Cash, jewellery worth Rs.2 mn looted from businessman's houseOctober 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a daring, daylight dacoity, eight armed men Friday barged into the house of a businessman in northeast Delhi, and fled with cash and jewllery worth Rs.2 million after threatening his wife and three daughters-in-law at a gun point. The incident took place in New Usmanpur area when the masked robbers entered the ground floor house of Pawan Kumar Jain around 11 a.m.
Armed robbers loot passengers in Delhi-bound trainSeptember 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A group of five-six armed robbers looted passengers on a train headed to Delhi of cash, jewellery and other valuables in the suburbs of the national capital Monday. Police said they had found "definitive" clues and would arrest the robbers soon.
Robbers in Sweden use helicopter to escape after brazen cash depot heist in StockholmSeptember 23rd, 2009 Robbers in Sweden use chopper in cash depot theftSTOCKHOLM — Robbers used a helicopter Wednesday in a spectacular raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, breaking into the building through the roof and flying off with bags of cash, police and witnesses said. The pre-dawn heist stunned police in the Swedish capital, who were unable to deploy their own helicopters to the scene because of suspected explosives placed at their hangar.
FBI: 2 robbers, 3 months, 17 bank robberies in Seattle areaSeptember 9th, 2009 2 robbers, 3 months, 17 Washington bank robberiesSEATTLE — The FBI believes two men are responsible for 17 bank robberies since May in the Seattle area. Agents say they are the most prolific bank robbers in the area in three years.
Gas agency owner robbed in DelhiAugust 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A gas agency owner was robbed of nearly Rs. 200,000 by three motorcycle borne robbers in east Delhi Thursday, police said.
Man robbed of Rs.2 mn in DelhiAugust 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three armed robbers Monday snatched a bag containing Rs.2 million in cash from a man who was going to a bank to deposit the money, a Delhi Police official said. Mohammed Arif, a resident of Hapur in Uttar Pradesh, was going to deposit the money at a bank in IP Extension in east Delhi, when the robbers snatched the bag from his hand, the official said.
Robbers take away the whole ATMAugust 1st, 2009 HOSHIARPUR - Unable to break open the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a private bank here, robbers took away the entire machine late Friday night. But two policemen chased them and got the ATM back before it could be broken open.
Bikers shoot bank employee, loot Rs.950,000July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Four men on motorcycles waylaid two bank employees in west Delhi and snatched Rs.950,00 after shooting one of them Monday, police said. Surender, field officer of the Sarvajanik Sahakari Bank in Trinagar, and Ashwini, a peon, were travelling in an auto-rickshaw when the robbers stopped them near Prem Bari in Keshavpuram area around 3.30 p.m.
Masked gunmen rob Los Angeles medical marijuana store of pot, $15,000 cashJune 19th, 2009 Los Angeles marijuana store robbed of pot, cashLOS ANGELES — Robbers in ski masks got away with pot and cash in a stickup at a Los Angeles medical marijuana store. Police spokesman Richard French says three gunmen held up the Gourmet Green Room dispensary shortly before 11 p.m.
Robbers loot Rs.33 lakh from Jharkhand bankJune 19th, 2009 RANCHI - Unidentified men Friday looted Rs.33 lakh (Rs.3.3 million) at gun point from a bank in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district, police said. According to police, around half a dozen robbers entered UCO Bank near Malvia Road in Hazaribagh town at 11.30 a.m.
Robbers overpower elderly couple; loot cash, jewelleryJune 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A group of robbers Tuesday barged into a south Delhi home, tied its occupants - a 70-year-old man, his wife, 65, and two domestic helps - with ropes and decamped with Rs.800,000 in cash and jewellery worth Rs.1 million, police said. The robbers, one of them masked, scaled the walls of Bala Ram's Chhattarpur house around 2 a.m., police said, adding that they suspect an insider's hand behind the heist as the robbers "knew the house in and out".
The 'smarty pants' bank customer who stole cell phone but forgot his cash!June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A bank customer may have become the butt of everyone's jokes after he stole someone's cell phone resting on the counter, but left without taking his 1,462 dollars with him. The cell phone owner informed the police, and the mugger was later identified as a certain Liu.
Robbers loot Rs.61 lakh, shoot at two bank employeesJune 11th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - In a daring daylight robbery here Thursday, four armed men shot and injured two bank employees who were transporting money to the bank's headquarters before fleeing with Rs.61 lakh in cash, police said. The incident occurred around 11 a.m.
Guards foil attempt to loot ATM in Gujarat townJune 2nd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Two private security guards Tuesday foiled an attempt by three men to snatch away two bags of currency notes from bank officials outside an ATM in Gandhidham town of Kutch district, police said. The robbers had positioned themselves near the ATM at the IFFCO gate early in the morning to wait for the bank officials to arrive for putting cash in the machine, a police official said on telephone from Gandhidham, 300 km from Ahmedabad.
Motorbike-borne robbers strike again, loot Rs.500,000May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In the third such incident in a week, two motorbike-borne robbers Monday snatched a bag containing Rs.500,000 from the manager of a manufacturing firm while he was waiting outside a bank in west Delhi. The robbers snatched the money from Rajmal Shah, 57, a manager with DR Plastics, from outside the HDFC bank's Rajouri Garden branch at around 11.45 a.m.
TIJUANA - Two men drove their vehicle at high speed into a bank in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, shattering the windows and stealing $40,000 that a customer was about to deposit, police said. Bank employees and customers initially thought there had been a car accident Monday, but the vehicle’s two armed occupants jumped out and threatened a customer who was carrying 400,000 pesos (about $30,000) and $10,000 in cash, police said.
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