Robbery

Four more arrested in $102 mn Louvre jewel heist, says Paris prosecutor

The Paris prosecutor announced four more arrests Tuesday in connection with the stunning heist at the Louvre Museum in October by a gang that made off with $102 million worth of jewels. The two men and two women taken into custody are from the Paris region and range in age from 31 to 40, said the prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, whose office is heading the investigation. Her statement didn't say what role they're suspected of having played in the Oct 19 theft. Police can hold them for questioning for 96 hours. French media report that one of those arrested, a 39-year-old already known to police services, is believed to be the fourth member of the team thought to have carried out the daring daylight robbery and is from Aubervilliers, a suburb north of Paris other suspects have connections with. The other three alleged members of the so-called commando team have been previously arrested and face preliminary charges of theft by an organised gang and criminal conspiracy. Their DNA has been .

Bengaluru Police crack Rs 7.11 cr ATM cash-van heist; Rs 5.76 cr recovered

The incident took place on November 19, when it was reported that a currency-chest van carrying Rs 7.11 cr was allegedly intercepted near the city's DJ Halli area by people posing as RBI officers

Bengaluru heist: Men posing as RBI officials rob ₹7 cr from ATM cash van

A cash van in Bengaluru was stopped by men posing as RBI officials, who took away over ₹7 crore in a daylight heist; police are scanning CCTV footage and have formed special teams to trace them

'Louvre' for password? Decade-old blunder haunts French museum after heist

After the October 19 heist, the Louvre's security failures have come to light, exposing weak passwords, old systems and years of ignored warnings

Two suspects arrested over multimillion Louvre museum heist in Paris

French police detained two men for allegedly stealing 19th-century jewels from the Louvre's Gallery of Apollo in a daring daylight heist

$102 million Louvre Museum robbery: How did it happen and what’s missing?

A daring daylight robbery at the world’s most visited museum has left France reeling.

Louvre museum in Paris closes after robbery targeting Napoleon-era jewels

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said a robbery occurred at the Louvre on Sunday morning as thieves reportedly used chainsaws and a freight elevator to steal Napoleon-era jewels

US police recover $769,500 Tiffany diamond earrings after man swallows them

US' Orlando Police Department said after recovering diamond earrings from the Florida man, it took them back to Tiffany & Co where they were cleaned

ED conducts searches in Mohali in connection with Canada's gold heist case

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday searched the Mohali premises of a man who is an alleged suspect in Canada's biggest-ever gold heist of more than USD 20 million, official sources said. The sources identified the man as Simran Preet Panesar, who is in his thirties. The man could not be contacted for his response on the allegations. The federal probe agency has recently filed a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to investigate the said loot from Canada's Pearson International Airport in April, 2023. The premises of Panesar in Punjab's Mohali is being searched and the ED investigators will question him, the sources said. The ED had booked a case suo moto, without a request from Canada, as the PMLA allows for such an investigation into in an instance of cross-border ramification where an Indian national is suspected to be involved. The agency wants to probe if the "proceeds of crime" of this alleged heist travelled to India and if there were any ..

Saif Ali Khan attack case: Mumbai police likely to recreate crime scene

The Mumbai police will likely recreate the crime scene at the Bandra home of Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, who was repeatedly stabbed by an intruder, an official said on Sunday. The accused in the high-profile case, a 30-year-old Bangladeshi man, was arrested in the morning from adjoining Thane city. A court here remanded the man, Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad Rohilla Amin Fakir, in police custody for five days. According to the official, police will likely take Shehzad to Khan's home at Satguru Sharan' building in these five days to recreate the crime scene as part of their investigation. Shehzad sneaked into the Bollywood star's apartment in the early hours of January 16 with the intention of theft, police had said. Preliminary investigation suggests that he climbed the stairs to the seventh-eighth floor of the building where Khan and his actor wife Kareena Kapoor live with their children and domestic staff. He entered the duct area, climbed to the 12th floor using a pipe an

Suspect in Saif Ali Khan stabbing detained by Mumbai Police after manhunt

Saif Ali Khan sustained six stab wounds during the assault, which occurred at his Mumbai residence.

