An armored truck in Indiana spilled massive amounts of cash across a highway early Wednesday morning, causing chaos as motorists and pedestrians tried to scoop up as much of it as possible. Now police are demanding that people return the money.
It was around 9am on Wednesday when the back doors of a Brinks armored truck flew open and money started spilling out onto I-70 near Indianapolis. While an officer initially told reporters that the money that came off the truck was thought to be around $600,000, authorities are now declining to comment on exactly how much money was lost.
Some of the bags of money remained intact when they fell to the road, while others burst open, causing a flurry of money to rain down on the highway. Motorists stopped in the middle of the road and climbed out to try and snag as many bills as they could.
“Bags of money were falling out of the back onto the interstate,” said Indiana State Police Corporal Brock McCooe. “Sort of something out of a movie scene, where you have bills, loose bills flying all over the interstate, vehicles stopping, people getting out of their cars.”
Police showed up quickly to restore order and get traffic moving again. Those who were found with cash were told to return it. But a few people reportedly made off with their money before the police arrived. According to witnesses a school bus driver was able to grab a bunch of money, and a group of people in a white pickup got away with an entire bag of cash.
A statement from the Indiana State Police reminds people that “It is important for anyone who picked up money from the scene, and has failed to return the money, to understand they have committed theft, which is a felony offense.”
Police are asking for anyone who may have picked up some of the money to call the state police. They are offering amnesty for anyone who returns the money on their own.
“People know right from wrong and anyone we track down who kept a dollar of this money will be arrested for theft,” read the statement. “The time to do the right thing and call us to turn in the money is now, because once we knock on your door, you won’t be able to avoid being arrested.”
Good luck proving anything in court! If somebody got away with more than a few bills (such as the guy that grabbed a bag), they would be smart to ditch the GPS wired bag, sit on the bills at a third party location and dole it out a little at a time.
But somebody dumb enough to get out of their car and pick up obviously not their money wouldn’t think of things like that.
That money is insured and the armored truck service will have to cover the loss. As long as nobody puts more than 9 thousand in the bank at one time it doesn’t get reported to the IRS. So to the law dogs I say too bad those officers did keep what they grabbed.
Check out some of the news stories of cops in TN stealing money from citizens on the interstate. News reports on you tube.
I don’t call it theft…I call it taking advantage of incompetence
Good luck with that. If someone steals money from *you* the cops take a report, and tell you that they’ll do what they can, but don’t get your hopes up, and then it’s back to the station for coffee and donuts. You’re lucky, if its bags of cash, if they don’t cite you for littering.
I’m sure all those good citizens only stopped to pick up the cash, so that they could give it back to whoever already had $600,000 to spill all over the roadway. They’ll have it back within a few hours. But, you know… Don’t get your hopes up.
ANYTHING valuable falls out of the back of my pickup and the cops wouldn’t even show up lol. Oh but a federal reserve bank loses something and it’s Martial Law!
Hell so I guess if you find a penny on the ground it is theft. Indiana only has themselves to blame because their roads are pot hole city I am only waiting for it to swallow a hole rig. Sorry crooked Indiana State highway crooks but if I find money that is not in a bag with a lock on it is mine. Now the one that has the lock and name on the bag that is a different story
Oh well sorry for your lost. Good luck getting the money back
I heard of one man that actually found a bag of the banks money and returned it to the bank. Thousands of dollars, mind you. The bank rewarded him with $50 or something like that, for being a good citizen!
Damn I’m a day late. I just passed through there! If it was a non descript vehicle them people would likely haven’t paid any attention to the items leaving the truck. But with the appearance of an armored vehicle, Beavis and friends caught on very quick to snatch some loot.
I’m sure the threat has them all lining up to return the cash before the police find out who they are and knock on their doors to arrest them. Like someone else said “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!”
So I understand that Brinks now has a job opening.
