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at a bank
outside los angeles a nighttime
explosion that no one hears
cunning criminals no one sees [Music]
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it's the perfect burglary in which cash
with little to go on the fbi must use instinct
instinct
and determination to solve a case that
seems impossible to crack [Music]
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bank robbery is a brazen yet simple crime
crime
a mask a gun a note passed to a teller
but bank burglary is different it takes
skill to disable an alarm
to penetrate a locked vault i'm jim
calstrom former head of the fbi's new
york office
in 1972 the largest bank burglary in u.s
history went down without a hitch
8 million dollars gone now agents must
track a gang of sophisticated criminals
laguna niguel california march 27
1972 it's monday morning at the united california
california
bank employees prepare to open for business
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when the bank manager tries to unlock
a technician from the vault manufacturer
arrives 20 minutes later to check the
door's locking system
he works for hours the combination is right
right
the tumblers are in place but
unexplainably even the expert can't get
it open
looking for another way in the
technician climbs into the rafters above
the vault [Music]
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he is stunned to find a hole cut in the roof
below a second gaping hole
agents from the fbi santa ana resident
agency immediately respond to the bank
the first investigator to survey the
cluttered crime scene
is special agent jim conway upon
arriving and getting up on the vault and
looking down at this hole we can see a pile
pile
of rubble i would say six feet tall and
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once inside the vault the technician
discovers a screwdriver jammed into the
lock's gears [Music]
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agents suspect the thieves wanted to
delay the discovery of the crime
my first impression was there was going
to be a lot of time and effort
needed to work this out it was something
we couldn't just plow into because we
had a crime scene
we were able to walk in a few of us and
look around and see what the extent was
as best we could determine
but we're walking over watches and rings
and valuables and everything else
because it was all
piled into this big cement mess
special agent frank callie begins
sorting through the chaos
just everything was thrown all over the
place there uh the
locks of hair all kinds of
check statements photographs uh
things that people would normally put in
the in the
in the safety deposit box i remember
seeing the
urns with ashes of deceased people in there
there
the agents begin the arduous task of
determining how the burglars entered the seemingly
seemingly
they noticed dark soil and pieces of
burlap mixed with
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outside they find the bank's audible
they also find a ladder
interpreting the clues investigators
pieced together the burglar's intricate
they disabled the alarm by injecting it
it hardened freezing the clapper in
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investigators find tape on a rooftop
outlet suggesting the burglars use the
bank's electricity
when agents cannot find fingerprints on
the tape
they conclude the burglars wore gloves
fully powered the burglars saw the
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once inside the rafters they clearly knew
knew
how to bypass the interior silent alarm system
system
they took a couple of the wires and actually
actually
would have normally transmitted the
alarm signal and they clipped them both
and soldered them together
knew right away they they they were
even with the alarm disabled 16 inches
of steel reinforced concrete stood
between the burglars and the contents of
the only way through an intensely
powerful blast
agents believe the bandits drilled holes
into the cement
then inserted dynamite and electric
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the blast had to be precisely directed
to blow through the cement without
or attracting attention [Music]
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agents conclude that the burlap
fragments in the soil and the vault
indicate that the burglars came prepared
they placed the burlap bags over the explosive
explosive
not only to muffle the sound but also it
would direct the
the charge into the into the vault itself
itself
and keep the charge going into the
concrete where they want it rather than
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the investigators discover burn marks on
the steel rebar that reinforces the cement
they conclude that the burglars knew the
blast could not crack steel
and came prepared with an acetylene torch
agents turned their attention to
assessing the total loss
bank officials report fifty thousand
dollars is missing from cash drawers
but the thieves were not content with
the cash
they took the time to break into 458
investigators find tool marks on the
locks of the boxes
and deduce the burglars used a pointed
instrument and a lot of brute force
they carefully sorted through every item
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amazingly the bandits were so methodical
that they got in and out without being seen
seen
or heard in 1972
