Over the Easter weekend in 2015 daring thieves made away with an estimated £200m haul of diamonds and other jewellery after robbing safe deposit boxes at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd in London’s famous diamond quarter district of Hatton Garden.…
Over 1,500 pounds of metal was stolen, including over 700 pounds of gold. This was meant to be sent to Zurich and New York. A group of armed robbers stole a haul of gold bullion worth at least…
The most incredible robbery of all time took place in Baghdad the day before the US began bombing the city prior to the invasion of 2003. Saddam Hussein was determined to rescue as much as he could for himself and…
London Millennium Dome, 2000 Using a JCB digger to ram down fences, four robbers attempted to steal De Beers diamonds worth over £350m, including the 203 carat De Beers Millennium Star, from a display at the Millenium Dome on 7…
Britains Biggest Heist In the early morning hours of November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into Heathrow’s Brink’s-Mat Warehouse. They had been planning a heist of £3 million—an admirable haul. What they found instead was gold bullion—almost £26 million-worth,…
Philippine Airlines Flight 812 was a scheduled passenger flight from Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City to Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila. On May 25, 2000, an Airbus A330-301 operating on the route was hijacked by a man…
Antwerp, Belgium is one of the diamond capitals of the world, with 80 percent of the world’s diamonds passing through the city before being sold on the market. A number of heists have taken place there, most recently a…
Bonnie and Clyde, 1930-1934, $ stolen unknown Arguably the most famous (and infamous) bank robbers in history, there is no definitive tally of exactly how much Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole. What we do know is that, in the…
Everyone remembers the old time gangsters! but how much did they get away with ? Butch Cassidy’s run-ins with the law were not limited to bank robbery. Throughout his career Cassidy made headlines for looting trains and ranches along a…
The Real Pink Panther Gang Heists from Hollywood films Cool escapes Over $500 Million in stolen diamonds The Real Pink Panthers is the name given by Interpol to an international jewel thief network who are responsible for some…
The great Belgium diamond heist is a robbery straight out of Hollywood. The facts about the raid on a plane at Brussels airport are just astonishing! The well planned raid took just 3 minutes. Eight professional thieves dressed as…
On the night of St. Patrick’s Day, two police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They were responding to a call, they said, and so, the security guard let them in. Minutes later, both guards on duty that evening…
