Trafficked.with.Mariana.van.Zeller.S05E05 Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:13,410 --> 00:00:14,557 You're driving on some of 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,650 the most dangerous roads in the world, 3 00:00:17,580 --> 00:00:20,120 behind the wheel of an armored truck with close to 4 00:00:20,250 --> 00:00:22,020 a million dollars in the back, 5 00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:26,590 escorted by a team armed with high-caliber weapons, 6 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,490 monitored in real time from a control center, 7 00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:33,000 with chopper support above you. 8 00:00:34,530 --> 00:00:37,570 And yet, you feel anything but safe. 9 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,470 Fifteen men coming for you, 10 00:00:43,610 --> 00:00:46,110 highly trained, armed with automatic weapons. 11 00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:50,710 In a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:52,597 Every time they don't surrender, 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,630 it means that you have to shoot at them? 14 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,050 And do they, have you killed anyone? 15 00:01:05,790 --> 00:01:07,660 Welcome to the deadly world 16 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,500 of highway robbery. 17 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:29,220 In March of 2024, 18 00:01:29,350 --> 00:01:32,220 an LAPD SWAT team came looking for a gang member 19 00:01:32,350 --> 00:01:34,700 believed to be a part of the Chesapeake Bandits, 20 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,190 a crew that had pulled off four armored car heists. 21 00:01:39,330 --> 00:01:40,817 The Chesapeake Bandits armed with 22 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:42,530 assault rifles and zip ties. 23 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:48,770 Police say Rocco, 24 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:50,670 who was killed reaching for his gun, 25 00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:52,757 and his accomplices had stolen more than 26 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,740 half a million dollars, 27 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,180 part of a growing number of armored car robberies 28 00:01:58,310 --> 00:02:00,180 in major American cities. 29 00:02:02,250 --> 00:02:03,850 That's what caught my attention. 30 00:02:04,190 --> 00:02:07,590 In a world of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence, 31 00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:11,290 it's hard to imagine that tactics dating back to the days 32 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:14,500 of stagecoaches would be an effective way to steal money. 33 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,770 I want to understand how these cash heists work and 34 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:23,800 how robbers are getting away with them. 35 00:02:27,210 --> 00:02:28,210 How are you? 36 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:29,980 It's been a long time? 37 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:36,650 If anyone would know, it's Playboi, 38 00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:38,820 a gang member I met two years ago. 39 00:02:39,690 --> 00:02:42,590 At the time, he was making good money selling weed 40 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,330 and untraceable guns. 41 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:46,760 So you're selling wholesale? 42 00:02:55,470 --> 00:02:57,210 I'd reached out to Playboi to find 43 00:02:57,340 --> 00:02:59,757 out if he knew of any other groups who have moved on to 44 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,310 robbing armored cars, 45 00:03:03,610 --> 00:03:05,497 which is what brought me to a safe house, 46 00:03:05,580 --> 00:03:07,420 20 stories above Los Angeles. 47 00:03:21,260 --> 00:03:24,470 X, Spike, and Bone are L.A. gang members 48 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,600 who have formed their own stickup crew. 49 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,270 I'm gonna get contact high over here. 50 00:03:33,010 --> 00:03:34,180 You're Bloods? 51 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,550 So what do you, what do you guys do? 52 00:03:41,950 --> 00:03:44,790 When did you start doing these robberies? 53 00:03:51,790 --> 00:03:53,290 You've g***t informants inside? 54 00:04:03,310 --> 00:04:06,060 What was the most amount of money you've made on these? 55 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:15,580 The guy in the back? 56 00:04:18,290 --> 00:04:19,807 So the guy that gets out with the money is 57 00:04:19,890 --> 00:04:21,290 the one that's most at risk? 58 00:04:21,390 --> 00:04:22,390 That's the one. 59 00:04:27,730 --> 00:04:30,200 Footage from a robbery in Denver shows 60 00:04:30,330 --> 00:04:33,440 it was just a matter of seconds before guards were 61 00:04:33,570 --> 00:04:35,870 overpowered and money stolen. 62 00:04:39,470 --> 00:04:40,870 It's empty right now, right? 63 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:42,540 Can I, can I see it? 64 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,650 Check it out? 65 00:04:43,780 --> 00:04:46,950 So, you guys actually take AR-15s with you guys? 66 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,947 How do you feel about the fact that 67 00:04:57,030 --> 00:04:58,660 somebody can actually get killed? 