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The tunnel burglary in LA must have been the inspiration for the book The Black Echo. In it an LA detective is hunting down a murderer who happens to have pawned some valuables from a bank heist involving a tunnel that was dug from the storm drains.
Other appearances by the same author in HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11206649 (stealing books from a monastery via a secret passage)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350046 (policing by helicopter in Los Angeles)