Most of Armored Car Heist Millions Found
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — All but $186,000 of the $18.8 million stolen from an armored car company in one of the largest heists in U.S. history has been recovered.
“We were expecting to recover a good chunk of it, but this was bigger and sooner than we expected,” said Pat Flaherty, a spokesman for Loomis, Fargo & Co. in Dallas.
The FBI discovered bags of the money last week in a storage shed in Mountain Home, N.C. Agents say the shed was rented in 1993 by former Loomis courier Philip Johnson. Johnson is accused of holding two co-workers at gunpoint as he filled a van with bags of cash on March 29 in Jacksonville. He was arrested Aug. 30 in Brownsville, Texas, as he crossed into the U.S. from Mexico.
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