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unusual facts about Bank robbery


Norco shootout

The Norco shootout was an armed confrontation between five heavily armed bank robbers and deputies of the Riverside and San Bernardino County sheriff's departments in Norco, California, United States on May 9, 1980.


American Greed

In addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens (Ponzi schemes; real estate and other investment frauds; bank robbery; identity theft; medical fraud; embezzlement; insurance fraud; murder-for-hire; art theft; credit card fraud; and, money laundering) are also featured.

Bugs Moran

Shortly after his release, Moran was again arrested for a bank robbery that occurred in Ansonia, Ohio on November 8, 1956.

Don Jail

In 1952, the jail was the subject of the first ever television news report on the CBC Television English network when the Boyd Gang, a notorious group of bank robbers, broke out of the facility for the second time.

Norman Skelhorn

In 1972, Skelhorn gave bank robber Bertie Smalls, Britain's first true supergrass, immunity from prosecution in light of the amounts and detail of his Queen's evidence.

The Doberman Gang

The Doberman Gang is a 1972 film about a talented animal trainer who uses a pack of Dobermans to commit a bank robbery.

Thieves in Black

The Thieves in Black is a media-coined name given to a supposed anarchist group responsible for numerous bank robberies in Athens, Greece.

Thomas Draper

Mandlebaum installed Draper, one of her trusted lieutenants, in a bank robbery gang fronted by George Leslie.


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Astrid Proll

Back in Germany, Proll's attempted murder charge was dropped when it was gathered that the state had withheld information that could have cleared her but she was still sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment on account of bank robbery and falsifying documents; however, she had already spent at least two-thirds of that time in German and English prisons and therefore was released immediately.

Baby Buggy Bunny

The story is about a dwarf gangster named "Babyface" Finster (a play on words on Baby Face Nelson) who, after a clever bank robbery, loses his ill-gotten gains down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, forcing him to don the disguise of an orphan baby to get it back.

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by year, 1961

George Martin Bradley - U.S. prisoner arrested May 1, 1961 in Davenport, Iowa by local police officers and identified after routine fingerprinting following an attempted bank robbery

For a Few Dollars More

The town of Agua Caliente, where Indio and his gang flee after the bank robbery, is Albaricoques, a small "pueblo blanco" on the Níjar plain.

Fred Burke

According to an eyewitness account in an article in The Chariton Collector magazine, Burke resided in a Kirksville, Missouri hotel for a few days prior to a local bank robbery.

George McJunkin

Hillerman, T. "Othello in Union County", The Great Taos Bank Robbery, 1973.

Labh Singh

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured."

Mitchell Rupe

Rupe was convicted for aggravated murder for fatally shooting two bank tellers in Olympia, Washington during a bank robbery in 1981.

Rick Gonzalez

He played the male lead in Mashonda's "Back of Tha Club" video; and has also starred in the video to the Obie Trice song "Snitch", where he plays a member of a group who successfully pull off a bank robbery, and then snitches on them.

Silverton, Oregon

The first bank robbery and chase scene in the movie Bandits (starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton) was filmed in Silverton.

Steve Asheim

On 25 January 2007, when making a trip to a bank in Innsbruck, Austria to make a deposit from Deicide merchandise sales, he was arrested on suspicion of connection with a recent bank robbery.

The Return of the Pink Panther

There are talks about him being reinstated as Inspector of the Sûreté, much to Dreyfus' chagrin, but after an incident during a bank robbery, Dreyfus suspends him for six months.

Tony Sokol

He recently contributed music to Elena Beloff's documentary on Russian immigrant women in America, Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York and the upcoming bank robbery film Desperate Fate.

Trapster

In the episode "Not a Toy", Trapster was shown in the midst of a bank robbery when Captain America's shield hits his glue pack which causes his own glue to cover Trapster enough to be apprehended by the police.

Tupiza

Legend has it that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their end at the hands of the Bolivian army near Tupiza, concluding their notorious string of bank robbery raids.