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00:00:13,410 --> 00:00:14,You're driving on some of

00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:16,the most dangerous
roads in the world,

00:00:17,580 --> 00:00:20,behind the wheel of an
armored truck with close to

00:00:20,250 --> 00:00:22,a million dollars in the back,

00:00:23,490 --> 00:00:26,escorted by a team armed
with high-caliber weapons,

00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,monitored in real time
from a control center,

00:00:30,930 --> 00:00:33,with chopper support above you.

00:00:34,530 --> 00:00:37,And yet, you feel
anything but safe.

00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,Fifteen men coming for you,

00:00:43,610 --> 00:00:46,highly trained,
armed with automatic weapons.

00:00:48,540 --> 00:00:50,In a high-stakes game
of cat and mouse.

00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:52,Every time they
don't surrender,

00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,it means that you
have to shoot at them?

00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,And do they, have
you killed anyone?

00:01:05,790 --> 00:01:07,Welcome to the deadly world

00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,of highway robbery.

00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:29,In March of 2024,

00:01:29,350 --> 00:01:32,an LAPD SWAT team came
looking for a gang member

00:01:32,350 --> 00:01:34,believed to be a part of
the Chesapeake Bandits,

00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,a crew that had pulled off
four armored car heists.

00:01:39,330 --> 00:01:40,The
Chesapeake Bandits armed with

00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:42,assault rifles and zip ties.

00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:48,Police say Rocco,

00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:50,who was killed
reaching for his gun,

00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:52,and his accomplices
had stolen more than

00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,half a million dollars,

00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,part of a growing
number of armored car robberies

00:01:58,310 --> 00:02:00,in major American cities.

00:02:02,250 --> 00:02:03,That's what caught my attention.

00:02:04,190 --> 00:02:07,In a world of cryptocurrencies
and artificial intelligence,

00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:11,it's hard to imagine that
tactics dating back to the days

00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:14,of stagecoaches would be an
effective way to steal money.

00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,I want to understand how
these cash heists work and

00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:23,how robbers are
getting away with them.

00:02:27,210 --> 00:02:28,How are you?

00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:29,It's been a long time?

00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:36,If anyone
would know, it's Playboi,

00:02:36,990 --> 00:02:38,a gang member I
met two years ago.

00:02:39,690 --> 00:02:42,At the time, he was making
good money selling weed

00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,and untraceable guns.

00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:46,So you're selling wholesale?

00:02:55,470 --> 00:02:57,I'd
reached out to Playboi to find

00:02:57,340 --> 00:02:59,out if he knew of any other
groups who have moved on to

00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,robbing armored cars,

00:03:03,610 --> 00:03:05,which is what brought
me to a safe house,

00:03:05,580 --> 00:03:07,20 stories above Los Angeles.

00:03:21,260 --> 00:03:24,X, Spike,
and Bone are L.A. gang members

00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,who have formed
their own stickup crew.

00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,I'm gonna get contact
high over here.

00:03:33,010 --> 00:03:34,You're Bloods?

00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,So what
do you, what do you guys do?

00:03:41,950 --> 00:03:44,When did you start
doing these robberies?

00:03:51,790 --> 00:03:53,You've g***t informants inside?

00:04:03,310 --> 00:04:06,What was the most amount
of money you've made on these?

00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:15,The guy in the back?

00:04:18,290 --> 00:04:19,So the guy
that gets out with the money is

00:04:19,890 --> 00:04:21,the one that's most at risk?

00:04:21,390 --> 00:04:22,That's the one.

00:04:27,730 --> 00:04:30,Footage
from a robbery in Denver shows

00:04:30,330 --> 00:04:33,it was just a matter of
seconds before guards were

00:04:33,570 --> 00:04:35,overpowered and
money stolen.

00:04:39,470 --> 00:04:40,It's empty right now, right?

00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:42,Can I, can I see it?

00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,Check it out?

00:04:43,780 --> 00:04:46,So, you guys actually
take AR-15s with you guys?

00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:56,How do
you feel about the fact that

00:04:57,030 --> 00:04:58,somebody can
actually get killed?

00:04:58,790 --> 00:05:01,Maybe not you guys,
but one of them.

