FBI closes DB Cooper investigation

The FBI has announced that it is closing the 45 year old investigation into the DB Cooper hijacking.

Hatton Garden sentences

The BBC has an article about the sentences in the Hatton Garden heist.  Roughly seven years each though given the ages of the robbers that is probably a large chunk of their remaining lives.  Around a third of the stolen fourteen million pounds has been recovered.

More meta

Another meta post in the followup to Hatton Garden, this time from the Daily Beast.

The Future of Heists

The Telegraph has an article about the future of heists in the wake of the Hatton Garden heist.

Caught rigging the lottery

BGR.com have an article about an insider who fixed the Multi-State Lottery.  The interesting part from our point of view is how he got caught.

In 2012, lottery officials in Iowa grew suspicious when a New York lawyer “representing a newly created trust” withdrew a claim for a $16.5 million jackpot after being asked to reveal who had initially purchased the ticket. Curious as to who in their right mind would turn down $16.5 million, video of the winning ticket purchase was eventually released to the public.

NYT on the Hatton Garden Heist

The New York Times has an article about the aging thieves who pulled off the largest cash robbery in British history.

Blowing Up ATMs

Bloomberg.com has an article about a  gang in the UK that stole cash from ATMs by filling them with gas and then blowing them up.  Dangerous but effective - at least in 2014.