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...clockwork heist that lasted just two minutes. In that brief time, the four stickup men netted what was probably the biggest holdup haul in French history: $3,540,000. But the question that bedeviled Frenchmen last week was what in the world the culprits thought they could do with their loot. The bandits had made off with newly minted, neatly packaged, bronze-colored ten-franc coins-1,770,000 of them, to be exact-that weighed 17.7 tons and would require nearly 30 cu. yds. of space merely to store. If the four bandits each spend...
...believed by police to have made up to 16 hits as the Mob's West Coast executioner. When the Gambino and Chicago mobsters decided in 1975 to move into the West, they tapped Fratianno as their point man. With their blessing, he recruited Rizzitello, now 50, a handsome stickup artist who migrated to Los Angeles in the early 1960s because he wanted an easy racket and the respect that he had never got from the hoodlums back home. Both were a long time coming, but now he is rising quickly in influence and power. Says a West Coast lawman: "Rizzitello...
Considering inflation and the risk of serving 10-to-20, a $100 stickup is not what it used to be. And why chance it when a little dognaping can turn a bigger profit? According to Duncan Wright, director of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, there has been a marked increase in "demands for ransom to return animals." The ransom bite usually ranges between $150 and $200. Sometimes those seeking ransom do not even have the animal; they pose as dog finders when they see the phone number of a grief-stricken owner in "Dog Lost...
...cleaner burglary in East Alton, he was surprised re-entering the place for more loot by cops who had noticed the window ajar. After stealing postal money orders in Illinois with a friend, he left a trail of poorly forged cashed orders and was caught. During two grocery-store stickups in St. Louis, he and accomplices scooped up about $2,000 from cash registers and passed up some $30,000 in locked safes. Arrested after the second stickup, he insisted on taking the stand in his own defense and was unable to offer a credible alibi. On March...
...apartment at 625 Morse Street where Patty and Yoshimura were captured, the FBI discovered a single greenback-denomination undisclosed-that was stolen from the bank in Carmichael. It was a "bait bill"-a piece of currency, whose serial number has been previously recorded, that bank tellers often surrender to stickup men in the hope that the loot may be traced...