A two-year plot to murder armored bank vehicle employees and then steal millions of dollars from the truck was thwarted by authorities when the three suspects were arrested in a dramatic takedown in the middle of a Florida interstate.
The suspects were arrested last month after the FBI received a tip that three Palm Beach County men were planning to hold up an armored bank vehicle, steal $4million and then kill the truck’s driver and guard.
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office, which assisted in the takedown, released video of the arrests on Thursday.
The FBI and several other law enforcement agencies in Florida were involved in the arrest of three men who had planned on robbing an armored bank vehicle of $4million and then killing the trucks’s driver and guard
Police said Daryl Canady, pictured in a February 2017 mugshot, told an FBI informant that he had been working on the planned heist for two years
Alger Lee Ellison (left) and Martiavius Leon Williams (right) were also arrested for their involvement with the planned heist
In the footage, a dark-colored sedan is seen driving southbound on Interstate-95 in Martin County seconds before more than 20 police and FBI cars surround the suspects’ vehicle boxing them in. The suspects are then ordered out of the car and are arrested.
Police identified the three men as 43-year-old Daryl Canady aka ‘Doo-Doo’, 34-year-old Alger Lee Ellison and 27-year-old Martiavius Leon Williams aka ‘Man.’ They are all in federal custody in Palm Beach County, TC Palm reports.
The FBI Safe Streets Task Force and other law enforcement were tipped off to the heist by an FBI informant who was secretly working with the suspects. The arrests were made hours before the three men allegedly intended to pull off their plan.
According to a federal affidavit, Canady told the informant that he had been planning the heist for two years.
The men had allegedly planned to rob the armored bank truck after it picked up a large deposit from a PNC Bank on Southwest Gatlin Boulevard in Port St Lucie. Authorities said the deposit was going to be $4million.
Canady told the informant that he was going to rob the driver, who would be the one transporting the bags of cash from the bank into the truck, it is claimed.
The truck’s guard would then hand over the money to the informant, who would load the bags into a stolen vehicle the suspects would be driving.
Canady then allegedly said he would shoot and kill the driver of the bank vehicle.
According to authorities, Canady also told the informant that two or three Loomis truck employees were in on the heist. Canady said the guard who was going to be with the driver knew the plan, as well as a second female truck guard.
Authorities said the men had been working on the plan for two years. Above, one of the suspects is seen surrendering to police
According to a federal affidavit, the suspects had planned to rob the armored bank truck after it picked up a large deposit from a PNC Bank on Southwest Gatlin Boulevard in Port St Lucie
The suspects are all in federal custody in Palm Beach County, Florida
Police believe the female guard was unaware of the planned heist.
‘Canady intends to kill both the female victim guard and the co-conspirator guard on the armored truck during the forthcoming robbery,’ the FBI suggested in a report.
If the heist went well, Canady told the informant that they would do another one on a different armored bank vehicle, it is alleged.
‘When we hit this lick, them c******* are going to have a million-dollar reward out for information,’ Williams said, according to the affidavit.
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that the takedown happened just before 9am on February 20. It involved the FBI, St Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, Martin County Sheriff’s Office and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities said the suspects did dry-run days before the robbery was intended to take place.