The Orange Cone: How an Inside Man Emptied an Armored Truck
The Orange Cone: How an Inside Man Emptied an Armored Truck
A single orange traffic cone was the only thing left in an open armored truck at 5:53 a.m. on May 14, 2009 - and $412,000 in ticket revenue vanished eleven minutes earlier. How did a crew walk away in under five minutes, defeat encrypted radios, and use the truck’s own access codes without triggering a single alarm?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline, the people, and the methods behind the theft, from the runner who found the cone to the dispatcher who eventually changed his story. What did that cone mean, and why did it help…
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