(John D. Simmons/The Charlotte Observer via AP) 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.. [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter]. On Monday, October 6th, the FBI agents who were investigating the robbery located the Loomis Fargo van abandoned in the woods. And youre like, Come on parachute. They agreed that after the heist, David would immediately move to Mexico, alone, but Kelly would soon join him there, with her two children. "I was thinking, 'They aren't paying me enough,' " McKinney recalled. Though David had no criminal experience, he felt he could offer expert advice: He'd just finished reading a book on the FBI. Kelly Campbell, 29, a former company employee, entered guilty pleas earlier to bank larceny, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder charges. Find 145 people named Kelly Loomis along with free Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok profiles on PeekYou - true people search. Kelly called David at Loomis; he told her he'd be ready for them with the cash at 6:30 or 7 p.m. Alone in the building, David was trying to finish loading cash from the vault into an unmarked white Ford Econoline van belonging to Loomis. Michele received the best gift of the night. "A lot of people out there had it worse than me, but . Before David left for the airport, he had handed Scott an eight-inch key ring. A couple weeks pass, and I call again, Hey, Id like to get some more money. But being the vault supervisor at Loomis Fargo had one perk -- exposure to tons of cash. From my standpoint, it was just a business deal, Ghantt said. Ghantt worked at Loomis Fargos regional office vault in Charlotte. If they could just sit on the money until then, he said, they'd be fine. 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. ", "I said, 'If you drive a truck, you're always in a financial bind. 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. And that's OK with Ghantt, who's just a few weeks shy of his 47th birthday, out of federal prison for more than a decade, married with a 9-year-old daughter . David said he realized then, for the first time, he might not see the millions he thought he had coming to him. It was late in 1996. "I missed my family. They cursed. The van door opened. She didn't plan to move to Mexico. All the while, Ghantt prepared himself for the task at hand. And then I realized that a lot of people knew who I was and they had followed the case.. Ghantt was the vault manager and was surrounded daily by millions of dollars worth of temptation. More than half of the amount came from the seizure of a luxury home purchased by husband-and-wife defendants during their post-heist spending spree. That was great. And with Loomis, were looking at only one case. 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. ", "Even then . He quickly found out when you have money, you just have different problems, Wydra said. In a word, "Teamwork. In Florida, a Loomis Fargo employee had pulled a gun on his coworkers and gotten away with $18 million, a move that FBI agents theorize Ghantt, Campbell and other employees all sat around talking about - and what they would do with that amount of money - for a while. But first they wanted to know if it was a robbery or a robbery-homicide. And so, he told her, Google my name. Besides her prison sentence, Campbell must undergo mental health and drug treatment and spend two years in a supervised release program. David trusted her. To its credit, Masterminds does nail down the broad strokes of the real story, although there were a couple of noteworthy details the film left out. If you want me to leave, Ill leave. Then, Ghantt went into another room. That day, FBI agents also would arrest Scott Grant and Eric Payne, who had spent his share of the money on a motorcycle and breast implants for his wife and two sisters. Then, I started loading the van., Money, when bound in bulk and stacked in canvas bags, is heavier than you might expect. I'd probably change jobs. "She said, 'What would it take to convince you to do it?' He covers culture, politics, race, and other perplexing mysteries for MEL. Kelly found herself standing beside David while they waited together for a bond hearing. On Oct. 5, the Loomis heist celebrates its 25th birthday. So yeah, Im kind of proud of it.. You can have your whole career and not have a case like that. They loaded the wine cellar with Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Steve hung a velvet portrait of Elvis Presley in the basement. But after she left, she reached back out to Ghantt and brought up what they'd talked about that day in the break room. He loves his motorcycle and enjoys going fishing and, while hes sorry for the past, hes not ashamed to talk about it. . (John D. Simmons/The Charlotte Observer via AP) The Associated Press, BY MICHAEL GORDON, The Charlotte Observer. At the time, it was the largest cash heist in history. 