Masked Robbers Use Helicopter To Rob Cash Depot In Stockholm

Robbers with machine guns and explosives used a stolen helicopter to break into a dash depot in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday morning. The robbers stole a BELL 206B helicopter, landed it on the roof of G4S Cash,...

Biggest Jewellery Heist In Britain's History - £40 Million St...

A gem heist in London's West End is the biggest in the history of Britain. Two robbers got away with jewellery worth £40 million ($67 million) from Graff Jewellers on August 6th. Scotland Yard has now released...

30 plus works including Picasso, Matisse stolen

"Several artworks including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse have been stolen from an exhibition at a small gallery in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf district." " The etchings, prints and sculptures included “Profil au fond noir,” a 1947 work by Picasso; “Nude in a rocking...

Drag Queen Robbers Steal $100 Million in Diamonds

Jewels worth £70million were taken from the Parisian branch of infamous jewelers Harry Winston during an armed raid.Late yesterday afternoon, the Parisian branch of exclusive jewelers Harry Winston was the target...

Quebec Blueberry Heist the Largest Police Have Seen

Ain't nothing like stealing a literal tonne of fruit in the middle of the night...oh the delicious spoils of criminality!And one has to wonder what the previous record was for "largest blueberry theft" in...

Actor, comedian and exasperated dad Mac dies at 50

"Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor...

Four Famous Paintings Stolen in Zurich

Four Famous Paintings Stolen in Zurich Swiss police were scrambling Monday in search of three masked men who stole four Impressionist paintings worth about $163 million (180 million Swiss francs) Sunday in a...

Four paintings sought after €112m Zurich heist

"Three armed men are being sought after paintings by Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were stolen from a private museum in Zurich. The paintings, which were stolen yesterday, have been valued at €112m. They are: 'Poppies near Vetheuil' by Claude Monet (1879),...

Arrest in third largest Armored Car Heist

" COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - The Richland County Sheriff's Department announced Thursday that an arrest has been made in the nation's third largest armored car heist in history. It took place in May of 2007, right here in Columbia, South Carolina.  Authorities...

Biggest heist in the world

"The £53 million seized by the robbers amounted to the biggest peacetime cash heist in the world. # Five men convicted over Securitas robbery It was double the size of the previous biggest robbery in Britain - the £26.5 million raid on the Northern Bank in Belfast three...

Stolen Picasso Paintings Repossessed

SAO PAULO, Brazil – Pablo Picasso’s ``Portrait of Suzanne Bloch''(1904) and Candido Portinari’s  ``O Lavrador de Cafe,'' (1939), which portrays a coffee picker, were returned to a low security...

Picasso Painting Stolen in Brazil

Picasso Painting  stolen from Sao Paulo museum in BrazilTwo dope pieces of artwork by Pablo Picasso and Brazil's Candido Portinari were heisted Thursday from the Sao Paulo Art Museum...

Trucks being heisted for scrap value

Trucks being heisted for scrap value Trucks are increasingly being stolen for their value as scrap and recycled materials, UK authorities have warned the road haulage industry. Two possible causes have been identified for the rise in truck theft. First is the high prices now...

ART HEIST WAS A 'FLAME'-UP

October 10, 2007 -- A crew of amateur art thieves stole roughly $600,000 worth of paintings from the Hamptons mansion of a former Revlon CEO and torched the home to cover up the heist, prosecutors said yesterday. Officials said the group's ringleader, Patrick Padden, 50,...

Five indicted in $1M Hamptons art heist

Five East End men have been indicted in connection with an art heist that destroyed an East End mansion along with more than $1 million in paintings.Three men pleaded not guilty yesterday in the January 2006 arson and art theft. Patrick Padden, 50, of Westhampton, was charged...

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