heist

It was the Peanut Butter heist that won me over.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, “Inception”—a script Nolan worked on for about a decade—is a heady heist film about “extractors” who invade other people’s dreams.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“You know how in the spy thriller or the heist movie, you’re introduced to the crew at the beginning,” Obama wrote.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026

“It was like a slow-motion version of the Louvre Museum heist, pulled off on a sunny day in Riverside in view of guests, staff and visitors,” wrote David Allen of the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Bertillon staged a fake heist, a re-creation of the original theft.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

Constrained by global sanctions that cut the country off from the international banking system, North Korea’s spies must generate their own funding through crypto heists, former Kim regime officials say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 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

"She would do anything for her family - and she joins them as a way to protect them from themselves and the real danger that is involved in heists."

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

Art heists are almost always the work of amateurs, and there’s nothing dashing or romantic about these thieves.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

The culprit: the big internet and social media platforms that grab news outlets’ work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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

The interface for the Archive looks like a set of old file cabinets that might have been heisted from an old-time bail bondsman’s office.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019

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

The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.

From Successful Recitations by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

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