Only hours after a holdup on the Lane Cove Chubb base on April 20, 2009, police received a major breakthrough in their investigation into the robbery.

Meriton maintenance worker Wayne “Gus” Geddes arrived at his job at a southern Sydney block of apartments at about 7.10am.

On the ground in the carpark, the 54-year-old spotted four paper dockets.

All of them featured the Chubb logo and had some “computerised printing on them, which I thought were money figures”, he told police.

There were also two smaller pieces of laminated paper.

The next day, Mr Geddes saw an article in The Daily Telegraph about the $2.3 million stolen from the Lane Cove Chubb base.

“I thought that the dockets I had found might have something to do with the robbery,” Mr Geddes told police.

He arranged to meet police at the Moore Park View Hotel where he handed them the cards and docket. Mr Geddes’ instincts were right.

But what was the Chubb material doing in his apartment complex?

The answer lay in a major Sydney drug dealer who can legally only be known as Mr X.

Mr X, who sold cocaine and heroin by the kilogram, leased an apartment inside the complex and was living there.

He had also convinced a number of Meriton staffers into letting him use empty apartments as safe houses to store drugs, guns, explosives and bullet proof vests that had been stolen from the police.

The apartments were also being used by the robbers after they had committed the holdups to count money that had been stolen and store weapons.

There are conflicting versions as to what Mr X’s involvement was in the robberies.

Mr X later told police he had very little involvement in the robberies beyond helping the robbery gang with the planning and the cover-up.

He claimed the corrupt Meriton workers had a separate arrangement with the robbers to use apartments as safe houses.

Despite the fact that Mr X was never charged over the robberies, he would later be accused in court of being a major participant in them.

Whichever version was true, police were now zeroing in on the Meriton complex to uncover its link to the robberies.

Another connection was that the silver Audi used in the Lane Cove robbery had been caught on Meriton’s CCTV driving into the unit complex’s car park just after the hold up.

Knowing this would be a major problem, one of the Meriton staffers began trying to delete the CCTV footage.

That didn’t work so he paid to have the entire hard-drive used to store the footage replaced.

When police started to ask questions, the Meriton staffers helped Mr X clean up an apartment where cash canisters had been left after they were stolen from the Lane Cove Chubb base.

Half the floor of the apartment was covered with plastic bags ready to be moved.

“Inside these bags are the cases that held the money from the (Lane Cove) Chubb security raid,” Mr X told the men.

He then went into the bedroom and retrieved a shotgun and a stolen police vest.

“Don’t tell anyone about this or I will shoot you,” Mr X told the staffers.

The containers and guns were stuffed in the lift before being loaded into a van and driven out of the complex.

One of the staffers took a separate car and was told to “drive like a dickhead” to divert any police attention away from the van carrying the guns and Chubb canisters.

The guns were dropped at a Marrickville property before the bags with the canisters were dumped in the Cooks River at Marrickville Golf Club.

Days later, the staffer arrived at work early to replace the CCTV hard drives featuring the Audi.

Police came in the same day wanting a copy of it.

“We are having trouble with our CCTV at the moment,” the staffer told the detective.

Shortly after the Chubb canisters were dumped in the Cooks River, several people on morning walks around the golf course spotted them and called police.

With police closing in, Mr X took evasive action.

He moved his drugs and guns into a different apartment in the Meriton complex.

With the help of one of the staffers, Mr X grabbed 1.2kg of heroin and a revolver from a cavity behind the fridge space

He also grabbed drugs out of the dryer in the laundry and took the gear to an apartment on the floor upstairs.

Inside the new apartment, Mr X hid a shotgun on the top shelf of a bedroom wardrobe.

That left the problem of the bags of heroin and the other guns.

He removed the facade of a built-in microwave and stuffed the heroin and guns behind it.

Detectives arrived at the Meriton complex with a search warrant for Mr X’s new unit on July 30, 2009.

A mystery person had told them what was inside.

“Can we get in there now? It’s pretty important,” one of the officers asked the Meriton staffer.

Mr X had the keys and was not in the building.

A locksmith was called and drilled through the lock.

The staffer was panicking.

“How did they know the stuff was in here?” he thought to himself.

Detective Sergeant Justin Murray asked the staffer: “Do you know anything about this shotgun?”

The staffer replied: “No”.

Det Sgt Murray then found the heroin and guns behind the microwave.

When word about the police raid got back to Mr X he was at City Gym in Darlinghurst.

“I’m done. That’s it. I’m out,” Mr X told a friend.

Mr X went on the run. And the police hunt for him went into full swing.

By the time it ended, the investigation was pointed squarely at Reynold Glover and his associates.