Big Time Heists

Big-time heists There were more than 2 million robberies and burglaries in this country in 2010. The total cash value of the 5,000-plus bank jobs was more than enough to pay the salary of every player of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROe T CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS Iraq, March 18, 2001 In the ultimate inside job, Saddam Hussein, just before U.S. and coalition forces began their Harry Winston jeweler. Dec. 5, 2008 A pack of four robbers entered the upscale jewelry store just before the shop was set to close. They cleaned out the display cases and then forced employees to plunder the stock area. More than two dozen people have since been apprehended. AFRICA "shock and awe" campaign, sent one of his sons o make a withdrawal from the Central Bank of Iraq. Qusay, with a hand-written note from his father, managed to get about $1 billion. American soldiers were able to find about $650 million, but the remaining cash has never been recovered. Liberia VALUE: $108 million Equivalent to Minnesota Vikings payroll (est.). VALUE: $1 billion equivalent to GDP of Liberia (est.). United California Bank, Laguna Niguel March 24, 1972 Rochester, N.Y. 1990 Adjusted for inflation, this heist was worth more than $100 million. At the time, it was considered a world record plundering. A group of seven Ohioans looted the safe deposit vault. All were eventually arrested by the FBI. The driver of an armored truck admitted he helped carry out what at the time was the largest such heist in U.S. history. The truck was taking unmarked bills to the Federal Reserve Bank in Buffalo when the crew pulled over for a pit stop. COMPARISON: $30 million Equivalent to 10 30-second Super Bowl ads. Armed robbers assaulted the truck, drove it to a nearby area, unloaded more than a ton of cash. and got away. In today's Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Gardner Museum, Boston. March 18, 1990 dollars, the heist would have netted more than Feb. 25, 2005 In what's believed to be the largest diamond theft in history, a group of thieves drove up to a KLM cargo truck and ordered the drivers out. Then they simply got in the vehicle and drove away. Several people have been tied to the theft. Two men dressed as cops tricked Gardner Museum guards they were police responding to a call. The pair of fake police then spent a little over an hour selecting 12 pieces of art with a total value over $300 million - that's more than $500 million in today's dollars. Included in the paintings taken were three by Rembrandt and one by Dutch painter Vermeer. The thieves took the museum's security tapes, fled and were never heard from again. The case remains unsolved. $18 million. VALUE: $10.8 million Equivalent to 95 shares of Berkshire-Hathaway, the single most expensive stock on the NYSE. VALUE: $118 million Equivalent to Oprah Winfrey's Montecito, California estate, $55 million, twice. VALUE: $300 million Equivalent to two trips around the moon. JFK airport, New York. 1978 Columbia, S.C. 2007 Immortalized in the film Five men, including two employees, stole $9.8 million from an armored truck, assaulting a driver along the way. Police said the men sparked suspicion after going on a spending spree of cars, tattoos and Mother's Day gifts. "GoodFellas," the Lufthansa heist was a daring early-morning raid of cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa airlines cargo area at JFK airport. The mafia-connected robbers Salt Lake City Safe deposit vault, Knightsbridge, England. July 12, 1987 managed to get more than $5 million in cash and UTAH Valerio Viccei and an accomplice entered the Knightsbridge bank safe deposit center and asked to rent a deposit box. After they were led into the vault, they overcame the manager and guards. They then let in more accomplices and proceeded to plunder the safe deposit boxes. Their take in today's dollars would amount to nearly $175 million. Viccei eluded capture for years before being caught in England attempting to retrieve his car. VALUE: $9.8 million Equivalent to almost seven $1.42 million hundreds of thousands in jewelry without tripping an alarm or firing a single shot. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery ever on U.S. soil. Lamborghini Reventions, one of the most expensive new cars in the world. VALUE: $6 million Equivalent to 121,951 Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings. VALUE: $94.4 million Equivalent to 188,376 iPads, enough for every resident of Salt Lake City, Utah to have one. London , May 2, 1990 New York Muggers struck a bank messenger carrying millions of dollars' worth of bearer bonds, which are the equivalent of cash. One man was arrested and sentenced in the crime, while all but two of the bonds eventually were recovered. Brónxville Washington DC COMPARISON: $460 million Equivalent to 7,774 years of tuition at Sarah Lawrence College, enough to send every resident of Bronxville, N.Y., to the college for one year. anoss POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS OT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS T CROSS PUL Brought to you by ate-moon-fights-detals hemi htlwww.atudieectory.comRootn-salares ADVANCED DIRECT SECURITY hptverse.com20012010-agest eresno htpwww.cbsports.com aries htp:www.bi govitats servicespublicationsbank-crime statstics 20sotank-omestadistics-2010 M ftohones.com e -canantorghinte htp://www.apple.com/pad htp:en wikipeda.orgwikitt.of Unted Sutes.ctes by populaton heplenwikipedia.orgwiiBronvile. New York Htp:en.wkipeda.org/wikit.tera ADT Authorized Company plenwikipedia.orgwikituhana heist Big-time heists There were more than 2 million robberies and burglaries in this country in 2010. The total cash value of the 5,000-plus bank jobs was more than enough to pay the salary of every player of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROe T CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS Iraq, March 18, 2001 In the ultimate inside job, Saddam Hussein, just before U.S. and coalition forces began their Harry Winston jeweler. Dec. 5, 2008 A pack of four robbers entered the upscale jewelry store just before the shop was set to close. They cleaned out the display cases and then forced employees to plunder the stock area. More than two dozen people have since been apprehended. AFRICA "shock and awe" campaign, sent one of his sons o make a withdrawal from the Central Bank of Iraq. Qusay, with a hand-written note from his father, managed to get about $1 billion. American soldiers were able to find about $650 million, but the remaining cash has never been recovered. Liberia VALUE: $108 million Equivalent to Minnesota Vikings payroll (est.). VALUE: $1 billion equivalent to GDP of Liberia (est.). United California Bank, Laguna Niguel March 24, 1972 Rochester, N.Y. 1990 Adjusted for inflation, this heist was worth more than $100 million. At the time, it was considered a world record plundering. A group of seven Ohioans looted the safe deposit vault. All were eventually arrested by the FBI. The driver of an armored truck admitted he helped carry out what at the time was the largest such heist in U.S. history. The truck was taking unmarked bills to the Federal Reserve Bank in Buffalo when the crew pulled over for a pit stop. COMPARISON: $30 million Equivalent to 10 30-second Super Bowl ads. Armed robbers assaulted the truck, drove it to a nearby area, unloaded more than a ton of cash. and got away. In today's Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Gardner Museum, Boston. March 18, 1990 dollars, the heist would have netted more than Feb. 25, 2005 In what's believed to be the largest diamond theft in history, a group of thieves drove up to a KLM cargo truck and ordered the drivers out. Then they simply got in the vehicle and drove away. Several people have been tied to the theft. Two men dressed as cops tricked Gardner Museum guards they were police responding to a call. The pair of fake police then spent a little over an hour selecting 12 pieces of art with a total value over $300 million - that's more than $500 million in today's dollars. Included in the paintings taken were three by Rembrandt and one by Dutch painter Vermeer. The thieves took the museum's security tapes, fled and were never heard from again. The case remains unsolved. $18 million. VALUE: $10.8 million Equivalent to 95 shares of Berkshire-Hathaway, the single most expensive stock on the NYSE. VALUE: $118 million Equivalent to Oprah Winfrey's Montecito, California estate, $55 million, twice. VALUE: $300 million Equivalent to two trips around the moon. JFK airport, New York. 1978 Columbia, S.C. 2007 Immortalized in the film Five men, including two employees, stole $9.8 million from an armored truck, assaulting a driver along the way. Police said the men sparked suspicion after going on a spending spree of cars, tattoos and Mother's Day gifts. "GoodFellas," the Lufthansa heist was a daring early-morning raid of cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa airlines cargo area at JFK airport. The mafia-connected robbers Salt Lake City Safe deposit vault, Knightsbridge, England. July 12, 1987 managed to get more than $5 million in cash and UTAH Valerio Viccei and an accomplice entered the Knightsbridge bank safe deposit center and asked to rent a deposit box. After they were led into the vault, they overcame the manager and guards. They then let in more accomplices and proceeded to plunder the safe deposit boxes. Their take in today's dollars would amount to nearly $175 million. Viccei eluded capture for years before being caught in England attempting to retrieve his car. VALUE: $9.8 million Equivalent to almost seven $1.42 million hundreds of thousands in jewelry without tripping an alarm or firing a single shot. