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FBI agents dug up the Fontana backyard of an armored-truck driver convicted of pulling off a $1-million theft, and recovered about $600,000 Wednesday.
Agents assisted by Los Angeles police detectives found the pile of carefully wrapped $20 and $100 bills in a large food storage bin after excavating the yard of the suburban home
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The FBI said it found about $600,000 in cash Wednesday buried in the Fontana backyard of an armored-truck driver who has been convicted of bank larceny.
(FBI)
During an armored-truck trip in June 2014, prosecutors have said, Yanez and fellow driver Aldo Esquivel Vega parked at Los Anayas restaurant on West Adams Boulevard, stashed bags containing about $1 million in cash in a trash can and continued their route, hoping to avoid detection, according to an indictment. An accomplice picked up the money and took it to Yanez's home, prosecutors said.
But it was only a matter of time before such a large chunk of money was missed. Asst. U.S. Atty. Justin Rhoades said the truck was $1.086 million short of the amount that left the vault and that the men had signed for that day. They had varied their usual route, and Rhoades said they were immediately suspects. A sting operation involving a transfer of a small part of the money helped authorities tie both security drivers to the vanished cash.
Authorities arrested Yanez and Vega, who lived in Pomona, in November. During searches of Yanez's home, agents found about $90,000 in cash, prosecutors said. They also recovered 23 firearms.
A third person allegedly involved in the scheme — Jovita Medina Guzman of San Bernardino — was arrested on suspicion of handling the money.
Yanez's wife, Leticia Yanez, is suspected of picking up the cash from the trash can. She has been charged with bank larceny and conspiracy.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-armored-truck-backyard-cash-20151007-story.html
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84639820/
FBI finds $600,000 from armored car heist buried in backyard
BY RICHARD WINTON
October 8, 2015, 12:58 p.m.
Agents assisted by Los Angeles police detectives found the pile of carefully wrapped $20 and $100 bills in a large food storage bin after excavating the yard of the suburban home
[. . .]
The FBI said it found about $600,000 in cash Wednesday buried in the Fontana backyard of an armored-truck driver who has been convicted of bank larceny.
(FBI)
During an armored-truck trip in June 2014, prosecutors have said, Yanez and fellow driver Aldo Esquivel Vega parked at Los Anayas restaurant on West Adams Boulevard, stashed bags containing about $1 million in cash in a trash can and continued their route, hoping to avoid detection, according to an indictment. An accomplice picked up the money and took it to Yanez's home, prosecutors said.
But it was only a matter of time before such a large chunk of money was missed. Asst. U.S. Atty. Justin Rhoades said the truck was $1.086 million short of the amount that left the vault and that the men had signed for that day. They had varied their usual route, and Rhoades said they were immediately suspects. A sting operation involving a transfer of a small part of the money helped authorities tie both security drivers to the vanished cash.
Authorities arrested Yanez and Vega, who lived in Pomona, in November. During searches of Yanez's home, agents found about $90,000 in cash, prosecutors said. They also recovered 23 firearms.
A third person allegedly involved in the scheme — Jovita Medina Guzman of San Bernardino — was arrested on suspicion of handling the money.
Yanez's wife, Leticia Yanez, is suspected of picking up the cash from the trash can. She has been charged with bank larceny and conspiracy.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-armored-truck-backyard-cash-20151007-story.html
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84639820/
FBI finds $600,000 from armored car heist buried in backyard
BY RICHARD WINTON
October 8, 2015, 12:58 p.m.
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