00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:12,There were 49 C-I-T,

00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,or cash-in-transit,
robberies in America in 2023,

00:05:16,810 --> 00:05:19,the last year the
FBI published data.

00:05:20,350 --> 00:05:21,And overseas...

00:05:25,250 --> 00:05:27,In Brazil, Australia, the UK,

00:05:28,090 --> 00:05:30,and Mexico, news
reports and clips shared on

00:05:30,860 --> 00:05:33,social media tell
a similar story.

00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:40,But what's happening in a
different corner of the world

00:05:41,340 --> 00:05:43,is something else altogether.

00:05:46,370 --> 00:05:47,In 2023,

00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:52,there were 234 cash-in-transit
attacks in a single country...

00:05:53,950 --> 00:05:55,South Africa.

00:05:57,890 --> 00:06:01,Where heist crews are
locked in a deadly arms race

00:06:01,460 --> 00:06:02,with security companies,

00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,a conflict centered
in the city of Johannesburg.

00:06:14,970 --> 00:06:16,This is the cash
processing facility,

00:06:17,740 --> 00:06:19,where most of the cash
that we pick up during a

00:06:19,770 --> 00:06:21,daily operational
system comes to be

00:06:22,110 --> 00:06:23,processed and
then to be banked.

00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,Morne du Toit heads up

00:06:26,510 --> 00:06:29,investigations and operations
for Fidelity Security,

00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,the largest cash-in-transit
company in South Africa.

00:06:33,490 --> 00:06:36,To enter this facility, I've
been fingerprinted, frisked,

00:06:37,060 --> 00:06:39,and had my face
biometrically scanned,

00:06:40,030 --> 00:06:43,then stepped through seven
double-locked security doors.

00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,So obviously, this is a
very, very secure facility,

00:06:47,470 --> 00:06:48,understanding the type of work

00:06:48,870 --> 00:06:51,we do here and the cash
volumes that we carry.

00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:53,So, we've never allowed
anybody from the media into

00:06:53,580 --> 00:06:54,our cash centers before.

00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:55,Wow, so we're
the first ones here?

00:06:55,940 --> 00:06:57,- You're the first ones.
- Definitely.

00:06:57,910 --> 00:06:59,And is this what
goes into the CIT,

00:06:59,510 --> 00:07:00,the locks, the safes?

00:07:01,950 --> 00:07:03,So these are your little cash
boxes that are utilized for

00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,cash-in-transit.

00:07:05,850 --> 00:07:07,How much cash does each
of these containers hold?

00:07:07,820 --> 00:07:09,It depends on the
configuration of the notes.

00:07:09,820 --> 00:07:10,If it's 200 rand notes,

00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:13,it can go up
to 250,000 rand.

00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:16,That's roughly $14,000 per box,

00:07:17,070 --> 00:07:20,to be put on the road as part
of the $50 million transported

00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,by CIT trucks every day.

00:07:23,710 --> 00:07:26,While in Western countries,
payments have gone digital,

00:07:27,910 --> 00:07:30,in South Africa,
cash is still king.

00:07:31,580 --> 00:07:35,Here, 15% of adults are
without bank accounts,

00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,and so the circulation
of cash is critical to

00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,the country's economy.

00:07:41,090 --> 00:07:42,Everything is
controlled through processes

00:07:43,020 --> 00:07:44,and secured bags
and sealed bags.

00:07:46,190 --> 00:07:47,It's brought to
the counting-house.

00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,It goes into a
secure cage where it gets

00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:51,unbroken under surveillance.

00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:54,It gets processed and counted,
it gets resealed again,

00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:57,placed in secure vaults,
and then moved to the banks.

00:07:57,940 --> 00:08:01,It seems that the money
is very secure inside.

00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,The problem happens once
the money is out of the center.

00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:05,Yes.

00:08:08,380 --> 00:08:09,There's been nearly one

00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:13,cash-in-transit attack per
day in South Africa in 2024.

00:08:17,190 --> 00:08:18,Most of them connected to the

00:08:18,830 --> 00:08:20,country's highly
organized crime groups.

00:08:26,130 --> 00:08:27,Last year, while reporting on

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