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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.
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.
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.
An alleged cult leader and member wanted in connection to the murder of a Vermont Border Patrol agent were arrested on unrelated charges over the weekend, Maryland State Police confirmed.
A 24-year-old Kentucky man charged with murder in his home state removed his ankle monitor Wednesday morning and fled before being arrested in El Dorado, officials said.
Investigators found robbery tools, disguises, fake identification documents and more than $100,000 in cash at several short-term rental properties in Oregon and Washington, according to prosecutors.
On March 2, 2020, Letecia Stauch was arrested in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on charges of first-degree murder of a child by a person in a position of trust, child abuse resulting in death, tampering with a deceased human body, and tampering with physical evidence. [4] She was extradited to Colorado and held without bond at the El Paso County ...
He helped investigate what was long considered the largest cash robbery in Los Angeles: the Sept. 12, 1997, theft of $18.9 million from the former site of the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street.