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The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up through the floor of the vault.
The first building, located at the intersection of 9th Street and South Los Angeles Street, was completed in 1963. [5] It is 13-story high. [5] The second building, located on South Main Street, was completed in 1965. [6] The third building, located on Olympic Boulevard and Main Street, was completed in 1979. [7]
Reader first appeared in court in 1950 when he robbed five shops in East London, aged 11. Accused of "stealing tins of fruit by means of store breaking", [ 8 ] he received a criminal discharge . [ 1 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As a child, he had a variety of local jobs such as butcher's boy, until he left school at 16 and joined British Rail as a fireman .
The prior largest cash robbery in Los Angeles was on Sept. 12, 1997, with the theft of $18.9 million from the former site of the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street.
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LOS ANGELES, Ca. (KTLA) -- A 70-year-old retired Los Angeles Police Department detective was identified Thursday as the "Snowbird Bandit," who robbed five Orange County banks between March and ...
Born in Kansas City in 1914, [2] Brancato became involved in armed robbery and drug dealing. He later moved to Southern California in 1946.. Arriving in Los Angeles during the early stages of the mob feud between Los Angeles crime family boss Jack Dragna and Mickey Cohen, Brancato was immediately able to find freelance mob work.
Los Angeles police captured two suspects after a report of a robbery at Northridge Fashion Center on Thursday afternoon. Two more suspects remained at large.