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery ever on U.S. soil. Lamborghini Reventions, one of the most expensive new cars in the world. VALUE: $6 million Equivalent to 121,951 Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings. VALUE: $94.4 million Equivalent to 188,376 iPads, enough for every resident of Salt Lake City, Utah to have one. London , May 2, 1990 New York Muggers struck a bank messenger carrying millions of dollars' worth of bearer bonds, which are the equivalent of cash. One man was arrested and sentenced in the crime, while all but two of the bonds eventually were recovered. Brónxville Washington DC COMPARISON: $460 million Equivalent to 7,774 years of tuition at Sarah Lawrence College, enough to send every resident of Bronxville, N.Y., to the college for one year. anoss POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS OT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS T CROSS PUL Brought to you by ate-moon-fights-detals hemi htlwww.atudieectory.comRootn-salares ADVANCED DIRECT SECURITY hptverse.com20012010-agest eresno htpwww.cbsports.com aries htp:www.bi govitats servicespublicationsbank-crime statstics 20sotank-omestadistics-2010 M ftohones.com e -canantorghinte htp://www.apple.com/pad htp:en wikipeda.orgwikitt.of Unted Sutes.ctes by populaton heplenwikipedia.orgwiiBronvile. New York Htp:en.wkipeda.org/wikit.tera ADT Authorized Company plenwikipedia.orgwikituhana heist Big-time heists There were more than 2 million robberies and burglaries in this country in 2010. The total cash value of the 5,000-plus bank jobs was more than enough to pay the salary of every player of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROe T CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS Iraq, March 18, 2001 In the ultimate inside job, Saddam Hussein, just before U.S. and coalition forces began their Harry Winston jeweler. Dec. 5, 2008 A pack of four robbers entered the upscale jewelry store just before the shop was set to close. They cleaned out the display cases and then forced employees to plunder the stock area. More than two dozen people have since been apprehended. AFRICA "shock and awe" campaign, sent one of his sons o make a withdrawal from the Central Bank of Iraq. Qusay, with a hand-written note from his father, managed to get about $1 billion. American soldiers were able to find about $650 million, but the remaining cash has never been recovered. Liberia VALUE: $108 million Equivalent to Minnesota Vikings payroll (est.). VALUE: $1 billion equivalent to GDP of Liberia (est.). United California Bank, Laguna Niguel March 24, 1972 Rochester, N.Y. 1990 Adjusted for inflation, this heist was worth more than $100 million. At the time, it was considered a world record plundering. A group of seven Ohioans looted the safe deposit vault. All were eventually arrested by the FBI. The driver of an armored truck admitted he helped carry out what at the time was the largest such heist in U.S. history. The truck was taking unmarked bills to the Federal Reserve Bank in Buffalo when the crew pulled over for a pit stop. COMPARISON: $30 million Equivalent to 10 30-second Super Bowl ads. Armed robbers assaulted the truck, drove it to a nearby area, unloaded more than a ton of cash. and got away. In today's Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Gardner Museum, Boston. March 18, 1990 dollars, the heist would have netted more than Feb. 25, 2005 In what's believed to be the largest diamond theft in history, a group of thieves drove up to a KLM cargo truck and ordered the drivers out. Then they simply got in the vehicle and drove away. Several people have been tied to the theft. Two men dressed as cops tricked Gardner Museum guards they were police responding to a call. The pair of fake police then spent a little over an hour selecting 12 pieces of art with a total value over $300 million - that's more than $500 million in today's dollars. Included in the paintings taken were three by Rembrandt and one by Dutch painter Vermeer. The thieves took the museum's security tapes, fled and were never heard from again. The case remains unsolved. $18 million. VALUE: $10.8 million Equivalent to 95 shares of Berkshire-Hathaway, the single most expensive stock on the NYSE. VALUE: $118 million Equivalent to Oprah Winfrey's