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. "I wanted to be more like my mom and dad were.". To be brutally honest, it was that morning, Ghantt replied. The FBI was also surveilling Kelly Campbell and followed her to a pay phone that she used to place calls to Mexico. David complained it wasn't enough. He rewarded Robert with $3,000 and vowed never to meet McKinney alone. "He was in tears. He said at first, they were very proud of what they had been able to do. The principals here are David Ghantt, a driver for Loomis, Fargo and Co.; Kelly Campbell, the woman Ghantt had a crush on, and who convinced him to commit the crime; and Steve and Michele Chambers. And if that gives people out there a little bit of hope, then Ive served my purpose on this earth.. Im on the phone with Kelly [Campbell], and Im like, Hey, I really was expecting a package to arrive. Campbell left her job in the summer of 1997, but she would later use Ghantt's feelings for her to her own advantage to get him to agree to carry out the multi-million-dollar heist. "Think of how many women would have stood by. What purpose does that serve other than to denigrate that person into abject poverty?. Then another. There was a third person with them, too, a man named Eric Grant. Michelle Chambers received seven years and eight months, while Steve Chambers was handed an 11-year sentence. The modern company was formed in 1997 by the consolidation of two armoured security concerns, Wells Fargo Armored Service and Loomis Armored Inc. Their international network covers over 200 operating locations in the US and eleven western European countries. Of course the most famous thing inside the home was a velvet Elvis portrait. And I knew that by that time, Id be in Cancun no matter what. "Steve said, 'I think we ought to do it that night, when he drops off the van,' " Kelly recalled. 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. kellis@gastongazette.com 0:04 1:38 On Oct. 4, 1997, former Kings Mountain resident David Scott Ghantt finished his shift as a vault supervisor for Loomis Fargo in Charlotte. He comes to my door, and hes got a brown paper bag in his hand. More agents waited outside to arrest them. I missed my wife. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers, carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. Scott Grant and Steve pulled up next to her in a Mazda. Steve solicited two others to help move cash during the theft. Twenty-five years ago, a small group of rural North Carolinian amateur bank robbers pulled off the second-largest heist in American history. "I said, 'That's all they gave me,' " McKinney recalled. But if you did, youll never forget it. Steve told Scott to ignore the remaining stacks, which were mostly ones and fives. 1997 Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycle for sale at auction of items bought after Loomis, Fargo armored car facility heist by Steven Chambers, wife Michele, Kelly Jane Campbell & David Scott Ghanntt (Photo by Will And Deni McIntyre/Getty Images) But it was the rural, Southern backgrounds of many of the key players, along with the many botched twists and bungled turns, that led the media to dub it the hillbilly heist.. The robbery was committed by Loomis vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt, his married girlfriend Kelly Campbell (a former Loomis co-worker), Steven Eugene Chambers (a one-time FBI informant), his wife Michelle Chambers, Michael Gobbies, and four other co-conspirators. They also purchased expensive cars, jewelry and a breast enhancement or two. Its a farce that never farces; a comedy without jokes. "That would be living on the run, and I didn't want my kids to live that way. They heard Michele brag about her $43,000 ring. The next day, Kelly drove back to Steve's mobile home to watch the news with Steve and Michele. "For the first year, they're all over you. I don't blame him.". None of the suspects had been in any serious trouble before this. Well she was a pretty happy-go-lucky person, he said. Federal law stops government collection efforts 20 years after a defendant leaves prison. Campbell helped plot the robbery of Loomis Charlotte vault on Oct. 4, 1997, with David Ghantt, a Loomis supervisor who stole the money, and Steve Chambers, a longtime Campbell friend. Steve was sentenced to 11 years 3 months in prison. It had been drilled into my head that if you give me a team of five good people, I can go anywhere, do anything," David explained. Steve told me to tell [David] whatever was necessary to keep him happy.". Tuesday marked 25 years since a group of buddies pulled off the third-largest money grab in U.S. history -- the Loomis Fargo heist. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Steve bought a truck, a Rolex and a motorboat. Her case closes in 2025. While the agents initiated their investigation, the Chambers spent money as quickly as they could. It is based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina, which was the subject of the 2016 American comedy film Masterminds. He kept looking over his shoulder. Learn about careers at Cox Media Group. Truth was, David wanted more than help leaving, he wanted company. The property has changed hands several times since then. 