I pretty much let them have their way with it, as you say. Now on the lam and in over his head, David must dodge the authorities, evade a hilarious hit man, Mike McKinney, and try to turn the tables on the ones he trusted most. Thats probably not the best answer to be honest with you. On Monday, he was returned to Charlotte, where he is charged with stealing a van stuffed with cash from the vault at Loomis, Fargo & Co. in Charlotte. Q: Do you ever think about what your life would be like if you had gotten away with the money? Masterminds follows the [] A: When you're locked up, you live in an 8-by-10 box and you share that with two other people. 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. The movie was overly silly and, based on a post-screening conversation with former Observer reporter Jeff Diamant who wrote a detailed 279-page book about the occasionally funny but mostly just-plain fascinating crime, titled Heist much of what wound up in the film is fiction. So he hatched a plan to rob his employers. Most of the money was in $20 bills, according to the FBI. The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery was a robbery of $17.3 million in cash from the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis, Fargo & Co. on the evening of October 4, 1997, by vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt, his married girlfriend Kelly Campbell (a former Loomis co-worker), Steve Chambers, his wife Michelle Chambers, Michael Gobbies and four other co-conspirators. Michelle Chambers received a harsher sentence than Ghantt seven years and eight months because she had violated several bond conditions. 'The Rolling Stones' drummer Charlie Watts holding his young daughter Seraphina as they arrive at London Airport, October 17th 1969. They not only moved from a trailer into an expensive house just miles away from where the theft took place, but also paid for cosmetic surgery, bought a BMW convertible, Rolex watches and other signs of excess. Follow him on twitter: @MSainat1, 20 Years Later: Masterminds of One of the Largest Bank Heists in U.S. History, The CIAs Changing Take on the Climate Emergency, Emancipation, Hollywoods Best Civil War Film Ever. Service 11 a.m. Saturday . David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. Five years he told how he explains his past like this: "People are very forgiving if you're open and honest right from the start. And most importantly, talking with Zach. You can listen now on Android, iPhone, Amazon, and other internet-connected devices. At the time it was the second largest cash robbery ever to happen on US soil. A: Zach and I have a runningtext conversation going, but he's very busy. I had more than 700 message requests. Ghantt was already married when he took part in the heist, to a woman named Tammy who author Diamant described as very nice. It is true, however, that she had no idea about the plot and that he fled to Mexico without telling her. Wife Lily Allen. Congratulations Dave - very well done. I was also made myself available on set in case if someone wanted to talk to me. After years of working hard, the realisation hit . I enjoy talking to you. Hes scheduled to be sentenced in May. His accomplices included coworker Kelly Campbell, as well as friends Steve and Michelle Chambers. What are Jandice and Kelly up to now? I realized a lot of things that were wrong with me as a person. LRM: If you had to relive that heist againwhat would you do differently? Campbell used part of her share of the money to buy a Toyota Sienna minivan in two cash installments. We're always making new tools to help you discover, save, and share your favorite books. Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? Q: How do you tell prospective employers you once stole $17 million? 121 90 1,443 Show this thread David GhanttRetweeted C.A. ``Thats always something that sends up a red flag, she said. David Ghantt: I think its a great story. From there, the money was moved from the company vehicle to private vehicles. Zach Galifianakas takes on the role of David Ghantt, a small town, backwoods security money truck driver who falls in love with Kristen Wiig's Kelly. David Ray Camm (born March 23, 1964) is a former trooper of the Indiana State Police (ISP) who spent 13 years in prison after twice being convicted of the murders of his wife, Kimberly, and his two young children at their home in Georgetown, Indiana, on September 28, 2000.He was released from custody in 2013 after his third trial resulted in an acquittal. CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Kelly Campbell, the woman who helped plan the $17 million robbery of armored-car company Loomis, Fargo was sentenced yesterday to nearly six years in prison and ordered to pay back more than $4 million. He was insecure. Inside $3.3 million was located along with the two stolen surveillance tapes, apparently left due to the robber and his accomplices being sloppy, or in a hurry. Authorities found Ghantts unlocked red pickup truck near the Loomis building. He had stayed in a luxury hotel and paid for expensive food and activities such as scuba diving and parasailing. Twenty-one people were charged and convicted in the . Also famous for (at least with his friends and family) finally getting his first book finished.Current Life: Wooer of the Wife, Drinker of Coffee, Father, Gamer, Photographer, Fisherman, Gentleman, Mastermind of this book ;-). David Ghantt, a Gulf War veteran, was finishing his shift as a vault supervisor for Loomis Fargo when he loaded $17 million into a company van and drove away. But it was Ghantt, now 47 and living with his wife and daughter in