$600,000 Buried In Los Angeles Home Found

Cesar Yanez pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bank robbery in connection with the 2014 heist of an armoured car. He was jailed for nearly five years.

FBI agents dug up $600,000 buried in the backyard of a Los Angeles home once occupied by a former armoured truck driver who has admitted stealing cash. 

The money, in neatly wrapped bundles of $100 and $20 notes contained in plastic containers, was buried underneath a patch of trees in Fontana. 

Yanez and another driver, Aldo Esquivel Vega, of Pomona, California, were transporting a shipment of cash for Bank of America in June 2014 when they stopped in a car park and electronically opened the doors of their Loomis truck, according to the FBI. 

More than $1m was removed from the truck and carried off in a rubbish bin, authorities have said.

 

Around $85,000 was recovered at the Fontana home after Yanez's arrest, but the remainder of the money has been missing for more than a year.  The remaining $300,000 is still missing.

An FBI spokeswoman said a tip off from a source led agents to the backyard of the property.

Vega is awaiting sentencing for his role in the heist.

Two other people, including Yanez's wife, are awaiting trial for helping to facilitate the crime.