Saif Ali Khan 'out of danger'; attacker 'detained': What we know so far?

Saif Ali Khan, attacked at his Mumbai residence during an attempted robbery, underwent surgery for severe injuries and is now recovering. Mumbai Police has launched a probe to catch the attacker

Saif Ali Khan hospitalised after knife attack by robber at Bandra home

According to the police, an intruder broke into the house and allegedly attacked Saif Ali Khan before fleeing the scene when other family members woke up

30 kg gold robbed from Manappuram Finance's branch in Odisha's Sambalpur

About 30 kg of gold was allegedly robbed at gunpoint from the branch of a gold loan company in Odisha's Sambalpur city, police said on Saturday. The robbery took place at Manappuram Finance's branch on Budharaja Main Road on Friday morning, they said. Besides the gold, the robbers took away over Rs 4 lakh in cash, they added. The gang of robbers barged into the branch just after it had opened. Three employees were held at gunpoint, while the hands and feet of the branch manager were tied, police said. While some of the robbers were busy holding the staff of the branch hostage, the others of the gang acquired the keys and password to the vault and robbed the gold jewellery and cash. Some of them were also guarding the branch outside, according to the FIR. "There were around 7-10 robbers and they were wearing helmets and masks. They fled the spot on motorcycles soon after the robbery," said SDPO Tophan Bag. He said the CCTV footage of the area was being scanned and the employees of

Bengaluru police arrest man who used pigeons to rob 50 locked houses

The accused identified as Manjunath would use pigeons, while searching for locked houses and apartments. The police have decoded how he managed to commit 50 robberies

WATCH: Thrift store looted on launch day in Karachi amid economic crisis

The incident occurred as cash-strapped Pakistan grapples with a severe economic crisis, making it the slowest-growing economy in South Asia

Three MP villages become hotspot for robbery, rise on national crime map

Dotted with palatial bungalows and sprawling campuses, a cluster of three villages stands out as an outlier in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district on economic prosperity. Just that it is powered by activities on the wrong side of the law. The recent theft of valuables worth Rs 1.45 crore by a 14-year-old boy during a wedding at a five-star hotel in Rajasthan capital Jaipur brought these villages Kadiya Sansi, Gulkhedi and Hulkhedi into prominence on the national crime map. The local police estimate that 1,000-1,200 criminal cases have been registered across the country against boys, men, girls and women from these villages. With a population of about 5,000, Kadiya Sansi is the epicentre of the illegal activities. But, it's not easy for enforcement agencies to make arrests here. A police team from Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore, under security cover of the local cops, was attacked in Gulkhedi, under Boda police station, during one such attempt on August 10. Local cases are few but the peop

Army Agniveer goes on two months leave, forms robbery gang with brother

Ishmeet Singh was recruited by the Indian Army in November 2022 as an Agniveer and was posted in West Bengal but ditched his job to become a gang robber

Ex-Rolls Royce design head Ian Cameron stabbed to death, suspect on run

Ian Cameron murder: The British car designer was stabbed at the doorstep of his $3 million mansion in Germany's Herrsching at Lake Ammersee on Friday evening

Two armed robberies reported in Indian ports, anchorages in H1 2024

The situation in India's ports and anchorages has remained relatively stable, with two incidents of armed robbery against ships reported from January to June 2024, a regional maritime agency said on Wednesday. Comparatively, there were three incidents in the Indian ports and anchorages last year, said Krishnaswamy Natarajan, executive director of the Singapore-based Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against ships in Asia. He pointed out that all such robberies involved stealing nominal items and in some cases engine spares and scrap metals which are in demand in the black market. A total of 12 incidents of armed robbery against ships took place in the Indian Ocean Region from January to June 2024, he told PTI on Wednesday at the released Half-Year Report (JanuaryJune 2024) on Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships (ARAS) in Asia by the ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre (ISC). The majority of these incidents, 10, happened in Bangladesh ports and ..