The $18.8 Million Armored Car Heist: Phil Johnson's Bold Gamble
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2020
- Fed up with his $7-an-hour job, a security guard at an armoured car company makes off with $18.8 million- the largest heist in U.S. history.
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Paying $7.00 an hour to guard millions should be a crime itself
Hahahahah my frnd Tibo his is a driver n he told me his tired of seeing mills everyday...I'll support what ever he thinks next
Thats alot for a day
It's all on whosever money that is.
They cheaped out big time on security and insurance. They are a special breed of Stupid.
I agree lol who gets paid 7.00 an hour
Many people forgot the fact: million dollars are NOT property of carriers. They charge service fee just some percent of it! They have to buy the vaults, armor cars, training employees, security systems, equipment, insurances....
I'll never understand why some shows think the audience wants the background music to be louder than the narration.
Totally! Turns so many off.
If it's outrageous I'll comment & hope they tead
Or if we even want background music
This is taken from a TV show in the 90-00s. I suspect when they converted analogue to digital, it messed up the sound levels. Or it could be the original sounded like that.
@@delledaye2035 maybe they think the voice of the narrator is pathetic
they just want to show off the knowledge that they can add music to a video over voice
These guys risked their lives for 7$ an hour. Sickening
"We're trusting you to keep our money safe.... Here's minimum wage...."
"Don't let us down! :)"
They still don’t pay armoured guards well, few of my buddies still do it.
Yea not a great job. A guard was executed at a job near my house a few years ago. Sickening.
Be proud of yourself 🥲
This is a good point.
The background music is overkill
It’s way too overpowering lol
Your mom is overkill
ok
@Mike Walsh it was the 90s we didn't care God damn.
Yanks
Damn it, I'm extremely sad he got caught, all that money and no freedom
Why didn't he spend it?
@@genghiskahn1989 to avoid suspicion
@@genghiskahn1989 Lots of things and research that goes into bank robberies, or robberies in general. The planning thats required is ridiculous. You could execute everything perfectly and lose it all after accidently spending some money with new sequential serial numbers... no way he would do that without checking and clearly he didnt have time to do that
It was not his money.
This is like the 4th loomis story im watching maybe loomis should pay their employee's more so they're not tempted to steal????
As of now they actually pay quite well. Still not as much as I'd like, but it's significantly more than what is considered a living wage locally.
True
Music drowns out the narrative.
@Nica background music
Much respect to him for trying get away with all that money. I can definitely understand his financial pain.
I wonder if when they recorded the narration, they told the guy "we want you to speak just loud enough it will blend in the with background music perfectly" lol or maybe they were just really proud of the music 🤷♂️
Yeah this is ridiculous haha what did you say I’m sorry the music was swelling
Man I was hoping he would have gotten away with it...
the money is federally insured and he did not hurt anyone. This guy is a role model.
“Federally insured” means paid out in federal tax dollars. For those of us that actually pay federal taxes as opposed to living off of them, that hurts.
@@libertyesq Government is going to get every penny they can and squander it anyway pal..
It’s just less 💵 they’ll be able to squander (And I use the term “squander” to put it nicely)
@@205ken4 I agree the government squanders it, but giving it to a private company that hires thieves is also squandering, not sure where you see a distinction between the two. Under your premise, anyone could rationalize stealing tax dollars.
Role model??
Stole
Kidnapped
Held two men at gun point that probably had a family
There is always at least one dumbass in each comment section an I guess you wanted to be the one in this section
@@dewalt4594 lol this is called CZcams, people love dumb comments. fucken lol. U hating ?
That sucks was hoping he’d get away with it
Thieves always pull for thieves.
@@pep590 boot licker
And they say: Theres no honour among thieves...😆
The narrator sounds like he recording this laying down on his bed
😂😂😂😂😂😂 You stuuuupiiiddd but ikr
laying in my bed
And is got f.. with his hands on the synthesizer (called background music)
Hilarious 😆
7 dollars per hour in 1997 is roughly $11.25 an hour today.
Still far too little
@Siccboy78 Many municipalities are raising the minimum to $15 an hour.