Montecito, California estate, $55 million, twice. VALUE: $300 million Equivalent to two trips around the moon. JFK airport, New York. 1978 Columbia, S.C. 2007 Immortalized in the film Five men, including two employees, stole $9.8 million from an armored truck, assaulting a driver along the way. Police said the men sparked suspicion after going on a spending spree of cars, tattoos and Mother's Day gifts. "GoodFellas," the Lufthansa heist was a daring early-morning raid of cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa airlines cargo area at JFK airport. The mafia-connected robbers Salt Lake City Safe deposit vault, Knightsbridge, England. July 12, 1987 managed to get more than $5 million in cash and UTAH Valerio Viccei and an accomplice entered the Knightsbridge bank safe deposit center and asked to rent a deposit box. After they were led into the vault, they overcame the manager and guards. They then let in more accomplices and proceeded to plunder the safe deposit boxes. Their take in today's dollars would amount to nearly $175 million. Viccei eluded capture for years before being caught in England attempting to retrieve his car. VALUE: $9.8 million Equivalent to almost seven $1.42 million hundreds of thousands in jewelry without tripping an alarm or firing a single shot. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery ever on U.S. soil. Lamborghini Reventions, one of the most expensive new cars in the world. VALUE: $6 million Equivalent to 121,951 Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings. VALUE: $94.4 million Equivalent to 188,376 iPads, enough for every resident of Salt Lake City, Utah to have one. London , May 2, 1990 New York Muggers struck a bank messenger carrying millions of dollars' worth of bearer bonds, which are the equivalent of cash. One man was arrested and sentenced in the crime, while all but two of the bonds eventually were recovered. Brónxville Washington DC COMPARISON: $460 million Equivalent to 7,774 years of tuition at Sarah Lawrence College, enough to send every resident of Bronxville, N.Y., to the college for one year. anoss POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS OT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS T CROSS PUL Brought to you by ate-moon-fights-detals hemi htlwww.atudieectory.comRootn-salares ADVANCED DIRECT SECURITY hptverse.com20012010-agest eresno htpwww.cbsports.com aries htp:www.bi govitats servicespublicationsbank-crime statstics 20sotank-omestadistics-2010 M ftohones.com e -canantorghinte htp://www.apple.com/pad htp:en wikipeda.orgwikitt.of Unted Sutes.ctes by populaton heplenwikipedia.orgwiiBronvile. New York Htp:en.wkipeda.org/wikit.tera ADT Authorized Company plenwikipedia.orgwikituhana heist Big-time heists There were more than 2 million robberies and burglaries in this country in 2010. The total cash value of the 5,000-plus bank jobs was more than enough to pay the salary of every player of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROe T CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS Iraq, March 18, 2001 In the ultimate inside job, Saddam Hussein, just before U.S. and coalition forces began their Harry Winston jeweler. Dec. 5, 2008 A pack of four robbers entered the upscale jewelry store just before the shop was set to close. They cleaned out the display cases and then forced employees to plunder the stock area. More than two dozen people have since been apprehended. AFRICA "shock and awe" campaign, sent one of his sons o make a withdrawal from the Central Bank of Iraq. Qusay, with a hand-written note from his father, managed to get about $1 billion. American soldiers were able to find about $650 million, but the remaining cash has never been recovered. Liberia VALUE: $108 million Equivalent to Minnesota Vikings payroll (est.). VALUE: $1 billion equivalent to GDP of Liberia (est.). United California Bank, Laguna Niguel March 24, 1972 Rochester, N.Y. 1990 Adjusted for inflation, this heist was worth more than $100 million. At the time, it was considered a world record plundering. A group of seven Ohioans looted the safe deposit vault. All were eventually arrested by the FBI. The driver of an armored truck admitted he helped carry out what at the time was the largest such heist in U.S. history. The truck was taking unmarked bills to the Federal Reserve Bank in Buffalo when the crew pulled over for a pit stop. COMPARISON: $30 million Equivalent to 10 30-second Super Bowl ads. Armed robbers assaulted the truck, drove it to a nearby area, unloaded more than a ton of cash. and got away. In today's Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Gardner Museum, Boston. March 18, 1990 dollars, the heist would have netted more than