heist
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Anyone can report on a police investigation of an art heist, or a major auction record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Detectives investigating the "brazen heist" of more than 70,000 pints of Guinness have released footage of two men they want to speak to.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Italian police in August said they had recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million that were stolen in a three-minute heist from a museum in March.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Since eating the rich is in fashion, heist stories are the heroic fables of our time.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bertillon staged a fake heist, a re-creation of the original theft.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Museum heists are not increasing everywhere in Europe.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
A spate of heists at French museums, including at the Louvre, has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The incident is the latest in a string of museum heists across Europe that have led to a growing number of priceless works disappearing from public view.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
In one of the most brazen heists attributed to the comm, Malone Lam, a 20-year-old Singaporean national who was then living in Los Angeles, allegedly stole $248 million in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
A vivid example: the strangest jewel heists in history, the year before the Mona Lisa disappeared.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Basically, the big internet platforms gobble up news outlets’ products and work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
That’s a cliff-falling 65% drop from the movie’s Fri.–Sun. total a week ago, when it heisted $97.4 million on its way to a holiday weekend total of $117 million.
From Time ● Jun. 2, 2013
The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
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