June 6, 2007

Well golly - the first time it went off without a hitch.

An armored truck robbery went so well the first time that the trucks driver staged another one. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
Armored-truck driver and cohorts find second robbery is no charm

Last month, Nichole Nelson stole two bags filled with $34,000 from the truck she drove for Garda United Armored Services and hid them under a tree for safe keeping, police said. Although she knew police were investigating her, authorities say she planned a new way to rob the truck last week.

As she drove her route, Nelson text messaged three men with the final details. When she stopped at the TCF Bank in Robbinsdale, they would throw smoke bombs into the truck and hit the guard over the head with a CO2 container.

But as the men covered their license plates with duct tape and donned masks and face paint in the bank parking lot, an alert citizen called 911 and foiled the heist.

"If not for that call, it's unlikely they would have been discovered," said Robbinsdale police Capt. Steve Smith.
Talk about stupidity... Posted by DaveH at June 6, 2007 7:19 PM | TrackBack
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