Wife Lily Allen. At the time it was thesecond largest bank heistin U.S. history. Most of the money was in $20 bills, according to the FBI. >.>. After the robbery, Ghantt took off to Mexico. They not only moved from a trailer into an expensive house just miles away from where the theft took place, but also paid for cosmetic surgery, bought a BMW convertible, Rolex watches and other signs of excess. From Oct. 6 through Feb. 20, the couple made 47 deposits totaling $271,500 at a Belmont bank, and at one point Michelle Chambers tried to get an official bank check with $200,000 in cash, authorities said. Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? Following romance reports in 2019, the Stranger Things actor and vocalist married in Las Vegas in September 2020. David Ghantt: Mostly, it concerned for Zach [Galifianakis] to have the right shirt and carrying the right pistol. Ghantt was in fact hiding out in Mexico using McKinneys I.D., which had been sold to Chambers months earlier. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. David Ghantt: No, I havent talked to them in a very long time. Follow him on twitter: @MSainat1, 20 Years Later: Masterminds of One of the Largest Bank Heists in U.S. History, The CIAs Changing Take on the Climate Emergency, Emancipation, Hollywoods Best Civil War Film Ever. Now Playing. The Book of Dave A New Path After a $17 Million Misstep, Name: David Scott GhanttBorn: October 20,1969Infamous for: When he literally drove off with $17+ Million one day after work (admit it, youve all thought about it, lol)Famous for (at time of writing): Being an inspiration for the character David Ghantt in the major motion picture comedy- Masterminds. And it didn't take long to figure out that this was not the place for me. I'd probably be that infamous gringo living in Belize, kicked back on the beach, fishing and bored out of my mind. I figured it had to be me. One night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 millionliterally more than one ton of cash. LRM: Most people who commits the crime of the decadedont usually want their story to be told. 44:28. He made his own self miserable. ``Thats always something that sends up a red flag, she said. Everybody thinks being famous and being an actor is stupendous, and the money is fantastic, but they kind of live in afish bowl. So he convinced a local hoodlum in Mexico to try to kill Ghantt. He now has a wife, a construction job, and a child. February 28, 2023. Well, it's 'based' on a true event, and there are accurate bits sprinkled throughout. After the movie [premiered in theaters], my Facebook account exploded. Thats probably not the best answer to be honest with you. Few who were around then will forget the theft of $17 million in unmarked bills from the armored car company's vault in Charlotte, pulled off by a group of residents of Gaston and Cleveland counties, who were subsequently caught five months later. Like I said before, money does weird things to people. Inequality is Weakening Social Security. She knows Owen Wilson's Steve, the bad apple . LRM: [Laughter] Now the movie portrayed that they sent someone to kill you in Mexico. On Monday, he was returned to Charlotte, where he is charged with stealing a van stuffed with cash from the vault at Loomis, Fargo & Co. in Charlotte. Soooooo will anyfuckingbody say what the movie is called? Ghantt was scheduled to work a shift at the armored car company Oct. 4. LRM: For whatever its worth, its a good answer. At first, David Ghantt said, "I didn't take her seriously. Jokes soon followed the news of how Chambers and his former wife spent their ill-gotten gain. Philip Noel Johnson, 33, was arrested in August while crossing into the United States from Mexico. I also explained to Owen [Wilson] on what it was like to be in Federal prison. Jandice : In any case, we got to talkin' afterwards, and I thought, well, that one's dead, this one's alive. LRM: You were a movie consultant on this project. What are Jandice and Kelly up to now? Ms. Campbell was a former Loomis employee who is the only person known to have contacted Ghantt in Mexico, while Chambers and McKinney conspired in recent days to kill Ghantt under the guise of bringing him more cash in Mexico, according to arrest affidavits. "They were short staffed and I noticed a lot of. David Ghantt: There are quite a few small facts and tidbits. According to court documents, federal agents began looking at the spending habits of Steven and Michelle Chambers after being tipped by a confidential informant about their "sudden wealth." Thats the big thing. A: I hate to think about what I'd be doing if I hadn't gotten caught. LRM: Were you actually concerned that you were one of the most wanted man in the United States while you were in Mexico? FBI agents pulled stolen cash out of barrels they had stashed around their home. When I first got there nobody knew who I was, they just thought I was another producer or something and when they realized they were very gracious and curious. My wife and I are starting a microbusiness. David Ghantt: My standard answer now is [to say] that the person I was thenI am certainly not that person now. Masterminds was a fun movie. The film stars Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson, Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudeikis. Also famous for (at least with his friends and family) finally getting his first book finished.Current Life: Wooer of the Wife, Drinker of Coffee, Father, Gamer, Photographer, Fisherman, Gentleman, Mastermind of this book ;-). The van was later found with $3 million in it, but the rest of the money is still missing. Despite a mega-watt cast featuring Zach Galifianakis and a handful of some of Saturday Night Lives biggest current and former stars, Masterminds, the comedy about Loomis Fargo robbery completely tanked at the box office in its opening weekend, bowing in sixth place with just $6.6 million. People did come up to me and asked me for my autograph. They asked me how I felt about it and I said, Its my story, but its your movie so have at me. Ghantt labeled himself as a jerk who was dissatisfied with his life before stealing the money. Q: North Carolina native Zach Galifianakis portrayed you in "Masterminds." All but $186,000 in that theft was recovered from a North Carolina storage building. 'The Rolling Stones' drummer Charlie Watts holding his young daughter Seraphina as they arrive at London Airport, October 17th 1969. In real life: False. 