Finders keepers
Some people will return it once they realize it’s not the same as finding a random bill on the street, but you don’t know who took it so you won’t be tracking them down. You can threaten arrests and felony indictments all you want, but you won’t track them down and you know it, which is why you’re trying to bribe them by offering amnesty when they’ve already committed the crime.
The money is insured. Have a laugh and let people have it – they’re just going to put it back into the economy anyway by buying something they wouldn’t have bought otherwise, so stop wasting resources on it move on. Go find some murders or rapists and leave these so-called lottery winners alone.
*murderers. Can’t even trust spell check/correct and you want random people to return money. Haha.
Damn I must have missed that excitement by a few hours. Went through Indy Wednesday morning around 5am. I would think that money is accounted for by the serial numbers. Maybe. But still good luck getting it back.
You have to realize by the time they catch up to those serial numbers, the bills would have changed 100s if not 1000s of hands and all video surveillance in stores will have been recorded over, etc. I’d be very surprised if they came up with even just one person in this whole thing.
THEY WILL HAVE TO KNOCK ON MY DOOR, LOL NOT FOREAL ILL RETURN SOME M.F.’S THESE DAYS NEED SHIT FUCK THAT! FINDERS A KEEPER LOSER’S A WEAPER..NEVER WILL I GIVE U ALL…
I wouldn’t give back squat and justify my actions based on how much Banks and govt rip us off legally 😅😅😅
Sorry but if the guards didn’t properly secure the doors right and didn’t pay attention as the bags of money were falling out then they purposely let that happen!! They had one job to do and they failed to do it right…… so…… finders keeper, losers weeper!!! It looks like Brink will be firing some of its employees!!
The money falling out is the least of their worries. If you don’t closed and lock the doors, that’s a robbery waiting to happen. It’s not the event that just happened but its the implication that they could have been held up, shot, etc. It’s a major security breach in protocol.
They should have pre tripped.
I want my $1,000 back from bogus speeding tickets and lawyer fees!
I’ve had a total of two speeding tickets over the last 20 years, both of them for at least 7 MPH more than I had my cruise control set at the time, and 2 MPH more than my governed truck was capable of doing, on the flat level ground I was driving on at the time I got pulled over, in 55 MPH zones.
The first time was in Louisiana, 2008, in a Central Refrigerated truck, for doing 65 in an empty truck governed at 62 (They lowered it from 65 when fuel prices hit $4 per gallon.)
The second time was in Ohio in 2012, in a Hill Bros truck, for doing 67 in an empty truck governed at 65.
I hired a lawyer to fight each ticket, which cost me twice as much as the fine. I still had to pay the fine, but kept the tickets off my record which has been pristine for 25 years.
I had GPS (two in the Hill Bros truck), and never had my governed truck reached the speeds they accused me of doing, while on flat ground.
I recorded the second occurance. Kept asking the cop, so you’re saying that my empty truck, governed at 65, was doing 67 on that flat level ground behind me (panning to the rear of the truck). I asked how fast the car, that I had been following for the last 20 miles had been going. He replied 61. We both had our cruise set at 60.
Money, 10% of which is paper, 90% of which only exists in computers, has no more value than what our faith in it gives. The cops asking for the money to be returned, are simply fostering the illusion that it has any real value. Like asking kids to put out cookies for Santa.
A white pickup truck eh? That kinda narrows down the field a bit.. Bet they’re laughing all the way to the bank ..
So in all of this calamity was the driver of the truck cited for an insecure load? Has Brinks had the DOT crawl up their hind end and inspect all their trucks with faulty latches on the doors of these trucks which fall under DOT regulation? Sounds to me like this event could have been the cause of mass casualties as good citizens stopped to clean up the litter caused by Brinks unsafe acts. Those are the real questions.
Will they be cited for littering??
Cops trying to bluff people into turning the money in. They have no way of knowing what money is missing so they BS people. Go turn it in to the cops, I bet it doesn’t get back to the banks if you do.
