Police are investigating a robbery of an armored truck that occurred Friday morning in northeast Las Vegas, two days after a armored truck was robbed in Philly (thank you Steve!)

The robbery was reported just after 9:30 a.m. on Friday, according to Metro, near East Cheyenne Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/robberies/armored-truck-robbed-in-northeast-las-vegas-police-say-3792226/

Whoa... armored truck heists still happen? Effectively?

A pair of armed men stole $1.8 million from an armored truck in Philadelphia on Tuesday morning

https://abc7news.com/post/philadelphia-pennsylvania-armed-robbery-18m-stolen-brinks-armored-truck-police-sources-say/18935023

Mexican authorities are reporting the seizure of an armored truck built on a stolen Ford F-450 with welded steel plates, with gunports and a 50 cal machinegun capable of bringing down aircraft,

 

“Inside (the truck), there was a Browning .50-caliber machinegun and two ammunition boxes with the bullets already on a belt. It can bring down airships, and penetrate military armored vehicles"

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/seized-cartel-monster-truck-had-gunports-50-caliber-machinegun

5 armored trucks in and around Philadelphia have been robbed since June, and it's not a movie

the $2 million armed robbery of a Brink’s armored vehicle outside a Home Depot on June 21.

A Loomis armored transport vehicle was held up outside an Aldi in a different neighborhood five days later.

Then on July 2, a Brinks truck was held up outside a Dollar General at a shopping center.

And on July 15, police had a report of two suspects robbing one of the armored vehicles in northeast Philadelphia.

and Tuesday August 12th, a Brinks truck was robbed of 700k in Philadelphia

https://apnews.com/article/brinks-trucks-robbed-philadelphia-01c887eaab123daceaf79307cc8a1a42

Eddie Murphy is back, here's his upcoming movie about the last day before retirement, on an armored truck job

A Florida man was taken into custody last week after $102,000 was reported stolen from an armored truck

 at a Circle K gas station, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.  

 Deputies said that the suspect went to the gas station — located along State Road 52 in Hudson — on Jan. 3, parking his van next to a GardaWorld armored truck.

How the hell did he unlock an armored truck? 

https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2024/02/your-tuesday-morning-florida-report.html

INKAS Armored Vehicles delivered to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for the the Haitian National Police fight organized crime, in response to a request for international assistance from the Haitian government

https://www.facebook.com/inkas.armored.vehicles/posts/pfbid0NQ6vuUPfZZeoXMrRGCG7m3r1DHCbJ5RVsw9gAY9Prhu3JVq2hJJ1uXBnZKby3ibZl

The US Air Force press release states, in a missed context message, that cholera crisis needed access via improved security. (so, warlords leveraging access to meds and hospitals in trade for money?) 

a U.S. Air Force C-17, based at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., transported vital security equipment, including tactical and armored vehicles, purchased by the Haitian National Police (HNP) from Canadian Forces Base Trenton in Ontario, Canada, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The delivery of the vital equipment was part of a joint operation involving U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft.

The delivered equipment will help the HNP ensure access to vital resources and infrastructure urgently needed in Haiti to respond to a public-health crisis following a recent rise of cholera cases in the country.

They assessed how the U.S. government can continue providing various forms of assistance aimed at helping the country improve security and respond to the growing humanitarian crisis.

Together with the Haitian government, the United States and Canada affirm the importance of working together to support the restoration of security in Haiti in partnership with the international community.

https://www.southcom.mil/News/PressReleases/Article/3189699/us-air-force-delivers-haitian-national-police-equipment-to-haiti/

Ahhhh... NPR cuts through the PC bullshit, "The U.S. and Canada sent armored vehicles and supplies to Haiti to help fight a gang"

A request from the Haitian government resulted in the U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force  joint operation deployment of foreign troops to help Haitian police fight a powerful gang 

"This equipment will assist (Haiti's National Police) in their fight against criminal actors who are fomenting violence and disrupting the flow of critically-needed humanitarian assistance, hindering efforts to halt the spread of cholera," the State Department said.

