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*[[Paddy Mitchell]]
*[[Paddy Mitchell]]
*[[Stephen Reid (writer)|Stephen Reid]]
*[[Stephen Reid (writer)|Stephen Reid]]
*[[Garrett Brock Trapnell]]


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*[[Patty Hearst]]
*[[Patty Hearst]]
*[[Clarence Hill (murderer)|Clarence Hill]]
*[[Clarence Hill (murderer)|Clarence Hill]]
*[[*[[Holden-Keating Gang]]]]
*[[Shon Hopwood]]
*[[Cora Hubbard]]
*[[J.L. Hunter]]
*[[J.L. Hunter]]
*[[Hunt-Gant Gang]]
*[[James-Younger Gang]], 1866–1881
*[[James-Younger Gang]], 1866–1881
*[[Elmer H. Inman]]
*[[David Stanley Jacubanis]]
*[[Frank James]], one of the two James Brothers
*[[Frank James]], one of the two James Brothers
*[[Jesse James]], the other member of the James Brothers pair
*[[Jesse James]], the other member of the James Brothers pair
*[[Christopher Jeburk]]
*[[Charles E. Johnson (FBI Most Wanted fugitive)|Charles E. Johnson]]
*[[Morris Johnson]]
*[[Philip N. Johnson]], $18.8 million of Loomis-Fargo's Jacksonville. FL Office.
*[[Philip N. Johnson]], $18.8 million of Loomis-Fargo's Jacksonville. FL Office.
*[[W. D. Jones]]
*[[Anthony Michael Juliano]]
*[[Alvin Karpis]]
*[[Alvin Karpis]]
*[[Tom Ketchum]]
*[[Tom Ketchum]]
*[[Machine Gun Kelly]]
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*[[Harry Longabaugh]], known as "The Sundance Kid"
*[[John Allen Kendrick]]
*[[Israel Keyes]]
*[[Ben Kilpatrick]]
*[[Herman Lamm]]
*[[Elzy Lay]]
*[[George Leonidas Leslie]]
*[[Robert Van Lewing]]
*[[Loan Ranger Bandit]]
*[[Harvey Logan]]
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*[[Harry Longabaugh]], known as "The Sundance Kid"]]
*[[James C. Lucas]]
*[[David Mack (police officer)|David Mack]]
*[[Christopher Magee (fighter pilot)|Christopher Magee]]
*[[Charles Makley]]
*[[Candice Rose Martinez]], "The Cell Phone Bandit"
*[[Candice Rose Martinez]], "The Cell Phone Bandit"
*[[Emil Matasareanu]] & [[Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr.]], ''[[North Hollywood shootout]]''
*[[Emil Matasareanu]] & [[Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr.]], ''[[North Hollywood shootout]]''
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*[[May 19th Communist Organization]]
*[[May 19th Communist Organization]]
*[[McCanles gang]], 1861
*[[McCanles gang]], 1861
*[[Ben Golden McCollum]]
*[[Henry Methvin]]
*[[Midwest Bank Robbers]], 1990s
*[[Midwest Bank Robbers]], 1990s
*[[Vernon Miller]]*[[Bugs Moran]]
*[[Vernon Miller]]
*[[William Miller (criminal)|William Miller]]
*[[Bugs Moran]]
*[[Frank Nash]]
*[[Frank Nash]]
*[[Salvatore Naturale]]
*[[Salvatore Naturale]]
*[[Jay Wesley Neill]]
*[[Baby Face Nelson|George "Baby Face" Nelson]]
*[[Baby Face Nelson|George "Baby Face" Nelson]]
*[[Newton Gang]]
*[[Earl Northern]]
*[[Albert Frederick Nussbaum]]
*[[Albert Frederick Nussbaum]]
*[[Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe]]
*[[Joseph "Specs" O'Keefe]]
*[[Sara Jane Olson]]
*[[The Order (group)|The Order]]
*[[Burton Phillips]]
*[[Harry Pierpont]]
*[[Duane Earl Pope]]
*[[Katherine Ann Power]]
*[[Phineas Priesthood]]
*[[Gerhard Puff]]
*[[Gerhard Puff]]
*[[Reno Gang]]
*[[Reno Gang]]
*[[Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson]]
*[[Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson]]
*[[Stanley Mark Rifkin]], $10.2 million in 1978, the largest in U.S. history at the time<ref>{{cite news |title=The Ultimate Heist |work=Time |date=November 20, 1978 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948323-1,00.html}}</ref>
*[[Stanley Mark Rifkin]], $10.2 million in 1978, the largest in U.S. history at the time<ref>{{cite news |title=The Ultimate Heist |work=Time |date=November 20, 1978 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,948323-1,00.html}}</ref>
