Everything Heist Leaves Out About The Money Plane Airport Robbery

Everything Heist Leaves Out About “The Money Plane” Airport Robbery

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The Heist episode “The Money Plane” showed how a small group stole $7.4 million from an airport. Here’s what Netflix true-crime docuseries left out.

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Everything Heist Leaves Out About The Money Plane Airport Robbery

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Heist episodes 3 and 4, “The Money Plane, Parts 1 & 2”

Netflix’s true-crime documentary series Heist details how a small group of thieves stole $7.4 million from an airport; however, “The Money Plane Parts 1 & Part 2” leaves out some significant details. Chief among these include the timeline of events that inspired the heist and some additional details regarding who was punished apart from the perpetrators.

The planning for the heist began in April 2005, when Onelio Diaz, who worked for Brinks Security as a guard, told his friend, truck driver Karls Monzon, about the serious security issues regarding a daily cash transport at Miami International Airport. For roughly two hours, millions of dollars being shipped from a German bank to the Miami branch of the US Federal Reserve was left in a loading dock with minimal security as the money was counted. Since the dock was unairconditioned, the doors were always left open and it would be easy for a truck to pull right up to the dock and for a few men to take the money and run. After spending several months staking out the dock and watching true crime TV series like Law and Order to learn what common mistakes to avoid, Monzon recruited some family and friends to help him pull the job.

On November 6, 2005, Monzon and his associates executed the heist, managing a clean getaway despite several complications, including Monzon losing his mask at the scene of the crime and the getaway driver freezing up and forgetting to drive to the loading dock. Ironically the thieves were not caught until February 2006, after Monzon’s efforts to try and stop his brother-in-law, Jeffrey Boatwright, from giving them away with his wild spending habits got the attention of the authorities. Here is everything that Heist left out of “The Money Plane Part 1” and “The Money Plane Part 2.”

Despite Involving An Airport Heist, Karls Monzon Never Watched Goodfellas

Everything Heist Leaves Out About The Money Plane Airport Robbery

One aspect of the Money Plane Heist which impressed authorities after the fact was that it was planned by an amateur with no prior criminal experience. Before Karls Monzon and his associates were caught, investigators had presumed that the crime was executed in imitation of the 1978 robbery of a Lufthansa cargo building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. At the time the Lufthansa heist was the largest cash theft in American history and it went on to inspire a scene in Goodfellas where a Lufthansa vault at the same airport was robbed in the same fashion.

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Coincidentally, the cargo bay Karls Monzon plotted to rob was also owned by Lufthansa. This led the authorities to believe that Goodfellas or the original crime might have inspired the perpetrators of the Money Plane heist. Karl Monzon denied this after the fact. While he had watched a lot of true crime series and heist movies in planning his robbery, Monzon said that he never saw Goodfellas, and the decision to rob the Lufthansa loading bay was based entirely upon opportunity, not homage.

Monzon Started Planning The Heist Before His Wife’s Second Miscarriage

Everything Heist Leaves Out About The Money Plane Airport Robbery

“The Money Plane Part 1” detailed how Karls Monzon came to the United States from Cuba and dreamed of finding a wife and starting a family. Tragically, while Monzon did find love and get married, his wife, Brandy, miscarried twice. Heist made it seem like this tragedy pushed Monzon to become a criminal, as Monzon discussed his plans to use part of his ill-gotten gains from the heist to pay the steep fees charged by adoption agencies for newborn babies so that he and his wife could finally have the family they dreamed of starting together. However, Monzon began binging Law and Order and planning the Money Plane Heist several months before his wife’s second miscarriage, which occurred in September 2005.

Monzon Only Cooperated With Police After Being Threatened With Further Charges

Everything Heist Leaves Out About The Money Plane Airport Robbery

“The Money Plane Part 2” explained how the biggest challenge Karls Monzon faced after the heist was keeping his brother-in-law Jeffrey Boatwright under control. Boatwright, who had acted as the group’s getaway driver, struggled with drug addiction and had a fondness for exotic dancers: two habits that led to the extravagant spending that Monzon had cautioned his co-conspirators against in the months after the robbery. Monzon’s fears proved accurate and Boatwright was kidnaped from his favorite strip club after Monzon had staged two earlier kidnapping attempts to try and prove his point about the need for subtlety to Boatwright. By that point, Monzon had lost all patience with his brother-in-law’s antics and informed the kidnappers that they could go ahead and make good on their threats to kill Boatwright, as they’d be doing him a favor.

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Unfortunately for Monzon, this entire exchange was overheard by the Miami Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who had just tapped Monzon’s phone after being tipped to his involvement by an associate he had tried and failed to recruit for the robbery. Heist detailed how Monzon was arrested while trying to arrange a ransom payment, after being begged to step in and save Boatwright by his wife and her family and how he worked with the FBI and the MPD to set up a sting to catch the kidnappers. What Heist did not reveal, however, was that even after being arrested for the robbery, Monzon was reluctant to give the police any aid in helping rescue his wayward brother-in-law. Monzon relented only after being informed that he would face further criminal charges if Boatwright died at the hands of his kidnappers.

Monzon’s Wife Also Served Time As An Accessory To Theft

The final scenes of Heist’s “The Money Plane Part 2” revealed the sentences that each member of Karls Monzon’s team received for their respective roles in the Money Plane Heist and how much time they actually served. One thing that Heist did not reveal, however, was that Karls Monzon’s wife, Brandy, served three years for being an accessory to theft, having known about the robbery after it was committed but not reporting it. The producers may have decided to omit this fact as Brandy left Monzon after serving her time and went on to start a new relationship and have two healthy daughters after another two miscarriages.

This fact sets up the episode’s ironic twist ending, where Monzon notes that he lost everything good in his life because of the crime he committed, in part, to try and give his Brandy the baby they wanted. Monzon noted that he is content, however, knowing that the woman he loves finally got the family she wanted despite him. This noble sentiment is cheapened somewhat with the knowledge that Brandy was not as innocent as Heist suggested and that she served time for her role in concealing her husband’s crimes.

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