agents conclude that the suspects took
apparently they had been in there
several times in and out over the
weekend it probably
went in on friday night and they
probably didn't get out there late
not only had the burglars pulled off
such a lengthy complex crime
they did it without leaving a single fingerprint
fingerprint [Music]
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although investigators do find a brown
cotton glove
and broken drill bits neither is unique
agents and deputies collect the debris
but with no apparent evidence and no
witnesses agents are facing the tough
challenge of identifying and locating a
group of highly skilled criminals
including electronics and explosives experts
experts [Music]
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investigators turn their attention to
determining the total loss from the safe
it will be extremely difficult since
banks do not keep records of their contents
contents
ordinarily if you had a bank burglary
you would be missing cash you'd go out
and say yes we've got to find 350 000
worth of cash at this point we did not know
know
what was gone it's a very affluent area
and so the possibilities of a tremendous
amount of money
investigators begin the arduous task of
carefully sorting and cataloging
then by interviewing every box holder
agents learn the details of missing jewelry
jewelry
by a process of elimination they slowly
create a list of the stolen
goods the bank's loss of fifty thousand
dollars in cash
pails by comparison as the value of the
missing items
rises to over eight million dollars
the heist has now become the largest
bank burglary in u.s history
with no physical evidence to go on
investigators hope to develop leads
by thinking like the bandits we felt that
that
they would need oxygen to burn the rebar
and so we canvass hospitals oxygen
supply places and things like that
despite checking every oxygen supplier
in the area
agents come up with nothing we also
felt that a drill of some type had to be
used obviously a large one so we can't
list places to
find if anybody had sold or rented a large
large
drill as we felt that would have to be used
again agents go to dozens of equipment shops
shops
checking records during the time
but they find no suspicious purchases or rentals
clearly the criminals in this case have
masterminded and pulled off a nearly
with no witnesses no direct clues and
certainly no suspects
it seems impossible to solve
but the fbi is determined to identify
the burglars
in march 1972 the professional crew of
burglars blasted their way into a bank
vault in laguna niguel california near
over a weekend they emptied hundreds of
safe deposit boxes
made off with more than 8 million
dollars in cash and valuables
agents believe they are an experienced
band of criminals
the case is difficult to crack for the
small santa ana fbi
office needing more resources
they seek the help of the larger los
special agent paul chamberlain
supervises the investigation
at the time it was our conclusion that
this was the largest bank burglary in
the history of the united states
we went to just about everyone in the
office it was several hundred agents
and that's not a typical response but it
became apparent that the crime was
a significant crime the santa ana agents
quickly briefed the los angeles office
on the details
we'd not had a bank burglary like that
in recorded history in
in the los angeles division
burglaries that did occur with banks
involved a small effort and this was a systematic
systematic
big time operation that lasted over
three days
since the burglars seem to be highly
skilled professionals yet have not
struck los angeles before
agents conclude that they're probably
an agent sends a teletype to all other
fbi offices
asking if anyone knows of similar bank burglaries
they get a hit from the cleveland ohio
field office where agents have been
investigating similar bank heists
the description of the california
burglary immediately strikes a cord with them
them
we knew from the modus operandi the mo
the outside alarm had styrofoam
spray placed in it to keep the audible
alarm from
activating the fact that it was a roof job
job
the fact that the alarm system had been
bypassed were all indications that
bank burglary crews in youngstown very
well may have been involved
the ohio agents believe the 13 ohio bank heists
heists
were committed by the youngstown erie
bank burglary group
a loose association of criminals tied to
organized crime
the california agents were right these are
are
no small-time crooks
youngstown at that time was just a mecca for
for
organized crime act activities i mean
they controlled the
illegal gambling businesses and they
they were you know very much involved in
interstate transportation of stolen
property and
and tracked trailer thefts and there were
were
burglary crews that were operating and
there were a lot of very sophisticated
burglaries that were
taking place at that time
as part of earlier investigations the
youngstown ohio agents have identified
nearly 100 men believed to be part of
they've collected intelligence on each
of them
agents send the men's names and mug
there investigators try to narrow the list
since the criminals must have traveled
to california agents check airline
passenger manifests from around the time
without the benefit of modern computers
it is a time-consuming process done by hand
after an exhaustive search they find the
names of five men from the youngstown
