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Federal Bureau of Investigation agents yesterday recovered almost half of the $2 million in rare coins stolen from the Fogg Museum last December 2 and apprehended five people in connection with the theft...
James O. Newpher, special agent in charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI, said the FBI is still seeking the arrests of two additional persons in the theft but he said he hopes "we will apprehend the other two within the next 24 hours...
Slive said yesterday that he is confident that the coins will be under heavy security when they return. The robbery, believed to be the largest art theft in the history of the United States, involved about 5000 Greek and Roman coins...
Chicago was the setting for another sort of dubious achievement last week: the largest cash theft in American history. Until then the all-time record belonged to the perpetrators of the 1962 Plymouth, Mass., mail-truck robbery, who stole $1.55 million in cash, and of the 1950 Brink's holdup in Boston, where $1.2 million of the $2.78 million haul was in cash. The profitable target in Chicago was the fortress-like facility of Purolator Security, Inc., one of the nation's largest armored-car and guard-service companies...
...Coin Theft...