Thieves got away with $30 million US in cash from a money storage facility in Los Angeles by breaking into the building on Easter Sunday and cracking the safe. Now, detectives are seeking to unravel the brazen cash heist, reportedly one of the largest on record in Los Angeles.

An Easter Sunday heist led to a $30 million payday for a band of burglars, all of whom have so far eluded capture by federal investigators who are hunting them down. The daring operation sounds like something cut straight from an “Ocean's 11” script.

thieves break into a vault and steal up to $30 million in cash. The largest heist in Los Angeles history happened Easter Sunday at a money storage facility in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sylmar.

THE DETAILS ON THE L.A. HEIST Elaine Morales told The Los Angeles Times, which broke news of the crime, that thieves were able to breach the money storage facility in the suburban Sylmar neighborhood and then crack into the safe containing the cash.