, was in the process of divorcing her. Part 2: Channel 9 speaks with the man at the center of Loomis Fargo heist 25 years ago. David, the international fugitive, lived it up, too--for a while. Its a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I went down and talked to them, got to meet Zach Galifianakis and the director, Ghantt said. "We had David Ghantt and Kelly Campbell tied together, and we had Steven Chambers and Eric Payne with unexplained wealth, but we didn't have a tie between them," Agent John Wydra said. I had a four-hour layover there, and then from New Orleans to Cancun.. At 6-1 and 220 pounds, Steve was stocky and imposing, a fast talker with a brown goatee. She was the group's only contact with David, and she was smoking marijuana "like other people smoke cigarettes," she said. See all of the stories here. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. I pay (restitution to) thousands of people, but its in drips and drabs.. Agents began picking up signs that David definitely had help: The abandoned Loomis van with $3.3 million in small bills still inside, and phone records showing that somebody beeped him while he stole the money, using David's own cell phone. Galifianakis seems to be playing a character out of Dumb and Dumber 3: The Dumbening; Kristen Wiig plays what could only be described as her worst SNL character; Owen Wilson plays an Owen Wilson character; and Sudeikis plays a bumbling hitman who cant pull the trigger after he finds out his target shares the same name and birthdate, which is the dumbest twist since the Martha revelation in Batman vs. Superman. They picked me, he says with a rueful tone. Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live. That October, the Chamberses' bank accounts ballooned. Twice a week over the next 12 months, we will take you back to the winter of sheep cloning and the summer of Con Air. She tried to apologize for the murder plot. On Monday, October 6th, the FBI agents who were investigating the robbery located the Loomis Fargo van abandoned in the woods. As soon as you put that first bag of stolen money in that van, theres no going back. All rights reserved. . Well they were in some sense celebrities, Gronquist said. Loomis officials--forced to break into their own vault because David had taken the keys with him--calculated that he had stolen $17,044,000, making the second biggest heist in U.S. history, following the $18.8 million theft of an armored car by another Loomis Fargo employee just six months earlier. He allegedly hired a hitman to take Ghantt out, tying up the ultimate loose end. They didnt expect it.. Youre supposed to get less time for cooperating, a lesser penalty, and instead, you see what she got hit with. Gronquist said. He placed stacks of currency on a cart and wheeled it to the van about 15 feet away, inside the building. David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis), an employee of Loomis Fargo, robbed his own vault, left the $17.3 million in cash with his co-conspirators, Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig) and Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) and fled the country to Mexico. FILE - Kelly Campbell, one of the 21 people convicted for their involvement in the $17 million Loomis Fargo heist, awaits sentencing for her part in the theft at her mobile home near Mount Holly, N.C. on Aug 16, 1999. His collection case closes in two years. Ghantt had fled to Mexico with $50,000 in cash, leaving the rest of the money with Steve Chambers. He was also a former FBI informant who had tipped the bureau off to a planned robbery of a Loomis Fargo armored truck that never came to fruition. I threw you out, and then threw the parachute after you. In the two days after the robbery, agents interviewed more than 100 people, most connected with David. His name was Corey. Steve was sentenced to 11 years 3 months in prison. They set the date, Oct. 4, a Saturday when David knew he could be alone in the building after his shift. ", "I said, 'If you drive a truck, you're always in a financial bind. ". It was the first Saturday in October. Ghantt pulled out $50,000 from the back of the unmarked Loomis Fargo van. "Things I always wanted to do, but never had the time or the money," he said. When she realized Ghantt never came home from work the night before, she contacted the police and filed a missing persons report. Exhibit A was that Steve had no steady job but plenty of cash. When McKinney arrived in North Carolina, the plan had changed. Kelly said she had reason to believe Steve might be able to pull off a heist. Hidden in it was a 3 1/2-carat diamond ring that cost $43,000. Truth was, David wanted more than help leaving, he wanted company. Thatd probably been the best thing for me to do, really. Loomis, then known as Loomis Fargo, experienced two inside jobs in 1997, for $17.3 million and $18.8 million. . No dry runs, no rehearsals. He loves his motorcycle and enjoys going fishing and, while hes sorry for the past, hes not ashamed to talk about it. Speaking of his co-defendants, Ghantt says hes not currently in contact with any of them. To celebrate Halloween, about seven of Steve's friends, including Eric Payne and Kelly, gathered for a party at Steve's house. If they could just sit on the money until then, he said, they'd be fine. He figured Tammy wouldn't go for it, and though his marriage had been troubled, he wasn't certain he wanted to leave her. Until, that is, he decided to hell with it he was going to pull-off the second largest heist in U.S. history. Federal law stops government collection efforts 20 years after