Sunday, March 31, 2013

1990 Art Thieves IDed by FBI

According to ABC the FBI has identified, though not publicly, the people involved in a massive 1990 art theft in Boston. 
On the night of March 18, 1990, two thieves posed as Boston police officers. Once inside the museum, they tied up the guards and left with 13 masterpieces, including works by Degas and Rembrandt, valued at a total of $500 million.

The statute of limitations has since run out on the theft and officials have said naming the suspects would be "imprudent," given the continuing effort to recover the art work. DesLauriers said the announcement today, on the 23rd anniversary of the heist, was intended to increase public awareness, possibly leading to the artwork being found.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Brussels Airport Diamonds Heist

The Guardian has a report on a very smoothly executed robbery at the Brussels airport where thieves dressed as police stole $50 million worth of diamonds.
The men flashed machine guns but no shots were fired as they took 120 parcels from the plane's hold, stacking them in their vehicles. They fled at high speed through the hole in the security fence. The van believed to have been used in the raid was later found burnt out just outside Brussels.
Ine Van Wymersch, spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor, said: "They were well prepared. There were passengers on the plane but they saw nothing of what was going on."