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They successfully completed a $750,000 gold heist in 1974 from the Ottawa airport.[1][3] They were arrested after that robbery and all escaped from prison by 1979.[5] Then, they carried out a large number of bank robberies in the 1980s along the California coast, where they stole large sums of money. The gang's biggest heist took place at a Bank of America branch in San Diego on September 23, 1980, when the US$283,000 they stole set a San Diego record.[5]

In 2005-06, I studied and perfected the art of bank robbery. I never got caught. I still went to prison, however, because about five months after my last robbery I turned myself in and served three years and some change.

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The teller, M.N., who said she was terrified, handed over a grip of bills, $1,269, along with a covert GPS tracker. The robbers fled in a dark-colored truck.

Last year in Colorado, that scene, including the threatening note and the relatively small take, happened almost 200 times.

One Chase branch on East Colfax Avenue was robbed four times in 2021, including twice in two days in October. Another bank, a Huntington Bank branch on South Broadway, has been hit six times since 2018, according to Denver Police.

Despite threats, many tellers hand over cash with covert electronic tracking devices attached, but experienced robbers will sometimes remove them and throw them away outside. One robber threw single dollar bills back in the face of a terrified teller. Another went to another teller in the same bank and demanded more money. They often drive their own cars to the robberies, according to criminal complaints.

Bank robberies are federal crimes and are usually exclusively investigated by federal authorities. State prosecutors sometimes take the cases, though, unless there are multiple robberies committed by a single person or firearms are involved.

The intruders held Michelle and Breea Renee and their roommate hostage all night. They went over the game plan for the bank robbery and threatened to kill them if Michelle didn't follow their instructions. In the morning the men strapped what they said was dynamite on Renee, her daughter and their roommate.

After the kidnapping and robbery, Renee and her daughter were sent to a hotel. They would never live in the house again where they were held hostage. But investigators would later ask Michelle to return to the house and walk through the events of the night of the break-in and bank robbery the following morning.

During his police interview, Butler denied having any part in the bank robbery, and tried to protect Ramirez. But Ramirez implicated Butler and the other suspects. She also told police it was her idea to use fake dynamite and kidnap the bank manager to commit the bank robbery.

In 1972, Amil Dinsio, a professional criminal from Ohio, assembled a gang of six robbers and flew them to California. They rented a town house and planned a heist on a bank where they had (mistakenly) heard President Richard Nixon kept a multimillion dollar slush fund.

The robbers made off with $44.5 million in cash, stocks, gold bars, jewels and other valuables. None of the loot was recovered and no one was arrested. Today, the stolen goods are worth more than three times their value in 1976.

The week before Christmas 2004, robbers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, dressed as police officers and entered the homes of two bank managers. Their families were held hostage, and the managers were instructed to go to work as normal the next day.

Allegedly, the theft was orchestrated by several bank guards. The government suspected the robbers also had contacts within local police and militias that allowed them to pass through the many checkpoints across Baghdad undetected.

A bank robber on an undercover mission. A teenage girl with the powers of a tiger. A vigilante seeking vengeance in Ciudad Juarez. All have secret identities. But not all of them chose those identities for themselves.

If you ever think about assuming a secret identity, you may want to take a little time to consider the possible consequences. Jon Ronson tells the tale of a bank robber who absolutely does not take that advice. (22 minutes)

Maybe worst of all for Renee, Weston cast doubt on her maternal instincts, questioning why she would go back to the house, knowing she was strapped with dynamite that could possibly explode. But Manning said Renee's actions made complete sense, given the stress and the pressure Renee was under to pull off a bank robbery to save her daughter's life.

After Renee's three grueling days of direct testimony and cross-examination, Butler took the stand. He continued to protect Ramirez as he had in his police interview, but now he told a new, elaborate story, one in which Renee masterminded the bank robbery. And he claimed the two of them had previously had an affair. He said they had met at a grocery store, and that Renee had recruited him for the bank robbery.

In the coming months, the gang shifted their focus to banks, and after several robberies they developed a routine. They would drive to a town at least a half-hour away, check into a motel, and research potential targets. Once they picked a bank, Wright would handle logistics, mapping escape routes, timing stoplights, studying intersections and traffic bottlenecks. If a garbage truck often caused delays on a particular road, Wright would know about it.

