Philip Noel Johnson (born 1964)[1] is a former armored car driver employed by Loomis Fargo & Company[2] in Jacksonville, Florida.
He is notable for the theft of 18.8 million dollars, at the time the largest heist ever pulled off.
He stashed most of the $18.8 million in a storage shed in Mountain Home, North Carolina, and moved to Mexico City.
On August 30, 1997, a U.S. Customs Agent at a border crossing from Mexico pulled a passenger from a bus bound for Houston, Texas, suspicious of his responses to her questions.
Independent of Johnson's apprehension, investigators were already following a trail of clues that led to the North Carolina storage shed on September 18, 1997.