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| x Great Train Robbery |
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The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £2.6 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The bulk of the stolen money was not recovered. At the time, it was...
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| x Great Brinks Robbery |
The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brinks Building in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on January 17, 1950.
The robbery resulted in the theft of $1,218,211.29 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities....
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| x Brinks Mat robbery |
The Brinks Mat Robbery occurred on 26 November 1983 when six robbers broke into the Brinks Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England. The robbers thought they were going to steal £3 million in cash; however, when they arrived, they found three...
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| x Sallins Train Robbery |
The Sallins Train Robbery occurred on 31 March 1976 when the Cork to Dublin mail train was robbed near Sallins in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Approximately IR£ 200,000 was stolen. Four members of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party),...
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| x Northern Bank robbery |
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The Northern Bank robbery was a large robbery of cash from the Donegall Square headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Carried out by a large, proficient group on 20 December 2004, the gang seized £26.5 million in pounds...
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| x North Hollywood shootout |
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The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood,...
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| x Dunbar Armored robbery |
The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some US$18.9 million.
The robbery was masterminded...
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| x Great Gold Robbery of 1855 |
The Great Gold Robbery took place on the night of 15 May 1855, when three London firms sent a box of gold bars and coins each from London Bridge station for Paris via the South Eastern Railway. The gold bars alone were worth £12,000 at the time ...
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| x The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery |
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The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery is a 1959 heist film shot in black and white. The noir film stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. The film is based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest...
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| x Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza |
The Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza was a bank robbery of the Banco Central in Fortaleza, a city in northeastern Brazil. It is one of the world's largest burglaries, along with the 1987 Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery in London.
On the...
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| x Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery |
The Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery took place on 12 July 1987 in Knightsbridge, England, part of the City of Westminster in London. This robbery, the Banco Central robbery at Fortaleza, and the $900 million stolen from the Central Bank of...
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| x Lufthansa heist |
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US$ | 5,000,000 | 1978 |
The Lufthansa heist was a robbery at John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels were stolen, at the time making it the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. This...
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| x Perth Mint Swindle |
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Australian dollar | 653,000 | 1982 |
The Perth Mint Swindle is the popular name of a 22 June 1982 gold robbery at the Perth Mint in Perth, Western Australia. A total of 49 gold bars weighing 68 kg were stolen. The value of the gold at the time was A$653,000.
Three brothers, Ray, Peter...
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| x White Eagle: the Wells Fargo depot robbery |
White Eagle was the name given by Los Macheteros (a guerrilla group seeking Puerto Rican independence from the United States) to its robbery of the Wells Fargo depot on 12 September 1983.
The group's code name for the robbery was "White Eagle" (or...
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| x Great Bookie Robbery |
The Great Bookie Robbery was a crime committed in Melbourne, Australia on 21 April 1976.
A well-organized gang of six stole between $6 million and $12 million from the Victoria Club, which was located on the second floor of a building in Queen...
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| x Securitas depot robbery |
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UK £ | 53,116,760 | Feb 22, 2006 |
The Securitas depot robbery was a robbery which took place in the early hours of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 UTC in England, an operation that succeeded in stealing the largest cash amount in British crime history. At least six men...
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| x Bezdany raid |
Bezdany raid was a train robbery carried out on the night of 26/27 September 1908 in the vicinity of Bezdany near Vilna (now Bezdonys near Vilnius) on a Russian Empire passenger and mail train by a group of Polish revolutionaries, led by future...
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| x Air France Robbery | US$ | 420,000 | 1967 |
In 1967 mobster Henry Hill, aged 23, committed a US$420,000 burglary at the Air France air-cargo terminal in New York City's JFK International Airport.
The heist is memorable for its sheer audacity, and the unusualness of the target, particularly in...
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| x 1998 Bank of America robbery |
In 1998, struggling mobster Ralph Guarino, decided to rob the World Trade Center's Bank of America. He recruited a friend named Salvatore Calciano, who had worked at the World Trade Center (WTC) for 20 years.
Salvatore explained to Ralph that...
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| x Kakori train robbery |
The Kakori train robbery (also called the Kakori Conspiracy or Kakori Case) (Hindi: काकोरी कांड) was a famous train robbery that took place at Kakori, near Lucknow, on August 9 1925 during the Indian Independence Movement against the British.
The...
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| x 300 million yen robbery |
The 300 million yen robbery (三億円事件, San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident, was the single largest heist in Japanese history. It occurred on the morning of December 10, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008 it remains...
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| x Santa Claus Bank Robbery |
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The Santa Claus Bank Robbery occurred on December 23, 1927 in the Central Texas town of Cisco. Marshall Ratliff, dressed as Santa Claus, along with Henry Helms and Robert Hill, all ex-cons, and Louis Davis, a relative of Helms, held up the First...
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| x Gold dust robbery |
The Gold dust robbery took place in 1839 in Falmouth, Cornwall. According to the New Newgate Calendar, pp. 480ff, "The extraordinary robbery to which these persons were parties involved circumstances probably more singular than any other which ever...