list who had boarded a recent flight to los
amal angeles harry barber charles mulligan
mulligan
charles brockles and philip christopher
arrived in california
nine days before the heist
sixth man james denzio came in on a
different flight the day before the burglary
agents have developed suspects and his
brother emil denzel [Music]
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agents review the intelligence gathered
on the six members of the burglary group [Music]
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all have long records for home and small
business burglaries first
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he plans the jobs and hand-picks the
team to pull them off [Music]
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is an explosives and electronics expert
well versed in bank alarms [Music]
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agents believe philip christopher is a
lookout for the gang all right he's
known for his expertise the other gang
members are all relatives of the leader
and probably help with the grunt work
there's older brother james his
face only a mother could love him and
charles mulligan amal's brother-in-law
here you're gonna really appreciate this guy
guy
yeah there's also amal's nephew harry
barber okay
would you take a look at this guy the
men are all
seasoned professional criminals well
connected in organized crime
the youngstown ohio fbi has linked them
circumstantially to many bank burglaries
but never had direct evidence all right
and uh
the charges never stopped nobody not a
heavy weight but
we gotta the only information that links
the suspects to the crime
is that they were all in los angeles at
the time of the burglary
agents begin the difficult job of
tracking their movements
starting at the airport we then
canvassed and interviewed every cab
driver at lax
that was working that day that was a
agents spend days interviewing dozens of drivers
drivers
it finally pays off one cab driver
recalls taking a group of five men
to a home in the nearby community of southgate
southgate [Music]
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he remembers the trip well the cab
drivers specifically remembered these
folks for
for two reasons one because of 100 tip
but for the other reason they were
agents get the address from taxi records
and decide to go there
agents fear that if the suspects find
out they're investigating the burglary
they might skip town they have to take
the chance
it is their only lead according to
special agent jim conway
but we had to interview somebody we had
to get our investigation
started and we were concerned that
naturally that the rest of them would be
aware that we
were at least that close to identifying them
them
agents learn that the southgate house
belongs to the barber family
ronald barber the brother of suspect
harry barber agrees to an interview but
we did not have a warrant or anything at
that particular time we had nothing
positively to
tie him to it but the more he talked the
more he seemed to know
and the more we were impressed that uh
ronald barber claims the six men were
never at his house
agents still have no direct evidence
yet they believe barbara's story may be
they note that the house seems too small
to accommodate ronald and six other men
staying there agents conclude that at least
least
so agents spread out checking one hotel
after another
starting with those closest to the bank
special agent frank callie we figured these
these
fellows were high rollers they knew
they're going to get a big house they're
going to stay at a nice place so
we were knocking on the doors of every
fine hotel in the la orange county area
it is more tedious time-consuming footwork
footwork
on a hunch one agent decides to take a
different approach
there was an agent who figured that
maybe they didn't stay
at the best hotels and he took it upon
himself to walk into a truck stop
hotel and lo and behold he found out that
that
amel had stayed there you're sure you
should be positive
amel denzio is the leader of the
burglary group
records show his brother-in-law charles
mulligan also rented a room there around
agents check mulligan's registration
card and find a license plate number
stenzio they trace it to the southgate
address of ronald barber [Music]
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investigators now have seven suspects
the six from ohio
they still have nothing directly linking
them into the crime
but the investigation is finally rolling forward
forward
weeks after a well-planned multi-million
dollar bank burglary in southern california
california
the fbi identifies seven suspects
ring leader anal denzio and his brother
james tincio
charles mulligan philip christopher and
charles brockles
and harry barber and his brother ronald barber
barber
a notorious gang of professional thieves
agents determined at least two of the
men stayed at an area motel
special agent paul chamberlain is
convinced the men are responsible
by referencing innuendo you kind of knew
who was involved but you need to have
the evidence
in federal court agents subpoena the
motel phone records
and fined a series of calls to a local
man named
earl dawson our
background investigation concluded he
was a former
military a marine guy with some training
in uh
munitions explosives uh
and in as much as we had major
explosions that occurred at the bank it
became interesting to us
