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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.
In 1971, a group broke into a bank vault - but the plan was nearly brought down by a radio ham.
An article in the Los Angeles Times reported that the heist was meant to pay for Eden's sex-change (male-to-female). However, reporter Arthur Bell, a veteran The Village Voice columnist who knew Wojtowicz (and was tangentially involved in the hostage negotiations), reported that paying for Eden's surgery was only peripheral to the real motive.
In 1971, Eist headed one of the four teams investigating the Baker Street robbery, in which a gang tunnelled from a West End restaurant in the vault of a Lloyds Bank. A large amount—estimated to be between £150,000 and nearly £4 million [44] [45] (or £2,678,000 to £71,414,000 in 2021)—was stolen, including cash and Tom Foolery. Eist's ...
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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 ...
Much like the events in the 2013 film Gangster Squad, the real-life squad waged war on crime and did things that would be considered illegal by today's standards.As the real-life Sgt. Jack O'Mara later told the Los Angeles Times in 2008: "We did a lot of things that we'd get indicted for today". [2]