Burglars broke into a Los Angeles money storage facility on Easter Sunday, avoiding the alarm system before making out with as much as $30 million in cash, a law enforcement official said on Wednesday.
The heist marks one of the largest in the city’s history and has left authorities baffled by how it was pulled off, The Los Angeles Times reported. LAPD Cmdr. Elaine Morales said the burglary occurred at night at an unnamed facility in the suburb of Sylmar. The burglars appeared to have broken into the facility through the roof and breached a safe in the building where money from businesses in the area is stored.
The massive theft wasn’t discovered until the facility’s operators went in on Monday and opened the safe. It was unclear how the burglars avoided the alarm system, and the safe showed no signs of a break-in, according to the Times. Law enforcement sources also told the…