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Brink's is popularly known for its bullet-resistant armored trucks which carry money and valuable goods (the service once used to transport the Hope Diamond from an auction to the buyer's home). Brink's is a provider of security services to banks, retailers, governments, mints and jewelers. Founded in 1859 by Perry and Fidelia Brink of Chicago ...
1981 Brink's robbery. The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, by several Black Liberation Army members and four former members of the Weather Underground, who were at the time associated with the May 19th Communist Organization. [1][2] The plan called for the BLA members ...
Jewelry theft. Perpetrator. Unknown. Property damage. $8.7–100 million in jewelry stolen. At 2 a.m. on July 11, 2022, a Brink's truck driver carrying jewelry between jewelry shows in the U.S. state of California stopped at a Flying J truck stop near Lebec, north of Los Angeles. During this period, almost a third of the jewelry bags they had ...
The timeline was first disclosed in an Aug. 4 lawsuit filed by Brink's against the affected jewelry companies, whose merchandise the company was transporting to the L.A. area for another trade ...
The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brink's building in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1950. The $2.775 million ($35.1 million today) theft consisted of $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities. It was at the time the largest robbery in the history of the ...
The $1,000 scholarships honor two Nyack police officers murdered in the 1981 Brinks $1.6 million robbery.
It might be time to back up the Brink's truck on e-payment security, as The Brinks Company launches a new payment processing service. Following the massive hacking attack and theft at Target that ...
Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an African American activist, and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered. Shakur was politically active as ...