*[[David "Chippy" Robinson]]
*[[Leslie Ibsen Rogge]] robbed a total of $2,000,000
*[[Leslie Ibsen Rogge]] robbed a total of $2,000,000
*[[Verne Sankey]]
*[[Frank Sawyer (criminal)|Frank Sawyer]]
*[[Susan Edith Saxe]]
*[[John Paul Scott]]
*[[Scott Scurlock|Scott "Hollywood" Scurlock]]
*[[Scott Scurlock|Scott "Hollywood" Scurlock]]
*[[Mutulu Shakur]]
*[[Mutulu Shakur]]
*[[Ted Skeer]]
*[[Luke Elliott Sommer]]
*[[Luke Elliott Sommer]]
*[[Henry Starr]]
*[[Henry Starr]]
*[[Steady B]]
*[[Matthew Steen]]
*[[The Stopwatch Gang]]
*[[Willie Sutton|Willie "The Actor" Sutton]]
*[[Willie Sutton|Willie "The Actor" Sutton]]
*[[Symbionese Liberation Army]]
*[[Symbionese Liberation Army]]
*[[The Order (group)]]
*[[Robert Toye]]
* Stephen Trantel aka "The Long Island Bank Robber", New York commodities broker who robbed 10 banks from July through November 2003, after losing his six-figure job. He netted just over $60,000 from the 10 bank robberies, was unarmed, and no one was injured during the commission of the crimes. He was featured on ''[[48 Hours (TV series)|48 Hours]]'' ([http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/13/48hours/main3934226.shtml "Stolen Dreams"], 2008), ''[[Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?]]'' ([http://investigation.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=141.15379.129750.39540.1 "Keeping Up Appearances"] (2010)), and the 2011 ''[[American Greed]]'' debut ([http://www.cnbc.com/id/40535800 "Case File: Bank Robbing Broker"]);<ref>[http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/01/prweb4956284.htm "American Greed 2011 Debut Features The Story of Stephen Trantel, Bank Robbing Broker"]</ref> he is also the subject of an upcoming [[Steve Wyrostek|book]]
* Stephen Trantel aka "The Long Island Bank Robber", New York commodities broker who robbed 10 banks from July through November 2003, after losing his six-figure job. He netted just over $60,000 from the 10 bank robberies, was unarmed, and no one was injured during the commission of the crimes. He was featured on ''[[48 Hours (TV series)|48 Hours]]'' ([http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/13/48hours/main3934226.shtml "Stolen Dreams"], 2008), ''[[Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?]]'' ([http://investigation.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=141.15379.129750.39540.1 "Keeping Up Appearances"] (2010)), and the 2011 ''[[American Greed]]'' debut ([http://www.cnbc.com/id/40535800 "Case File: Bank Robbing Broker"]);<ref>[http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/01/prweb4956284.htm "American Greed 2011 Debut Features The Story of Stephen Trantel, Bank Robbing Broker"]</ref> he is also the subject of an upcoming [[Steve Wyrostek|book]]
*[[Trenchcoat Robbers]]<ref name="AKotNY2002">{{cite web|last=Kotlowitz|first=Alex|title= THE TRENCHCOAT ROBBERS|url=http://www.alexkotlowitz.com/03_02.html|accessdate=September 7, 2010|publisher=New Yorker|date=July 8, 2002}}</ref> – 1997 $4.46M cash
*[[Trenchcoat Robbers]]<ref name="AKotNY2002">{{cite web|last=Kotlowitz|first=Alex|title= THE TRENCHCOAT ROBBERS|url=http://www.alexkotlowitz.com/03_02.html|accessdate=September 7, 2010|publisher=New Yorker|date=July 8, 2002}}</ref> – 1997 $4.46M cash
*[[United Freedom Front]]
*[[United Freedom Front]]
*[[McArthur Wheeler]]
*[[Bobby Randell Wilcoxson]]
*[[Bobby Randell Wilcoxson]]
*[[John Wojtowicz]]
*[[John Wojtowicz]]
*[[Adam Worth]]
*[[Adam Worth]]
*[[Cole Younger]]


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This is a list of famous bank robberies, bank robbers and gangs involved in bank robberies.

