Bank Thieves Saw Through Roof Under Cover of July 4 Fireworks, Steal $290k
Albert Samaha
The average take in a bank robbery is around $4,000, according to federal authorities. That's because most heists are the hurried. Note to the teller, cash into the pockets, out the door before the police arrive. The big money is in the safe and cracking a safe take a sophisticated and creative approach (and happens in less than five percent of bank robberies).
The subjects of our May feature story, for instance, pilfered $200,000 from a Queens check-cashing outlet in 2012 by threatening the teller with a photo of her home just before she entered the building to start her morning shift. They had cases the place for weeks, wearing realistic masks and police uniforms to avoid suspicion, and they knew what time the security guard opened the safe.
On Friday, a crew of robbers topped that score. These guys made off with $290,000 from a bank on the Lower East Side. They had time to crack the vault because they broke in overnight. They were able to break in overnight by sawing a hole in the roof. And they were able to saw a hole in the roof without anybody noticing because the Fourth of July fireworks were bursting above the East River.
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