FBI digs up $600,000 from California yard of former armoured truck driver


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal agents dug up about $600,000 buried in the backyard of a Los Angeles-area home once occupied by a former armoured truck driver who has admitted to helping steal more than $1 million, federal law enforcement said on Wednesday.

The money, in denominations of $100 and $20, was excavated from beneath a patch of trees in the former home of Cesar Yanez, in Fontana, east of Los Angeles, the FBI said.

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