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WNBC-TV New York Tracks down “Gold Bucket Bandit”


Topic: Investigative Reporting | VIDEO
Posted on 2/1/2018

NBC-owned WNBC-New York aired on February 4 the first interview with a man who grabbed $1.6 million of gold in an 86-pound bucket from the back of an armored truck in Manhattan in 2016 and disappeared.

WNBC tracked him down in Ecuador and provides an inside look at the robbery and his escape to South America. Watch the video here.



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