a defendant leaves prison. Its said the current owner now has it in storage in Phoenix, Arizona. The next day Chambers, Campbell and few other conspirators were arrested as well. You've violated that trust. Twenty-five years ago, a small group of rural North Carolinian amateur bank robbers pulled off the second-largest heist in American history. The audacity of the act was breathtaking. Agents raided safe deposit boxes, where they recovered more than $11 million. There was a little voice in my head that said, 'Don't do it. Steve had another conversation with Kelly about killing David. That week, the FBI designated the theft its 142nd "major case," putting it on a list--begun in the 1970s--that includes such other infamous crimes as the World Trade Center bombing. The FBI was also surveilling Kelly Campbell and followed her to a pay phone that she used to place calls to Mexico. Instead of lobster, the man who stole $17 million survived on home-cooked pasta and grilled cheese sandwiches. Kelly drove her pickup to a lot across the street from the Loomis building, on Suttle Avenue in Charlotte. Steve led the planning. Michele received the best gift of the night. Meanwhile, outside Reynolds & Reynolds, Steve, Scott and Eric needed to move 2,748 pounds of cash, quickly, from the Loomis van into the Budget van. And it turned Steve into he thought he was Don Corleone all of a sudden.. When he was done, the man drove off to a nearby printing press, where the money was distributed into private vehicles amongst a handful of people. Then another. About 5:45 a.m., he got into his pickup and began the 45-minute drive to work in Charlotte. Theres barely a laugh in the entire film, which looks like it was shot entirely in one take while the actors were still working out their characters. Steve tried keys on a side door. I couldn't understand why I hadn't been more successful," David said. . In December, agents got the tie-in they were looking for: Kelly Campbell had bought a $30,000 Toyota minivan with cash and registered it to one of Steve Chambers's aliases. The first weekday after the heist, Michele Chambers, co-conspirator Steve's wife, walked into a NationsBank branch with a briefcase containing $5,000. ". Some family members hid money in bank deposit boxes, other friends were asked to mule cash to the Cayman Islands. Steve now needed a hit man. He has a regular life now, but 25 years ago, Ghantt was the mastermind behind the third-largest bank robbery in U.S. history. Then he and Campbell drove 90 miles to Columbia, South Carolina, where Ghantt planned to purchase a ticket to Mexico so he could be out of the country before news of the robbery broke the next morning. Campbell was another employee at Loomis Fargo and she and Ghantt quickly struck up a relationship, one that Campbell denies was ever romantic though FBI evidence says otherwise, and one that continued after she left the company. And with Loomis, were looking at only one case. Three weeks after the theft, Steve and Michele moved from their Lincoln County mobile home to a $635,000 house in a gated Cramerton, N.C., neighborhood. The number of people involved had ballooned after Steve started asking friends and family to help him launder the stolen cash. On October 5, 1997, FBI agents gathered at the Loomis, Fargo & Co. warehouse in Charlotte, North Carolina, to watch a security videotape of a man loading stacks of cash into a pushcart and wheeling them from the vault. Scott didn't want to, but then he remembered the hundred-grand payday. Or is the loot buried in somebody's yard? The money weighed as much as a compact car and he did it all by himself. Heres your money. Then he turns around and leaves., The problem was, it was nowhere near the amount Ghantt had expected: Im looking at it, and theres maybe $8,000. It just happened to fall on my desk.. Username. While the agents initiated their investigation, the Chambers spent money as quickly as they could. Records show the government has garnished his Social Security checks. Im a very deliberate person. He para-sailed, power-skied and scuba-dived. [Kelly] told me, 'Just think about it.' He pocketed the money and told Chambers and Campbell to send him his cut in Mexico. Kelly told the FBI she had done drugs with David but denied knowing about the theft. And so, he told her, Google my name. They cursed. Kelly drove David to the airport. There is nothing of value in this movie. They also purchased expensive cars, jewelry and a breast enhancement or two. Ghantt, who by then was long out of prison, served as a consultant. The case resurfaced in the federal courts on Thursday, Sept. 1, when the U.S. Attorneys Office in Charlotte posted a public reminder in the case file of Loomis defendant Kelly Campbell that she had fallen behind in her restitution. From Mexico, David usually spoke with Kelly on the phone once a week, paying with calling cards. Ghantt worked at Loomis Fargos regional office vault in Charlotte. By now, you probably know the names -- David Ghantt, Steve Chambers and his wife Michelle, and Kelly Campbell. Maura Healey unveiled a proposed $55.5 billion state budget Wednesday, a plan that offers insight into some of the Democrats spending priorities during her first year as governor. >> PHOTOS: The Loomis Fargo heist, 25 years later. They loaded the wine cellar with Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Steve hung a velvet portrait of Elvis Presley in the basement. Ultimately, though, the heist wasnt Ghantts idea, which meant he didnt decide who else was involved. Then FBI agent Wydra watched Steve's wife, Michele, deposit about $8,000 