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The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated US$5.875 million (equivalent to US$28.32 million in 2024) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed in the U.S. at the time.
Vincent Asaro (July 10, 1935 – October 22, 2023) was an American mobster who served as a caporegime in the Bonanno crime family. [1] [2] Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, he was arrested by the FBI on January 23, 2014 and indicted on charges related to the 1978 Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time.
The three were arrested on Jan. 16 — but investigators initially had a hard time connecting them to Torres, police said. Detectives later learned that Reynaldo Ruelas, 37, worked at a pallet ...
Carter, Shannon and Gardner were all arrested in mid-November 2023, court records show. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Former postal worker stole $24M in check theft scheme, feds say.
Inside a Ford Explorer, police said they found $1 million worth of stolen designer purses, clothing, watches and jewelry — all believed to be from a single heist. Three more arrests would come ...
The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World is a non-fiction book written by Daniel Simone in collaboration with Henry Hill. It was published by Lyons Press , an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield , on August 1, 2015.
Irene, 19, was arrested after police responded to the restaurant and found the two patrons, who are sisters, with burn marks primarily on their legs and feet, according to the Port St. Luci Police ...