In a few months, he finished a draft of a novel about a gang of bank robbers led by Bobby, a character very much like Stephen Reid, and his sidekick Denny, a thinly veiled version of Lionel Wright. In an adjacent cell, Wright typed the pages as Reid wrote them, never commenting on the story itself. Toward the end of the book, Bobby kills Denny. After he handed the pages to Wright, Reid said, he sat and listened as the tapping of the keys slowed and then stopped. Minutes later, Wright appeared at his cell door. He was crestfallen, Reid said.

For the past 50 years, he was a fugitive wanted in one of the largest bank robberies in Cleveland's history, living in Boston under a new name he created six months after the heist in the summer of 1969. Not even his wife or daughter knew until he told them in what authorities described as a deathbed confession.

After the real-life robbery in Cleveland, Conrad wound up in the Boston area, where much of the movie was filmed. It's a good possibility that he chose his new first name "Thomas" based on the movie, Elliott said.

At that time, it wasn't unusual to wait until you were an adult, so his application didn't raise any red flags. With a new identification card, he was able to open a bank account, build credit and create his new life, Elliott said.

His name was Adam Worth; a dapper, cerebral and ambitious little man, he had come from nowhere--specifically, the mean backstreets of Cambridge, Massachusetts--to become the most successful safecracker and bank robber in the city of New York, which in 1865 boasted 53,000 crimes of violence. Dissatisfied with a mere local notoriety, and seeking to escape the notice of Pinkerton detectives, in 1869 he borrowed or stole the name of Henry J. Raymond, late founder editor of the New York Times, and sailed to England where he transformed himself into an elegant English gentleman, with a flat on Piccadilly, a steam yacht, racehorses and an international syndicate of robbers and forgers. For years he drove the world's police forces to distraction with well planned, bloodlessly executed crimes all the way to Port Elizabeth in South Africa, without ever leaving a bit of incriminating evidence.

I spent some time planning the robbery. I knew bank tellers were trained to comply with robbers and I knew I could get in and out of there within a minute. I also knew if I was careful not to show my face, leave any fingerprints or DNA and avoid video cameras with my vehicles, it would be easy.

When I first started I had this idea that I was going to go in there and get $50,000. I didn't go into it thinking that I was going to rob banks 30 different times in the next year. I thought that I would hit one or two banks and get enough money to make sure that my mom was OK and get away to a treatment facility, because I was in such bad shape.

Most of the robberies I did were successful. I never used a weapon and rarely implied I had one, and I never came close to getting caught. But probably three or four months into robbing banks, I remember one where I almost got caught. I had spent the day close to a Bank of America location to make sure there were no customers inside. It was getting late in the day and I had borrowed someone's car so I decided to go in 10 minutes before it closed. There were a dozen customers and there was security glass in front of the tellers which I generally avoided. I walked up with my mask on and the teller just laughed at me. I'll never forget it. She shook her head, laughed and said she wasn't giving me any money. I had to leave, but a guy started trying to follow me in his van, so I took off running. Luckily for me, I was able to run through some shrubs to where I had parked and drive away without getting caught. But the Everett Police Department was very close to this bank, it was a terrifying situation.

Many of them I had already hit two or three times, so I was running out of banks to rob. I had to be able to see if there were customers inside and easily get in and out. As time went on, a lot of the banks started getting security guards, so I had to start going further away from my home into areas I wasn't so familiar with.

On my 29th robbery I used my sister's van, it was missing a side mirror and had a big sticker in the window. The bank was in a supermarket and someone had followed me out and got a description of the van. Within a few days, the police department had seen the van in my driveway. Instantly I was under surveillance.

I would never want to glamorize robbery, I wish I had chosen a different path. I owned up to what I did, I served my time and I deserved it. My story is really about addiction. I don't feel that Purdue Pharma is being held accountable, they are in bankruptcy but the owners are not being held criminally liable. It makes me angry. I just want people to be aware that there are a lot of people who have been touched by the opioid epidemic. 9af72c28ce