Ex NFL-er released from jail after fumbling $1.2 million cash heist in 2021: report

They didn’t have this event at the NFL Combine.A former pro football player’s plot to rob $1.2 million in marijuana profits three years ago went awry when he discovered the bags full of stolen cash were too heavy to carry — so he chucked them in the Colorado woods and ran away.But Devin Aguilar — a former college standout who briefly played for the Tennessee Titans more than a decade ago — made another big mistake during the previously unreported December 2021 heist: He forgot his gloves in one of the money bags, which CBS News said was later found by the cops.Arapahoe County authorities pulled the 35-year-old’s DNA from the black-and-blue gloves, then matched it to Aguilar, who was already in the system because of an earlier burglary.

And that’s how Aguilar, once a star wide receiver for the University of Washington Huskies, earned himself about a year in Arapahoe County Jail — and he was just released last month, CBS reported.Police investigators say his botched cash grab — which was recorded by at least six surveillance cameras — was like something out of Hollywood.“It was orchestrated perfectly.He knew exactly what he was doing,” Arapahoe County Sheriff Investigations Sgt.

Brett Cohn told the news station.“Every square inch of his body was covered, and black.”But that doesn’t mean it was the perfect crime, the officer added.

In fact, it was an inside job — Aguilar had been dating Fawn Huya, a 54-year-old teller at the cash transport service he planned to knock over.Huya told investigators that she had no idea her gridiron beau planned to rob the place, but cops later found plans and sketches on her phone that detailed Aguilar’s plans, and say Huya used her phone to record the firms’ business to help him out.On the day of the crime — Dec.

1, 2021 — the washed-up athlete dressed in black from head to toe, pulled out his pistol and snuck up on a transport van driver, who was pulling into the company garage with $1,224,785...