Harry Thomas Flower / Shutterstock A Dunbar armored truck. Stolen: $18.9 million. In 1997, six men pulled off what remains the biggest cash heist in the history of the United States.

Harry Thomas Flower / Shutterstock A Dunbar armored truck. Stolen: $18.9 million. In 1997, six men pulled off what remains the biggest cash heist in the history of the United States.

LOS ANGELES (AP) A former employee of an armored car company was sentenced to 24 years in prison Monday for masterminding the biggest cash armed robbery in U.S. history an $18.9 million heist.

It’s an unfortunate truth that crime continues in both America and the world as long as firearms remain widely available.

The other largest Los Angeles heist on record is in 1997, when six men robbed the Dunbar Armored facility of $18.9 million. RELATED: $10 million worth of jewelry stolen from Brink's tractor-trailer ...

The 1997 armed robbery of nearly $19 million at the Los Angeles Dunbar Armored Co. depot was the largest cash robbery in U.S. history at the time, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Prior to this recent heist, the largest cash theft in Los Angeles occurred on September 12, 1997, when $18.9 million was stolen from the former location of the Dunbar Armored Inc. facility on ...

The last major cash heist in L.A. was, in fact, orchestrated by an insider: a disgruntled security guard who had worked at the Dunbar armored truck facility on Mateo Street in DTLA.

A brazen Los Angeles cash heist on Easter weekend in which thieves cracked a safe and got away with as much as $30 million is believed to be one of the largest such heists in U.S. history.

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