Jacksonville, Florida,who actually took more than 2,000 pounds of cash and just drove away from his job. I got no real complaints, not at this point., The heist became the premise for the movie,Masterminds, released in September 2016. She was born in Gaston County, a daughter of the late Scott and Sue Ghantt. He now has a wife, a construction job, and a child. I wouldnt want to change anything. Some people screw up big like you, some people screw up small.". Following romance reports in 2019, the Stranger Things actor and vocalist married in Las Vegas in September 2020. David and Kelly hit it off at a shooting . AMA In October of 1997, I was a vault supervisor for armored truck company Loomis Fargo, when I made off with $17.3 million. Ghantt, a decorated Army veteran who served in the Persian Gulf war repairing helicopters, was charged in October with bank larceny, sparking an intense manhunt. Ghantt @ChristyGhantt Dec 7, 2022 I just entered the @clxgaming Ra PC Giveaway! New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Yes, Carrie Underwood adopted a dog in Charlotte. You know as well as I doits Hollywood. My name is David Scott Ghantt. The company reported the theft Oct. 5. In 1997, Loomis Fargo employee David Ghantt robbed the armored car company of $17 million. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery. David Ghantt was the vault supervisor for Loomis, Fargo & Co. armored cars, which managed the transportation of large sums of cash between banks in North Carolina. Any truth to that? I felt relieved, I knew that things were getting ready to come to an end and getting caught was a stress reliever even if I knew I was going to jail. A lot of people ask me, Oh, do you have any regrets? No, not really. Heist! The story inspired the hit move "Masterminds" in 2016, starring Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Kristin Wiig and Zach Galifianakis. The van used to move the money was later located a few miles from the warehouse. Now Playing. The painful part is that when you get caught, that the part of your brain that was trying to talk to you when you first started the robbery was right, and that's like a dump truck running over you. Ghantt got arrested by the Mexican police at Playa del Carmen on March 1, 1988. Soooooo will anyfuckingbody say what the movie is called? The company reported the theft the next day, saying one of its vans was missing. Thats my standard answer these days. Cathy Biles, who handled the purchase of the Chambers house in Cramerton, told WSOC-TV in Charlotte that the cash deal aroused her suspicions. All of us will be looking forward to your story by watching the movie on Blu-ray or DVD. Chambers promised to wire him money in Mexico until the investigation blew over and Ghantt could return to . There are a bunch of bizarre things they bought. Because surprise! David Bowie 's widow recently took to Instagram to post selfies, while promoting both her makeup brand and fashion line. One of them went into a bank and asked, How much money can I deposit before you call the IRS? Its things like that. Ghantt added, I really enjoyed the movie. How Bridgerton restarted buzz about her ancestry. Other FBI agents, who had wiretaps on Chambers' after being tipped off much earlier about his free-spending ways, were soon searching the expensive Cramer Mountain home he had bought with the proceeds. Were just getting started on that. Then you end up in a eight by ten cube and youre going to share that cube with two other people. CHARLOTTE, N.C. Tuesday is the 25th anniversary of the infamous Loomis Fargo heist in Charlotte, where a bank worker, with the help of two accomplices, stole almost $17 million before being captured in Mexico. He also took various measures to change his appearance, such as shaving, after a patron at a restaurant pointed out to him that he "looked like the man who robbed a bank of $20 million. Unfortunately, no one explained that to David Ghantt before he used his position as vault supervisor with Charlotte, N.C.'s Loomis, Fargo & Co. to rob the company of $17 million in 1997. Ghantt plead guilty to his charges andserved six years in prison, along with21 other defendantswho received chargesrangingfrom money laundering to bank larceny. DeSantis: Youre a History Grad. More than 2 million dollars is still missing to this day. LRM: [Laughter] Now the movie portrayed that they sent someone to kill you in Mexico. Of course, the FBI was already aware of Chambers and his free-spending ways, and the murder plot helped federal agents find Ghantt south of the border. Authorities say Steve. He was released in 2006. You did something else instead. (Ghantt works as a heavy machine operator in the construction industry.). You've decided to give up on a part of your life. Before he decided to steal $17 million from the bank, Ghantt had worked for years as a relatively taciturn and compliant employee. FBI agents pulled stolen cash out of barrels they had stashed around their home. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt makes off to Mexico before the FBI can blink. At one point, the hoodlum shows up and Ghantt is wearing a Jerome Bettis Pittsburgh Steelers jersey; the hoodlums favorite team is the Steelers, and he caves and tells Ghantt that McKinney wants him dead. They also bought a BMW Z3 with cash and made several large purchases, including a $600 cigar store Indian. The only defendant to not plead guilty, Chambers's attorney Jeff Guller, was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to eight years in prison. A former co-worker told me, "Everybody has screwed up. You said that was the number two question. Five years he told how he explains his past like this: "People are very forgiving if you're open and honest right from the start. We talked about the fiction and fact from the movie. Now looking back, with the life I have now, Ive got a great family, got a great kid. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Drummer Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones with his wife Shirley and daughter Seraphina at the Grammy Awards at Kensington Roof gardens, London,. One day, he went to check on it and the lock had been cut. Despite a mega-watt cast featuring Zach Galifianakis and a handful of some of Saturday Night Lives biggest current and former stars, Masterminds, the comedy about Loomis Fargo robbery completely tanked at the box office in its opening weekend, bowing in sixth place with just $6.6 million. Chambers declines to comment on the events that made him notorious. It has a lot of things youll look for in a storya little romance, money, adventure and travel. She knows Owen Wilson's Steve, the bad apple . No idea where it is I only ever had what I took with me and what was sent to me. The Mandalorian S3 Episode 1 Review: ROUGH START!!! All are charged with aiding, abetting and counseling the commission of a bank larceny and being accessories after the fact and hindering Ghantts apprehension. Its a yes: Clover teen shakes off nerves to earn American Idol golden ticket, Deputy rapes woman at traffic stop and tells her she wont be charged, Tennessee cops say, Charlotte woman was locked in room for 5 days before police shooting, report shows. Ghantt's spending in Mexico was extravagant at first. "They were short staffed and I noticed a lot of. Now, here we are, two years later. Authorities said a Loomis employee pulled a gun on two co-workers. David Harbour and Lily Allen are currently together. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. They received sentences and probation ranging from several years to 11 years and three months in federal prison for Steve Chambers, who was also fined more than $3,500,000. Outside the building, Ghantt met up with Campbell, Chambers, and others who were involved in the plot, and drove off to a printing business called Reynolds & Reynolds in northwest Charlotte. Chambers did more than 11 years. This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 16:45. According to court documents, federal agents began looking at the spending habits of Steven and Michelle Chambers after being tipped by a confidential informant about their "sudden wealth." It wasa painful process, but I learned to be happy with me and with what I've got. His wife, they said, got breast implants and used cash to purchase a 1998 BMW Z3 sports car. "Miscavige is a recluse now the same way Hubbard was at the end," said Mike Rinder, the former media spokesman . Ghantt fled to Mexico immediately after the theft, only to be caught in March 1998 when one of his co-conspirators, Steve Chambers, sent a hit man to kill Ghantt in an effort to tie up loose ends. David GhanttRetweeted Iraqveteran8888 @Iraqveteran8888 Dec 9, 2022 Elect me President and I'll fire everyone, free Julian Assange, and pardon Edward Snowden. In real life: False. People did come up to me and asked me for my autograph. What did you have to do to survive? [citation needed], The defendants were the targets of many barbed jokes in Charlotte and across the country, in part because of their extravagant spending. Chambers even got breast implants and paid cash for a BMW sports car, the affidavit said. "A former co-worker told me, "Everybody has screwed up. Saffron Burrows plays . LRM: Were you actually concerned that you were one of the most wanted man in the United States while you were in Mexico? LRM: Im curious. Watch your email for exciting announcements and new features coming soon! David Ghantt, who pulled off the Loomis, Fargo & Co. vault robbery in 1997 and was sentenced to seven years in prison for the crime, served as a consultant for the film (in theaters Friday).. While Ghantt spent more than 6 1/2 years in federal prison, he said he usedthat time to"re-invent" himself. I got to eat my meal perfectly, but every 5 minutes, someone wanted to shoot a selfie with Zach or an autograph from Zach. "Twenty-five years ago today. For a time, it was nicknamed "the hillbilly heist" because nearly all of the major players in the case came from small towns around Charlotte. I mean, thats pretty much why I did it. I was like, Okay.. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. You look nothing like Zach? The only person not to plead guilty in the case, former Gastonia attorney Jeff Guller, ended up doing eight years for money laundering. What happened to the 2 mil that is still unaccounted for? I think Zachs a hell of an actor. I gave him the short synopsis. The Associated Press contributed to this report. More than 20 people ended up in the FBI's dragnet. In the meantime, Ghantt's wife reported him missing and the CMPD had found his . Until it's gone, you don't appreciate it. Additionally, we also discussed about his life in Mexico, the discoveries, and his life today after all this fame. On March 12, a Charlotte grand jury indicted the eight co-conspirators for bank larceny and money laundering; the latter offense was included because of how they spent the stolen money. Ghantt ultimately agreed to the plan, largely, due to a mountain of credit-card debt and in hopes of changing his life for the better. 33. Its gone! LRM had an exclusive phone interview with David Ghantt last week, the real-life culprit who pulled off the successful bank heist. 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