Also famous for (at least with his friends and family) finally getting his first book finished.Current Life: Wooer of the Wife, Drinker of Coffee, Father, Gamer, Photographer, Fisherman, Gentleman, Mastermind of this book ;-). In real life: False. Masterminds - Zach Galifianakis 'David Ghantt' [On-Set Interview]SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://goo.gl/SrrTlTSUBSCRIBE MOVIE TRAILERS: http://goo.gl/8WxGeDA night gu. Sign up now to get updates whenever we release new features! She was devastated, Diamant said. Other FBI agents, who had wiretaps on Chambers' after being tipped off much earlier about his free-spending ways, were soon searching the expensive Cramer Mountain home he had bought with the proceeds. All but $186,000 in that theft was recovered from a North Carolina storage building. David Ghantt, who pulled off the Loomis, Fargo & Co. vault robbery in 1997 and was sentenced to seven years in prison for the crime, served as a consultant for the film (in theaters Friday).. They kept several furnishings from the previous owners, including a painting of Elvis Presley on black velvet. David, now 30, says he's sorry he abandoned his wife--who he says still loves him--and his family. Steven Chambers (left) and David Scott Ghantt Facts Before he decided to steal $17 million from the bank, Ghantt worked for years as a relatively silent and compliant employee. Ghantt added, I really enjoyed the movie. Along with a group of half-brained criminals led by Steve Chambers and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $17 million in cash..only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall. I figured it had to be me. LRM: Im curious. LRM: Do you still have that well-known fame today after being a free man? To me, [all of this] was a business deal between the original three of us. You know as well as I doits Hollywood. Ghantt ultimately agreed to the plan, largely, due to a mountain of credit-card debt and in hopes of changing his life for the better. David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis), an employee of Loomis Fargo, robbed his own vault, left the $17.3 million in cash with his co-conspirators, Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig) and Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) and fled the country to Mexico. People did ask questions or they wanted to chat. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ After a five-month manhunt, an armored car driver suspected of stealing $17 million from his companys vault was in custody Monday after being captured at a Mexican resort. If you're trying to make yourself better today, that's all most people care about. David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. Outside the building, Ghantt met up with Campbell, Chambers, and others who were involved in the plot, and drove off to a printing business called Reynolds & Reynolds in northwest Charlotte. With egg prices on the rise, are more people buying chickens? His accomplices included coworker Kelly Campbell, as well as friends Steve and Michelle Chambers. So what exactly did you do for this production? The painful part is that when you get caught, that the part of your brain that was trying to talk to you when you first started the robbery was right, and that's like a dump truck running over you. Its the small things like that. Within 24 days of the real heist, Chambers went from a mobile home to a $635,000 home in Cramer Mountain Country Club, authorities said. His wife, they said, got breast implants and used cash to purchase a 1998 BMW Z3 sports car. by Jeff Diamant (left) and Steven Chambers (left) and David Scott Ghantt leave federal court. Alert: Obviously, spoilers abound. David Harbour and Lily Allen are currently together. Until it's gone, you don't appreciate it. In real life: False. Tell Me When Systemic Racism Ended? A: Zach and I have a runningtext conversation going, but he's very busy. Chambers and his wife decorated their new home with a "Velvet Elvis" painting, which came to represent the crime. Ghantt was apprehended in Mexico and returned to the United States in custody. My name is David Scott Ghantt. David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. He had stayed in a luxury hotel and paid for expensive food and activities such as scuba diving and parasailing. . As we said . I got no real complaints, not at this point., The heist became the premise for the movie,Masterminds, released in September 2016. But last Oct. 4, when he still hadn't gotten home by 2:30 a.m., she called his parents in. While Ghantt spent more than 6 1/2 years in federal prison, he said he usedthat time to"re-invent" himself. LRM: When you first heard the story he was there to get rid of you, what was your reaction? A: When I first got in, I thought, "What in my life has led me to this?" All were convicted. The movie is hilarious. Chambers would then occasionally wire Ghantt money and see to his basic financial needs; when "the heat was off," Ghantt was to re-enter the U.S. and the money would be split up among all of the co-conspirators. (Ghantt works as a heavy machine operator in the construction industry.). Now, here we are, two years later. I would like to think, in my heart-to-heart, he wasnt going [to kill me]. Hes a great person. The movie was overly silly and, based on a post-screening conversation with former Observer reporter Jeff Diamant who wrote a detailed 279-page book about the occasionally funny but mostly just-plain fascinating crime, titled Heist much of what wound up in the film is fiction. LRM had an exclusive phone interview with David Ghantt last week, the real-life culprit who pulled off the successful bank heist. CHARLOTTE, N.C. Tuesday is the 25th anniversary of the infamous Loomis Fargo heist in Charlotte, where a bank worker, with the help of two accomplices, stole almost $17 million before being captured in Mexico. The affidavits also alleged lavish spending by the six, including the Chambers who moved out of a trailer and paid cash for a $635,000 home shortly after the robbery. Q: Do you appreciate your normal life now more than you would if you hadn't spent years in prison? But, thats a huge amount of money that would just disappear. I took a picture from back in those days to show them. Even after the tapes showing Ghantt stealing the. MASTERMINDS is based on a true story about a Loomis Fargo robbery, in which a small group successfully stole $17 millionmaking it the second largest bank heist in history back in 1997. David Ghantt talks to us about his part