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How Robber Nicknames Helped
Colorado Curb Bank Heists

Jul 26, 2025 10:00 AM CDT

How Robber Nicknames Helped Colorado Curb Bank Heists

FBI in Colorado is focused on drumming up publicity, especially for serial offenders

(Newser) - Colorado had faced a spike in bank robberies over the last few years, outpacing the rest of the country per capita from 2021 to 2024, according to FBI data. The typical heist involved a masked robber handing a note to a teller and leaving with a small sum, but...

Teller Robbed His Own Bank,
Then Vanished. Here's How

Dec 29, 2021 12:21 PM CST

Teller Robbed His Own Bank, Then Vanished. Here's How

The AP pieces together how Ted Conrad became Thomas Randele

(Newser) - In November, authorities announced that they'd found their man : Thomas Randele, who died of cancer in May in suburban Boston, was actually a fugitive wanted in one of the largest bank robberies in Cleveland's history, a heist carried out in the summer of 1969. Not even his wife...

Hostages Told to Cling to
Car Hoods or Be Shot in Face

Aug 31, 2021 3:52 PM CDT

Hostages Told to Cling to Car Hoods or Be Shot in Face

They're speaking out after ordeal in Aracatuba, Brazil

(Newser) - Brazilian bank robbers strapped hostages to the hoods and roofs of getaway vehicles early Monday, and now those victims are speaking of their ordeal. One said they were told their options were to hang on or be shot in the face: "I was put onto the [hood] of a...

Suspect: Cops Illegally Got My
Phone Data—and Maybe Yours

Nov 21, 2019 11:48 AM CST

Suspect: Cops Illegally Got My Phone Data—and Maybe Yours

Okello Chatrie is not alone in raising concerns about geofence warrants

(Newser) - Authorities accessed the cellphone location data of 19 people in the vicinity of a Virginia bank heist before closing in on their suspect, who's claiming the act was illegal. Lawyers for 24-year-old Okello Chatrie of Richmond, who has pleaded not guilty to stealing $195,000 in the armed robbery,...

A Bank Manager Stole $4.3M.
He Almost Got Away With It

A Bank Manager Stole $4.3M. He Almost Got Away With It

Gerardo Adan Cazarez Valenzuela was done in by a random checkpoint in Mexico

(Newser) - Gerardo Adan Cazarez Valenzuela knew the KeyBank branch in Anchorage, Alaska, well. He worked there as the bank's cash vault services manager and was aware of the security setup—which didn't include armed guards. And so a plan was born: In July 2011, he enabled the ability for...

'Heist of the Century' Mastermind on Trial

Did Book Reveal
Mastermind of
Audacious
1976 Heist?

Feb 13, 2018 3:12 AM CST

Did Book Reveal Mastermind of Audacious 1976 Heist?

Jacques Cassandri, 74, is on trial

(Newser) - Prosecutors in France say he was the mastermind behind the "heist of the century"—though "mastermind" might not be the best word for somebody who writes a book implicating himself in an unsolved crime. Jacques Cassandri, a 74-year-old organized crime figure in Marseille, is on trial for...

North Korea May
Have Ordered $81M
Theft at NY Fed

Mar 23, 2017 7:23 AM CDT

North Korea May Have Ordered $81M Theft at NY Fed

Investigators find links to 2014 Sony hack: report

(Newser) - Investigators initially suspected the hackers who stole $81 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year while posing as Bangladeshi bankers weren't actually from Bangladesh. Now, they're apparently pointing the finger at North Korea. While investigators believe Chinese individuals or businesses carried out the attack,...

Daring ATM Heist:
100 Thieves,
3 Hours, $13M

May 23, 2016 2:33 PM CDT

Daring ATM Heist: 100 Thieves, 3 Hours, $13M

It happened in 7-Elevens all around Japan

(Newser) - A purported organized-crime incident in Japan put the emphasis on "organized" in a crime that RT.com is labeling "Ocean's 100." Cops believe that more than 100 thieves took part in a spree in Tokyo and 16 other prefectures on May 15, cleaning out 7-Eleven ATMS...

$1B Bank Heist
Thwarted by ... a Typo

$1B Bank Heist Thwarted by ... a Typo

Hackers still made off with $81M, say officials

(Newser) - Hackers helped themselves to $81 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last month—but the massive theft could have been far worse if not for a typo, reports Reuters . Investigators say the heist began when the hackers breached the security systems of Bangladesh Bank and then, posing...

FBI Finds Buried Treasure in Armored Truck Driver's Yard

Oct 9, 2015 2:45 PM CDT

FBI Finds Buried Treasure in Armored Truck Driver's Yard

The driver admitted to stealing more than $1 million from a truck in 2014

(Newser) - The FBI found buried treasure—approximately $600,000—in the backyard of a suburban Los Angeles home this week, Reuters reports. According to the Los Angeles Times , the twenties and hundreds making up the haul were carefully sealed in a large food storage bin a foot underground, between two trees....

After Historic Bank Heists,
$500K Oddly Returned

Jun 25, 2014 8:21 AM CDT

After Historic Bank Heists, $500K Oddly Returned

'Trash Talking Bandits' aren't thought to be behind the return

(Newser) - A weird twist in what are being painted as two of the largest bank heists in Colorado history: Less than a week after two bank robbers dubbed the "Trash Talking Bandits" successfully made off with a $500,000 score from a Wells Fargo branch in Wheat Ridge, that same...