After this, the truck proceeded on to its destination, arriving at the Loomis depot in San Francisco around 9:40 p.m. Bettencourt then unlocked the rear doors, opened them up, and was shocked to discover the floor of the trailer was covered in rainwater.
Then he saw a large hole in the roof, later telling the San Francisco Chronicle, "My eyes just kind of looked up at the ceiling of the truck.
"[1] At first the guards thought the truck had been hit by lightning, or maybe even by a meteor, but this was soon ruled out as they discovered roughly 270 lb (120 kg) of cash, worth about $2.3 million, was missing.
"[1] The subsequent criminal investigation of the robbery was handled by the FBI, which cleared the driver and guards of the truck as suspects.
The only significant piece of evidence they found in the trailer was an old worn out Dutch military duffle bag with the initials "MOV" on it, implying that it had been issued by the Netherlands Ministry of Defense some time around the 1950s or 1960s.
Since the trailer did not have a ladder attached to the outside, and the doors were still locked with the alarm set when it reached its destination, the primary theory is that the robbery started back in Sacramento as the truck was pulling out of the depot.
[4][1] Nick Rossi, a spokesman for the FBI's Sacramento office told the San Francisco Chronicle, "I cannot think of any similar case nationwide.
"This was one of the very few we had left,” a Loomis executive vice president, Mike Tawney, told the San Francisco Chronicle.