at a Gaston County, N.C., bank. Name. Sun, sand and beaches are all part of why Jacksonville is a popular destination. He had stolen $17 million from Loomis Fargo. By now, you probably know the names -- David Ghantt, Steve Chambers and his wife Michelle, and Kelly Campbell. Should David be killed after he gave them the money? So we were able to figure out with all the denominations, it would require about 20 safe deposit boxes to store it all.. He goes, My name is Bruno. Chambers got 11 years. Though David had no criminal experience, he felt he could offer expert advice: He'd just finished reading a book on the FBI. For example, Steve Chambers and his wife were living in a trailer and upgraded to what would today be a multi-million-dollar mansion at Cramer Mountain. I think if you remember some of her early photographic opportunities, shall we put it that way, she was sort of laughing, not seeming to take it seriously.. "We kept going, '1-4-3, 1-4-3,' " recalled Vic O'Korn, assistant special agent in charge of Charlotte's FBI office. Directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey, the film stars Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Jason Sudeikis.. Its a farce that never farces; a comedy without jokes. He would pay McKinney $250,000, half upfront. More agents waited outside to arrest them. Sweat soaked David's uniform. Since Ghantt was the supervisor, he sent his co-worker home first. So I was glad it was over. He flew in an ultra-light plane. First, in January, he tried to get someone to take some millions down to Mexico. But after she left, she reached back out to Ghantt and brought up what theyd talked about that day in the break room. Masterminds which opens nationwide today (though youd be hard pressed to know that given the decided lack of promotion) is proof again that all the talent in the world cannot salvage a bad script, and not even a good screenwriter can make up for terrible performances. In the wee hours of the morning, Chambers and the Erics drove back to the town of Vale, North Carolina, and holed up in a double-wide trailer while counting their cash. For reasons that remain obscure, Robert spilled the beans to David. Now worried about both the FBI and McKinney, he spent even more time alone in his room. . There was a third person with them, too, a man named Eric Grant. Of course the problem was, the money belonged to someone else. Jeffrey Guller, who at 81 is by far the oldest of the Loomis defendants, still owes almost $1.1 million on his original court debt of $1.14 million and will remain on the governments books for another four years. Given the presence of the surveillance tapes and a gun belonging to Ghantt, they started with Ghantts phone and pager records and discovered a pattern they attributed to an accomplice. ALSO READ: 14-year-old boy robbed at gunpoint while waiting for bus in east Charlotte, mom says. Down in Jacksonville, a Loomis Fargo employee took $18 million from an armored van he was driving. On the evening of October 4, 1997, one man loaded $17.3 million in cash from the vaults of Loomis, Fargo & Co. into the back of a van. He'd even bragged that he'd killed people. He went deep-sea fishing. At the end of one session, they wound up kissing outside the pickup. At the sight of all that money, Scott and Eric had the same thought: They'd made the worst mistake of their lives. ALSO READ: Suspect from south Charlotte bank robbery found, CMPD says. . Now, I kind of know something is fishy., Alone in Mexico with limited cash, Ghantt thought about turning himself in. She asked about the limit for a cash deposit before "paperwork" was required. He rewarded Robert with $3,000 and vowed never to meet McKinney alone. One day, the two employees were in the break room and got to talking about the news of the day a massive bank heist that just occurred in Florida by someone at their company. Search Tools . He longed for the middle-class lifestyle of his childhood, with its private religious-school education and Disney World vacations. Steve Chambers would keep the rest. When I call Ghantt to discuss his involvement in the Loomis Fargo heist, he confesses that hes feeling a bit tired from a day of honest labor. Michelle Chambers received seven years and eight months, while Steve Chambers was handed an 11-year sentence. The initials on the money wrapper belonged to a Loomis employee who hadn't worked there since before the heist. But what the bank didnt tell Michelle, and Michelle didnt know, was that one of those forms get filled out if you ask about it, or if its close to $10,000 or if they suspect that any part of that transaction is suspicious, Wydra said. Director Jared Hess Writers Chris Bowman (screenplay) Hubbel Palmer (screenplay) Emily Spivey (screenplay) Stars Zach Galifianakis Kristen Wiig Owen Wilson Though David had said earlier he thought there was $15 million in the vault, the sight of that much cash held them spellbound. Getting restitution, its like pulling teeth.. Some days, the robbery seems like a memory from a different life, a choice made by a different man. Two more defendants in the $17 million Loomis Fargo & Co. robbery last year have agreed to plead guilty, and a third person entered a formal plea in court. But as he later recalled to the media, as soon as he stepped through those big-box doors, he realized he was flush with cash, and he didnt need to shop at Walmart ever again. By this time, agents knew where he was and had a general idea who the other players were, so they went to every bank in town to see if any of them rented a safe deposit box. I didnt pick the heist