special agent frank kelly learns of
dawson is from youngstown ohio the base
so there's the light goes off again and then
then
we say well now we got another break we
got the connection somehow between the
boys from youngstown to denzios
and and their cohorts in dawson the
agents decide to approach dawson at his house
house
they show him pictures of emil dincio
and his associates and ask if he knows them
them [Music]
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dawson is reluctant to talk i was in the
core as well
knowing dawson is a former marine
special agent callie appeals to his
sense of duty
there was a very patriotic individual and
and
i'm a former marine and we just kind of
played that
i said come on earl you know you're a
former marine you've served your country
i said what's important or also a big
case and he said what is it i said
heard about that bank burglary down
lagoon and i gave
works dawson comes clean
he admits knowing three of the suspects
emil denzio
amel's brother james and charles mulligan
mulligan [Music]
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he and mulligan are old friends who grew
up together in youngstown [Music]
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dawson tells cali that the day before
the laguna niguel heist
mulligan came to his house with the
other suspects
mulligan gave him a hundred dollars to
leave the house for a few hours so they
could hold a meeting [Music]
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discussed
but dawson adds that he does have
something the agents might want to see
he shows up the other day mulligan left
a car in his garage
it's still there it is a huge break
perhaps the car holds the evidence
they've been looking for
but before they can check it out they're interrupted
interrupted [Music]
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while i'm talking to him the phone rings
he answers the phone and he picks it up
and he points to the phone
and he mouths the word mulligan
thinking quickly agent callie asks
dawson's permission to eavesdrop
a legal requirement for using what he
hears in court
dawson signals that there is another
mulligan comes and says hey there is
anybody the fbi
been around plus it says no they they're
not around
i think i've almost had to laugh myself
at the time listening this
he's playing a beautiful role out there
he's really flip flop he's on our side now
now
mulligan explains that he knows the fbi
has been asking questions about him and
his cohorts
and that they're getting worried
and he's heading back to the los angeles area
area
mulligan said uh i want to come out tonight
tonight
and uh to see us i'm gonna move my
the car in the garage agent cali seizes
the opportunity to trap mulligan
but he fears that he might be setting up dawson
dawson
and the fbi i didn't know for sure
this offer seems he could be sitting
across the street at the time watching
us before we know with earthbay icar
sitting out front
cali instructs dawson to arrange a
meeting with mulligan in a public place
dawson tells mulligan to meet him at his
favorite bar the walnut room
now agents have a chance to inspect the
car mulligan left in the garage
but it does not belong to dawson so we
through the window they can see a pair
of brown cotton gloves
exactly like the one found in the vault
the back seat is covered in what appears
to be cement dust
similar to the debris found at the crime scene
scene
it is the probable cause agents need to
they also obtain an arrest warrant for
charles mulligan
and set up surveillance at the walnut room
clothes agents positioned themselves
inside the bar not far from dawson
we staked it out so to speak we four of
us were inside
waiting and we had a couple of men
outside waiting for him to arrive
dawson introduces agent calitos and
regulars as a buddy from the marine corps
corps
the agents have to look natural while
staying sharp
earl dawson's safety is their primary concern
concern
didn't know what was going to happen so
we had to protect earl
agents devise a method for cali and
dawson to communicate
either one of them can signal the other
by simply going to the restroom where
they will meet
three hours later mulligan finally arrives
he appears to be alone and greets his
old friend who tries to get him to talk
about the heist
i didn't want to be too close i was
across the bar from
earl was talking to him and and asked
him something about
you were involved in that that deal down
in laguna niguel
and old mulligan says well what do you think
think
unable to hear everything they're saying
dawson follows [Music]
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in the men's room kelly asked for an update
update
dawson explains that mulligan is anxious
to leave to pick up the car from
dawson's garage
cali tells him to go but instructs
dawson not to get into mulligan's vehicle
is that agents are in the parking lot
agents finally make the first arrest in
the case
as they take mulligan into custody they
pretend to arrest dawson as well
to mask his involvement with authorities
mulligan is charged with bank burglary
he does not resist arrest but when
agents try to question him
he refuses to talk they hope to find
answers in the car he was trying to pick up
agents returned to dawson's house and
we found this large motor used as a
drill and some other tools that we felt
were very much uh probably the ones that
were used in the actual committing of