Feb. 25, 2005 In what's believed to be the largest diamond theft in history, a group of thieves drove up to a KLM cargo truck and ordered the drivers out. Then they simply got in the vehicle and drove away. Several people have been tied to the theft. Two men dressed as cops tricked Gardner Museum guards they were police responding to a call. The pair of fake police then spent a little over an hour selecting 12 pieces of art with a total value over $300 million - that's more than $500 million in today's dollars. Included in the paintings taken were three by Rembrandt and one by Dutch painter Vermeer. The thieves took the museum's security tapes, fled and were never heard from again. The case remains unsolved. $18 million. VALUE: $10.8 million Equivalent to 95 shares of Berkshire-Hathaway, the single most expensive stock on the NYSE. VALUE: $118 million Equivalent to Oprah Winfrey's Montecito, California estate, $55 million, twice. VALUE: $300 million Equivalent to two trips around the moon. JFK airport, New York. 1978 Columbia, S.C. 2007 Immortalized in the film Five men, including two employees, stole $9.8 million from an armored truck, assaulting a driver along the way. Police said the men sparked suspicion after going on a spending spree of cars, tattoos and Mother's Day gifts. "GoodFellas," the Lufthansa heist was a daring early-morning raid of cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa airlines cargo area at JFK airport. The mafia-connected robbers Salt Lake City Safe deposit vault, Knightsbridge, England. July 12, 1987 managed to get more than $5 million in cash and UTAH Valerio Viccei and an accomplice entered the Knightsbridge bank safe deposit center and asked to rent a deposit box. After they were led into the vault, they overcame the manager and guards. They then let in more accomplices and proceeded to plunder the safe deposit boxes. Their take in today's dollars would amount to nearly $175 million. Viccei eluded capture for years before being caught in England attempting to retrieve his car. VALUE: $9.8 million Equivalent to almost seven $1.42 million hundreds of thousands in jewelry without tripping an alarm or firing a single shot. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery ever on U.S. soil. Lamborghini Reventions, one of the most expensive new cars in the world. VALUE: $6 million Equivalent to 121,951 Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings. VALUE: $94.4 million Equivalent to 188,376 iPads, enough for every resident of Salt Lake City, Utah to have one. London , May 2, 1990 New York Muggers struck a bank messenger carrying millions of dollars' worth of bearer bonds, which are the equivalent of cash. One man was arrested and sentenced in the crime, while all but two of the bonds eventually were recovered. Brónxville Washington DC COMPARISON: $460 million Equivalent to 7,774 years of tuition at Sarah Lawrence College, enough to send every resident of Bronxville, N.Y., to the college for one year. anoss POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS OT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS T CROSS PUL Brought to you by ate-moon-fights-detals hemi htlwww.atudieectory.comRootn-salares ADVANCED DIRECT SECURITY hptverse.com20012010-agest eresno htpwww.cbsports.com aries htp:www.bi govitats servicespublicationsbank-crime statstics 20sotank-omestadistics-2010 M ftohones.com e -canantorghinte htp://www.apple.com/pad htp:en wikipeda.orgwikitt.of Unted Sutes.ctes by populaton heplenwikipedia.orgwiiBronvile. New York Htp:en.wkipeda.org/wikit.tera ADT Authorized Company plenwikipedia.orgwikituhana heist Big-time heists There were more than 2 million robberies and burglaries in this country in 2010. The total cash value of the 5,000-plus bank jobs was more than enough to pay the salary of every player of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROe T CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS Iraq, March 18, 2001 In the ultimate inside job, Saddam Hussein, just before U.S. and coalition forces began their Harry Winston jeweler. Dec. 5, 2008 A pack of four robbers entered the upscale jewelry store just before the shop was set to close. They cleaned out the display cases and then forced employees to plunder the stock area. More than two dozen people have since been apprehended. AFRICA "shock and awe" campaign, sent one of his sons o make a withdrawal from the Central Bank of Iraq. Qusay, with a hand-written note from his father, managed to get about $1 billion. American soldiers were able to find about $650 million, but the remaining cash has never been recovered. Liberia VALUE: $108 million Equivalent to Minnesota Vikings payroll (est.). VALUE: $1 