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. He drove to the edge of the Loomis compound, which was surrounded by a chain-link fence. And I said, Hey, man, I got this. Here, he amps up the most obnoxious excesses of his entire cast and lets their grating bad-improv skills run amok. And it turned Steve into he thought he was Don Corleone all of a sudden.. The cart held about $2 million, and the thief made multiple trips. Hes going to start bringing you money. Alright. This is where it starts to unravel, Ghantt tells me with a wry laugh. Its really just a matter of timing, more than anything. And she says, How much do you think wed get out of there? I said, Ten to 15 million. But I didnt really know.. Chambers promised to wire him money in Mexico until the investigation blew over and Ghantt could return to North Carolina. They placed a bust of Caesar in the dining room. Steve, who had sworn Kelly, Eric and Scott to secrecy the night of the theft, named them all to the FBI. Guller was the attorney for Steven Chambers, who came up with the original idea for the Loomis theft. The use of this site is restricted to authorized personnel only. The robbery of some $17 million quickly became one of the wildest bank heists of the last quarter century. He recalled that another agent, Phil King, said, "Hey, there was an article in the [Charlotte] Observer about beeper codes. Although David was in on most of the planning, one discussion between Steve and Kelly was kept a secret. She was a wife and mother with two children. 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. Money. Steve Chambers and his wife (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) were a little more difficult to connect to the heist. Copyright 2022 TheAssociated Press. Back then, it was one of the hotspots for hiding money. Ghantt planned to live off the interest for the rest of his life. All of the co-defendants were arrested the next day, about six months after the heist. They sweated, though the night was cool. "I was trying to figure out a way to [leave my husband] and take care of my kids without having to depend on him or any other man," Kelly said. It changes you. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery. This time, David told McKinney the truth. My knee-jerk reaction was to be angry, and then the sarcastic ass side of me started laughing about it, Ghantt said. An officer rang the doorbell. He added that money can be a motivator for anyone. If we work together, we can all have plenty of pie.. There is nothing of value in this movie. Or that it was an inheritance. There, Scott and Eric paced the floor as Steve tried to calm them down. Kelly called David at. That sounds like a lot of money until its compared to the $18,930,201.26 the group was ordered to pay. There had been no signs. Kelly's company. . The mystery 1-4-3 caller had been Kelly, though agents didn't know it yet. Thomas Grant, who served three years in prison for bank larceny, paid off restitution of $70,000; brother Eric Grant paid all of his $26,000; as did David Craig, $40,000; and Dennis and Sandra Floyd; $27,000. It just happened to fall on my desk.. . Then FBI agent Wydra watched Steve's wife, Michele, deposit about $8,000 at a Gaston County, N.C., bank. "We kept going, '1-4-3, 1-4-3,' " recalled Vic O'Korn, assistant special agent in charge of Charlotte's FBI office. He was an old friend from East Gaston High School, tough and sure of himself. Kelly relayed his message to Steve. But after a year, they'll cut it down to two agents. The number of people involved had ballooned after Steve started asking friends and family to help him launder the stolen cash. Loomis, then known as Loomis Fargo, experienced two inside jobs in 1997, for $17.3 million and $18.8 million. 0 Comments Get local news delivered to your inbox! You can seize property. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. Many of the lesser players in the conspiracy have been the most effective in paying their debts. Burks was also ordered to serve 15 years in prison, limiting his ability to balance his books. She also assured the teller her cash wasn't drug money. Steve also offered $100,000 to his 26-year-old cousin. Without really intending to, Kelly recalls, she turned the conversation to the possibility of a heist. Nosotros, Yahoo, somos parte de la familia de marcas de Yahoo. The old man me would never survive that, Id have a heart attack.. Hes well thought-out. I really enjoyed the little scuba diving trip. Steve Chambers has told agents the missing cash was stolen from a shed in Lincoln County. Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. In the first heist, a regional vault supervisor loaded money into a branded truck and . It didnt take the local police long to put the pieces together. 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. They discussed it further, and Campbell asked him when they should do it. His mobile home was nicely furnished, on eight acres with a stream in the back. Theres less security. I ride motorcycles and fish -- normal guy, Ghantt told Counts. On his second trip, Steve gave McKinney David's hotel address. 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. Kelly Campbell, 29, a former company employee, entered guilty pleas earlier to bank larceny, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder charges. That was pretty awesome., It felt like a dream vacation until he started running out of money. But you cant get blood from a stone, Johns said. I didnt pick the heist team. Though Wydra is retired, 25 years ago, he was an agent with the FBI. About the same time, Kelly and McKinney received phone calls from agents who told them to open their doors. I flew from Atlanta to New Orleans. Getting restitution, its like pulling teeth.. "So he stays behind and moving over two thousand pounds. I had to go in there and tell her the whole story, and she was real cool about it. 