Well I might as well put my 2 sense in. If it were me I’d probably return it. Not bc I think it’s the right thing to do but bc now days they have so many traffic cameras on the side of the highway. If you will look you will see them. So with a count of that amount. They probably will view them cameras and get plate numbers and pay you a visit at home. But hey. If you picked some up and you wanna keep it. I’d say that’s up to you. The way I see it is finders keepers.
How do you think you could track the money?
Why was the door left ajar?
Yeah,well what about all the money the government has stolen from me ? Are they going to return it ? No ! They just come up with excuses. The government just uses the laws THEY pass to steal from people , and not care how their actions hurt the rest of us. They steal from us, and that’s fine. but get a little extra cash from an armored truck, and the government wants that to…along with your paycheck, business profits, your retirement money you’ve worked for,you name it. But that’s not stealing according to the government agenda.Really ??? Did any of these cops stole any of the money ? They will just deny it anyways. Even cops are dishonest. Just ask one to stand up in court on your behaf after he writes you a ticket,or puts you in jail for something. See if he “drops the charges then ” That will tell you which side he’s on real fast ! The money is insured by some one.
The only possible issue I see arising here is if that money was scheduled to be taken out of the economy – if the money is re-introduced back into the economy via purchases and such it could potentially lead to an over abundance of dollars making the dollar less valuable we call this inflation and it hurts the consumer not the crooked banks
Actually it would hurt the banks.
Who would the lawyers sue if someone had got run over ?
Tight lousy economy….hey give us a small bag of da cash…lmbo
Something similar happened in Auburn Massachusetts not with money but with lobsters people Star State Troopers putting them in their cars when a truck overturned then it was told they were you legal because they were too small surprise how none of them came back even the ones that were put in the cars only one restaurant they went after that was caught selling them
Damn! Why this never happens when I’m riding behind an armored car?
I can have people take steal money from me, and a list of other crimes. All I have ever gotten from a local Medford Oregon PD to the Oregon State police is NOTHING! I would get answers like, “well since we did not wittiness it then there is nothing we can do!” Or it’s a civil matter! Really? A person steals $900 bucks and I need to sue him in small claims court? Even on a hit and run! Since they did not see it then there is nothing they can do! It’s like why do I even Call you! I have had my life threatened and still nothing! There was one time when a neighbor came at me said he was going to kill me and had a set of cutting shears chasing me all the police offer did was give him a menacing charge! The only reason you got a menacing charge is because the guy was being a butt head to the police officer otherwise it would’ve been just nothing I can do about it.? So I would keep it all!! Let the insurance company pay for it right! Maybe next time they should learn how to protect and secure their freight!!! I have seen truck wrecks to train derailments that put freight everywhere! I never seen the police try and stop people from grabbing up goods!!! I guess just cash is more important then goods!
Why couldn’t that happen to me, my imagination goes wild behind an armored truck, I wouldn’t give up nothing, police has never returned my goods when stolen, that money is gone, enjoy lucky people👍🏽😂
Haha if we lived in a 100% honest society, there wouldn’t be the need for cops to show up and restore order in the first place. The armored truck company wouldn’t have an insurance policy just for that circumstance either.
It’s simple it’s called doing the right thing its The banks money not yours and not anyone else’s. And no matter if your caught or not doesn’t make you any less of a thief.
It’s found money. No one cause the bags to fall off the truck except the people failing at their job to secure the doors. If you find a dollar on the street will you hunt down the rightful owner and return it? No you won’t. Are you calling yourself a thief as you put it in your pocket? No you’re not. So stop trying to make yourself look like the saint you are not.
What will Brinks pay the guy that sat in his vehicle jotting down the license plate numbers of the people out grabbing the cash?
I was only able to pick up about $4500. Some people got more
There’s a law that protects people that are subjected to unprecedented temptation.Money flying around in the streets would fall in this category. Judge or jury isn’t going to find any guilt guaranteed