According to local media, police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are looking into possible thefts of up to $30 million from a money storage facility in Los Angeles.
The break-in occurred on Easter Sunday at a GardaWorld facility in Sylmar, a San Fernando Valley suburban neighborhood, according to law enforcement sources who spoke with the local KABC television station.
The report, which cited officials briefed on the investigation, claimed that the thieves entered the building through the roof and managed to get into the money storage area, which may have been a vault, without setting off alarms.
According to the report, the building’s owner firm was unaware of the significant theft until Monday morning.
Might be one of the biggest robberies in recent years
The Los Angeles Times, a prominent local daily, cited law enforcement officials as stating that the break-in was one of the biggest cash-related burglaries in the city’s history and that the figure exceeded any armoured-car heist in the area.
The report stated that the burglary happened on Sunday night at the location where cash from businesses in the area is processed and stored. It further stated that the break-in was described as intricate, implying that the perpetrators were a skilled group of criminals who knew how to enter a secure facility covertly.
The previous biggest cash theft in Los Angeles occurred on September 12, 1997, when $18.9 million was taken from the location of a former armored facility in the city.