Some Money From Robbery Is Recovered
Police investigating the robbery of up to $87 million from a cash depot in southern England found a significant amount of the money Friday in a van parked at a hotel.
Television stations showed police in white forensic suits and masks carrying two large black bags from a white Ford van. Police said they did not yet know how much money was in the van at the Ashford International Hotel.
Trains go to Paris and Brussels from the nearby Ashford International station.
Assistant Chief Constable Adrian Leppard of the Kent county police said, “It’s important ... that we gain all possible forensic evidence from every stage of this inquiry. That’s going to take many hours.”
The hotel is about 45 minutes’ drive from the town of Tonbridge, where robbers posing as police officers kidnapped the manager of a cash depot, his wife and young son to carry out the heist early Wednesday.
Officers said Friday they arrested a 41-year-old woman in London a day earlier after she allegedly tried to deposit $10,500 into an account. But police said she may be unconnected to the depot robbery.
She and two others, a 29-year-old man and 31-year-old woman also arrested in London on Thursday, were released on bail. They could be questioned again.
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