in the robbery of Loomis Fargo where he stole over 17 Million Dollars & the events that transpired soon after.Like u. My Proof: https://twitter.com/DavidGhantt/status/827476087596789760, My AMA time is up now, but thank you all for your participation in the Ask Me Anything session :-). Check your inbox for a confirmation email with instructions to finish signing up. But it was Ghantt, now 47 and living with his wife and daughter in Jacksonville, Florida,who actually took more than 2,000 pounds of cash and just drove away from his job. Im still going through the friend requests. Officially retired Predators GM David Poile and his wife Elizabeth Poile poses for a portrait inside the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. I had more than 700 message requests. Ghantt, a U.S. Army veteran, was living a relatively "boring" life working as the vault superintendent at a Loomis Fargo armored car warehouse just outside Charlotte, North Carolina making a relatively meager paycheck, when he crossed paths with Kelly Campbell. In real life: Mostly true. Director Jared Hess Writers Chris Bowman (screenplay) Hubbel Palmer (screenplay) Emily Spivey (screenplay) Stars Zach Galifianakis Kristen Wiig Owen Wilson I run the heavy equipment. Spending years in prison, he said, gave him time to re-invent himself. Ghantt, a U.S. Army veteran, was living a relatively "boring" life working as the vault superintendent at a Loomis Fargo armored car warehouse just outside Charlotte, North Carolina making a. In the meantime, Ghantt's wife reported him missing and the CMPD had found his . Yep, yesterday, February 28, at the end of the TODAY show's 8 am ET hour, Sheinelle Jones offered the following update: "By the way, it has been an interesting morning for us. Day in and day out, he drives an armored vehicle,. There are a bunch of bizarre things they bought. One of the FBI's wiretaps caught a conversation between David Ghantt and Kelly Campbell, the one who bought the minivan and shopped for the liposuction. The van used to move the money was later located a few miles from the warehouse. The FBI investigation was aided by the gang's extravagant spending. David Ghantt: In my way of thinking, you are part of the story and people will talk about you regardless. You might as well take part in the conversation. Ghantt was already married when he took part in the heist, to a woman named Tammy - who author Diamant described as "very nice." It is true, however, that she had no idea about the plot and that. He now has a wife, a construction job, and a child. I think Zachs a hell of an actor. David Scott Ghantt Ghantt, his former co-worker Kelly Campbell and her friends Steve and Michelle Chambers carried out the Loomis Fargo heist on Oct. 4, 1997. LRM: You did serve time in Federal prison and it was a very well-known bank robbery. Dont come to me for a treasure map, Ill put it to you that way., Michael Sainatos writing has appeared in the Guardian, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, Denver Post, Buffalo News, the Hill, Alternet, and several other publications . Explain: The scary part is that as soon as you put that little bit of money in the van, that there's no going back. Court documents said an informant who was not identified tipped off federal agents about the couples suspicious spending habits. Ghantt plead guilty to his charges andserved six years in prison, along with21 other defendantswho received chargesrangingfrom money laundering to bank larceny. Anyways, David, I appreciate this conversation. It was Ghantt, a 27-year-old Army veteran living in Kings Mountain at the time, who loaded up more than 2,000 pounds of cash in a company van and just drove away at the end of his shift as a supervisor at Loomis Fargo. Fried chicken, cornbread and cake what brings you back to this Charlotte restaurant. Ghantt labeled himself as a jerk who was dissatisfied with his life before stealing the money. Loomis, Fargo offered a $500,000 reward for his arrest and conviction. In August 1997, Campbell informed Ghantt of an old high school friend of hers, Steve Chambers, who could assist Ghantt in executing a massive cash robbery of the Loomis Fargo vault in one night. On similar grounds, four other people were ultimately also charged with money laundering. "He told me they were in the dirt business, so he didn't have to worry too much about me. The Army veteran and Hunter Huss High graduate was captured in Mexico five months later when one of the others involved in the theft, Steve Chambers, decided he needed to tie up loose ends by having Ghantt killed. Ghantt had worked with the branch since 1994, and had been promoted from a driver to the vault supervisor. [3][4] Its Charlotte office would be the victim of David Scott Ghantt and his confederates later that year. The story inspired the hit move "Masterminds" in 2016, starring Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Kristin Wiig and Zach Galifianakis. I did get to meet him. I stole $17 million, and Zach Galifianakis played me in a movie. Spending years in prison, he said, gave him time to re-invent himself. So he convinced a local hoodlum in Mexico to try to kill Ghantt. David Ghantt: I would be really philosophical about this. Although the history of the predecessor Wells Fargo & Company dates back to 1852, Loomis Fargo & Company was established in 1997 by the consolidation of Wells Fargo Armored Service and Loomis Armored Inc.; the resulting corporation employed 8,500 people and provided armored transportation, cash handling services, and automatic teller machine maintenance. She also must . Masterminds was a fun movie. Al momento de dar su gran golpe en 1997, un robo de ms de 17 millones de dlares, David Ghantt probablemente pens que su historia terminara en una pelcula. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. We talked about the fiction and fact from the movie. A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Zach Galifianakis played David Scott Ghantt, with other roles played byOwen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. shes now Miss USA. LRM: [Laughter] Now the movie portrayed that they sent someone to kill you in Mexico. After the robbery, Ghantt took off to Mexico. LRM: Obviously, this is comedy and not a documentary. Ghantt reported to Chambers that his supply of money was running low, but Chambers sent Ghantt just $8,000. Eventually, federal agents found Ghantt, thanks to uncovering a plot for an assassin to hunt and kill him in Mexico. 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