WEBVTT - They Heard it Through the Grapevine: Brinks Jewelry Heist 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.400 Zara, Elizabeth, it's you, It's me, Saron Brunette. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:08.400 That's right, that's a. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:12.799 Listen pal. You know it's ridiculous. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:17.480 Yes, I do, Elizabeth. I'm glad you asked me. Cowboy hats. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:22.000 Yeah, totally ridiculous on birds, super ridiculous. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.439 So you got family in Las Vegas, I do. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.400 Did they ever tell you about about a little time 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.479 about five six years ago when people were seeing birds 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.400 fly around Las Vegas with cowboy hats? 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:34.920 No, par did share this with me. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.520 Apparently for a while in December of twenty nineteen, people 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:40.760 were noticing these. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.080 Quote the birds have hats on bro. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.440 So somebody they recorded a twelve second video in a 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.680 parking lot of these birds like pecking at Dorito's, like 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:51.920 thrown into a parking lot, just on a normal like 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.160 seven to eleven parking lot. Yeah, but the birds were 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.480 wearing cowboy hats, tiny cowboy hats, little pigeons with tiny. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:00.440 Proof. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:00.960 There is it. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.720 There is video proof, and the videos were shared and 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.399 enjoy to buy millions. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.520 Well otherwise it's just's yeah. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:09.960 Now people were like, wait a minute, did he do this? 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.240 And then somebody else. Someone else pointed out that the 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.560 Wrangler National Finals rodeo was in town, and they're like, 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.880 did they do this as like a hype thing for 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.160 the rodeo. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association had to come 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.200 out and say, we had nothing to do with the 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:25.800 pigeons wearing cowboy hats. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:31.560 Wait wait, since someone was just a vigilante, yes, as 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:33.160 pigeon exactly. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.560 The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police had to come out and say. 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.480 It does not appear to be a police matter at 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:38.960 this time. 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.839 The Clark County spokeswoman, they said, I have no immediate comment. 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:44.280 I didn't know what to do right. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.080 Some people were worried, so like a veterinarian came in 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.000 and said, well, actually, they make a glues for animals, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.720 and I think that they may not be it's not 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.000 obstructing their vision or their ability to eat, So I 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.680 think that the birds will be fine. Okay, because apparently 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.240 they make this like spargum for birds. I think they 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.160 think that somebody just plopped that on the pigeon's head 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.240 and propped it on there instead of using like super glue, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:05.680 and you. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.880 Know, they got some of that like showgirls. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.920 Yeah, so they they look like there. It was not 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.880 that the animals were hurt, Elizabeth, I don't worrying. They 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.840 were just upgraded fashion. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.799 Man. There you go. That's ridiculous. Do you want to 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.000 know what else is ridiculous? 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:22.639 Goodness? 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.040 Yeah, the grape Vine. 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:49.160 No, no, this is ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:53.280 and outrageous capers. Heis and cons it's always ninety nine 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.239 percent murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:00.440 You heard that, right? You? 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:01.639 All right? Do you pull something? 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:03.639 The interns? Hold me down. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:06.920 There. You're a big road trip guy. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.040 Oh my god. I lived for road trips. That's what 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:10.440 I did for my birthday last year. I took a 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:10.960 road trip by. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.800 Myself, just drove across country. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.720 That was my gift to myself. I drove across country 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:16.520 all by myself. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.640 It was awesome. Took me like five days. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.000 It was love pretty cool. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:21.160 It's one of my favorite things to do. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.040 I get carsick easily. Oh that's not my favorite. 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.120 Oh that totally. Did it happen even if you're driving? 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:28.360 That that helps. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.239 Yeah, if I'm driving, it's not an issue. But I 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.920 also just don't like to sit for such long perme time. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.200 Twelve hours as long as the world's moving. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.360 I love the concept of a road. Are parts that 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.560 I enjoy like I like going places that I've never been. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.480 That's true, things that I may never see again. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:46.440 This is true. 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.840 And the life I love is making music with my friends. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.520 So that's why you get on the road again, On 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.760 the road again, but on the road again, Elizabeth, I 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.920 am band the Gypsies. We go down the highway, making friends, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.200 best of friends, insisting in the world turning our way 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.320 and our way on the aga. Okay, So I do 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.160 love a good roadside stand or oh that's true. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:11.800 You you will make us pull over if I'm ever 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:12.160 in the car. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.200 They got a lot of those on the old roots. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.400 Like strawberries you one o one from the bay to 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:24.680 l A. Like strawberry stands, cherries and cherries, garlic. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.640 You'll stop for avocado, artichokes. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.360 Yeah, yeah, I'll bust it out for vegetables. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:30.719 Will get a stop for you. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.599 One time, one of the best discoveries I ever had 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.320 was in an artichoke stand. I bought some seasoning called 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.560 garlic Dude dust. If you can get your hands on it, 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.080 I use it on everything anyway. I like stopping at 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:45.520 nice rest stops. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.560 That's true, like nice, what is nice? 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.279 Like that? The ones well lit, clean ones, and they've 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:54.800 got like every conceivable. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.000 I like the state welcome centers. Oh yeah, you get 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.320 to the border and the first stop, those are Yeah. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:01.320 I always try to hit those. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.880 Up me too. But I'm talking about like when you 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.880 walk into a convenience store, part of it. They've got 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.320 every snack that's ever been made, all the two thousands 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.599 about truck stops and like yeah, and then the rest 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.920 up trucks like amazing souvenirs. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.520 Okay, yes that truck stops, those are awesome. But the 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.599 clean ones, Yeah, you've got to be clean ones. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:22.400 What's your what's your go to roads? 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.719 Also, I want them to only sell knives, not guns 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:26.920 a truck stop. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:28.000 I don't want guns. 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.799 Knives that's cool, yeah, exactly, dolls. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:37.839 You can drink the road and I'm buying a shot. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:39.840 So what's your road snack? What do you get? 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:42.000 Oh? 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.800 You know, I got a sweet too always things that 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.840 you would never touch like in real life. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.400 Oh we yeah, you know me, I got a sweet tooth. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.599 So that basically means is I get like rare to 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.760 me gummy worms. I'm like, I've never tried, and I 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.239 get those or then like I'll get like not only 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.320 just thoughts. I'm always been like a bunch of always 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.000 and chocolate eat it all at the same time. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.360 Like I'm kind of like like, yeah, a bad diet, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:06.720 pre diabetic. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.440 I get with. I get with the corn nuts. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.280 You like all those savor. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.760 Things filled with cheese stuff. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.800 Oh yeah, the yeah, the cones, the combos combos. There 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:21.080 you go. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.279 Yeah, absolutely, I'm in the car. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.360 Like if hot pocket was a smaller snack. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.520 Yeah, it's so good and so bad. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:29.840 Yeah. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:33.120 Anyway, So I wrote a novel about an epic that you. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.440 Did, a really good one called Drift. I recommend it 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:36.080 to everybody here. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.279 I am not celebrating the road trip. I know, I 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:40.640 take it all back. I want to go on a 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:41.120 road trip. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.640 But by the way, just how long could you be 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.360 if we were to say, drive somewhere five hours six hours? 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.120 I like five six is a good sweet spot, Like 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.280 when I've driven across country have done eight hours, and that's. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.400 Just like I've done that with you. I know too much. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.920 I'm like twelve, You're like, I will tell you hell no, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.200 I would jump from this car of leisurely thing it's smart. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.360 I'd never traveled like that. It's pretty took like, how 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.080 long two weeks? How long did drive across country? 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:11.000 Days? But we did eight hours. Yeah, we could have gone, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.520 you know, shorter drives each day and it would have 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.440 been better. Two weeks. Fine, whatever, it's time to a pig. Okay. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:23.760 So anyway, in my book, the protagonist stops at a 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:28.600 rest stop, a gas station on the grape Vine And 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.600 for the uninitiated, that's technically the Teyhone Pass. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.000 Yes, it's a mountain separating La from the valley. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.840 Yes, so it's that stretch of Interstate five between the 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.200 Central Valley between and you know, connects Central Value, Southern California, 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.640 cuts right through the Tahatchepee Mountains. There, stops there, Gorman. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.640 Are fine as I've broken down, and Mini and Bec yeah, Lebec, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.080 I know Gorman and Lebec. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.640 I'm front down and lots of truck stops, t hone, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:58.280 passed home pass, motels, fast food, gas station like that. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.320 It's come along a lot. Yeah, break down, Oh my gosh. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.680 Yeah, totally. When we were like, oh, Tuble goes by 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.600 and there's like a cow skill. I want to focus 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.560 on Libec right now. Though, this is so not a 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.280 place that one checks out on Google street View and 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:20.720 immediately adds to the best visit. Yes I did. I 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.720 mean I've been there, right, But you know what, God bless, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.040 I wish the place is even the best. But as 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.120 I went to go Google street View and I was like, 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.680 I was like, this is so much different than my 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.280 normal Google street View for these things. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.600 Do you know where it gets its name A Frenchman? 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.160 Yeah, player, there was a dude Peter le Bec and 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.840 it was spelled with like the qi on the end. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.320 He was a French Canadian trapper in the early eighteen 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.880 hundreds who made his way down to. 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.360 Alta, California. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.160 Then, yeah, he was what was he trapping Ralizabeth, Nauga, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.920 prized for their high be No, it looks like he 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:57.640 was after. 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.520 Bears, grizzly grizzly. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.040 So he caught sight of one in the area that 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.200 now holds his name, and he gave chase and he 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.600 shot it under a valley oke and the bear's dying 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:14.800 act was to maul and kill him. He's oh, you 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.120 got me, come over, come look at this boon to. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.439 The family, so hard at your ancestors. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.360 It's well he. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.240 Did shoot the bear. If you shoot the bear, he 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:27.720 may shoot back exactly. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.840 He and the bear were buried at the foot of 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:39.160 the tree. Yeah, by whom I don't know, the locals, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.160 the local tribe, whoever it was, cut back some of 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.160 the bark on that valley oke and carved Peter Lebec 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.840 l E. B. E c K Killed by an ex 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.199 bear October O c. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:55.760 T r. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.760 Seventeen, eighteen thirty seven on the bear spot. They cart 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.920 the and as the years passed, the bark of the 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.240 tree grew up over the carving. And then some fifty 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.960 or so years later a group came upon the carving 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.160 all covered up. They preserved it, and then they reburied 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.719 Lebeck and the bear wow into like real. And then 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.280 in nineteen seventy two friends of the show e Clampus Vitis, 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.400 Oh the Clampers, they put up a plaque reading Peter 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.559 Lebeck killed by a bear, October seventeenth, eighteen thirty seven, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:33.000 in memory of a pioneer of whom only conjecture can speak. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.880 Dedicated October fourteenth, nineteen seventy two. Eclampus Vitas Peter Lebeck, 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.520 Chapter eighteen sixty six. So the Peter leb Bec chapter. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.920 The Bear No, the Peter Lebec chapter is the one 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:49.360 for Kerrn County, and their website is almost as good 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:49.959 as ours. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:51.960 Really, it's yeah, they. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.640 Got way more content. We once got an invite to 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.280 a Clamper event, but I don't know whatever happened with that. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:01.880 Happened. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:03.960 I think I really do want to go to one. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.000 I do doo. So we got a second invitement for. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.840 Listening Saren and I want to go to one of 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.920 your events, like we could turn it into an episode. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.600 We love history and I drink Yeah there it. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:18.120 Is perfect Lebec. So there's a Flying J truck stop 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:18.640 in Lebec. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.120 Oh, Flying Jo. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.800 That is a good solid truck stop. They're usually cleaned 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:25.720 and they got a lot of stacks. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:27.280 Second is Travel Centers of America. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.400 Yes, yes, yes, yes, put a pin in the Flying 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.839 J for right now. Sure remember it. I'm going to 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.200 take you up the coast to San Mateo, California, located 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.040 south of San Francisco on the peninsula of the San 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.360 Francisco Bay. It was there that the International Gem and 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.960 Jewelry Show aka inter gem In Corporated GYM was held 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.320 at the San Mateo County Events Center in twenty twenty two. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.440 I do love a gem and stone show now, Jemmy 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:55.720 and jewelry. I don't know a. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.640 Gem and stone show at a county fair ground. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:00.880 That's that's ideal. 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:02.319 It's like some good. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.760 Stuff right day. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.280 Inter Gem is America's longest running direct to consumer jewelry show. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:10.520 I did not know that. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:11.000 You do? 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.240 Do You learned that from QVC. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.160 I already knew it. That was that general. I don't 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:14.840 have to cite it. 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:15.760 You tell people that. 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.920 I don't have to cight it because everyone just telling 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.360 me the sky is blue like whatever. Started in nineteen 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:27.360 sixty seven. Of course, it's also the largest exhibition of gems, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.400 minerals and jewelry in the world. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.439 I was just telling you that the other day. I 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:32.079 can do it too. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.560 It's good jewelry stores, designers, brokers, they all do like 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.160 a solid amount of business there. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.120 Okay, all right, So there's like their big dog events. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.120 It's supposed to be deal City Deal. So you go there. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.200 It's like deal bottom price ready for deal visitors. They 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.599 is there in visitors shop directly from manufacturers, really wholesalers 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:59.160 and design wholesalers direct to me. They sell jewelry loose gemstones, pearls, watches, 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.800 antique in the stage, jewelry supplies, chains, charms, accessories, and zeron, 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:04.800 so much more. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.040 Did you find this on an AM radio station? 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.600 I just became like, this is something that like my 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.600 grand you know, retired, maybe love to just poke around 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.200 and go to random sun and eight years old and 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.720 you and the two of you. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:25.360 You're going together. We get an air force. I got 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:26.320 an air show there. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.200 Sometimes sometimes there are special exhibits at these stuff like 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.520 famous people's jewelry. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.040 Oh yeah, like Liberaci's rocks, Liberaci stones. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.560 You get the picture. Yeah you did. So they're having 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.120 one of those shows in July twenty twenty two and 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.120 San Mateo. 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.240 Okay, twenty twenty two, and then a couple. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.360 Of days later it was moving down the road to 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.440 Pasadena in southern California, in the southland, southern California. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:52.959 Their next big stop. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:57.400 Yeah, so rocks get from to get from San Mateo 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.480 to Pasadena to you know, bedroom communities, most folks would 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:07.280 take Interstate five five or as you southlander Angelino. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.000 Say the five because that's what it is. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.880 Yeah, anywhere south Freeways. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.560 Were born in southern California, sorry, south of. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.440 The midpoint in the state. It's the five. We call 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:17.439 it five. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.840 Yes, because it's much better to name highways and freeways 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.360 after what they do and where they go. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.680 So that we're in state five High five. That's what 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:25.600 they call it. Sacramento. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:31.760 Those cakes up in San Mateo sixteen of the jewelers 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:36.600 and dealers. They loaded seventy three orange heavy duty bags, 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.520 each weighing about one hundred pounds into a Brinx tractor. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.720 Trailer trucks has tractor truck, Yeah, big. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.080 Boy, like a long daddy. Not one of the armored trucks. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.880 Oh it's not an armored Is it armored itself? 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:48.600 No? 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:48.760 No? 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:49.120 Okay? 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:49.560 Interesting? 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.320 What was in the bags? 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.440 What's in the bags? What's in the bags? 0:14:54.360 --> 0:15:00.720 They they had sparkling gems, loose diamonds, no loose slu 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:06.200 Rolex watches, the works, baby, one of a kind, dazzler's 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.400 you name it, You name it. Arnold Duke, head of 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.320 the International Gem and Jewelry Show, said of the Hall quote, 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.720 the sheer quantity of gems and jewelry wouldn't fit in 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.160 one car. My question is, what about a super room. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.520 There's a lot of headrooms. Did you try it? Arnold duke. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.560 Yeah, I don't think. He don't speak so speaks for itself. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.400 He did not try, He didn't try and shove all 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.240 that in the subie. At these shows, there are always 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.600 like public address announcements reminding people to tell security if 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.040 they see something fishy. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.520 S something, say something exactly. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:47.760 So the show's manager. Yeah, Brandy Swanson, she actually chased 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:48.400 a guy down. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:49.360 Really. Yeah. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.440 He was wearing a surgical mask and an ear piece. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.040 It's twenty twenty two, so he's asking out of the ordinary. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.680 And he'd been sitting on this folding chair at the 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.880 X Center, just watching everyone pack up, like the show 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.200 was over and the public had all left. He's kind 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:07.760 of like an. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.520 Air about it. And from a folding chair. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.920 You brought a chair because his legs get tired. 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:17.560 Yeah, I know. He's waiting for his dad to pick 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:17.880 him up. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.840 She walks up to him, She's like, what are you 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.800 all about? And he was like, I don't speak English. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.320 You're doing a great job a. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.600 Lot when I don't want to talk to strangers, perfect accent, 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.840 and they're just like, oh, they ask you something, Oh 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:32.720 I don't speak English. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.280 Oh you don't, it's too bad, And I walk away 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:36.520 I'm gullible. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.120 Yeah no, I just told that. Does it work? 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.280 What do people say when you say that? 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:40.680 They just kind of stare at me, and I'm just 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.560 I'm gone, baby, I'm already walking. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:45.360 Yeah. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.200 If they're like, will you sign this petition? I don't 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:52.680 speak English or I don't live here anyway. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:52.800 I got to try to live your lifestyle. 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:54.640 You really should walk. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.400 Wearing shirts of Pablo Escobar. People think you notice that. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:58.840 I see you've got your publish shirt. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.960 Yeah, come through ridiculous crime. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.760 So Brandy she got the guy kicked out. He grabbed 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.639 it girl, he grabbed his chair, and then she watched 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.800 him meet up with another guy in a surgical mask, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:16.160 and the two of them scurried off. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.600 So she told some of the Brinks she's chasing his 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:19.960 para doctors. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.760 They're on their way to the r But she tells 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.840 the Brinks people like, it's not a big deal. That's 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.360 what Brandy says happened. Brinks is like, she never told 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.560 us anything. I'm signed with Brandon. So there was another 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.320 dealer who went outside to get some air because I mean, 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:40.159 like your head is swimming. After the dazzling Gems saw 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.679 a car with blacked out windows, including the windshield and 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.119 no plates. I see those all the time on five eighties. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.199 So whatever. The dealer tried to snap a picture of 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.000 it on his phone, but the car peeled out and 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.159 it was too late. Suspicious, but so then the security 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.320 at the facility they also had to run in. They 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.840 found a whole other guy with an earpiece, sunglasses and 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.360 a ball cap. Not a celebrity hiding from the paparazzi. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.159 Oh that's what I was milling around outside looking at 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.560 the loading dock security. It was like, get moving. He 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.200 jumped into a Dodge Charger and took off, and the 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.560 security guard managed to get a photo of the car. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.960 And I must say that if you drive a Dodge Charger, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.119 you're either up to no good or you need to 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.800 get back on base before you leave expires. Zaren have 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:25.359 you seen my broad brush? It's suppressive. The truck gets 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.520 all loaded up, heads out. This was a tractor trailer, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.440 like I said, not an armored car. How was it secured? 