Which isn't the situation...  reading on to the bottom of the article gets past the smoke screen about cholera - and it's about the fuel terminal on the island getting overrun because of the record high gas prices

The equipment arrived more than a month after one of Haiti's most powerful gangs surrounded a fuel terminal and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. 

Demonstrators also have blocked roads in major cities to protest a sharp rise in fuel prices after Henry announced in early September that his administration could no longer afford to subsidize fuel.

Since then, gas stations have closed, hospitals have cut back on services and banks and grocery stores open on a limited basis as fuel, water and other supplies dwindle across Haiti.

The owners of the fuel terminal announced Saturday that armed men had attacked their installations for a second time and fled with more than 28,000 gallons of petroleum products after overpowering surveillance and emergency personnel at the facility.

It was the second time this week that armed men broke into the terminal, which stores more than 10 million gallons of gasoline and diesel and more than 800,000 gallons of kerosene.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/16/1129341182/usa-and-canada-armored-vehicles-supplies-haiti-help-fight-gang

In fact, the Hill.com cut past all the bullshit, and jumped right to the issue at hand:

The U.S. and Canada have sent armored vehicles to Haiti after its government called for foreign help in defending against gangs threatening to oust acting prime minister Ariel Henry.

https://thehill.com/policy/3690989-us-sends-armored-vehicles-to-help-haiti-fight-criminal-actors/

1936 Mack armored truck

 https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2017/06/04/napi_erdekes_813

a Michigan Brink's truck driver has been charged with stealing more than a million dollars from 24 ATMs

He did it by stashing the cash in his lunch box starting on Nov. 15, 2021 and ended on Dec 28.

That's when he stopped showing up for work. 

They hadn't noticed that any money was missing, until January 6th

Based on the investigation, Brink's said Carman stole from 24 machines on six different dates from Nov. 15 until Dec. 28 and took a total of $1,060,200 from seven different banks or credit unions. He returned $1,037,940.

Read the entire article to see just how clueless that Brinks was, with no effing idea how much was stolen, not for weeks, and I seriously don't think they have an accurate count of how much was stolen. 

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/brinks-driver-snuck-out-1m-from-michigan-atms-through-his-lunch-box-feds-say   via   https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-man-with-plan.html

The V3 armored car was a homemade armor-reinforced truck, which resistance fighters from Frederiksværk built during the occupation.

They built it at Stålvalseværket [steel mill] and Hillerød-Frederiksværk-Hundested Railroad led by Poul Frode Wilspang in Frederiksværk.

 It was christened V3 as a pun of the German V1 and V2 rockets that had been sent against the Allies. It was displayed outside the Freedom Museum in Copenhagen until the museum burned down in 2013.

 The armor consisted of old ship plates, which the workers welded on a Ford AA truck, procured for the purpose. The chariot was armed with a Bren-type light machine gun, mounted on a large steel barrel that served as a "cannon tower".

The truck was not finished when the news of the surrender of the German Armed Forces on 4 May 1945 reached the workers at the steel mill. So they decided to meet in the evening of the same day and finish it. The next day, it was put into use by the resistance movement, who were to arrest Nazi friendly informers and collaborators. 

 The resistance fighters had received a tip about suspicious activity on Nyvej by the vacation cottages at Asserbo. At the address, they found a larger stock of black market goods, especially cans of ham. The remains of the Lorenzen group [Nazi collaborators - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzen_Group] were in the neighboring cottage. Here, another group tried to arrest the military-trained former HIPOs and SS volunteers. But the Lorenzen group had machine guns, pistols and ammunition and opened fire on the resistance fighters. 

 The group that was to seize the smuggled goods came to the aid of the armored car. They covered the house with the machine gun, and the shooting stopped. Out of 19 women and men from the Lorenzen group, two had died of gunshot wounds, a third had been hit in the abdomen and had dragged himself into a closet where he committed suicide. The rest were arrested and taken to Copenhagen.

 The resistance group discovered after the operation that V3's armor was not bulletproof, as several shots had gone straight through the steel plates.

