UK police find bank heist millions

[TexasStooge]

LONDON, England (AP) - Police found bags with millions of dollars from Britain's biggest bank robbery in a London warehouse on Friday, and charged a fifth person in the elaborate theft.

Detectives descended on an industrial complex and found the cash in one of the units, a car business in a working class neighborhood in southeast London, police said.

Officers found bags filled with notes thought to amount to "several million pounds," or the equivalent of millions of dollars, police said.

Police said they arrested a 43-year-old man at the warehouse and were questioning him about the robbery of the Securitas Cash Management Ltd. warehouse in Tonbridge, 30 miles southeast of London.

Thieves took $92 million during the night of Feb. 21-22.

Police charged a fifth suspect in the case. Lea John Rusha, 33, a roofer, was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, Kent Police said. Earlier, the fourth person charged with involvement in the heist and was ordered to remain in custody.

Jetmir Bucpapa, 24, spoke only to confirm his name, age and address and to say he understood the charge. He did not apply for bail, and was ordered held until a court date on March 13. Bucpapa is accused of conspiracy to commit robbery.

Police continued questioning a 33-year-old man arrested Monday, after getting court permission to extend his detention for 24 hours. He was not identified, as he has not been charged.

Three other people charged in the case made their first court appearance on Thursday, and were ordered held in custody until a March 13 hearing.

Car salesman John Fowler, 57, was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to rob, with kidnapping cash depot manager Colin Dixon, his wife, Lynn, and their 9-year-old son Craig, and with handling stolen goods _ steel cages used to contain cash.

Fowler, described in news reports as a millionaire who bragged of being a special forces veteran, owns a farm near Tonbridge that has been the focus of police searches. Police said Friday that while cash was discovered at the farm, the amounts were not significant.

Stuart Royle, 47, a car salesman, has been charged with conspiracy to rob and a 39-year-old woman, Kim Shackleton, has been charged with handling stolen goods.

[HurricaneBill]

Do you mean they found millions from a bank heist? Or millions of bank heists? j/k

[Stephanie]

I think it was millions of dollars from the bank heist.

[P.K.]

The BBC report says they recovered about £7,000,000 which is a lot but £53,000,000 was taken.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4773570.stm

[tropicana]

How could those brutes think they could pull something as big as that, and get away with it!? Way good work by the British authorities!

Hope they will be put away in the slammer for a long long time.

-justin-

[TexasStooge]

I'm guessing they're trying to act out an "Ocean's Eleven" movie they may have seen.