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:32.679 I'm just I'm so curious. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.480 How well is one padlock? Oh and a plastic security 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:37.520 seal on the back doors? 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.760 Are you kidding now? Like a loaded Jordan's. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.240 Yes, yes, So the truck had two drivers, James Baby 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:49.399 and Tandy Motley. And the truck. You know, while that 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.200 wasn't armored, James and Tandy they were armed. So this 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.800 is July tenth, late afternoon, early evening. The destination was 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.720 the Brink storage yard around three hundred and seventy miles 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:03.520 south in Los Angeles. All right, let's stop for some 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:08.080 ADS's make us some money. Yeah, we have to save 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.359 the Community Centers erin. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.680 Totally when we get back, save this flying jay. 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:34.480 More when we get back, zaren. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:40.480 Okay, So James and James and this giant peach ak 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.639 they got they they hop in the truck. You're heading 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.120 from San Mateo. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.639 To Pasadena, La Pasadena. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.480 Three yeah, three hundred and seventy miles south. I guess 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.879 it's La because the show's in Pasadena. But they're going 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:53.600 to like a warehouse. 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:54.720 Oh yeah yeah. 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.120 So during the during the loadout, James and Tandy they 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.679 noticed some dudes watching them, Like, did the guys just 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.520 like to watch him work and stretch them glues? Tandy 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.360 wasn't sure, so he goes over to Brandy. He goes 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.760 to Brandy. He says, Brandy, you're a fine girl. What 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.000 a good wife you'll be. But my life, my love, 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:14.000 and my lady's the sea. 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.320 I understand it completely, and so could say that. 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.399 No, he said, Brandy, I don't like the looks of 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.920 those guys. She's like, you know what, I agree with you. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:23.639 A fine girl, let me tell you. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.040 But then he's like, this is great, we've established we 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:27.520 don't like that. But we got to get on the 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.160 road by and like drive away. And then Brandy did 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.320 that armpole thing and they hot the horn at her. So, 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:39.960 in compliance with Department of Transportation regulations, James he went 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:44.640 to sleep as soon as they left. Rude. I hate 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.440 when I'm driving a long distance and my passenger falls asleep. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.920 Really cheeses me off. But I guess the FEDS want 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.480 them to do this so that one is always well rested. Yes, so, James, 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.919 he just climbed into the truck's sleeping berth and had 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:02.520 himself a snooze cruise. Yeah, so, according to Ports, still 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.960 out making into a cozy zone. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:06.359 Yeah, put you know, like. 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.680 A little crouchet blank his grandma made him. 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:13.359 Yeah, according to Little Dog Ports. The truck pulled in 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.520 for a stop a little after midnight at the button 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:21.240 Willow Rest Areack Button Willow Man, We've all been there. 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.280 Tandy had to use a little boys room okay, the commode, 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.879 and that was around one am. And they stopped again 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.159 at two oh five, this time in La bec. I 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.480 call foul on the timing, since fifty four miles down 0:21:37.600 --> 0:21:39.600 five from Button Willow to La Beet. 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:40.760 That doesn't Work's a big old truck. 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:41.640 It's not like a supercar. 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:44.600 Yeah, that's just doesn't work out. Even though I drive 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:45.720 like a hundred. That doesn't work. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.680 All of the timing and the court documents was a mess, 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.080 and it makes me wonder what they're covering up Zarin. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.680 What are the ranks using new technologies the government doesn't 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:55.520 want us to know about. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:22:02.520 That's my question, only logical to the national security apparatus, 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.680 but I think they usually have this point pretty good geolocators, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:06.520 so you'll be. 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.480 Able to I really think that there's some teletransportation going 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.080 on and they don't want us to know stuff they 0:22:12.080 --> 0:22:18.200 don't want you to know. Yeah, teleporting. Anyway, it's two five, 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:20.760 and for whatever reason they stopped again. 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:23.040 Okay, three oh five would work, but not to. 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:25.600 Let's say it was five. I think that they got. 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:30.040 Was this a day with one of those fallbacks bring 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:32.080 forward days? You know what, the time you got an 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.600 extra hour? This is July right. 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.600 Here's what I think happened. I think that like the 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:41.520 drivers misspoke and then it got picked up in news stories. 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:43.920 And I don't think they were looking at like official still, 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:47.479 and I think that they left a little earlier than 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:53.440 they said they did. Anyway, So we've we've tracked James 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:58.000 and Tandy as they cruised the highways of California. If 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.040 you are from the bear La, as we said, you 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.360 know this drive very well, very very well. I can 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.560 picture the whole thing like I see me doing ninety 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:10.000 down five. It's just as begs for you. Gotta let 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:13.840 that pony run, nothing but scrub and cattle and the 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:17.960 aqueduct around you. Sound asleep in the past, you see 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.879 fuming and like muttering curses that in Tesla doing sixty 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:22.560 in the left lane. 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:23.960 I'm staying fresh in case I have to. 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:28.160 Drive federal regulation. We've all been there, and now you're 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:41.720 there there. I want you to bigger it. It's two 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:46.600 five am on July eleventh, twenty two. You are a 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:49.840 small teenage boy sitting cross legged on top of a 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.800 garbage can, at the gas pumps at the Flying Jay 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:56.920 in Lebeca, California. You aren't really a small teenage boy. 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:00.359 You're a soul on a mission. You've lived thousands of 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:05.000 lives over thousands of years, witness hundreds of events, beautiful moments, 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:09.800 unspeakable tragedies, explosions of joy, low points of humanity. You 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.000 close your eyes as a dancer spared by Djengis Khan 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:16.240 after his sack of Sammarcan in twelve twenty, and you 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:19.280 just open them as a young teen and an Afi shirt, 0:24:19.480 --> 0:24:22.840 dirty cargo shorts perched atop a garbage can in this 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:27.080 strange wasteland. You're facing the Flying Jay truck stop. It's 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:30.040 well lit, but that light doesn't do much to penetrate 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:32.960 the dim edges of the truck lot. It's asphalt giving 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:36.280 way to dry grass and the rolling hills beyond. Attached 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:38.800 to the Flying Jay is a Denny's. It too, is 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:42.560 brightly lit, a beacon to weary and hungry travelers. You 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:45.840 hear a rumble and watch as a large tractor trailer 0:24:45.880 --> 0:24:49.399 truck enters the lot and parks to the side. It's unmarked, 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:52.800 just plain white as the engine cuts and begins to 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:55.520 click and hiss in the warm night. The driver gets out. 0:24:55.800 --> 0:25:00.000 He's bearded sturdy. He stretches his back and heads toward 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:03.520 the Flying Jay. You can see into the Flying j 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:05.919 and watch as he goes to stand in line at 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:09.400 one of the food counters. And something catches your eye movement. 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:13.080 A black car with blacked out windows slowly rolls up 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.000 behind the truck. You can sense that this is not right. 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:19.359 The evil and ill intent just hums off the car. 