Of course, this will accelerate the elimination of many jobs.
there ya go , when i find a time machine im goin back to that locker right after he leaves for mexico.
@@mannyfrommiami2622 is it real bitcoin is that much worthy
i wished it too
He should have had crates in the storage unit ready for the money. Puts it in, nails it shut quickly. Contracts with a courier service to pick it up and ship it. Done.
Love when you’re watching an interesting narrative video and the music drowns out the narrator
It drows u in..
Aaah, the background music
725 per hour think about that for a second. disgraceful. It's not surprising that a grossly under put paid employee who collect millions for the employer, one day decides he needs to be fairly compensated. this is just one example of how little respect these companies have for their employees. How arrogant this company was and frankly how stupid too
I'm carrying millions of dollars risking my life like that for only 7 bucks an hour I would rob them my self fk it
Real Talk
No you wouldn't. he has no skills, that's his fault. So that pay is correct for 1992. Illegals loved it. Plus you have to be a thief, be ready to kill people in a heartbeat and a bit mentally ill.
LOVED THE FK IT part...hillarious...
"He felt he and others were underpaid".... That's an obvious fact.
HAD HE PHILIP BOUGHT AN RV INSTEAD OF PUTTING THE MONEY IN STORAGE , HE COULD HAVE EASILY LEFT THE COUNTRY FORVER. THE HAVING TO COME BACK WHAT DID HIM IN!!!
@Winston McGee nah dude, he could have gone and purchased a second hand one from the hood. Who says he needed a new RV? even a Kombi van with a bed could have been sweet
He would of better off trying that or stealing what he can get and fleeing
You can watch all the crime shows ever made, memorize every blunder and you'll still do something that'll get you caught.
@titlewave Money was in US though. Would you risk crossing illegaly border for 20M dollars?
I don't think anyone is watching this to rob a bank the next morning, but ok...
You correct, some one somewhere they think they can do better, until they get caught, but why.
@@mbusotwala5765 God.
Not really. All these shows exist because only the people who got caught make a good story. The ones that got away you never heard of.
the real crime here is the minimal amount of pay with 0 benefits this guy was getting
"He felt like he was getting underpaid..." FELT??? DUDE HE *WAS* UNDERPAID
This should have been an episode of “when keeping it real goes wrong” by Dave Chapelle. 😂
When you’re paid $7HR……keep an eye on these millions for us.😂
Crazy that he did everything perfectly, yet a small mistake such as saying a simple phrases in a "suspicious" way and leaving behind a receipt is what officially costed him 25 years in prison
No such thing as a perfect crime
Always room for improvement 🤦🏻♂️
He did nothing right. No plan to hide his identity or deal with witnesses. Locked his keys in the van. Wasted time with kidnapping. Had no plan to take the money with him. Left a paper trail of his fake identities at his home. What did he do right?
@@lordcarve if he took the files for the other two employees, took them on a big offshore fishing trip and threw them in bound with chains and concrete blocks, then it could very well be made to look like one of them did it.
Problem with small criminals is they plan the heist but not thereafter. They should first study the big criminals; bankers, insurers etc and learn to plan ahead post the heist.
Sure, big time criminals rule the world
Unfortunately the 1930's John Dillinger era bank robber's didn't plan very far ahead either.
These dudes always pull off the wildest heists, but get caught the dumbest way possible..
Its as if Wonder tried to avoid copyright claims from themselves.
Oh! Damn. I wish he get to spend at least half of the money.
For a heist like that he sure is very calm
Imagine finding millions in unmarked cash inside a storage unit.
Today's FBI would have moved the money at 2AM and said the total found in the storage locker was only $87.
Maybe he was planning to keep the money until the statute of limitations was up.
First off you know the storage unit not going to call anybody for that one😅 They’re just gonna upgrade their units😅
"Im trusting you to take care of millions of dollars here is 7 dollars an hour"
Love love your stories keep up the good work
By my experience of this video it wasn’t not all about the money the guy was lonely
And very depressed. And horribly underpaid.
I was rooting for him ..
The background music is too loud that most of the narration are seem to be the background music, lol.