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Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt makes off to Mexico before the FBI can blink. David Ghantt, who pulled off the Loomis, Fargo & Co. vault robbery in 1997 and was sentenced to seven years in prison for the crime, served as a consultant for the film (in theaters Friday).. David Ghantt: I would be really philosophical about this. He was insecure. I might be a little biased. I took a picture from back in those days to show them. Its baggeditup.net. He was the only employee unaccounted for the next morning, and videotapes recovered at the Loomis Fargo Charlotte office showed Ghantt removing "cubes of cash" and loading it into a Loomis Fargo armored van for over an hour. Officially retired Predators GM David Poile and his wife Elizabeth Poile poses for a portrait inside the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. They also bought a BMW Z3 with cash and made several large purchases, including a $600 cigar store Indian. How did it actually feel when the FBI took you in? LRM: Im curious. A lot of people ask me, Oh, do you have any regrets? No, not really. Q: How do you tell prospective employers you once stole $17 million? David Ghantt: At first, I had a pretty good party. Loomis Fargo employees could not open the vault the next morning and called the police. I was taken back. His wife, they said, got breast implants and used cash to purchase a 1998 BMW Z3 sports car. Yes! I got to eat my meal perfectly, but every 5 minutes, someone wanted to shoot a selfie with Zach or an autograph from Zach. Day in and day out, he drives an armored vehicle, transporting millions of other peoples money with no escape in sight. David Ghantt (@DavidGhantt) is a man that still holds the record for the second largest bank heist on American Soil. Glad you like the movie. David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. It was one of the first things they voted on. LRM: When you first heard the story he was there to get rid of you, what was your reaction? He told me they were in the dirt business, so he didn't have to worry too much about me. David Harbour with Lily Allen. Why would you want this story to be told and to enjoy this? Ghantt was never in Chamberss presence until he actually handed off the money to him. A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. That was probably the first thing. $17.3 million in cash was robbed from the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis, Fargo & Co. on the evening of October 4, 1997. In real life: False. Michele Chambers' sentence was two months longer than that given to David Scott Ghantt, the Loomis employee who removed the money from the company vault on Oct. 4, 1997. (Source: People) Chambers never held Campbell hostage by locking her in a shed on his property. $17 Million and Change. In the end, it is a good story. Q: You came to the North Carolina mountains during Hurricane Irma, but what do you miss about Gastonia? Just living day-to-day. 33. My name is David Scott Ghantt. Were you offended that they portrayed you as an idiot being so easily manipulated? The police then called the FBI because most of the money handled at the facility belonged to banks, which technically made it a bank robbery a federal offense.[5]. The next day, Steve and Michelle Chambers, Kelly Campbell, and four others were arrested.[6]. You'd be amazed at how much stress you can relieve yourself from in your life by just taking 20 or so minutes a day for yourself and just letting the world go. Ghantt labeled himself as a jerk who was dissatisfied with his life before stealing the money. He is now a stepfather to her two daughters, Ethel, 10, and Marnie, 9. Two days later, when the FBI found the Loomis Fargo armored van, they discovered almost $3.3 million in cash left in the back of the van; it was later discovered that the thieves had miscalculated the sheer bulk of the small denomination currency, and that they simply left the cash that they could not take with them in the back of the van. Ghantt was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison. Twenty-one people were charged and convicted in the . LRM: Do you enjoy the publicity for yourself? He pleaded guilty in January to charges of kidnapping, money laundering and interfering with interstate commerce. No. He is an uncomplicated man stuck in a monotonous life. I really shouldnt change anything. 20 years ago,on the night ofOctober 4, 1997, David Scott Ghantt loaded $17.3 million of cash from the bank vault in Charlotte, North Carolina he was employed to supervise into a van. Anyways, David, I appreciate this conversation. Chambers did hire McKinney to kill Ghantt, but initially McKinney was making personal cash deliveries to Ghantt in Mexico on behalf of Chambers. Steven Chambers, left, and David Scott Ghantt leave federal court. Alert: Obviously, spoilers abound. He and his wife, Michelle, moved from their mobile home in Lincoln County to a luxury house in the wealthy Cramer Mountain section of Cramerton. You've decided to give up on a part of your life. One of them went into a bank and asked, How much money can I deposit before you call the IRS? Its things like that. Spending years in prison, he said, gave him time to re-invent himself. Have a good one y'all," wrote David Ghantt on his Facebook page Tuesday morning. 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The movie was overly silly and, based on a post-screening conversation with former Observer reporter Jeff Diamant who wrote a detailed 279-page book about the occasionally funny but mostly just-plain fascinating crime, titled Heist much of what wound up in the film is fiction. Authorities said a Loomis employee pulled a gun on two co-workers. I just wanted to restart. Do you still have contact with him? HOW TO ROB A BANK / S1 EP6. Five years he told how he explains his past like this: "People are very forgiving if you're open and honest right from the start. Until it's gone, you don't appreciate it. followed by "Don't worry, it is not drug money," the bank filled out a suspicious activity report, which ultimately reached the FBI. But, thats a huge amount of money that would just disappear. But last Oct. 4, when he still hadn't gotten home by 2:30 a.m., she called his parents in. From Oct. 6 through Feb. 20, the couple made 47 deposits totaling $271,500 at a Belmont bank, and at. Along with a group of half-brained criminals led by Steve Chambers and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $17 million in cash..only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall. Tell us on what was actually real from that movie. I think Zachs a hell of an actor. LRM: So tell me on where are you now? David Ghantt: Since the movie came out, I probably say I would have more now. We're always making new tools to help you discover, save, and share your favorite books. . Mrs. A: Zach and I have a runningtext conversation going, but he's very busy. One of the FBI's wiretaps caught a conversation between David Ghantt and Kelly Campbell, the one who bought the minivan and shopped for the liposuction. And most importantly, talking with Zach. In 2020, the television show Super Heists portrayed the heist in Episode 3, "Van Full of Dollars". 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