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The man who robbed the vault of $18.9 million knew everything about it—because he was paid to guard it
Allen Pease III worked as a regional security inspector for the “Dunbar Armored” company in Los Angeles. The job gave him something you can’t buy with any amount of money: the right to freely roam the entire warehouse on Mateo Street. He photographed the building, studied the guard duty schedules, timed down to the seconds how the surveillance cameras turned, so he could later slip past them, and he had keys to the facility itself. He also knew one more important thing: on Friday nights, the vault remained open, because huge sums of cash passed through it. And the day before the planned “Dunbar,” he was fired—for allegedly messing with something in company vehicles. But that was already too late to stop him.