Theft of Swedish Crown Jewels

According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen (also Yahoo News and the BBC ) thieves smashed the case of a display holding the Swedish crown jewels and then fled the area in a waiting speedboat.

On Tuesday, two thieves stole one 17th century golden orb and two crowns from a cathedral near Stockholm where they had been on display in an alarm-locked glass box, before escaping by speedboat into the Mälaren lake that spans 120 kilometres and is filled with hundreds of small islands.