 

thank you Kim for sending me the story and photos, and for translating the history! 

Traffic on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad near Cannon Road around 9:30 a.m. today, stopped while the drivers had a mad grab of various denominations of bills all over the freeway.

 

those are ones and twentys

no one in the armored truck, so I'm guessing it was stolen, and they made of with the bags of hundred dollar bills

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/traffic-stops-on-i-5-in-carlsbad-for-cash-dash/2797602/?break=nbc7550&_osource=newltr_station_Hdlines_knsd

video at https://www.instagram.com/p/CWd113Zjev1/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

A grandfather of modern armored vehicles, the Armored Autocar was basically in a metal box atop the chassis of an Autocar.

20 Autocar trucks were supplied to Canada, of which 8 were Armoured Machine-Gun Carriers. They formed the "Automobile Machine Gun Brigade No. 1", which was deployed to Great Britain with the first Canadian contingent in October 1914. It stayed in Great Britain until 1916, among other reasons, because with the armies entrenching themselves, wheeled vehicles were deemed useless.

https://www.facebook.com/TheTruthInColor/posts/2962192773818479

what to do... ignore the key in the back door, try to tell the driver, or follow them to see what other people will do about the key in the back door?

http://mildlyinteresting-blog.blogspot.com/2019/02/this-armored-truck-driving-down-road.html

must be leave you brains at home day, cause these idiots forgot to leave one moron in the truck.... you know, with the keys

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/g4f1bd/these_guys_locked_their_keys_in_an_armoured_truck/

I bet you haven't seen a 1947 Diamond T armored truck before.. this has to be one of the few pre 1950 armored trucks that still exists

wow, those armored cars sure can take a lot of punishment!

https://twitter.com/laraseligman/status/1183222409853308928

Drivers stopped on an Atlanta interstate to grab $175,000 in cash that fell out of an armored truck

you can see this in the below shit excuse for video (it's 2019, what the fuck is the reason for low def video?) of see it in high def and read serial numbers on the bills at https://o-kurwa.tumblr.com/post/186190286070/seems-the-driver-of-an-armored-truck-didnt-close#notes

An armored truck's door sprang open on Interstate 285 on the north side of Atlanta on Tuesday night, spilling cash across the highway.

"The armored car crew said the side door came open while they were driving and money spilled out onto 285," Dunwoody Police said in a statement. "Officers and the truck crew gathered a few hundred dollars that was still there when officers arrived, but plenty was taken."

The armored car crew hasn't mentioned how the door happened to open while driving, not how that much money was just loosely lying around not in bags, rubber bands, boxes, etc... and only $4,000 was turned into the police

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/10/us/atlanta-drivers-grab-i-285-cash-trnd/index.html
https://kxlf.com/cnn-national/2019/07/10/drivers-stopped-on-an-atlanta-interstate-to-grab-175000-in-cash-that-fell-out-of-an-armored-truck/

1936 armored car in the USA

https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2017/06/04/napi_erdekes_813

It's a Wellington Everett (Ev) Miller design built on a 1936 Mack chassis by Advance Auto Body Works in Los Angeles in their second factory located at 1000 Macy Street, Los Angeles (at the corner of N. Mission Rd. and E. Macy St. - now N. Mission Rd. and Cesar E. Chavez Ave.).

Advance built other Miller designs such as the Gilmore tankers (including the neon one) and the Arrowhead Spring Water tear-drop car. They got out of the business in 1951.

That factory still stands and this is the spot where the photo was taken.

Thanks Steve!

Gun trucks of Vietnam (thanks Mike!) how has no one made a movie about these guys and a supply run on this road? These were not Army issue, they were all hand fabbed, from spare parts, and stolen machine guns from damaged helicopters

Because truck convoys moved the bulk of the food, fuel and ammo to American and allied units stationed in the countryside, there routes became target for enemy ambushes.

The Truckers were the front men—first into battle, first into enemy territory, and always volunteers. These men were considered the elite of their division.