that crime [Music]
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agents recover stolen coins along with
drill bits
acetylene torches hammers and other
items that could have been used for the
laguna niguel heist
and we felt very good about it felt we
hit pay dirt we hit a home run
evidence technicians ship everything to
the fbi lab in washington dc for processing
processing
as examiners take days to analyze the evidence
evidence
field agents follow up on more phone
records from the motel
one number belongs to a real estate
a manager shows agents a condo she
rented to suspects ronald and harry barber
barber
the barbers told her they planned to
stay three months but left after only
she was able to put the day that they
got there and the day they left together
the men moved out suddenly on march 27th
the day the crime was discovered
the manager gives investigators
permission to search the condo which is
agents begin processing the condo for
the entire inside had been wiped clean
with some kind of a product
it seems the suspects were as meticulous
there as they had been during the burglary
burglary
there were no evidence recovered at the
bank of any value and therefore
it was not surprising to see a place
that had been wiped down and appears as if
if
they had done everything to to ensure
there was no evidence they'd done just
but in fact they made one crucial mistake
one of the evidence persons went
to the dishwasher and open the
dishwasher and realize that it was
loaded with dirty dishes
and that someone had neglected to push
the dirty dishes are covered with multiple
multiple
latent fingerprints
at the fbi lab examiners recover the
prints from the dishes and from the
tools agents found in mulligan's car
toolmark experts examine the damage on
the safe deposit boxes
and compare them to the striking point
of a snout-nosed hammer from mulligan's trunk
trunk
they report another match the fbi's case
is gaining momentum
with good circumstantial evidence and
now agents must find the other six
and enough evidence to put them away for good
good [Music]
in southern california the fbi connects
a team of seven
members of an organized crime ring based
in youngstown ohio
to a multi-million dollar bank burglary
when they recover tools used in the
heist from the car of suspect charles mulligan
mulligan
mulligan's arrest puts the investigation
into high gear
according to special agent paul chamberlain
chamberlain
we did realize that with the rest of
mulligan eventually
and shortly thereafter they were going
to figure out that we had
figured who this group was and and
therefore we
heightened our investigation we did
but since most of the evidence is
circumstantial the case hinges on the
testimony of informant earl
dawson a man the fbi must protect go
ahead and leave
whatever you do whatever happens earl was
was
probably the key witness because the
case was kind of dry
all along it's physical evidence it's a
burger's very dry earl was able to put
all the principles together they were
charged with conspiracy
and burglary and they could put them all
darson begins receiving threatening
phone calls
pressuring him to keep quiet the caller
insists on a face-to-face meeting to
discuss the matter
the fbi learns the meeting may have a
more sinister purpose
we received informant information uh
that a contract was put out on earl
dawson's life
and we're going to come out and attempt
to kill dawson
agents instruct dawson to arrange a
meeting at his favorite bar the walnut room
but don't tell him about the planned hit
agents want to confront the men to send
a message to the youngstown
agents are confident that they can
protect dawson as long as he stays
in a public place i told earl don't
leave this bar whatever you do don't go
anyplace with this you'll ever leave
that room you stay right in that bar
as before if either dawson or cali needs
to communicate they will meet in the restroom
the alleged hit men arrive
he started buying earl some pretty heavy
drinks earl was basically a beer drinker but
but
you could see they were trying to switch
back to stronger drinks
when dawson starts to look concerned
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dawson tells the agent he's scared the
hitmen wanted to leave with him
i said earlier not leaving this place
with him believe me you're not leaving
agent cali tells dawson to wait in the restroom
restroom
stay right here and i'll be right back
to get you all right
to the hitman the message is clear
stay away from dawson
they had no problem leaving i went
directly to lax where they were escorted
by la's finest to an aircraft and they left
left
southern california to keep earl dawson
safe for good
the fbi decides to put him in the
witness protection program
agents then go after the remaining
burglary suspects [Music]
investigators secure warrants to search
their last known addresses [Music]
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at one house agents get their first
direct link to the burglary [Music]
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inside a woman's purse they find a new
twenty dollar bill [Music]
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they compare it to the list of serial
numbers of sequence bills taken from the [Music]
bank
it's a match [Music]
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special agent buddy nicks of the
youngstown fbi office receives
information from an
