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...that a nearby bank had been robbed. Deciding that it was unsafe to walk around with so much cash, Sabine walked over to a second downtown bank, People's Heritage. There, he began filling out forms to open a checking account. An alert teller, who had heard about the heist two blocks away, took one look at Sabine and, despite his new coat, called the police. Said a bank official, he "was not our usual kind of customer." Just 59 minutes after he walked out of Maine National, Sabine was arrested for bank robbery...
Harvard students were attacked on University property in two separate incidents last weekend, and a potpourri of other crimes--including a jewel heist and a man stealing $50 from a dorm room while two students were home--have been reported to Harvard Police since last Friday, November...
...Jewel Heist...
...headquarters on June 5, 1974, including about 3000 of the hand-written memos through which Hughes conducted all of his business. After the L.A. Police Department, the FBI and the CIA gave up their investigation of the crime, Drosnin, by winning the friendship of the burglar who led the heist, finally got his hands on the billionaire's dirty laundry. And for seven years, Drosnin lived underground as "Michael Howard," poring over the revealing documents, interviewing dozens of sources, and assembling the chronicle of, as he puts it. "How Howard Hughes tried to buy America...
...secret, neo-Nazi organization called the Brotherhood of Silence. Last week Charles Ostrout, 51, and Ronald Allen King, 45, were arrested by FBI agents in California and charged with conspiring to rob Brink's main storage vault in San Francisco. Ostrout was also charged with the sensational $3.6 million heist last July of a Brink's truck in Northern California. The arrests culminated an investigation that included the arrest in late November of Gary Lee Yarborough, allegedly a Brotherhood leader and a suspect in the murder of Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show personality...