
The Most Violent Bank Robbery Of The Century The FBI Files
It was 3:40 p.m. on May 9, 1980, when five heavily armed men stormed into a Security Pacific Bank branch in Norco, California. But this was not a typical bank robbery. The men were not drug addicts desperate for a fix, nor professional thieves looking for a quick score. They were survivalists, led by a born-again Christian who believed the apocalypse was coming—and that they needed money to prepare for it.Within minutes, the robbery spiraled into something the Riverside County Sheriff's Department had never seen before.
When Deputy Glyn Bolasky arrived at the scene, the robbers opened fire…
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