Casino Money Stolen from Armored Car

Pittsburgh Police found an armored car, belonging to Garda Cash Logistics and was abandoned next to the company’s facility. Inside they found the body of Michael Haines, 31 who was one of the drivers of the car. His partner Kenneth J. Konias was nowhere to be seen and the $2.3 million that the car was carrying was also unaccounted for.

The Federal authorities in the US were quick to issue a federal arrest warrant for Konias on the charges of robbery, homicide and theft. The FBI also gave Konias the dubious honor of being included in the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

The money that Konias stole is money that Garda Cash Logistics has collected from several sources, including cash that was collected from Rivers Casino earlier on the morning of the attack. However, all affected parties should not be worried about their funds as Garda Cash Logistics is properly insured.

Konias apparently had a problematic past. At the age of 18 he volunteered at the local fire department but was asked to leave. The fire fighters that worked with him during his brief stint as a fire department employee claimed that Konias drove an expensive Cadillac with tinted windows but no one was able to understand where he got the money to buy it.

Chris Bearley, the assistant to the fire department chief said that Konias was “your average 18-year-old, but he has an attitude about him. He had flashy cars, and he sort of had a gang-banger personality.” Bearley added that no one at the fire department was surprised to hear about the robbery, but that they were shocked to hear about the extreme violence and murder.

A nation-wide manhunt after Konias is in progress and the authorities hope he will be apprehended without anyone else getting hurt in the process.