Robbers get away on motorcycle after heist at Maine credit union

September 30th, 2009 Officials: Serbs took part in Sweden chopper heistBELGRADE, Serbia — Former Serb paramilitaries took part in last week's brazen helicopter raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, Serbian police officials said Monday. Former members of the "Red Berets" paramilitary unit who fought wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s took part in the heist, along with Swedish robbers, said Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, who heads Serbia's police.

September 24th, 2009 SAO PAULO - A gang of criminals hijacked a Brazilian bus here and forced passengers to help them take two ATMs from a bank branch, a media report said. The bus, which was headed for Itupeva, located 77 km from Sao Paulo, was intercepted and later parked across an avenue to keep police out while male passengers were forced to load the two ATMs into a pick-up truck, Globo television reported Wednesday.

September 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.

September 23rd, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Thieves used a helicopter and explosives early Wednesday to rob a cash depot in Stockholm, police and witnesses said, in what appeared to be a well-planned and expertly executed heist. Two or three men lowered themselves from the helicopter onto the roof of the building used by security services company G4S around 5 a.m.

September 23rd, 2009 Robbers use chopper to raid Sweden cash depotSTOCKHOLM — Masked gunmen used a stolen helicopter and explosives to engineer a spectacular raid on a cash depot in Stockholm on Wednesday, breaking into the building through the roof and flying off with bags of cash, police and officials said. The daring pre-dawn heist stunned police in the Swedish capital, who were unable to deploy their own helicopters to the scene because suspected explosives had been placed at their hangar.

August 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.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Five armed men barged into a businessman's house in the national capital, held the family hostage and escaped with a booty worth Rs.700,000, police said Monday. The heist took place at Surender's Vivek Vihar residence in east Delhi Sunday night, where he had thrown a party on his granddaughter's birthday, a police officer said.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three motorcycle-borne robbers allegedly waylaid two employees of a leading hospital here Saturday and looted Rs.1.25 million from them after injuring one of them, police said. The incident comes a day after a businessman was robbed off Rs.1.1 million in a similar manner by a suspected biker gang in Delhi.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a daring daylight robbery, a businessman was lost Rs.1.15 million to two armed men riding a motorcycle in the capital Friday. Sanjeev Gupta, who owns a food grain business, was going to his factory when his car was stopped by the assailants around 10.15 a.m.

July 28th, 2009 Calif. robber confesses to priest, turns in cashWALNUT CREEK, Calif. — A man who robbed a San Francisco Bay area bank apparently felt guilty enough to confess his sins and hand over $1,200, but not enough to turn himself in.

July 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Eight motorcycle-borne robbers stormed a petrol vend in the capital and snatched from an employee there a bag containing Rs.50,000, police said Thursday. The robbers on four motorbikes threatened the employees at the petrol pump in Kirti Nagar Wednesday and demanded the cash bag, a police officer said.

June 22nd, 2009 French police arrest 25 in 2008 jewel heistPARIS — French police have arrested 25 suspects in a euro85 million ($118 million) heist of jewels last year on one of Paris' most fashionable streets and have recovered some of the loot. Thieves, some of them dressed as women, had swiped rings, necklaces and luxury watches at the Harry Winston store near the Champs-Elysees.

June 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".

June 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.

May 31st, 2009 Kennebec Journal union accepts concessionsPORTLAND, Maine — The union that represents workers at the Kennebec Journal has voted to accept wage and benefit concessions sought by the company trying to buy Blethen Maine Newspapers. Bangor native Richard Connor, editor and publisher of the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has been negotiating to buy the Press Herald, the Morning Sentinel, the Kennebec Journal and other Blethen Maine properties from the Seattle Times Co.