Australia

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Austria

Bangladesh

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Robberies

On Jan 26, Sonali Bank branch in Kishoreganj’s Rathkhola after tunnelling their way into it from an abandoned room of a neighbouring house.

Belgium

  • Antwerp Diamond Heist - February 16, 2003 .Almost $100 million worth of diamonds, gold and other jewellery were stolen from the high security underground vaults of Antwerp World Diamond Centre by a 5-man team. In a disciplined, sophisticated manner, they carefully planned and covered all possible loopholes before its execution by training themselves in a replica of the vault. They started their plot months before the heist by renting a space and starting a trading business to blend in.

Brazil

Canada

China

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Colombia

  • Bank of the Republic (Colombia) robbery – On October 16 and 17, 1994, $24 075 million pesos (US$28.8 million ) cash was extracted from the Bank in the city of Valledupar, Colombia. The money was in non-circulating bills of $2000, $5000 and $10000 pesos denominations. The bank had the serial number of every bill stolen.

Denmark

The first bank robbery in Denmark occurred August 18, 1913 in the bank Sparekassen for København og Omegn at Østerbro in Copenhagen. It was carried out by two men, Danish salesman Lindorff Larsen and a German machinist Güttig, armed with revolvers, the two got away with 9000 Danish kroner. Güttig was arrested August 30 and Lindorff Larsen committed suicide after having fled the police.[3]

The largest bank robbery in Denmark was carried out against the security firm Dansk Værdihåndtering in Brøndby at 5.30 AM on August 10, 2008. The robbers, who were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, got away with 62 million Danish kroner, after having knocked down a wall with a bulldozer. The robbery involved elaborate plans to obstruct the police from arriving at the scene, among other things 11 garbage trucks were set on fire and placed on routes from the nearest police stations to the scene of the crime and caltrops were placed on other key routes. The robbers used 3 getaway cars, which they afterwards parked in containers at an abandoned gravel pit for a later pickup, but the police managed to discover their placement, and following a continued surveillance of the area arrested 3 men of Swedish nationality that appeared at the scene a few days later to pick up the cars.[4] All in all 15 persons of a variety of nationalities and ethnicities, but mainly tied to the Swedish crime scene, were sentenced to prison for a total of 110 years. Only 4 million of the 62 million Danish kroner has been recovered to date.[5]

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

India

  • Chelembra bank robbery, 2007, 80 kilograms of gold and 2,500,000 rupees, a total value of 80 million Indian Rupees.

Iraq

  • Central Bank of Iraq, March 18, 2003 - Considered the largest bank robbery in history.[6][7] Hours after the start of the Iraq War, Saddam Hussein orders his sons Qusay and Uday to steal nearly US$1 billion cash from the bank.[8][Note 1]
  • Dar es Salaam Bank in Baghdad—About US$300 million is stolen on July 12, 2007 by the bank's security guards, but mostly recovered later.[9]
  • Al-Rafidain in Baghdad, July 28, 2009 - One of Iraq's biggest-ever heists. Thieves made off with at least US$3.8 million in a pre-dawn raid on a branch of the state-owned bank in the shopping district of Karrada that left 8 police guards dead.[10]
  • Al-Rafidain Bank, al-Mishkhab, 20 miles south of Najaf-About US$5.5 million is stolen.[11]

Republic of Ireland

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Italy

Japan

  • 300 million yen robbery, 1968.
  • 540 million yen robbery incident in Fukutoku Bank Kobe branch, August 1994.[12]
  • 600 million yen robbery incident in Tachikawa, Tokyo, May 2011。[13]