team. Paying the money back has taken a lot longer, and time is running out for the U.S. government to collect. Its like, me and you sat down, I have access to pie, you like pie, all I want is my share of the pie. Its in the ether. At 7:45, David had finished loading. Steve Chambers has told agents the missing cash was stolen from a shed in Lincoln County. Because lets be brutally honest: Theyre not wrong, okay? They agreed that after the heist, David would immediately move to Mexico, alone, but Kelly would soon join him there, with her two children. Driving away, he said he felt a mix of fear, confidence and excitement that he outsmarted the FBI. But as soon as he drove off, I went right back in and opened the vault. Guller was the attorney for Steven Chambers, who came up with the original idea for the Loomis theft. "He was speechless," said Sandra Floyd. This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. And I said, Hey, man, I got this. But things didnt quite work out that way. Meanwhile, Michele Chambers was laughing and saying, repeatedly, "Look at all this money!" Ghantt, meanwhile, was losing his patience and starting to make threats. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. "He was in tears. Time passed, and Campbell eventually quit her job at Loomis Fargo. The government does not run debtors prisons, says U.S. 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the year that everything happened 1997. The plan was to maintain a low profile and wait for things to cool off, allowing Ghantt to return to the states and collect his cut. As soon as Corey left, I pretended like I was leaving. Thatd be the time to do it, Ghantt recalls. We got to the end of the day, and he was acting like he wanted to linger. Ghantt was working a late shift, and just after 6:30 p.m., his coworkers were packing up and heading for home. Even still, he was 27, married and struggling to provide for his family. I said, Probably, the best time would be on the weekend; theres fewer people there. 145 Matches for Kelly Loomis. They hatched the idea half-jokingly, over a game of Uno, never dreaming they were about to make Bonnie and Clyde look like bottom feeders. He told him McKinney was in Mexico to kill somebody. He worked fueling airplanes, driving a forklift, and in 1994 he got a job as a vault superintendent at Loomis. Things started to go south the night of the robbery. Kelly, using David's cell phone, kept beeping him. ". Ghantt was missing and no one, not even his wife, knew where he was. He had even scheduled a follow-up appointment at the dentist. Hes going to start bringing you money. Alright. One thing about teammates, in David's view: You could always trust them. He had an endearing smile, a beautiful wife and two children. There are multiples of thousands of these things coming every year. . Scott was so nervous, he said, that he couldn't help. And then I could hear her laughing. He hadnt checked ahead of time if the airport had any available flights, let alone if it would even be open. Oh were not going to talk to anybody, theyre not going to be able to convict us, that bravado happens in the beginning and then it often gets worn down by the reality, Gronquist said. She came from a blue-collar background, a high school dropout who had grown tired of working in a mill and gotten an equivalency diploma. Hes very articulate. Human nature is a flexible part of life, Gronquist said. Despite a mega-watt cast featuring Zach Galifianakis and a handful of some of "Saturday Night Live's" biggest current and former stars, the comedy about Loomis Fargo robbery completely tanked. Besides her prison sentence, Campbell must undergo mental health and drug treatment and spend two years in a supervised release program. Her sentence was delayed until Jan. 1 so she could spend the holidays with her family. To that end, Campbell brought in her childhood friend Steve Chambers, who was characterized in the local press as a small-time drug dealer and a local fence for stolen goods, to lead the team. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded daily . I just had to call you., Today, Ghantt cant look back on the whole ordeal without some degree of pride. So they went to Mexico and arrested Ghantt in order to protect him. I said, Listen, You all need to get your shit together, or Im just going to walk over here to the government building and tell them who the fuck I am. That lit a little fire under her ass, for a bit.. He then began loading $17 million in unmarked bills inside a company van before driving away. 0 Comments Get local news delivered to your inbox! How many people have walked the red carpet at a movie premiere in a case that was yours?. Kelly had recently left a job driving an armored-car for Loomis, Fargo & Co. "He's the one who brought it up first," said Kelly, a year after her arrest. With the help of Aldo, a Mexican waiter he had befriended, David found a beach apartment in Cancun. He quickly found out when you have money, you just have different problems, Wydra said. Chambers promised to wire him money in Mexico until the investigation blew over and Ghantt could return to North Carolina. Search by Name Search . It has a certain feel, a smell and weight to it. And to me, if it pisses them off, Im all for it.. Before David left for the airport, he had handed Scott an eight-inch key ring. But agents weren't ready to arrest Kelly and Steve. He told her he wanted more of "his" cash. It was an ear-biting, Pierce Brosnan-loving, comet-obsessed world, and were here to relive every minute of it. 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