billion equivalent to GDP of Liberia (est.). United California Bank, Laguna Niguel March 24, 1972 Rochester, N.Y. 1990 Adjusted for inflation, this heist was worth more than $100 million. At the time, it was considered a world record plundering. A group of seven Ohioans looted the safe deposit vault. All were eventually arrested by the FBI. The driver of an armored truck admitted he helped carry out what at the time was the largest such heist in U.S. history. The truck was taking unmarked bills to the Federal Reserve Bank in Buffalo when the crew pulled over for a pit stop. COMPARISON: $30 million Equivalent to 10 30-second Super Bowl ads. Armed robbers assaulted the truck, drove it to a nearby area, unloaded more than a ton of cash. and got away. In today's Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Gardner Museum, Boston. March 18, 1990 dollars, the heist would have netted more than Feb. 25, 2005 In what's believed to be the largest diamond theft in history, a group of thieves drove up to a KLM cargo truck and ordered the drivers out. Then they simply got in the vehicle and drove away. Several people have been tied to the theft. Two men dressed as cops tricked Gardner Museum guards they were police responding to a call. The pair of fake police then spent a little over an hour selecting 12 pieces of art with a total value over $300 million - that's more than $500 million in today's dollars. Included in the paintings taken were three by Rembrandt and one by Dutch painter Vermeer. The thieves took the museum's security tapes, fled and were never heard from again. The case remains unsolved. $18 million. VALUE: $10.8 million Equivalent to 95 shares of Berkshire-Hathaway, the single most expensive stock on the NYSE. VALUE: $118 million Equivalent to Oprah Winfrey's Montecito, California estate, $55 million, twice. VALUE: $300 million Equivalent to two trips around the moon. JFK airport, New York. 1978 Columbia, S.C. 2007 Immortalized in the film Five men, including two employees, stole $9.8 million from an armored truck, assaulting a driver along the way. Police said the men sparked suspicion after going on a spending spree of cars, tattoos and Mother's Day gifts. "GoodFellas," the Lufthansa heist was a daring early-morning raid of cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa airlines cargo area at JFK airport. The mafia-connected robbers Salt Lake City Safe deposit vault, Knightsbridge, England. July 12, 1987 managed to get more than $5 million in cash and UTAH Valerio Viccei and an accomplice entered the Knightsbridge bank safe deposit center and asked to rent a deposit box. After they were led into the vault, they overcame the manager and guards. They then let in more accomplices and proceeded to plunder the safe deposit boxes. Their take in today's dollars would amount to nearly $175 million. Viccei eluded capture for years before being caught in England attempting to retrieve his car. VALUE: $9.8 million Equivalent to almost seven $1.42 million hundreds of thousands in jewelry without tripping an alarm or firing a single shot. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery ever on U.S. soil. Lamborghini Reventions, one of the most expensive new cars in the world. VALUE: $6 million Equivalent to 121,951 Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings. VALUE: $94.4 million Equivalent to 188,376 iPads, enough for every resident of Salt Lake City, Utah to have one. London , May 2, 1990 New York Muggers struck a bank messenger carrying millions of dollars' worth of bearer bonds, which are the equivalent of cash. One man was arrested and sentenced in the crime, while all but two of the bonds eventually were recovered. Brónxville Washington DC COMPARISON: $460 million Equivalent to 7,774 years of tuition at Sarah Lawrence College, enough to send every resident of Bronxville, N.Y., to the college for one year. anoss POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS OT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS T CROSS PUL Brought to you by ate-moon-fights-detals hemi htlwww.atudieectory.comRootn-salares ADVANCED DIRECT SECURITY hptverse.com20012010-agest eresno htpwww.cbsports.com aries htp:www.bi govitats servicespublicationsbank-crime statstics 20sotank-omestadistics-2010 M ftohones.com e -canantorghinte htp://www.apple.com/pad htp:en wikipeda.orgwikitt.of Unted Sutes.ctes by populaton heplenwikipedia.orgwiiBronvile. New York Htp:en.wkipeda.org/wikit.tera ADT Authorized Company plenwikipedia.orgwikituhana heist Big-time heists There were more than 2 million robberies and burglaries in this country in 2010. The total cash value of the 5,000-plus bank jobs was more than enough to pay the