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Props that they, so far, have managed to get away with it. Wonder if some of the robbers are already out of the country. They have enough cash obviously.
Thieves using a helicopter and explosives staged an elaborately planned, early-morning raid on a cash depot in Stockholm, Sweden, making off with bags filled with money, police said Wednesday.
How they dealt with the Police:
Swedish police couldn't pursue the thieves because a bag marked "bomb" had been placed outside the police heliport, and officers had to deal with the bag before they could enter the heliport.
It is unclear whether the bag contained a bomb.
The thieves also had blocked the roads around the cash depot with metal rods, TV4 reported.
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(CNN) -- Thieves using a helicopter and explosives staged an elaborately planned, early-morning raid on a cash depot in Stockholm, Sweden, making off with bags filled with money, police said Wednesday.
A helicopter landed on the roof of the G4S cash depot in Vastberga, in the southern part of Stockholm, shortly after 5 a.m. (11 p.m. ET), Swedish police said.
Witness Bjorn Lockstrom first heard three loud bangs as the thieves used explosives to get into the building, he told Swedish CNN affiliate TV4.
"Then I saw two men hoisting themselves down into the building," Lockstrom said. "Just minutes later, I saw how they hoisted bags of money up to the helicopter on the roof."
The burglary happened only days before the 25th, the day every month when Swedes receive their monthly salary, so the depot was rife with cash.
The cash depot serves automatic teller machines all across Stockholm, TV4 reported.
Sources told TV4 the thieves could have gotten their hands on several hundreds of millions of kronors, the equivalent of tens of millions of U.S. dollars.
TV images from the scene showed a gray helicopter circling the building and then flying away. The thieves flew south after they had loaded the helicopter with the bags, according to a statement from police.
One person was taken into custody later in the day, a spokesman for the Stockholm Police told a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
"The individual was arrested by police in a Stockholm suburb today," he said.
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The person is currently being questioned. Police would not go into details of the individual's role in the drama, according to TV4. Nor have they disclosed how much cash they believe was taken.
The helicopter was a Bell 206 Jet Ranger and had been stolen earlier during the night.
Swedish police couldn't pursue the thieves because a bag marked "bomb" had been placed outside the police heliport, and officers had to deal with the bag before they could enter the heliport.
It is unclear whether the bag contained a bomb.
The thieves also had blocked the roads around the cash depot with metal rods, TV4 reported.
No one was hurt during the burglary, police said. The area around the building was sealed off as authorities interviewed witnesses.
"A substantial reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible and recovery of the stolen money," Alison Flynn, media relations manager for G4S, told CNN.
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I wonder what their real careers are, and what motivated them to try such an elaborate heist.
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Swedish police couldn't pursue the thieves because a bag marked "bomb" had been placed outside the police heliport, and officers had to deal with the bag before they could enter the heliport.
It is unclear whether the bag contained a bomb.
The thieves also had blocked the roads around the cash depot with metal rods, TV4 reported.
I found this hilarious
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On September 24 2009 05:06 Biochemist wrote:
I wonder what their real careers are, and what motivated them to try such an elaborate heist.
Profesional criminals. This mob have been robbering around Nordic countries for past for years...
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Wow sounds awesome (despite it being a crime)
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might be easy to find if they interrogate all the people that took training for flight schools
edit: actually if they hired the pilot from another country then it would be impossible to track
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How are they going to investigate this shit? sounds like george clooney and the gang just released Ocean's 14!
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They must of been planning this out for months now. It reminds me of that Israelian guy on a motorcycle robbing banks.
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Yeah, this happened like 10 min from my home. the problem was that the police who wasnt blocked in any way were retards. It should take them 15min MAX to get to the depot when the larm goes of but it took them more than 25 min and the robbers were gone by then...
this is a big fiasco by the police, I mean heads will roll so to speak.
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A bag marked "bomb". The ultimate time-buyer!!
Love heist movies; unfortunate for the bank but they have to give it to the robbers- they just wanted it more.
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On September 24 2009 05:19 Licmyobelisk wrote:
How are they going to investigate this shit? sounds like george clooney and the gang just released Ocean's 14!
LMAO Ocean's Eleven was the first thing I thought of when I read the OP.
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On September 24 2009 04:49 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
They enough cash that's for sure.
This sentence no verb.
awesome story btw.
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wow these guys are fucking pros. I lol'd at bag labeled BOMB
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I can respect burglars like this, but fuck the people who mug you in the street or the ones that simply go into a bank with a gun.
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Spectacluar and awesome. Kinde hope they get away with it since it was such a ballsy heist. Claim to fame, I have been in skavlöten were they landed the helicopter.
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How did they fly away? I know in the USA at least everything in the air is tracked with radar. I assume european nations do as well. When they land I figured the police will just be waiting for them wherever they go. Unless they fly to north africa or some shit.
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I remember that I read something similar in the newspaper a year ago or so. Those robbers used a crane or something to destroy the side of the bank. They entered it though that hole, stole like 6 million and drove away while throwing nails out of their car so the police couldn't follow them. And they had planted a bomb to create chaos and distract the police.
I found an article about it:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,544692,00.html
Pretty crazy, sounds like a movie. :D
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Well since the police were unable to get airborne they had to find them by car. Apparently they made some evasive flying and flied pretty low too so it was not that easy.
EDIT:My post was directed to InToTheWannaB.
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The briefcase marked "BOMB" has been used in swedish robberies before, and no, it didn't contain a bomb.
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