informant indicating that these gang
members had been known to bury the cash
they stole until they could launder it safely
we identified about a 20 or 25 acre field
field
that we had information that some of the loot
loot
was buried in we dug in that field for
days on end and uh using
picks and shovels and probes and uh
and we finally rented a bulldozer
the land is adjacent to property owned
by james denzio
after more than a week of digging hey
agents hit the jackpot
they unearth several foot lockers filled with
with
millions of dollars in cash and bonds
that they're able to trace
a neighbor of gang leader emil denzio
calls police
a lot of money in there he reports
finding a cooler buried in his yard
it is filled with nearly thousand dollars
dollars
right over there mr denzio over here
investigators match their serial numbers
to those taken from the bank
and recover ameldinsio's prints from the cooler
with more direct evidence against the
gang agents begin making arrests
they first go to ronald barbour's
they are armed with search warrants
the only person they find is ronald's mother
mother
large
three months after a multi-million
dollar bank burglary
the fbi has solid evidence against seven
members of an
with only one suspect in custody charles mulligan
mulligan
amaldincio james dincio
charles brockles philip christopher
agents go to amuldencio's home near
youngstown ohio
and discover he's made no attempt to run
because of his attitude and his era of
arrogance mr denzio
actually believed he was above the law
and was the kind of guy that
um could make things happen his way when
agents arrest dinzio
he is carrying 537 in cash stolen from
the laguna niguel bank
other gang members are also surprisingly
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within days authorities arrest emile's brother
brother
james dincio at an ohio airport
his carry-on luggage is full of more
money from the heist
agents make their fourth arrest nabbing
phil christopher
in his apartment they discover over two
thousand dollars in stolen
the three men arrogantly maintain their
two months later agents nab alarm expert
they decide to confront him with what
evidence they have and explain they can
put him away for decades
they offer him a deal in exchange for
his full cooperation and outlining the
burglary group in their crimes
prosecutors will drop all charges
against brockles and place him in the
witness protection program
authorities have captured five of the
seven suspects
everyone except the barber brothers
authorities extradite them to california
and indict them on charges of conspiracy burglary
burglary
while in jail amel dencio brags about
the heist to another inmate
and asks for his help in beating the
charges you don't take care of me
mr denzio confided in him a great
many details that were not in his best
interest to confide
he got this other inmate to help him
buy an alibi for the time of the bank
but denzio has chosen the wrong accomplice
the other inmate was someone who
had had contact with law enforcement on
many occasions in the past
and he realized that what he was being
told would be of some importance
to someone and he came to us
hoping to receive a lenient sentence for
his own burglary case
the inmate tells agents of denzio's
confession and the plan to purchase an alibi
alibi
and that was vegas in vegas the alibi was
was
mr duncio was going to be in a motel room
room
a hotel room in las vegas with a
prostitute and with physical evidence
that would show that he was there
the fbi sets up a sting agents give the
inmate a contact to offer dencio
the contact is actually an undercover
agent who will provide denzio's alibi materials
materials
dincio takes the bait
at the jail's visitation room he meets
the undercover agent who plays the role
of a fixer
a criminal expert in solving problems
mr denzio received what he asked for he
got a registration card which he
registered in on
he put his fingerprint on it he got a
listing of shows and he got the name of
a prostitute who he was with
and that became part of his subsequent defense
in october nineteen seventy two the
trials begin in los angeles
ameldinsio offers his false alibi but
the fbi's
undercover fixer testifies about the stem
stem
the jury convicts denzio and the other
they receive sentences ranging from 15
to 20 years [Music]
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but it is not over two suspects harry
and ronald barber
are still on the run within months
the fbi receives a tip that the two
brothers are living in an apartment in
rochester new york
agents respond and
they arrest him and return him to
california where a jury
he refuses to say where his brother
harry is
then in 1980 a woman in brookville
pennsylvania contacts the fbi
i knew him as brent she tells agents
that her friend has been living with a man
man
who told her he committed a famous bank
the woman tells the fbi that in an
attempt to lead a legitimate life
the fugitive is working maintenance at a
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harry barber is convicted and sentenced
agents can finally close the case on the
largest bank burglary
authorities believe emil denzio and his
gang committed more than a dozen bank burglaries
burglaries
stealing over 30 million dollars altogether
by putting them away fbi agents from
ohio to california
stopped one of the most sophisticated
bank burglary rings
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