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:23.840 You stay seated watching Two men hop nimbly from the 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.640 car and make quick work of a padlock and plastic 0:25:26.720 --> 0:25:29.399 seal on the back of the trailer. Each tumble to 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:33.240 the blacktop and skid away one by one. Gently. One 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:36.040 man opens the back of the truck. You see piles 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:38.920 and piles of orange bags. The men look at each 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:41.360 other for a moment. Then one runs to the back 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:43.679 of their car and pops the trunk. The other hops 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:46.440 into the trailer and struggles to lift a bag. They 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.720 whisper back and forth a bit, and then the one 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:51.720 in the truck gingerly begins to lift bags, handing them 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:54.480 down to his accomplice. At first he puts the bags 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:56.359 in the trunk, but he soon runs out of room. 0:25:56.880 --> 0:25:59.359 He opens the back passenger door and starts tossing bags 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:03.439 into the backs. Twenty minutes goes by. The men have 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:05.840 run out of room in their car. You watched them 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:09.040 transfer twenty four bags from the truck to their car. 0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.120 They hop into their ride and screech out, their tires 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:15.439 gripping the hot tarmac. A few minutes go by, and 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:18.359 you see the truck's driver return fountain, soda and bag 0:26:18.359 --> 0:26:21.160 of food in hand. The smell of the grease wafts 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:23.720 your way, and you close your eyes while inhaling the scent. 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:26.959 You don't remember the last time you ate. When you 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:30.560 open your eyes, you see nothing but blue sky. It's midday. 0:26:30.880 --> 0:26:33.520 You're on your back. You hear hooves on dirt, the 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:37.040 snort of horses. You're suddenly tipped upright, and you see 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:39.280 that you're in a wagon. You're on a woman's lap. 0:26:39.560 --> 0:26:43.240 You're a baby. You wear bright embroidered fabrics. Those around 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:45.880 you speak a language you haven't heard. A new life 0:26:45.920 --> 0:26:48.240 for you zerin and you won't find out what happened 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:49.200 if that truck's. 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:53.040 Not damn, that's I mean. 0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:56.200 I love the time tripping that was awesome. The kid 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:57.880 got killed in the parking lot. 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:00.879 No, no, he closed does it? He ate his size 0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:03.480 and he vanishes, he goes somewhere else. 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:05.480 Is just a new spirit somewhere else, But it's something 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:07.840 like reincarnation, which would imply. 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:10.280 He doesn't necessitated. 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:12.120 Blinks to reply, he's a soul. 0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:14.560 Yeah, he's a soul hopper. I love that. The sammar 0:27:14.640 --> 0:27:17.320 can you have me there? Like, hey, my boy. 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:22.760 So you little boy time traveler. You may not know 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:25.640 what's going to happen. We we find out what happens 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:29.360 or what went down. So Tandy, as we said, got 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:30.159 out to get somebody. 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:32.960 Sure he was famished, but the other driver stayed in 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:33.280 the car. 0:27:33.520 --> 0:27:38.760 Snooze cise dudes roll up, stole twenty four bags of loot. 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:41.960 Tandy came back out, saw the security tag on the ground. 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:45.400 Apparently the thieves took the lock with him, and so 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:48.800 Tandy like bangs on the side of the truck, wakes James. 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:50.199 He hops out, apparently a. 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:52.600 Deep sleeper because that thing that the trailer had to 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:55.200 be rocking when they hop in the bag. They're moving 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.480 stuff and there's multiple men hopping up and down. 0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:01.879 Like a face mass. Very noise canceling headphones and like 0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:08.960 aromatherapy reeks of lavender in the sleeping cabin. So they 0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:12.760 like they open up the bag and they're fearing the worst, 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:15.280 and it was bad. The thieves had taken bags from 0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:17.239 the front of the trailer, which is where they had 0:28:17.240 --> 0:28:20.440 put the higher value stuff. Oh yeah, they didn't just 0:28:20.480 --> 0:28:25.240 take the bags of beads door. So and it looked 0:28:25.280 --> 0:28:27.359 like that they had seen the thieves had seen it 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:30.679 get low. So the drivers they call the cops. LA 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:34.880 Sheriff's deputies show up because they're just inside. Wow. Yeah, 0:28:34.960 --> 0:28:39.320 there's bodycam footage available on Daily Mail. Their answers to 0:28:39.360 --> 0:28:41.360 the cops questions are kind of all over the place, 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:43.280 Like they got the timing screwed up in some of 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:45.880 the retellings, and they tried to estimate the amount of 0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:47.960 jewelry in the bags, but that's not really their business. 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:49.960 Yeah, I mean, it seems like an inside job. 0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:52.720 Well, they got confused about some of the markings on 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:56.360 the bag. The whole thing's messy, Like they're rattled. Yeah, 0:28:56.880 --> 0:28:59.240 and you know, they know they're hauling a lot of value. 0:28:59.320 --> 0:29:00.640 I mean, they're probably an to get fired. 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:05.360 They know they're going to be scrutinized the few days. Yeah, 0:29:05.400 --> 0:29:07.120 and then there's got to be that feeling of like 0:29:07.240 --> 0:29:09.680 literally dodging a bullet because it was like a sneaky 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:11.520 heist and not at the end of a barrel of 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:14.280 a gun, so they didn't get got and maybe there's 0:29:14.320 --> 0:29:15.280 like the adrenaline of that. 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:19.200 I thought maybe those guys were anywhere knows. 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:25.720 Pepper, Yeah, so he needed some Like Carlstenior, there wasn't 0:29:25.760 --> 0:29:28.360 any CCTV coverage in the area of the lot where 0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:31.680 they were parked, which is that's also I'm also wondering 0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:33.960 about the footage from other big rigs because like in 0:29:34.040 --> 0:29:37.080 the bodycam footage, the guy who's in the truck park 0:29:37.160 --> 0:29:39.880 next to the Brinks rig comes out and it's like, 0:29:39.880 --> 0:29:45.760 what's going on off sir and the cops. Like anyone 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:47.840 I think who spends a lot of time on the 0:29:47.880 --> 0:29:49.840 road these days seems to have dash. 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:54.800 Cam, yes, especially hauling anything worthwhile or. 0:29:54.760 --> 0:30:00.320 That you have to prove that you weren't tru But 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:02.640 so we just know that flying j didn't cover that 0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:05.440 part of the lot that maybe it scares away the lizards. 0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:08.160 They don't want to know what goes on over there. 0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:11.000 You no A witness at the Flying j said that 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:13.120 he heard some of the guys speaking in a language 0:30:13.160 --> 0:30:15.680 other than English to each other, and he was like, 0:30:15.760 --> 0:30:18.640 it wasn't Spanish, because I would recognize that it was 0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:21.200 something else. He was probably all, they didn't say gelopa, 0:30:21.280 --> 0:30:25.400 no pepper or buenos dias, so it's not Spanish. They 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:32.320 didn't mention the biblioteca. So James and Tandy may have 0:30:32.360 --> 0:30:35.280 seemed kind of hanky, but they weren't sending up major 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:39.000 red flags when when they kind of investigators looked into 0:30:39.040 --> 0:30:40.440 their lives or like these dud. 0:30:40.400 --> 0:30:43.600 There's no weird bank accounts. Stand they're just kind of incompetent, 0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:45.440 Like you said, families. 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:51.160 Like the slow He yeah, as you said, it did 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:52.960 have the feel of an inside job though. 0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:53.360 Right he does. 0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:55.320 I mean all the all the facts, I mean, just 0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:57.320 the fact that they stopped and they did and where 0:30:57.360 --> 0:30:57.680 they did. 0:30:57.760 --> 0:30:59.880 There were thoughts that maybe someone at Brinks tipped off 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:03.800 thieves as to the route. Sure, Tandy told the cops 0:31:03.800 --> 0:31:06.240 at the Flying Jay that maybe he was followed and 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:08.960 it could have been thieves working on behalf of one 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:10.280 of the jewelers running an. 0:31:10.160 --> 0:31:12.440 Insurance Oh whoa, I'm like. 0:31:12.520 --> 0:31:16.360 Slow down their Columbos road and let the pros look 0:31:16.400 --> 0:31:16.640 into that. 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:21.520 Yeah right, He's like, then it's going to insurance fraud. 0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:23.560 From one of the fellow gymologists, I'm like. 0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:26.800 WHOA, Like, Tandy, you need to take a nap. So 0:31:27.360 --> 0:31:30.920 Brinks said that about eight point seven million dollars worth 0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:34.320 of goods had been stolen. Some of the jewelers and 0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:36.920 the dealers who lost their stuff sued Brinks. I mean 0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:39.800 the truck only had a padlock on it. Here's the problem. 