The security at that Lumis Fargo facility was joke- it should be staffed by the permanent staff- they should have had the corporate staff there surely they worked all hours because of customers. Johnson could easily have completely obscured his robbery by simply wearing a mask on re-entry and then simply said later I went home it must have been a bank robber.
Yeah
The audio mix of this documentary is also something criminal
Be thankful for what you have.
Narrator is also underpaid.
They get a SAG contract
It was 39.00$ in the pocket...@hour
Please hire me to mix your sound. I will accept 7$ per hour with no benefits and promise not to rob you.
Lol..
If I were the custom, I would have him let go. Because I would not waste my time to pity the rich man's loss of money.
What the hell wrong with you working for company that only pays a guard $7.00 an hour with no healthy insurance. They should've been paid like $16.00 to 20.00 dollars an hour with all the health benefits
he earned his overtime but Fed robbed him 🤣😂
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent reenactments enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Had he kept in Mexico for good. Good chance he would be residing there today ( 2023 ).
It’s crazy how he’s already out of prison! 😳
How could you extradite from anywhere in the world when some countries do not have extradition treaties with you?
Turn down the music damn .
Yeah that last part up, how easily they found the cash and the books to make him seem ignorant and discredit him.
It's such a risky dangerous job being a armored truck security ND getting 7 dollars an hour and no overtime that's cruel and inhumane treatment
2:00 Imagine someone rob them there at the scene, but they don't know it is a film crew there making a documentary 😂😆
Ofc it’s fake money or just prob bags🤦
Why is the background music louder that the narrator!?🤦🏼♂️
Ignorant people put this together.
$7 with no benefits? I would do the same. That's crazy. I would of applied for that job specifically to rob them.
LOL
“Average guy” doesn’t steal 20M
7 dollars an hour! 7 dollars an hour! 7 dollars an hour! OMG!
In 1992! in 1992! In 1992! When you have no skills! OMG!
My favorite part is the bb gun in his left hand..
$7 an hour, no benefits and you put your life on the line to protect someone’s else’s money I see why some of these armored employees are robbing the company
This is a lesson to pay your employees well if you don’t want them to rob you.
I am not sure that the company increased the salaries of its employees after this heist. It doesn't work like that. especially since in the end, the company won by getting the money back ...
Employers should go to prison for paying cheap wages.
Pay them more and they won't steal from you
If you can't hear the narration (bad audio mix) turn on the captions.
Love it
The window was fixed all of a sudden
10:48 The broken window of the car has become intact again
I was offered a job at DUNBAR back in 2008 and the pay was $13. I turned it down because I didn’t think the pay was enough to be putting myself on the line.
Cool story bro. Really really interesting. Please, what happened next? That's AMAZING
@@bensantellano lol I didn’t take the job offer
Exactly, if you don’t want the job at that wage, don’t accept it. What you don’t do is accept the job at that wage, then steal from the company, then blame your thievery on the low wage you accepted. That seems to be popular theme on this thread.
@@libertyesq some may not have a choice. Got to have at least some job, but I applaud Phillip and the others who rob these companies and casinos.
@@antoinemalone2765 You wouldn't applaud them if they robbed you and claimed to have "no choice." People like you have this notion that stealing from a company is somehow less reprehensible than stealing from an individual and think up all sorts of rationalizations to justify it.
7 dollars an hour for carrying thousand of dollars wow... now we get paid 16 dollars an hour to flip burgers 😃
This was 1997. My first job was Taco Bell and I got $5.15HR😂 I was 16 and didn’t pay rent
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I'm from Zambia
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I would have appreciated more the documentary without narration, but the music alone
Would be nice if he put some money in every mail box he pass along . He would be a greatest hero in the world . God will love him for what he done
oh nah that’s dirty money i’m not sure if i would take that
@@alphabuni5085 liar
@thomasstarter9904 - Putting anything inside a U.S.Mail Box (other than U.S.Mail) is ... ILLEGAL !!
I hate when I turn my captions on because A sentence is just too inaudible and, they can’t even write the captions for that sentence Bc I guess they didn’t understand him either 😭
Sometimes i think the people who type in the closed captions make 7 dollars an hour. Ive seen cop shows where the spelling was so bad, you wanted them to go to jail and get an education..
😃
I’ve never seen a single guard outside an armored car.