One of the worst supply runs was that along Route 19, some 150 miles of winding nowhere that became known as “Ambush Alley” for the motor transportation guys having to make the drive.

So the soldiers hit the scrap piles and scavenged steel, sandbags and anything else they could find that would up-armor 3 axles and later 5 ton trucks then pile on whatever ordnance they could mount. In some instances, this ran all the way up to entire M113 armored personnel carrier bodies.

While these gun trucks look like Mad Max props, they were a magnitude of times better armed. While M60 machine guns and M2 “Ma Deuce’s” were popular, WWII quad .50 Maxson M45 mounts known as meat choppers, were used as well.

there was even a Super Bee

But the videos are better than these photos

The only known remaining Vietnam-era gun truck is Eve of Destruction, which was shipped back to the states before the fall of Saigon and is now restored and on display in the Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Va.

However, the Museum has an online record of more than 90 of these trucks at their website

"In the fall of 1967, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) decided to sever the lines of communication along Route 19 to the combat units at An Khe and Pleiku. Route 19—unknown to many U.S. drivers—had a fateful past. Thirteen years earlier, during the French Indochina War, the Viet Minh completely destroyed an entire brigade-size French element along the same route. The U.S. forces were overly dependent on trucks for fuel and supplies, and the enemy commanders knew that.

On 2 September 1967, a convoy of almost 40 vehicles from the 8th Transportation Group was returning from Pleiku. By the time it reached An Khe Pass, the convoy was split because of mechanical problems with a fuel tanker. It was almost dark when the lead gun jeep was ambushed. Simultaneously, the rear half of the convoy was attacked and the rumbling fuel tanker began to burn. Many of the Soldiers were unprepared and were caught by surprise. Before this ambush, enemy attacks on U.S. convoys had been minimal and limited to sniper-like attacks. This was the first major ambush of an American convoy, and it changed the nature of logistics operations for the rest of the war.

The kill zone was almost 1/2-mile long. Many of the Soldiers were not trained to react to ambushes, and they depleted what little ammunition they had. In less than 10 minutes, the enemy company had damaged or destroyed all but seven vehicles and killed seven Americans. The ambush was merely a rehearsal for future attacks that would be launched to shut down supply lines of communication before the Tet Offensive of 1968, which was only 5 months away."

and the best video is a 50 minute tv show from the Smithsonian, and it's not on youtube or Vimeo, so I can't get a copy to embed. It's worth it to click through and watch it, they've cleaned up the home movie camera videos a LOT  https://www.sho.com/pr/smithsonian/sp/title/gun-trucks-of-vietnam?c=7l1c2p4u2a6u3l2i7v4o7r18290d5i2u

How good is the video? R Miller says:
Thank You so much for finding, posting, and bringing to light that Smithsonian video. Few things have touched and moved me as much as watching it the last hour this morning.




We could really use a cool ensemble cast comedy, you know? When's the last time anyone made a MASH type tv show?

Or, Band Of Brothers larger scale serial tv show? Sheeez, imagine someone making a Baa Baa Black Sheep type period piece show, of the gun truck convoy escorts, with enough of a core cast of actors, plus plenty of guest spots for chopper pilots, nurses, medics, etc... but your couple of main stars would be the driver, and the gunner on a couple trucks. Like Fury, that tank movie with Brad Pitt

But if they delay another 10 years there won't be any guys around to give 1st hand accounts of the real shit, and keep the show somewhat accurate


https://www.guns.com/news/2015/07/31/when-the-army-went-mad-max-vietnam-gun-trucks-16-photos
https://www.sho.com/pr/smithsonian/sp/title/gun-trucks-of-vietnam?c=7l1c2p4u2a6u3l2i7v4o7r18290d5i2u
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peerintothepast/31050581422/
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/zippo132/tags/guntruck/
http://225observer.blogspot.com/2011/03/quad-50s-in-vietnam.html
http://garbee.net/~cabell/photosguntrucks.htm
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Improvised_Gun_Trucks__Vietnam_VS_Iraq_Wars/5-1788389/&page=2
http://www.vietnam-guntrucks.com