FONTANA, Calif., Oct. 8 (UPI) — The FBI dug up about $600,000 stolen during an armored-truck heist in 2014 in the backyard of one of the truck drivers, authorities said.
Agents on Wednesday pulled up a plastic bin and trash bag full of carefully wrapped $20 and $100 bills from the backyard of the property. Agents were acting on an anonymous tip, FBI spokesperson Laura Eimiller, said.
In June 2014, Cesar Yanez, 37, and Aldo Esquivel Vega, 28 were transporting a multi-million dollar shipment to Bank of America when they parked their armored truck at a restaurant in the Los Angeles area. They allegedly stashed $1,086,000 in cash in a trash can and went back to their route, hoping to pick up the money later, the indictment said.
An accomplice, suspected to be Yanez’s wife, Leticia, later picked up the money.
Yanez, his wife, Vega and a fourth person, Jovita Medina Guzman, were all arrested in the scheme. When Cesar Yanez was arrested, agents found $85,000 in cash in his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Fontana.
He was sentenced to almost five years in prison for bank larceny and ordered to pay back nearly $1 million, but the location of most of the stolen money was a mystery until the tip led them back to Yanez’s home.
The other three involved in the heist are still awaiting trial.
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