FBI reveals details of 4.8M gold truck robbery

FILE - This file image released March 4, 2015, by the Wilson County, N.C. Sheriff's Office, shows a composite sketch by investigators of one of the suspects involved in a heist of gold bars worth millions of dollars, which were stolen from a truck on a North Carolina interstate highway on March 1, 2015. Agents identified the alleged ringleader as Adalberto Perez, who was arrested this week and held without bail Friday, March 4, 2016, on federal robbery and weapons charges. Two accomplices, one depicted here, remain at large. (AP Photo/Wilson County Sheriff's Office, File)
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MIAMI (AP) - The FBI has revealed how thieves made off with gold bars worth $4.8 million in a truck robbery on Interstate 95 last year, and it reads like a heist fit for Hollywood.

Agents say the armed robbers painstakingly prepared for the job, using high-tech gizmos including a GPS tracker and a remote-controlled pepper-spray launcher to subdue the drivers.

Agents identified the alleged ringleader as Adalberto Perez, 46. He was arrested this week at his home in the Miami suburb of Opa-Locka, Florida, almost exactly a year after the March 2015 robbery in Wilson County, North Carolina. Two accomplices remain at large.

If you adored this article and you simply would like to collect more info concerning bo trang suc bac i implore you to visit our webpage. It appears the case was cracked when a friend of Perez came forward just a few months ago. According to an FBI affidavit unsealed in federal court this week, the friend said Perez spent about a year preparing for the heist.

The target: a routine shipment of gold bars aboard a tractor-trailer sent by Miami-based Republic Metals to a processing plant in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, that serves jewelry makers in the Boston area.