salary of every player of Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays. CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROe T CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS Iraq, March 18, 2001 In the ultimate inside job, Saddam Hussein, just before U.S. and coalition forces began their Harry Winston jeweler. Dec. 5, 2008 A pack of four robbers entered the upscale jewelry store just before the shop was set to close. They cleaned out the display cases and then forced employees to plunder the stock area. More than two dozen people have since been apprehended. AFRICA "shock and awe" campaign, sent one of his sons o make a withdrawal from the Central Bank of Iraq. Qusay, with a hand-written note from his father, managed to get about $1 billion. American soldiers were able to find about $650 million, but the remaining cash has never been recovered. Liberia VALUE: $108 million Equivalent to Minnesota Vikings payroll (est.). VALUE: $1 billion equivalent to GDP of Liberia (est.). United California Bank, Laguna Niguel March 24, 1972 Rochester, N.Y. 1990 Adjusted for inflation, this heist was worth more than $100 million. At the time, it was considered a world record plundering. A group of seven Ohioans looted the safe deposit vault. All were eventually arrested by the FBI. The driver of an armored truck admitted he helped carry out what at the time was the largest such heist in U.S. history. The truck was taking unmarked bills to the Federal Reserve Bank in Buffalo when the crew pulled over for a pit stop. COMPARISON: $30 million Equivalent to 10 30-second Super Bowl ads. Armed robbers assaulted the truck, drove it to a nearby area, unloaded more than a ton of cash. and got away. In today's Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Gardner Museum, Boston. March 18, 1990 dollars, the heist would have netted more than Feb. 25, 2005 In what's believed to be the largest diamond theft in history, a group of thieves drove up to a KLM cargo truck and ordered the drivers out. Then they simply got in the vehicle and drove away. Several people have been tied to the theft. Two men dressed as cops tricked Gardner Museum guards they were police responding to a call. The pair of fake police then spent a little over an hour selecting 12 pieces of art with a total value over $300 million - that's more than $500 million in today's dollars. Included in the paintings taken were three by Rembrandt and one by Dutch painter Vermeer. The thieves took the museum's security tapes, fled and were never heard from again. The case remains unsolved. $18 million. VALUE: $10.8 million Equivalent to 95 shares of Berkshire-Hathaway, the single most expensive stock on the NYSE. VALUE: $118 million Equivalent to Oprah Winfrey's Montecito, California estate, $55 million, twice. VALUE: $300 million Equivalent to two trips around the moon. JFK airport, New York. 1978 Columbia, S.C. 2007 Immortalized in the film Five men, including two employees, stole $9.8 million from an armored truck, assaulting a driver along the way. Police said the men sparked suspicion after going on a spending spree of cars, tattoos and Mother's Day gifts. "GoodFellas," the Lufthansa heist was a daring early-morning raid of cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa airlines cargo area at JFK airport. The mafia-connected robbers Salt Lake City Safe deposit vault, Knightsbridge, England. July 12, 1987 managed to get more than $5 million in cash and UTAH Valerio Viccei and an accomplice entered the Knightsbridge bank safe deposit center and asked to rent a deposit box. After they were led into the vault, they overcame the manager and guards. They then let in more accomplices and proceeded to plunder the safe deposit boxes. Their take in today's dollars would amount to nearly $175 million. Viccei eluded capture for years before being caught in England attempting to retrieve his car. VALUE: $9.8 million Equivalent to almost seven $1.42 million hundreds of thousands in jewelry without tripping an alarm or firing a single shot. At the time, it was the largest cash robbery ever on U.S. soil. Lamborghini Reventions, one of the most expensive new cars in the world. VALUE: $6 million Equivalent to 121,951 Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings. VALUE: $94.4 million Equivalent to 188,376 iPads, enough for every resident of Salt Lake City, Utah to have one. London , May 2, 1990 New York Muggers struck a bank messenger carrying millions of dollars' worth of bearer bonds, which are the equivalent of cash. One man was arrested and sentenced in the crime, while all but two of the bonds eventually were recovered. 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