FBI agents have dug up more than $500,000 inside a trash can buried in the backyard of a truck driver who had stolen $1million where he once lived.
The money, in $20 and $100 bills, was discovered yesterday in the garbage in the garden of the home in Fontana, in California.
Cesar Yanez, who lived at the home, pleaded guilty in August to conspiracy and bank robbery for stealing about $1million from a downtown Los Angeles bank in June 2014.
The 38-year-old was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison.
When he was sentenced, only $115,000 had been recovered.
The FBI agents and Los Angeles police, acting on a tip, found the majority of it yesterday in tightly wrapped bundles beneath a patch of trees. Around $300,000 is still missing.
Yanez, a former Loomis armored truck driver and fellow driver, Aldo Vega, were transporting a large shipment of cash for Bank of America when they stopped in a Los Angeles parking lot and electronically opened the doors, according to federal officials.
They removed the $1 million and hid it in a trash can, authorities said. It is thought Yanez’s wife then picked it up.