68 00:04:58,790 --> 00:05:01,560 Maybe not you guys, but one of them. 69 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,910 There were 49 C-I-T, 70 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,410 or cash-in-transit, robberies in America in 2023, 71 00:05:16,810 --> 00:05:19,250 the last year the FBI published data. 72 00:05:20,350 --> 00:05:21,650 And overseas... 73 00:05:25,250 --> 00:05:27,960 In Brazil, Australia, the UK, 74 00:05:28,090 --> 00:05:30,730 and Mexico, news reports and clips shared on 75 00:05:30,860 --> 00:05:33,930 social media tell a similar story. 76 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:40,870 But what's happening in a different corner of the world 77 00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:43,370 is something else altogether. 78 00:05:46,370 --> 00:05:47,540 In 2023, 79 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,410 there were 234 cash-in-transit attacks in a single country... 80 00:05:53,950 --> 00:05:55,620 South Africa. 81 00:05:57,890 --> 00:06:01,320 Where heist crews are locked in a deadly arms race 82 00:06:01,460 --> 00:06:02,760 with security companies, 83 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,630 a conflict centered in the city of Johannesburg. 84 00:06:14,970 --> 00:06:16,820 This is the cash processing facility, 85 00:06:17,740 --> 00:06:19,687 where most of the cash that we pick up during a 86 00:06:19,770 --> 00:06:21,980 daily operational system comes to be 87 00:06:22,110 --> 00:06:23,880 processed and then to be banked. 88 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,380 Morne du Toit heads up 89 00:06:26,510 --> 00:06:29,080 investigations and operations for Fidelity Security, 90 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,590 the largest cash-in-transit company in South Africa. 91 00:06:33,490 --> 00:06:36,930 To enter this facility, I've been fingerprinted, frisked, 92 00:06:37,060 --> 00:06:39,390 and had my face biometrically scanned, 93 00:06:40,030 --> 00:06:43,470 then stepped through seven double-locked security doors. 94 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,340 So obviously, this is a very, very secure facility, 95 00:06:47,470 --> 00:06:48,787 understanding the type of work 96 00:06:48,870 --> 00:06:51,027 we do here and the cash volumes that we carry. 97 00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:53,497 So, we've never allowed anybody from the media into 98 00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:54,697 our cash centers before. 99 00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:55,857 Wow, so we're the first ones here? 100 00:06:55,940 --> 00:06:57,790 - You're the first ones. - Definitely. 101 00:06:57,910 --> 00:06:59,427 And is this what goes into the CIT, 102 00:06:59,510 --> 00:07:00,560 the locks, the safes? 103 00:07:01,950 --> 00:07:03,837 So these are your little cash boxes that are utilized for 104 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,520 cash-in-transit. 105 00:07:05,850 --> 00:07:07,737 How much cash does each of these containers hold? 106 00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:09,737 It depends on the configuration of the notes. 107 00:07:09,820 --> 00:07:10,877 If it's 200 rand notes, 108 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,400 it can go up to 250,000 rand. 109 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:16,500 That's roughly $14,000 per box, 110 00:07:17,070 --> 00:07:20,670 to be put on the road as part of the $50 million transported 111 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,640 by CIT trucks every day. 112 00:07:23,710 --> 00:07:26,740 While in Western countries, payments have gone digital, 113 00:07:27,910 --> 00:07:30,610 in South Africa, cash is still king. 114 00:07:31,580 --> 00:07:35,080 Here, 15% of adults are without bank accounts, 115 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,590 and so the circulation of cash is critical to 116 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,660 the country's economy. 117 00:07:41,090 --> 00:07:42,937 Everything is controlled through processes 118 00:07:43,020 --> 00:07:44,930 and secured bags and sealed bags. 119 00:07:46,190 --> 00:07:47,717 It's brought to the counting-house. 120 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,677 It goes into a secure cage where it gets 121 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,570 unbroken under surveillance. 122 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:54,570 It gets processed and counted, it gets resealed again, 123 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:57,300 placed in secure vaults, and then moved to the banks. 124 00:07:57,940 --> 00:08:01,210 It seems that the money is very secure inside. 125 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,750 The problem happens once the money is out of the center. 126 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:05,910 Yes. 127 00:08:08,380 --> 00:08:09,850 There's been nearly one 128 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:13,620 cash-in-transit attack per day in South Africa in 2024. 129 00:08:17,190 --> 00:08:18,690 Most of them connected to the 130 00:08:18,830 --> 00:08:20,960 country's highly organized crime groups. 131 00:08:26,130 --> 00:08:27,670 Last year, while reporting on 132...