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. In the following months, Steve persisted, even floating the notion of placing phony hand grenades on a Loomis truck to scare away the drivers, Kelly said. The FBI continues to search for a missing $2 million from the theft. Instead of lobster, the man who stole $17 million survived on home-cooked pasta and grilled cheese sandwiches. To protect themselves, David and Steve didn't meet or talk. Ghantt had struck up a relationship with a fellow Loomis Fargo employee, Kelly Campbell; they continued to maintain contact even after Campbell left the company. Of course the problem was, the money belonged to someone else. After a Gulf War stint in the Army, David got married in 1992. We need to set up some way for me to get my money. She said, We got it all worked out. Ghantt was missing and no one, not even his wife, knew where he was. Chambers and Campbell were waiting for him in the Loomis Fargo parking lot, both in separate vehicles. On Oct. 7, 1997, two FBI agents arrived at Kelly Campbell's home after two Loomis employees had told agents she and David had once dated. Twelve hours later, at 6 that evening, Eric Payne drove a rented Budget van to his workplace, a graphics company on Performance Road in western Mecklenburg County called Reynolds & Reynolds, which was closed for the night and had a secluded parking lot where they intended to transfer the cash. Its kind of like that. It wouldn't work, Kelly told him. He hated his job, with its 12-hour shifts. 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. They picked me, he says with a rueful tone. In 2017, for example, Paul Burks of Lexington was ordered to pay $244 million to the victims of his worldwide Ponzi scheme, Zeek Rewards. Restitution is a familiar part of sentencing in federal court. She could walk under the trees, with the chickens and goats and dogs that live around her mobile home. The movie was called Masterminds and stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson. Things started to go south the night of the robbery. In the two days after the robbery, agents interviewed more than 100 people, most connected with David. Scott was so nervous, he said, that he couldn't help. She tried to apologize for the murder plot. He figured Tammy wouldn't go for it, and though his marriage had been troubled, he wasn't certain he wanted to leave her. 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. Should David be killed after he gave them the money? Exhibit A was that Steve had no steady job but plenty of cash. . About 20 ago, Campbell sent him a letter of apology, but he never responded. They planned to kill a man named David Ghantt, the guy who had made their extravagant new lifestyle a reality. 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 grabbed the tapes from two VCRs that connected to 16 security cameras. Michelle, meanwhile, purchased new breasts for herself, along with a $43,000 diamond ring and a new convertible BMW Z3. I mentioned it to Kelly. Some of that money is just gone. "I said, 'I don't want him killed.' Chambers got 11 years. 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. . A week later, another informant told the FBI that Eric Payne had quit his job at a printing company soon after the heist and was spending money he probably hadn't earned legally. 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. They paid for all of it in cash. He and his wife, Tammy, lived in a mobile home in Kings Mountain, N.C. Money was always tight. 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. Username. When he said, 'I'll give you $20,000 to hold a million,' I said, 'Sure.' Theres no way to get it back, Butcher told The Charlotte Observer. . Just head on out. And so, he did. It, too, has changed hands several times. Ghantt had fled to Mexico with $50,000 in cash, leaving the rest of the money with Steve Chambers. It was his goodbye. Campbell used to work for Loomis and continued the friendship with Ghantt, eventually hooking him up with Chambers. Part 2: Channel 9 speaks with the man at the center of Loomis Fargo heist 25 years ago. By now, you probably know the names -- David Ghantt, Steve Chambers and his wife Michelle, and Kelly Campbell. Im married, I got one girl, shes 15 going on 30. And they hit the jackpot -- FBI video shows agents recovering most of the stolen cash. Hed never really been in trouble, he wasnt a career criminal, said retired FBI agent John Wydra. Except the person he offered $150,000 to mule $2.5 million down to Ghantt in Mexico turned him down and instead went to the FBI. He gave the rest to Kelly. Butcher says the federal courts in the Western District of North Carolina have never handled a case quite like Loomis. I said, Probably, the best time would be on the weekend; theres fewer people there. Fourteen defendants were ordered to make restitution payments to Loomis Fargo totaling