0:31:39.840 --> 0:31:42.480 So Brink said it was eight point seven million, and 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:46.320 the jewelers supported that in their initial paperwork, but in 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:49.480 depositions a bunch of them admitted that they very often 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:52.880 low balled the reported value to keep their insurance costs 0:31:52.960 --> 0:31:55.520 down on shipping. What yeah, so. 0:31:55.480 --> 0:31:57.719 They I would rather make less on a on a 0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:00.480 theft get paid back so they can make more down 0:32:00.520 --> 0:32:00.920 the line. 0:32:01.000 --> 0:32:04.880 It is estimated the actual value of everything stolen was 0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:06.520 around one hundred million dollars. 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:11.240 What, yes, that's not that's not lowbill. That everything that 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:12.280 was lying. 0:32:12.560 --> 0:32:14.800 And that's not everything that was in the truck. That's 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:19.120 it makes it one of the largest jewelry thefts in 0:32:19.200 --> 0:32:20.320 modern American history. 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:23.920 One of the largest American pieces. 0:32:23.520 --> 0:32:26.560 That they've shown pictures of are pretty impressive. Others, I 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:28.280 think maybe it's for the best that they're gone. 0:32:28.680 --> 0:32:30.200 Really, yeah, they're kind of. 0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:36.800 No Brinks filed the countersuit. They wanted to limit the 0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:40.440 payout to only yes, sue me, sue you. They want 0:32:40.440 --> 0:32:42.880 they're like, look, you declared a value of eight point 0:32:42.920 --> 0:32:46.600 seven million. That's that's what we're paying. And they're like, 0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:48.000 you lied, that's a breach of. 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:48.960 Contract, that's fraud. 0:32:49.240 --> 0:32:52.680 Yeah, so there's no way around it. Though. The heist 0:32:52.800 --> 0:32:55.920 destroyed some people in their businesses did yeah. In a 0:32:55.960 --> 0:32:59.360 statement upon filing suit, the plaintiff said, quote, everyone in 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:02.760 our group has and emotionally and financially destroyed. We are 0:33:02.840 --> 0:33:05.440 lost and do not know what comes next in our lives. 0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:08.160 Whatever plans we all have for the future for our 0:33:08.200 --> 0:33:11.280 businesses and our families has evaporated in an instant. 0:33:11.600 --> 0:33:13.080 So that sucks for. 0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:16.840 Them, seriously. In their laws. Are the jewelers there and 0:33:16.880 --> 0:33:18.200 they're all small. 0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:19.800 Fanis imagine independent jewelers. 0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:20.600 Yeah, it's not. 0:33:21.160 --> 0:33:23.280 You see it all together with their cases in like 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:25.840 a downtown yes, like plaza. 0:33:26.200 --> 0:33:30.280 It's not every kid jewelers. Yeah, so they were looking 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:32.560 for one hundred million dollars in damages and one hundred 0:33:32.600 --> 0:33:36.080 million in restitution from Brains. And they said that it 0:33:36.120 --> 0:33:38.760 was a Brinx employee who told them to undervalue the 0:33:38.800 --> 0:33:42.200 merch in their pickup manifest quote in order to save 0:33:42.280 --> 0:33:44.960 money because the cost of shipping would be too expensive 0:33:45.040 --> 0:33:49.440 if they declared the full value of their goods. According 0:33:49.440 --> 0:33:50.680 to CNN. 0:33:50.600 --> 0:33:52.760 And do they do they name this employee? Imagine you 0:33:52.840 --> 0:33:53.920 kind of have to have that person. 0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:56.600 I think there are a lot of them, said, so 0:33:56.640 --> 0:33:57.480 I think they're different. 0:33:57.520 --> 0:33:58.960 They're saying they were getting it. 0:33:59.040 --> 0:33:59.960 Oh, so that was kind of like. 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:03.840 It's like a common snake industry. So CNN. Quote. One 0:34:03.920 --> 0:34:06.640 merchant told CNN thirty years of his life's work was 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:09.080 stolen in the heist. He didn't share his name nor 0:34:09.160 --> 0:34:12.040 the name of his businesses with CNN over concerns of 0:34:12.040 --> 0:34:15.400 being targeted again. He expressed that he was quote emotional 0:34:15.440 --> 0:34:18.839 and speechless and wants quote brings to answer to him 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:22.120 after losing some collectibles and unique pieces in the theft. 0:34:22.400 --> 0:34:26.120 So you think about it, it's twenty twenty two. COVID 0:34:26.200 --> 0:34:29.400 had done a serious number on retail. People got comfortable 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:31.839 buying online. They didn't really want to come back from that. 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:34.680 Jewelry is generally something that you want to buy in person. 0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:36.880 But it was still a struggle for brick and mortar. 0:34:37.000 --> 0:34:37.280 Sure. 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:40.880 And then yeah, these dealers and the jewelers, they go 0:34:40.920 --> 0:34:43.239 to the expo. They're hoping to make these sales, keep 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:44.520 the businesses going. 0:34:44.480 --> 0:34:45.480 To pay their rent back home. 0:34:45.560 --> 0:34:47.520 Uh. People go to the expos to try and get 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:49.279 a good deal on the stuff. So there aren't like 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:51.600 high rollers in the sense that they'll pay top dollar. 0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:53.760 The whole thing's kind of hard scrabble for these guys, 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:58.360 and now it's gone. So according to the La Times, quote, 0:34:58.600 --> 0:35:02.520 one of the victims, Malki of forty seventh and fifth Incorporated, 0:35:02.840 --> 0:35:05.120 said that telling his children about the theft was the 0:35:05.200 --> 0:35:08.640 toughest thing he'd ever done. Quote. They always looked at me. 0:35:08.760 --> 0:35:11.200 I'm their hero, I'm the tough guy. I didn't want 0:35:11.239 --> 0:35:13.080 to break that image for them, so I told them 0:35:13.080 --> 0:35:15.560 everything's going to be okay, but for now we're going 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:18.480 to have to make some changes. Inside. I was torn 0:35:18.480 --> 0:35:22.239 apart and devastated. The article goes on. Malki gave The 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:25.080 Times an interview over lunch in Pasadena and kept his 0:35:25.160 --> 0:35:29.160 composure throughout the meeting until he detailed the conversation he'd 0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:32.440 had about the theft with his children. Malki struggled to 0:35:32.440 --> 0:35:35.080 contain his emotions as he shared his seven year old 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:38.080 daughter's attempt to cheer him up after his disclosure of 0:35:38.120 --> 0:35:41.399 the crime. Quote she said, Dad, don't worry, I'm gonna 0:35:41.400 --> 0:35:44.239 have a lemonade stand. She gave me the biggest hug. 0:35:44.560 --> 0:35:48.000 Oh man, I know I've dealt with a bunch of 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:52.440 these people because I've sold and been with people to 0:35:52.480 --> 0:35:55.080 recommend and go through the process with them selling loose diamonds. 0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:58.040 And they are not with people picture you know what 0:35:58.080 --> 0:36:02.440 I mean. You know, they're very usually family men, family 0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:04.880 women who've been running a business, working with often their 0:36:04.920 --> 0:36:05.560 husband or wife. 0:36:05.640 --> 0:36:09.840 Yeah, they're not flashy. Yeah, And we've talked about this before, 0:36:09.960 --> 0:36:13.000 like how we tell these stories. But there are victims 0:36:13.000 --> 0:36:15.080 on the other end of things, and that's you know 0:36:15.120 --> 0:36:17.560 why we like weed smugglers and those who steal from 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:18.080 the violently. 0:36:18.120 --> 0:36:19.920 Well, yeah, it's easier to write because like. 0:36:19.880 --> 0:36:21.759 No one's losing their life savings, no. 0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:23.520 One's destroyed, they're just embarrassed. 0:36:23.520 --> 0:36:26.440 Well not here. Yeah, people lost their livelihoods here. So 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:30.920 the detail of the stolen inventory is just staggering. One 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:33.600 guy lost more than thirteen hundred items that he'd put 0:36:33.680 --> 0:36:37.560 together over decades worth at least like twelve million dollars, 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:40.839 and of course he admitted that he only shired it 0:36:40.840 --> 0:36:43.760 at a value of four hundred thousand dollars. Oh yeah, 0:36:44.280 --> 0:36:46.719 let's take a break. We'll come back. We'll hear more 0:36:46.760 --> 0:36:51.240 from these devastated jewelers. And then we've got a little 0:36:51.239 --> 0:37:14.279 bit of a twist. Nice zaren Okay, So we took 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:18.440 a little break. There more of these jewelers and designers. 0:37:19.600 --> 0:37:22.080 There's one an eighty three year old woman, Amy Kit 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:27.919 sing Lung. She operated Hawaiian Designs jewelry, and she said 0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:31.160 that her business was totally gone after losing seven hundred 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:34.360 thousand dollars worth of stuff. And she said that it 0:37:34.440 --> 0:37:37.000 was only you know, in the manifest, she said it 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:39.640 was only worth four hundred thousand because anything else would 0:37:39.680 --> 0:37:42.799 be too expensive to ship. And what's worse is that 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:44.800 she was selling and shipping for others. 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:46.600 Oh, she's now in the hook. 0:37:46.719 --> 0:37:49.719 Yeah, because she's eighty three. All these other older vendors 0:37:49.760 --> 0:37:52.640 and those who had like compromised immune systems who didn't 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:55.680 want to go get exposed to COVID. Oh, they couldn't 0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:58.520 be at the show, so now their stuff's gone to Yeah, 0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:02.640 so three of the fourteen plaintiffs in the suit settled 0:38:02.640 --> 0:38:05.840 with Brinks. No word on for how much. Some wound 0:38:05.920 --> 0:38:08.759 up suing Flying J too. They said that there'd been 0:38:08.800 --> 0:38:10.759 a bunch of thefts at that location and they should 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:14.560 have had better security, but yet reasonable. Well, February of 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:18.200 twenty twenty four, a judge ruled that the examples presented 0:38:18.280 --> 0:38:22.360 by the jewelers of thefts at that particular Flying J 0:38:23.080 --> 0:38:26.080 weren't like what happened with the Brinx truck. So there's 0:38:26.080 --> 0:38:28.879 no way for Flying J to anticipate such a thing. 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:30.880 Okay, this is one of those you have to exhibit 0:38:31.040 --> 0:38:32.480 exercise control kind of thing. 0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:34.879 So you know, I mean, they could have had better 0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:38.640 camera setups whatever, But I mean especially because like think 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:42.200 about the amount of merchandise and goods that sits in 0:38:42.200 --> 0:38:45.200 that lot at any young time, like trailers full of 0:38:45.200 --> 0:38:49.560 like electronics, old navy fashions, jelly sandals. 0:38:49.760 --> 0:38:50.680 You'll be breaking in. 0:38:50.800 --> 0:38:58.600 Vape cartridges, holiday buntings, decorative figurines, closed soap. Yeah, Zarin, 0:38:58.640 --> 0:39:00.000 there's no telling what's in those trucks. 