Sunday, 4 April 2021

Cracking the Case of London’s Elusive, Acrobatic Rare-Book Thieves

quote [ How detectives from Scotland Yard, Romania, Germany, and Italy nabbed the so-called Mission: Impossible gang, which pulled off a string of daring warehouse heists. ]

Now steal a book and make a note
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[by ScoobySnacks@5:03amGMT]

Comments

avid said @ 12:45pm GMT on 4th Apr
The use of DNA evidence on cars and pieces of metal from the crime scene is new to me. I think we're getting closer to the day that it will be possible to vacuum a carpet and learn of everyone that's ever been in the room.
mechavolt said @ 2:08am GMT on 5th Apr
I'm also interested in the cell phone tracking. If the timeline in this article is correct, they were tracking their movements through their cell phones for 1.5 years before finally deciding to arrest them. Criminal pro tip: use burner phones, swap them out every week, and leave them at home when you go to commit your crimes.
avid said @ 6:50am GMT on 7th Apr
I expect they weren't using their phones during a heist, but the phone do tell the police when people were in or out of the country, maybe if people communicated or met.

To beat that, you have to go completely old school, leaving messages at hotels and smuggling people into the country so they don't appear on passport lists.
zarathustra said @ 4:59pm GMT on 7th Apr
Interesting. Rare items that are unsaleable on the open market and that market shirking anyway, inside information, those items held on to. Sounds like a commissioned insurance fraud theft.

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