Lebanon

Malta

  • HSBC, 2007, 1 million Euros

Netherlands

Robberies
  • Museon Jewel Heist 2002. [14]
  • Amsterdam Airport Schiphol The biggest jewel and diamond heist in Dutch history at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where 75 million euros worth of jewels and diamonds was stolen from a secured cargo area. The robbers threatened security employees with guns and drove away in a money transport truck.
Robbers

Nigeria

Philippines

  • Alvin Flores Gang
  • Kuratong Baleleng Gang

Pakistan

KARACHI: In the biggest bank robbery in Pakistan’s history, foreign currency worth Rs301 million was looted from the Allied Bank Limited (ABL)’s head office on II Chundrigar Road here on Sunday morning. Earlier, the looted amount was projected as being over Rs500 million.

Poland

Norway

Romania

Russia

Slovenia

On the night of October 31 2005 robbers entered the safety deposit boxes of SKB Bank (Societe Generale) in Ljubljana through the main door and deactivated the alarm system.[15][16] Robbers disarmed the security guard and opened more than 400 safety deposit boxes. They took at least 32.000.000,00 EUR in gold, precious stones and cash.

In March 2012 two robbers were arrested. One of them was a security guard at the bank.[17] The Court process against two robbers started[18] in November 2013. At least one robber is still free.

Serbia

South Africa

Sweden

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Robbers
  • John Ausonius – The Laser Man killer and convicted bank robber.

United Kingdom

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Robberies

United States

Robbers
Robberies (chronological)

Uruguay

Notes

  1. ^ Some sources [1] consider this to be a legal withdrawal rather than a robbery.

References

  1. ^ "Brussels diamond robbery nets gigantic haul". bbc.co.uk. February 19, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  2. ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (February 19, 2013). "Diamond heist at Brussels airport nets gang up to £30m in gems". London: guardian.co.uk. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  3. ^ Axel Breidahl & Axel Kjerulf, Københavnerglimt - 1912 - 1920, 1938, p. 41.
  4. ^ Jyllandsposten.dk, "Sådan foregik danmarkshistoriens største røveri", March 7 2010
  5. ^ B.T., "Seks dømt i Danmarks- historiens største røveri", January 19 2012
  6. ^ CNN
  7. ^ [2]
  8. ^ Harding, Thomas (August 5, 2005). "Papers show Saddam snatched bn from bank a day before invasion". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  9. ^ Reuters
  10. ^ Iraq (AFP) Eight dead, US$3.8 million missing in Baghdad bank heist
  11. ^ Ngân hàng Iraq mất $5 triệu sau khi lính canh bị cho uống thuốc ngủ Template:Vi
  12. ^ ja:福徳銀行5億円強奪事件
  13. ^ ja:立川６億円強奪事件
  14. ^ "Museum gem theft dazzles Dutch police". The Guardian. December 3, 2002. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
  15. ^ http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/sest-let-po-ropu-skb-storilci-na-svobodi
  16. ^ http://www.rtvslo.si/crna-kronika/5-let-po-ropu-v-skb-ju-za-preiskavo-ostaja-se-potencialnih-15-let/242726
  17. ^ http://www.dnevnik.si/kronika/iz-sefov-izginilo-19-milijonov-v-gotovini-
  18. ^ http://www.delo.si/novice/kronika/domnevnih-roparjev-banke-skb-tudi-danes-ni-bilo-na-sodisce.html
  19. ^ 1976: Bank robbers jailed for 100 years, BBC News, On this day
  20. ^ High-profile heists , BBC News, High-profile heists
  21. ^ "The Ultimate Heist". Time. November 20, 1978.
  22. ^ "American Greed 2011 Debut Features The Story of Stephen Trantel, Bank Robbing Broker"
  23. ^ Kotlowitz, Alex (July 8, 2002). "THE TRENCHCOAT ROBBERS". New Yorker. Retrieved September 7, 2010.
  24. ^ http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Two-More-Convicted-In-$11-Million-Cash-Robbery/id-6478ebb5ccd1332cc117fa67bc4cccec
  25. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-dominican-head-york-atm-thefts-shot-dead-194859103.html
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