Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter.It’s Thursday, Jan. 6.I’m Justin Ray. This is the fourth story in a series about the Dunbar Armored robbery 25 years ago.

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.

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.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police are investigating the robbery of an armored car in the Summerdale section of the ...

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 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.

The next biggest case was the Dunbar Armored robbery in 1997, in which six men robbed a similar facility to GardaWorld. The six men took the 2024 equivalent of $36.5million from the Dunbar Armored ...

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.