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| x Brinks robbery |
The Brinks robbery of 1981 was an armed robbery committed on October 20, 1981, which was carried out by Black Liberation Army members; including Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur), Donald Weems (aka Kuwasi Balagoon), Samuel Smith, Nathaniel...
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| x NOKAS robbery |
On April 5, 2004, the NOKAS teller central in Stavanger was robbed. The outcome of the robbery was approximately NOK 57,4 million (approx. USD 9.3 million), making it the largest robbery in Norwegian history. It was also the first time in many years...
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| x Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery |
The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery of 1997 was the $17.3 million cash robbery of the Charlotte, North Carolina regional office vault of Loomis Fargo & Company on the evening of October 4, 1997 by armored car driver and vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt...
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| x Norco shootout |
The Norco shootout was an armed confrontation between five heavily-armed bank robbers and Riverside and San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies after the perpetrators robbed the Security Pacific Bank in Norco, California, USA on May 9, 1980. The...
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| x Agricultural Bank of China robbery |
The Agricultural Bank of China robbery was the embezzlement of nearly 51 million yuan (c.US$6.7 million) from the Handan branch of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) in Hebei province between March 16 and April 14, 2007. Perpetrated by two vault...
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| x Pierre Hotel Robbery |
The 1972 Pierre Hotel Robbery was a hotel robbery planned by Samuel Nalo and Robert Comfort, an associate of the Lucchese crime family, and carried out by several of his associates. It began in early November 1971. This robbery would later be listed...
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| x Chelembra bank robbery |
The Chelambra bank robbery in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India is considered to be one of the biggest and most sensational bank robberies in the crime history of Kerala. In the early hours of 30 December 2007, the robbers made a hole in the...
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| x Bank of Australia robbery |
The Bank of Australia robbery was the first bank robbery in Australia and apparently the largest. On 14 September 1828 a gang of five robbers - William Blackstone (bank robber), George Farrell (bank robber), James Dingle, John Wilford alias...
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| x Baker Street robbery |
The Baker Street robbery was a robbery of the safe deposit boxes at a branch of Lloyds Bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London, on the night of 11 September 1971. The robbers had rented a leather goods shop named Le Sac, two...
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| x O.J. Simpson Las Vegas Robbery |
On the night of September 13, 2007, a group of men led by O.J. Simpson entered a room in the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas and left with various sports memorabilia and one phone. According to Bruce Fromong, a...
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| x Frankfurt art theft |
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Three famous paintings were stolen from a Frankfurt art gallery in 1994. This case of art theft is unique in that the paintings were recovered by buying them back from the thieves; the people responsible for the theft were never brought to justice....
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| x Sauk armed robbery |
The Sauk armed robbery is a crime event in Malaysia on 2 July 2000. Led by Al-Mau'nah group.
On 2 July 2000 on an outpost and a camp manned by members of Bn 304 of Rejimen Askar Wataniah was involved in an arms heist by the Al-Mau'nah militant...
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| x Nelson robbery |
The Nelson robbery was one of the major crimes of the Victorian gold rush. It involved the robbery at gunpoint of 8,183 ounces of gold valued at about £30,000 by a party of thieves from the barque Nelson as she lay at anchor in Hobsons Bay off...
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| x Wham Paymaster Robbery |
The Wham Paymaster Robbery was a little known robbery in the days of the American Old West. Although the Wham Paymaster Robbery is today one of the least known robberies of the Old West, it was nonetheless one of the most daring robberies of the...
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| x Linwood bank robbery |
The Linwood bank robbery was a bank robbery which took place in Glasgow on 30 December 1969. Two police officers were shot dead and a third seriously injured.
The gang of three robbers robbed the Clydesdale Bank in Linwood. The leader was Howard...
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| x 2009 Bank of Ireland robbery |
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The 2009 Bank of Ireland robbery was a large robbery of cash from the College Green cash centre of the Bank of Ireland in Dublin, Ireland, on 27 February 2009. It was the largest bank robbery in the Republic of Ireland's history. Criminals engaged...
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| x Wołów bank robbery |
On Sunday, August 19, 1962, a group of six men, with help of a bank’s safe-keeper, robbed a local branch of the National Bank of Poland, located in the town of Wołów (southwestern Poland). Altogether, 12,531,000 złotys were stolen, which in late...
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| x Graff Diamonds robbery |
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The Graff Diamonds robbery took place on 6 August, 2009 when two men posing as customers entered the premises of Graff Diamonds in New Bond Street, London and stole jewellery worth nearly £40 million (US$65 million). It was believed to be the...
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| x Denver Mint Robbery |
The Denver Mint Robbery occurred on the afternoon of December 18, 1922 when five men hijacked a Federal Reserve Bank delivery truck outside the U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado. At the time of the robbery, around 10:30 am, the truck was being loaded...
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| x United California Bank robbery |
On 24 March 1972, the safe deposit vault at United California Bank in Laguna Niguel, California, was broken into and looted by professional burglars led by Amil Dinsio. His accomplices were James Dinsio, Harry Barber, Ronald Barber, Phil Christopher...
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