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# Heist

This year
2023
Police probing heist of over €13.5 million in gold and 'high-value' goods at Toronto airport
Police have said they are “looking at all angles” as to how the goods were stolen.
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Apr 21st 2023, 7:11 AM
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Three suspects arrested over spectacular Dresden museum jewellery heist
Items stolen included a sword whose hilt is encrusted with nine large and 770 smaller diamonds.
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Nov 17th 2020, 8:04 AM
Dresden jewel heist: Police release CCTV footage of thieves smashing display cabinet with axe
The thieves broke into the Dresden Green Vault museum in the early hours of Monday.
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Nov 26th 2019, 4:36 PM
A Picasso painting among seven stolen in 'theft of the century' may have been recovered
Seven masterpieces were stolen during the 2012 raid on the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.
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Nov 18th 2018, 5:02 PM
Suspected mastermind on trial over France's 'heist of the century' more than 40 years later
In 2010, a career criminal wrote a book in which he portrayed himself as the heist’s mastermind. Now, he’s standing trial.
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Feb 12th 2018, 8:18 PM
French police recover some of the jewels stolen in last night's Ritz heist
Three suspects have been detained, while two others are still on the run.
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Jan 11th 2018, 11:02 AM
Victoria's Secret could learn a thing or two from this ad for tights using fruit
Because bodywear is for *every* body
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Dec 5th 2017, 9:00 PM
Seven arrested over $72 million Amsterdam diamond heist from 2005
Most of the stolen diamonds have never been accounted for in what is known as one of the world’s biggest ever heists.
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Jan 21st 2017, 2:12 PM
Seven men arrested in massive police raid over £200 million jewel heist
Police also admitted that they should have attended the robbery.
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May 19th 2015, 2:10 PM
Here's how thieves stole £200 million in gold, jewels and diamonds
The Met Police has released details of the Hatton Garden robbery.
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Apr 22nd 2015, 6:07 PM
Police scour 'chaotic scene' of massive London jewellery heist
Thieves climbed down a lift shaft to get into the vault at the weekend.
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Apr 9th 2015, 3:43 PM
Thieves 'abseiled down lift shaft' to pull off a massive jewellery heist in London
Heavy cutting equipment was then used to get into the vault and open up to 70 safety deposit boxes.
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Apr 8th 2015, 6:27 PM
Thieves rob hundreds of thousands from London safe deposit vault
The thieves managed to disarm the building’s sophisticated alarm system.
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Apr 7th 2015, 10:48 PM
Armed men escape with €9m of jewels in French motorway heist
Police are now searching for the perpetrators.
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Mar 11th 2015, 11:05 AM
Pics: Gardaí find stolen art from the 1980s but aren't sure where it's from
Own a hotel or stately home? It may be yours.
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Jun 19th 2014, 1:08 PM
Thieves break into bank, hack into computers and steal over £1.25 million...but get caught
The gang members carried out a number sophisticated cyber attacks on banks in London
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Apr 24th 2014, 7:06 PM
Million euro paintings stolen in London in the 1970s have been recovered in Italy
The works are by French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard.
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Apr 2nd 2014, 11:08 AM
Thieves dig 50ft tunnel into Tesco to steal cash from an ATM...and get away with it
Police outside Manchester say the thieves were “possibly covered in soil”.
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Mar 20th 2014, 10:05 AM
Great Train Robbery's Ronnie Biggs dies, aged 84
Biggs had suffered a series of strokes in recent years.
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Dec 18th 2013, 8:00 AM
Man arrested in connection with book theft at National Library
A large number of books and pamphlets, some of which are of historical value, were discovered at a house in Clonsilla.
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Nov 21st 2013, 4:33 PM
FBI offers reward for paintings worth $500 million stolen in 1990
The heist – one of the biggest ever in the United States – included works by Rembrandt and Vermeer.
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Mar 24th 2013, 8:45 AM
Couple go to rob a bank... and take the kids along
The youngsters waited in the back seat of the car.
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Mar 14th 2013, 12:05 PM
Dutch police arrest Romanian woman over art heist
The works stolen include Picasso’s “Tete d’Arlequin”, Monet’s “Waterloo Bridge” and Lucian Freud’s “Woman with Eyes Closed” – experts put the paintings’ value at between €100 and €200 million.
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Mar 4th 2013, 8:33 PM
7 reasons the Belgian diamond heist will definitely be turned into a movie
Officials in Brussels have said the sophisticated robbery will go down as one of the biggest in history.
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Feb 20th 2013, 1:20 PM
Robbery at Greece's Ancient Olympia museum
It was the second major museum heist in the past two months.
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Feb 17th 2012, 11:39 AM
Man convicted for £40m London jewellery heist
The diamond jewellery stolen in the raid, however, has yet to be recovered.
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Mar 4th 2011, 2:26 PM