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:01.360 Diapers given time. 0:39:01.360 --> 0:39:05.719 Dipies go on the streets. Yeah, oh, they done so 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:13.239 either way, eggs, eggs. The jewelers, those jewelers are devastated. 0:39:14.040 --> 0:39:17.520 Some of them closed their business, others struggled along. And 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:20.280 it seemed to be just an unfortunate and brazen crime 0:39:20.520 --> 0:39:26.400 now in the past. But then just recently something changed changed, Sarain. 0:39:26.440 --> 0:39:28.960 We've had this wild ride together with this. It's one 0:39:28.960 --> 0:39:31.960 of the biggest jewelry heights in US history, right here 0:39:31.960 --> 0:39:35.040 in the Golden State. Can I tell you something though 0:39:35.280 --> 0:39:38.600 justice never sleeps, does it not? Does not? I am 0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:43.200 happy to report that on Tuesday, June seventeenth, twenty twenty 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:47.680 five years after the US Attorney Central District of California 0:39:47.800 --> 0:39:53.400 unsealed an indictment. The day before June sixteenth, they'd executed 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:55.760 a search warrant and had made arrests in the case 0:39:56.280 --> 0:39:58.719 the idea of the Brinx truck heist at the Flying. 0:39:58.520 --> 0:40:00.399 Jay Whoa, they stayed and. 0:40:00.400 --> 0:40:02.000 It turns out it was a crew that had been 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:04.839 planning this for some time, like practicing their highest pulling out. 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:07.840 Yeah, I curious huh, that. 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:10.000 Happened like just a few days ago, back in a 0:40:10.080 --> 0:40:12.600 time when we were recording this. So we just have 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:14.600 the arrest. At some point in the future, will get 0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:17.799 a flurry of emails and dms telling us about the 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:20.680 court case and the sentencing er acquittal all. Give an 0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:23.800 update then, and then we'll continue to get Instagram d 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:25.600 ms about the results of the case for the next 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:28.359 year or so, even after I give the updates such as. 0:40:28.280 --> 0:40:30.400 Life, Such is life. I was really hoping that the 0:40:30.719 --> 0:40:32.920 CHP was playing a prominent role on the bus. I 0:40:32.960 --> 0:40:34.480 love the HP. I know you do. 0:40:34.640 --> 0:40:35.200 You really do. 0:40:35.360 --> 0:40:37.680 We have to talk about that. I respect them, you 0:40:37.760 --> 0:40:38.200 love them. 0:40:38.320 --> 0:40:42.560 I do love them. I've been totally like treated poorly 0:40:42.640 --> 0:40:43.200 by the sage. 0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:46.320 That's why we're talking about you should not love people 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:48.680 who treat you so poorly. I respect them. You can 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:57.719 respect people who it's a different level. You got to 0:40:57.719 --> 0:40:58.960 stop licking them when you're around. 0:40:59.200 --> 0:41:02.960 That's where I have to apologize. Got a condition, It's. 0:41:02.840 --> 0:41:08.480 Okay, yeh, And I'm like, no leaky, leaky. Prosecutors alleged 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:11.880 that there are seven co conspirators who carried out the 0:41:11.880 --> 0:41:14.799 theft Sven. Yeah, the men were each charged with conspiracy 0:41:14.840 --> 0:41:17.560 to commit theft from interstate Inflorence shipment. 0:41:17.600 --> 0:41:18.800 Could you repeat that more time? 0:41:19.160 --> 0:41:23.600 It was conspiracy to commit theft from interstate and foreign shipment. 0:41:23.760 --> 0:41:26.960 I got you so nice, I named it twice. Some 0:41:27.040 --> 0:41:29.040 are facing additional charges. Who are they? 0:41:29.160 --> 0:41:30.719 I just about asked? Do we ever get to the 0:41:30.880 --> 0:41:34.080 I could list their names their name, but you won't. 0:41:34.120 --> 0:41:37.040 But they've only been indicted, not like convicted. 0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:37.640 You don't want to. 0:41:37.719 --> 0:41:39.319 I don't want to put their names out there. If 0:41:39.320 --> 0:41:41.160 you're so inclined and you have too much time on 0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:42.880 your hands, you can go ahead and get to googling. 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:44.879 Do we know where? Ruffian? Where they come from? 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:46.600 This is exactly what I'm going to tell you, so 0:41:46.640 --> 0:41:48.880 thank you. I will say that they're all men, okay, 0:41:48.960 --> 0:41:50.640 and I'm going to give you their ages and their 0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:54.080 cities of residence. Ah Okay, So thirty one years old, 0:41:54.160 --> 0:41:58.720 Pasadenak thirty six years old, Boyle Heights, currently an inmate 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:02.719 in Arizona State Prison. Okay forty one years old out 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:03.840 of rialto. 0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:04.960 Okay, I'm going with Hispanic. 0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:10.680 So far sixty out of Rampart Village neighborhood, Heights thirty 0:42:10.680 --> 0:42:12.000 three out of South La. 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:14.560 Okay forty two. 0:42:14.080 --> 0:42:17.440 Forty two coming out of Uplands Oppland, Okay, and thirty 0:42:17.480 --> 0:42:18.960 six of the Westlake. 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:21.160 Neighborhood of La Wow like Toronto's. 0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:23.640 So I will say that if the witness at the 0:42:23.680 --> 0:42:26.440 truck stop did actually see some of them there and 0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:29.120 heard them talking, then he was wrong about it not 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:30.319 being Spanish that they. 0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:32.239 Spoke, yes, because it does certainly seem. 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:36.080 They didn't say gilapino popper. You know as well as 0:42:36.080 --> 0:42:38.720 I that there are many dialects of Spanish. 0:42:38.239 --> 0:42:40.560 Suns, and like I couldn't even in countries like I 0:42:40.600 --> 0:42:42.680 learned in Colombian, I could start picking up party accents 0:42:42.680 --> 0:42:44.200 and be like, oh, you're from Medaine. 0:42:44.640 --> 0:42:46.880 Tell, And I couldn't tell from their last names. If 0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:49.600 there was a specific shared country of origin, might be 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:53.720 the United States, to be honest, Texas, But Mexican Spanish 0:42:53.760 --> 0:42:57.120 different places is a lot different than Spain Spanish, which 0:42:57.160 --> 0:43:00.000 is different than Colombian Spanish, Cuban Spanish Spanish. 0:43:00.080 --> 0:43:01.359 It's crazy, and each of these they. 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:03.960 Got their own slaying idioms anyway, back to the purpse. 0:43:04.640 --> 0:43:08.440 So if convicted, five of them got would get steeper 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:12.960 charges and could face up to twenty years in federal 0:43:13.040 --> 0:43:16.799 prison for each robbery charge. All the defendants could be 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:19.440 looking to at least five years for the theft conspiracy 0:43:19.520 --> 0:43:23.480 charge and then ten for the thefts quote. It was 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:25.960 a long time coming, and there were times when the 0:43:26.040 --> 0:43:28.960 victims and members of the team wondered whether we see 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:33.400 this success. That's an Assistant US Attorney Kevin Butler talking. 0:43:33.280 --> 0:43:35.799 So what happens with restitution and all that kind of stuff. 0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:37.480 Like I don't even think they touch on that. 0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:39.839 Yeah, but I mean, like, is there any hope that 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:42.920 not that they'll recover the gen sell them. 0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:46.920 Some of the stolen jewelry was recovered during the searches. Yeah, 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:49.080 and I feel like maybe they held onto the watches. 0:43:50.719 --> 0:43:53.920 That's just conjecture on my part. Liked it, Yeah, but 0:43:54.000 --> 0:43:55.640 I think it's great that they were able to get 0:43:55.640 --> 0:43:57.799 some of the stuff. Three years on, the Feds also 0:43:57.840 --> 0:44:00.800 found a bunch of cash, so there was like fencing 0:44:00.880 --> 0:44:03.640 going on. Most of the stolen goods are still missing, 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:05.080 but there's still more search. 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:06.000 Warrants to execute. 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:08.720 Sure, I believe it may find more stuff. I believe 0:44:08.760 --> 0:44:09.839 that will find more people. 0:44:10.000 --> 0:44:15.080 May they might find the tackier pieces they couldn't move. Yeah, 0:44:15.480 --> 0:44:19.200 So the crews planning for the heist allegedly started at 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:23.280 the International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo, Tucson. 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:27.600 So allegedly the main guy case the show for days 0:44:27.640 --> 0:44:30.120 starting on July eighth, the guy with the chair, yeah, 0:44:30.280 --> 0:44:33.319 twenty twenty two. July eighth, he found out where they 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:35.520 were going. Next, he watched the comings and goings. He 0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:39.200 checked out the wars. July tenth, three other guys allegedly 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:42.760 cased the Brinx truck. When the truck left San Mateo, 0:44:43.320 --> 0:44:46.120 it began what the FEDS were calling, quote a complex 0:44:46.200 --> 0:44:49.480 choreography that ended up in lbec. 0:44:49.400 --> 0:44:50.560 Very fast and furious. Yeah. 0:44:50.600 --> 0:44:53.480 So there were different cars following the truck, taking turns, 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:57.560 getting one to like subtly follow the load. Because the 0:44:57.640 --> 0:45:00.080 drivers when they were talking to the deputy showed. 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:02.400 There's the headlights. If it's just the same headlights chasing 0:45:02.520 --> 0:45:03.560 around five. 0:45:03.440 --> 0:45:05.759 You're always gonna you can go a long way with 0:45:05.920 --> 0:45:07.040 like someone right behind you. 0:45:07.160 --> 0:45:08.440 Something as if you get off, they get off, you 0:45:08.480 --> 0:45:09.279 get off, the get off. 0:45:09.280 --> 0:45:11.160 I mean that would be weird, right, And so the 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:14.680 guy the when he talked to the deputies Tandy, when 0:45:14.719 --> 0:45:16.160 he was like, I don't think we were followed. I 0:45:16.160 --> 0:45:16.960 didn't see anybody. 0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:19.239 So they were running rounds on them. 0:45:19.280 --> 0:45:21.360 And so they're like they're coming on and off summer 0:45:21.400 --> 0:45:24.000 stationed down the highway waiting for their turn to hop 0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:26.399 on tail the truck. They would call each other keep 0:45:26.440 --> 0:45:30.360 tabs like this, like mobile logistics operation. Oh, it doesn't 0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:33.320 say in the court filing how the crew gained access 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:37.080 to the trailer. Yeah, I'm guessing like bolt cutters are 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:40.400 like a grinder. Which even then, so if they had 0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:42.840 a grinder, like James, she didn't wake up. Yeah, and 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:44.840 I think a grinder waking up, I think it's It 0:45:44.880 --> 0:45:46.640 doesn't mention if they're armed either. 