“Charm City Kings” producer Caleeb Pinkett, brother of actress Jada Pinkett Smith, has teamed up with production company Rebel Maverick for a film based on Alyssa Keli Rose’s Medium article “The Dunbar Heist”.
The 1997 robbery unfolded at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles where five men stole $18.9 million in less than half an hour. The mastermind was Allen Pace III, a fired employee of the depot who spent two years planning the heist with four of his closest friends.
After four years of thwarting law enforcement, the scheme fell apart after one of the robbers, Eugene Lamar Hill, gave a real estate broker a stack of cash bound together with the original currency straps.
Pace was sentenced in 2001 to 24 years in federal prison. Clarence Hammond, Dougie Cash, Matt Nicholas and Nastassja Kayln will produce with the latter two co-writing the script with Leon Langford.
Source: Variety