![]() No local burglars seemed capable of such a crime, and the warehouse employees passed polygraph tests, ruling out the possibility of an inside job. Company officials told the FBI agent there could have been as much as $100 million in the vault that day: an unprecedented haul, depending on how much was actually missing. When Columbus FBI agent Harry Trombitas got the call about the break-in, he was leaving Northwest Presbyterian Church in Dublin after morning services. Trombitas had chased car thieves, mobsters and serial killers over a long career that took him from Nebraska to New York to Ohio, but he’d never seen anything like the Brink’s job. “Our facility was invaded,” Glen Blankenship, the Brink’s operations supervisor, later testified. With light filtering through gaping holes in the roof, the workers tried to make sense of the bizarre scene: a wall smudged with shoeprints, coins scattered across a soaking floor, piles of cash smoldering inside the breached vault. The alarm systems had been smashed, and the hard drives of security cameras were missing. ![]() Black smoke billowed through the building. The Brink’s employees stared in disbelief.Īs they arrived for the day shift on a cold and snowy Sunday morning in January 2009, they discovered their workplace, a warehouse on Essex Avenue in Milo-Grogan, was in ruins.
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