0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:51.280 So anyway, locks are not difficult if it's just like no. 0:45:50.880 --> 0:45:52.680 No, Yeah, they broke into the truck. 0:45:52.719 --> 0:45:54.680 You have a little liquid oxygen and break that right open. 0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:57.680 And they emptied the bags into the car. And then 0:45:57.719 --> 0:46:00.560 the indictment says that they drove to East Hollywood and 0:46:00.600 --> 0:46:03.760 apparently they had no idea how much stuff they'd gained. 0:46:04.200 --> 0:46:06.520 Are you for real? They it just got lucky. 0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:09.960 They got was a major score. They had no idea. 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:13.919 So they're just opening these bags being like, oh my god, if. 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.799 You did a crime that was so good that you 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:17.839 have to leave your life. 0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:20.520 Well, in the days afterwards, a bunch of them start 0:46:20.560 --> 0:46:22.200 deactivating their cell phone numbers. 0:46:22.600 --> 0:46:23.920 The best thing you could do is leave the country. 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:26.839 Yeah, they must have been so spooked by this. 0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:29.760 Go to a little ranch in some place that speaks 0:46:29.840 --> 0:46:31.280 the language you speak and nobody. 0:46:31.360 --> 0:46:34.719 They didn't. Though they didn't. This wasn't their first heist though. 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:37.360 Apparently in the months leading up to the back heist, 0:46:37.800 --> 0:46:39.920 a bunch of the crew members pulled off a series 0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:41.359 of thefts all across. 0:46:41.040 --> 0:46:42.880 San Bernardino County. 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:46.120 So in some of those cases, the mos No, it's 0:46:46.160 --> 0:46:48.440 pretty much the same, like they would case and follow 0:46:48.640 --> 0:46:51.200 truck stops. Yeah, they went to truck stops similar places 0:46:51.239 --> 0:46:54.520 they would quote identify and rob steele, unlawfully take and 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:59.200 unlawfully carry away a variety of merchandise. So, according to 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:03.200 the indictment, yeah, they used multiple vehicles to follow trucks 0:47:03.200 --> 0:47:06.080 carrying shipments of electronics and other items until they would 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:09.160 reach a stopping point, and then the alleged thieves would 0:47:09.200 --> 0:47:13.520 like rob or burgle the vehicles. Some would allegedly being 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:17.120 very careful here, act as lookouts around businesses where the 0:47:17.120 --> 0:47:20.080 trucks were parked. Others just did straight up smash and 0:47:20.120 --> 0:47:23.760 grabs like bippins, and they'd had back to La, split 0:47:23.840 --> 0:47:26.000 up the goods, fence them with trusted connections. 0:47:26.120 --> 0:47:27.440 My pain a couple of guys who did this. 0:47:27.560 --> 0:47:30.480 And he did any of them. I should have listed 0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:30.960 the names. 0:47:31.320 --> 0:47:37.840 No, it's a common form of pirracy. Yeah, yeah so it. 0:47:36.840 --> 0:47:40.400 March second, twenty twenty two months before the Lebeck heist, 0:47:40.680 --> 0:47:43.920 prosecutors said that members of the crew used multiple vehicles 0:47:43.960 --> 0:47:48.120 to follow a truck carrying Samsung electronics from Ontario, California. 0:47:48.200 --> 0:47:49.880 Oh yeah, so when. 0:47:49.760 --> 0:47:53.000 The vehicle stopped at a store in Ontario, crew members 0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:56.560 allegedly distracted the driver in the shop while some in 0:47:56.600 --> 0:47:59.600 the group stole the electronics. And I would love to 0:47:59.640 --> 0:48:02.399 know how they distracted the driver. Was like raise their 0:48:02.440 --> 0:48:04.360 skirt and show like a fish netted cat. 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:07.280 They did a mime show with balloons. 0:48:07.320 --> 0:48:09.840 Yeah, they were like someone like trips and falls and 0:48:09.880 --> 0:48:12.720 spills chocolate milk all over the floor and they're staring, 0:48:12.920 --> 0:48:16.840 comes to help and cries, just starts crying and. 0:48:17.480 --> 0:48:20.680 Beating up adults. That's what's going on in this town. 0:48:21.320 --> 0:48:24.160 That hall was worth almost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 0:48:24.640 --> 0:48:28.000 That's much smaller. Yeah, but that's that's probably what they 0:48:28.040 --> 0:48:28.719 normally would get. 0:48:28.800 --> 0:48:30.480 That's what they're thinking. Yeah, so le's. 0:48:31.800 --> 0:48:33.200 After that they got. 0:48:33.640 --> 0:48:37.200 Another box truck, and that one ironically was carrying Apple 0:48:37.200 --> 0:48:37.840 air tags. 0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:40.759 A rough one. Yeah. 0:48:40.800 --> 0:48:43.800 The driver stopped for food in Fontana and the guys 0:48:43.800 --> 0:48:46.800 made their move. They walked away with fifty seven thousand 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:48.000 dollars in air tags. 0:48:48.280 --> 0:48:49.920 Is that a lot? Yeah? I think I don't how 0:48:49.960 --> 0:48:50.439 much air tags? 0:48:50.600 --> 0:48:53.840 Like twenty five bucks? Okay, okay, Well they started to 0:48:53.840 --> 0:48:56.759 walk away because the driver caught him. Maybe they were 0:48:56.760 --> 0:49:00.000 air tags. So the driver caught the thieves. According to 0:49:00.200 --> 0:49:03.479 the indictment, one who had like a small knife, allegedly yelled, 0:49:03.960 --> 0:49:05.919 don't move or I will help you up. 0:49:06.600 --> 0:49:07.839 That's knife all night. 0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:11.840 Within the small knife. They had other failures. May twenty fifth, 0:49:11.840 --> 0:49:14.840 twenty twenty two, A bunch of them tried to drive 0:49:15.000 --> 0:49:17.760 to a truck stop in Fontana to steal from a truck. 0:49:18.360 --> 0:49:21.600 They used a crowbar to break in. It took off 0:49:21.640 --> 0:49:23.320 before they could grab anything. 0:49:23.760 --> 0:49:25.560 With a lock. Conversation, I guess really not that. 0:49:25.840 --> 0:49:28.560 Later that same day they went back to Fontana, this 0:49:28.680 --> 0:49:31.719 time they stole more. Samsung Electronics valued it a little 0:49:31.719 --> 0:49:32.800 more than fourteenth. 0:49:32.400 --> 0:49:34.680 Though good electronics. Elizabeth yeah So. 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:38.320 Reached for comment. MALKI remember the jeweler, He told the 0:49:38.440 --> 0:49:42.359 La Times the indictment was quote awesome. Quote. I don't 0:49:42.400 --> 0:49:44.560 know what to say, he said. I'm absolutely shocked. 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:45.399 He is a tough guy. 0:49:45.440 --> 0:49:48.560 He's a tough guy. In response to the charges, Brinks 0:49:48.600 --> 0:49:51.960 said the statement, quote, we deeply appreciate the efforts of 0:49:52.080 --> 0:49:55.080 law enforcement to resolve this matter. We will continue to 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:56.200 watch the case closely. 0:49:56.440 --> 0:49:58.080 Oh my god, what a nothing. 0:49:57.880 --> 0:50:01.719 Stay absolutely nothing statement. So that's where we are on this. 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:05.520 This is this is as far as this train goes. Zaren, 0:50:05.719 --> 0:50:07.040 what's your ridiculous takeaway. 0:50:07.719 --> 0:50:09.520 I'm still hung up on the idea that if you 0:50:09.520 --> 0:50:11.400 have a scored this big, it's kind of like the 0:50:11.719 --> 0:50:14.200 plot to No Country for Old Men, where you come 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:16.960 along this this crazy money, you realize this life changing, 0:50:16.960 --> 0:50:19.080 but then you also realize someone's. 0:50:18.719 --> 0:50:20.760 Gonna come looking for Oh yeah. 0:50:20.520 --> 0:50:23.000 And I've got to hide from that person. And if 0:50:23.000 --> 0:50:24.960 it's crime like they are, it's going to be either 0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:27.200 law enforcement or fellow criminals either one. It's going to 0:50:27.200 --> 0:50:29.680 be people who are motivated, Yeah, can find you. So 0:50:30.600 --> 0:50:33.600 I feel bad for them in a certain way that 0:50:33.640 --> 0:50:37.600 they did so well. They did too well, something. 0:50:37.280 --> 0:50:40.000 That would have worked in like the seventies. 0:50:39.560 --> 0:50:41.040 Yes, without so much. 0:50:41.160 --> 0:50:44.600 There's so much technology where you can track them and 0:50:44.680 --> 0:50:47.920 like cameras, so we don't know based on these search horms. 0:50:47.920 --> 0:50:51.359 We don't know what like dash cam footage they had, 0:50:52.239 --> 0:50:56.320 you know with the jewelry. Now they do like microscopic lasers. 0:50:56.360 --> 0:50:57.240 Yeah, then grave. 0:50:57.080 --> 0:50:59.160 Engraving on stuff that you can. 0:50:59.080 --> 0:51:01.960 Track holographic marks that are like. 0:51:03.440 --> 0:51:06.000 Yeah, So it's like there, there's it's so hard to 0:51:06.000 --> 0:51:07.680 get away with this kind of thing, and we leave 0:51:07.719 --> 0:51:14.839 a digital footprint everywhere we go. So anyway, I really 0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:17.040 do want to get a burner phone. I don't know why. 0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:19.359 Yeah, I know you want to get a flip phone 0:51:19.440 --> 0:51:23.320 or burner phone. Away, Elizabeth. 0:51:23.360 --> 0:51:27.400 My takeaway is that I saw that it's it's interesting 0:51:27.440 --> 0:51:31.160 to tell a story like this where I was looking 0:51:31.200 --> 0:51:32.680 at it. I've been like kind of looking at it 0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:34.799 for a bit of this is a good story, but 0:51:35.000 --> 0:51:37.440 like it wasn't fully enough, and then all of a 0:51:37.480 --> 0:51:40.200 sudden these arrests came in. I was like I pounced 0:51:40.239 --> 0:51:41.120 on it. Like I can't. 0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:42.560 They got them. 0:51:42.640 --> 0:51:46.440 They got them, Dave. I think we could do with 0:51:46.480 --> 0:51:47.120 a talk bag. 0:51:51.560 --> 0:51:56.840 Oh my god, I want. 0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:01.160 My name's Ann. 0:52:01.239 --> 0:52:04.640 I've been listening to you since the beginning. I just 0:52:04.960 --> 0:52:09.040 really appreciate you, guys. I must say, I am listening 0:52:09.120 --> 0:52:14.160 to the American Beatles episode and this is probably the 0:52:14.200 --> 0:52:18.839 most voices I have ever heard Zarin use, which is 0:52:19.600 --> 0:52:25.880 great entertainment. Thanks for a good job, everybody, ridiculous crime staff. 0:52:26.280 --> 0:52:29.200 I forgot to mention I was nine years old when 0:52:30.440 --> 0:52:37.120 the Beatles, the British Beatles played on The Ed Sullivan Show. 0:52:38.080 --> 0:52:45.399 We just thought they were kind of odd. Anyway, Thanks you. 0:52:46.160 --> 0:52:48.239 I love the nine year old perspective on that. 0:52:48.320 --> 0:52:51.080 Yeah, likes love this, but I don't know. I see 0:52:51.080 --> 0:52:53.680 a mop haired It's just a little strange. 0:52:54.320 --> 0:52:56.440 That's awesome. I love that you're getting some props for 0:52:56.480 --> 0:52:57.040 your voices. 0:52:57.200 --> 0:52:58.799 Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. 0:52:58.840 --> 0:53:02.120 And I'm trying to do non offensive accents when I 0:53:02.160 --> 0:53:05.000 do accent, so if ever, I apologize to those I've 0:53:05.040 --> 0:53:08.000 offended in the past. And I just know that for 0:53:08.040 --> 0:53:09.960 the most part, I try to stick to accents that 0:53:10.040 --> 0:53:12.440 I have family connections to, like I have the genes 0:53:12.520 --> 0:53:14.480 like if I'm doing an accent, I'm like, honestly, I'm 0:53:14.480 --> 0:53:15.120 one of your people. 0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:17.280 I'm sorry, I. 0:53:17.160 --> 0:53:20.239 Love that, right, that's a good ethos to have. 0:53:20.440 --> 0:53:22.799 Can I do that? Like? I'm French too? 0:53:22.960 --> 0:53:23.480 Why not? 0:53:23.719 --> 0:53:24.279 Good at it? 0:53:24.400 --> 0:53:28.440 But that's it for today. 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