almost $19 million. What made her do it? We got to the end of the day, and he was acting like he wanted to linger. One of them tapped him on the back. He realized that if they met the minimum monthly payments, the bill would take 30 years to pay. Things went from bad to worse when, in November, Michelle strolled into a bank with a briefcase filled with 200 grand and asked the manager, How much can I deposit without the bank reporting the transaction? When she showed the bank manager that she really had the money to invest, the cash was still bound in Loomis Fargo wrappers. Campbell used to work for Loomis and continued the friendship with Ghantt,. Steve Chambers and Kelly Campbell, who had been friends on and off since growing up together in the mid-1980s, were at a cookout, playing cards and drinking Budweiser at Steve's Lincoln County, N.C., mobile home, Kelly recalled. Its 90-minutes of mugging for the camera, but the only people who feel mugged are those that pay to see Masterminds. 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. She laughed for like 45 minutes. The whole town I was staying in was 98.9 percent Mexican, except for when the cruise ships were in, Ghantt recalls. A former FBI agent who helped crack the case sat down with Channel 9 Reporter Glenn Counts to talk about the clues that led to solving the crime, and how the group got caught. Human nature is a flexible part of life, Gronquist said. Kelly drove David to the airport. But on Oct. 4, 1997, that no longer mattered and Ghantt took off with $17.3 million. And to me, if it pisses them off, Im all for it.. Dustin is the founder and co-owner of Pajiba. On his way out, he grabbed the surveillance video, hoping to cover his tracks. 2023 Cox Media Group. The best states in the U.S. come from coast to coast. Ghantt would go on to spend six and a half years in federal prison. He worked fueling airplanes, driving a forklift, and in 1994 he got a job as a vault superintendent at Loomis. David was living under the name Mike McKinney on a phony ID. Ghantt started at Loomis Fargo in 1994, and soon worked his way up from an armored car driver to a vault supervisor. The Chambers, however, didnt fit in with the other members of the gated community. FBI video shows the agency searching that home and finding drawers full of cash. That led to better jobs, like the one at Loomis. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) During one overnight shift, a bumbling conspiracy of thieves just west of Charlotte stole more than $17 million from Loomis Fargo. Like David, Kelly was frustrated with her marriage. Ghantt, meanwhile, was losing his patience and starting to make threats. He para-sailed, power-skied and scuba-dived. He didn't want to abandon his parents. And then I could hear her laughing. The phone rang: Kelly had a problem. It took me going to prison to realize I was a bag of worms, and it took me years of work to be somebody worthy to come back into our society, he said. Some amateur thieves might turn to movies and TV shows for lessons on criminal behavior. It will be some time before she can commune with domestic animals again. I did a little research into crime statistics and the local cops. Its in the ether. ". Hed be in contact. Turns out, most of the thieves and their accomplices have been about as effective coming up with their court-ordered restitution as they were hiding their original crimes. In hindsight, it doesnt surprise me a bit, Ghantt says, a bitter laugh catching in his throat. When she realized Ghantt never came home from work the night before, she contacted the police and filed a missing persons report. At first, David Ghantt said, "I didn't take her seriously. "Things I always wanted to do, but never had the time or the money," he said. The bigger the amount, however, the bigger the damages to victims that likely will never be repaid: Amy Paynes collection account was closed in 2020 with her having paid $53,000 of the $274,000 she owed. Steve Chambers would keep the rest. He flip-flopped on the heist idea three or four times. "But, I hate to admit it, it doesn't faze me one bit. Kelly says she underestimated the value of her life before the heist. He became the target of a nationwide FBI manhunt and was arrested five months later near the Mexican resort of Cozumel. Theres no management around. Not every agent has a case like that, he said. You might as well go all the way now.". Called Masterminds, the 2016 film stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Owen Wilson. FBI video shows agents searching the Cramer Mountain home and finding stacks of cash. Puedes cambiar tus opciones en cualquier momento desde tus controles de privacidad. Next month, Payne will back in the Charlotte federal courthouse, this time to be sentenced from weapons and methamphetamine trafficking charges. Ghantt spent a solid hour moving what ended up being 2,700 pounds of cash more than an actual ton into an unmarked company van. See all of the stories here. Then, on a mid-September day, as he reviewed a credit card bill, David did some math. In the first days after the arrests, agents recovered or accounted for all but about $2 million of the stolen money. 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