LA's Easter Sunday Heist: Thieves Take $30M In Daring, Hollywood-worthy Feat

Here's what you need to know about the biggest $30M heist in the history of Los Angeles.

It wasn't until Monday that the staff realised the enormous amount was stolen. Photo Credit: Getty Images

On Easter Sunday, a group of bold robbers pulled off an incredible heist in Los Angeles, taking an eye-watering $30 million or more out of a cash holding facility. The bold theft, which looked like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster, caught authorities and residents off guard because it wasn’t discovered until the next day.

This heinous robbery shocked the city and attracted a lot of media attention, ranking among the biggest cash grabs ever seen in the City of Angels. According to the authorities, the crime scene is “elaborate” and provides few hints about the identity or exact mode of operation of the culprits.

The FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department are working together to initiate a comprehensive investigation into the bold crime. It is astounding that the robbers were able to enter the San Fernando Valley facility without raising any red flags or drawing attention to themselves.

According to reports, the highly skilled burglars may have carried out their plan by entering the building through its roof in order to avoid being discovered by the few people who have access to the enormous amounts of cash stored inside. The astounding scope of the heist wasn’t made public until Monday when facility staff opened the vault and found no evidence of forced entry.

News helicopters hovering above the murder scene in Sylmar, California, recorded what seemed to be a breach in the defences of the GardaWorld facility. The precise connection to the theft is still unknown.

Breaking records previously held by armoured car robberies, this heinous deed eclipses even the most daring of previous cash grabs in the annals of the city. Notably, $18.9 million was taken from Dunbar Armoured Inc. in 1997, the greatest cash robbery in Los Angeles history, which resulted in the arrest of six people, including a former employee.

This most recent event adds to a number of high-profile thefts that began in 2022 with an audacious heist in which jewels and antique jewellery valued at over $100 million were taken from an armoured truck a few kilometres distant. The daring of modern-day thieves is further demonstrated by the robbery of almost $15 million in gold and cash from Toronto’s airport, which is a crime worthy of a Hollywood script.

One thing is certain, though, as law enforcement searches for leads and the public is taken aback by the heist’s boldness: this blatant steal will go down in Los Angeles history as one of the most daring and mysterious heists the city has ever seen.