
The Dunbar Heist: The Inside Job Behind America's Largest Cash Robbery
Published: February 27, 2026
Duration: 49:54
In September 1997, a team of six masked men executed a meticulously planned raid on the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, effortlessly subduing the guards and escaping with a staggering $18.9 million—the largest cash robbery in U.S. history. With no witnesses and the perpetrators vanished into the night, the FBI had one critical lead: the robbery displayed an intimate knowledge of the depot's operations, pointing to a former employee. This is the story of how agents, armed with a single, fragile piece of physical evidence—a fragment of a truck's taillight—conducted a relentless surveillance operation to connect the disgru...