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A trial for a Las Vegas police officer accused of stealing nearly $165,000 in a series of casino heists is set to begin Monday with prosecutors painting him as a gambling addict who grew increasingly desperate under a crush of debt. Prosecutors claim Caleb Rogers, 35, carried out three robberies over a span of four months while armed with a weapon issued by the police department. Rogers' attorney, Richard Pocker, said the government's evidence allegedly tying Rogers to two of the robberies is weak. He accused the FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detectives of pressuring two people, including...

Organized demolition crews, mostly made up of Moroccan migrants, are putting German lives at risk with their high-explosive ATM heists ... Organized criminal gangs active in the Netherlands and France, mostly made up of Moroccan migrants, are blowing up ATMs in Germany at a record pace in highly professional robbery operations. In 2022, government statistics indicate that they blew up 500 such machines, with statistically more than one machine being blown up every day. Cash remains popular with Germans, and to feed this demand, banks operate nearly 100,000 ATMs located throughout the country, with the machines routinely containing between €50,000...

NEW YORK - The NYPD is searching for a trio of men who managed to steal $300,000 in cash from an armored truck outside of a bank in Brooklyn on Friday. The brazen robbery happened at around 1 p.m. in Sunset Park, in front of a Chase Bank....

Bank robberies might be down in Los Angeles, but holdups by lone pistol-packing men with nicknames like "The Armed Old Man Bandit" and "The Big Belly Bandit" have helped preserve the region's reputation as the nation's bank-heist capital. Violent bank takeovers by large gangs - typically made up of 18- to 30-year-olds - have declined since their peak in the early 1990s, largely because many gangs have been rounded up and because of tougher security measures, officials said. The trend is toward "note job" heists - about 75 percent of all holdups this year - often committed by middle-age and...