*This is actually not the biggest cash heist in American history. The biggest cash heist in American history was the "Dunbar Depot Robbery" in Los Angeles California on September 12th, 1997, where 18.9 million dollars in cash was stolen. That's one-hundred-thousand dollars more than what Philip Johnson stole. Which makes the Dunbar depot robbery in Los Angeles California the largest cash heist in American history. 14 million dollars of the 18.9 million that was stolen, has never been found to this day.*
*The 3 largest cash heists in American history all took place in the same year of 1997. Philip Johnson (featured in this video) stole 18.8 million dollars in cash from a depot on March 29, 1997 in Jacksonville Florida. On September 12, 1997, in Los Angeles California, a man named Allen Pace orchestrated and participated in the robbery of 18.9 million dollars in cash from a depot . Then on October 4th, 1997, a man named David Scott Ghantt stole 17.3 million dollars in cash from a depot in Charlotte, North Carolina.(That robbery was made into a moive called "Masterminds" staring Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig.)*
*A grand total of 55 million dollars in cash was stolen in three separate robberies that all took place in the year of 1997. All three robberies occurred at armoned car depots, and all three robberies were perpetrated by employees of those armoned car depots. With ajested inflation, 55 million dollars in 1997 would be 90 million dollars in 2022.*
Yeah for sure.... the company had been stealing from their employees for years.
Most interesting bank heist I ever heard about...but it always has a bad ending...greed leads to an unfortunate end in the long run...
The film commentator, are almost whispering but the background music and talking are much louder!
Minimum wage. No benefits. No insurance. No overtime. Tf???
He had those Randy Orton eyes when he grabbed that gun
Damnnnmm I think he is very smart but he didn't realize that for the rest of his life he would have to keep the same level of intelegence that he use to stoke the money to stay out of prison
... left the storage locker reciept laying around?
Yeah, why not? You are in mexico, in private flat that only you have acess in and mexico cops have no reason to go after you. So why not just put that receipt under magnet on fridge so you have every day reminder of why you are doing all this. He did not realize that cops may know his fake IDs so he thought he was safe
Music is louder than the voice cant hear well
This just shows the government cares more about money than human lives. $7.00/hr to guard millions.If the courrier gets robbed , the guy inside can't open doors to help his partner .
Many people forgot the fact: million dollars are NOT property of
carriers. They charge service fee just some percent of it! They have to
buy the vaults, armor cars, training employees, security systems,
equipment, insurances....
After watching this...I have learned that I have to prepare As Early as possible for my End result. 20 M dollars👌
Big ups to you Johnson
while saving money on Guard's salary, firm paid 500000 dollars. good lesson
Anyone knows where I can find the song “seven dollars in a day” they played at:09:46 - I tried everything.
Even today your still getting underpaid and moving millions with any armor company you work for.
I wish I could have watch the whole video but I just couldn't handle all the LOUD back round. I find this with most of the video's on this channel. Probably going unsubscribe from the channel. TOO BAD
I was thinking the same, the background music/noise is too loud and I can barely hear the host.
It’s just so unnecessary
Watch on CC
you see what happens when you dont pay people for overtime
🤣🤣🤣🤣lmao, hilarious
I am not sure that the company increased the salaries of its employees after this affair. It doesn't work like that. especially since in the end, the company won by getting the money back ...
Bankers always win...And employees are always the losers...
Love it when the background music is louder then the individual speaking 🤦
Background music is louder than the narrator's voice. So irritating!
So true
The audio mixes on Wonder are all messed up. The VO keeps getting lost in music and sound effects. Like they folded down the surround mix wrong
To make $7 an hour to guard so many millions is out of the question ridiculous
Looking everywhere for this song at 15:35. Anyone know where I can find it?
Sounds like the UAC voice from doom 3
Let’s face it we all clicked this video because of the quarantine lol
Hey, I / We got paid $7.00 per day (24 hours) to fight a war in Vietnam. 1968-1969.
The minium wage in Thailand is $10.00 for a 12 hour day.
They made a movie about him recently
Can someone sort the sound mixing please
He stashed some of the money that’s why he did not take the deal that was offered by the FBI