Brooks was reportedly caught on surveillance cameras stealing a hundred grand in cash from one of the Garda armored trucks. Unlike armored car robberies in the movies, he evidently went at it alone, since it was his fellow Garda security officers who recovered $85,900 the very next day (it’s not yet known where the other nearly $15,000 ended up). They found the money in a car parked somewhere in Elizabeth before they called the police. Needless to say, Brooks probably won’t be going back to work at Garda, and was arrested by two Fairfield Police Department cops a couple days after the theft allegedly occurred. As of the afternoon of August 3rd, he hadn’t gotten an attorney, but other than that there were no additional developments in the case.
