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Create a post about a hostage crisis or bank robbery that you researched. Your post should look like the example below. Be sure to include YOUR NAME, the name of the CRIME, the DATE, and a SUMMARY OF EVENTS. You are welcome to add a picture.

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Mrs. Mallet - The Norrmalmstorg Robbery/Hostage Crisis - August 23-28, 1973

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Mrs. Mallet - The Norrmalmstorg Robbery/Hostage Crisis - August 23-28, 1973

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In August of 1973, Jan-Erick Olsson, a convicted criminal, held up the Norrmalmstorg Bank in Stockholm, Sweden which turned into a hostage crisis. This event lasted for five days and was the first crime to be covered on live television in Sweden. This crime was also where the phenomenon, the Stockholm Syndrome, originated because the hostages bonded with their captors and refused to cooperate with the police. The hostages were distrustful of the police since they risked the safety of the hostages. After a five-day crisis, the police launched a tear-gas attack, and the robbers surrendered.

Wikipedia contributors. “Norrmalmstorg Robbery.” Wikipedia, 23 Aug. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery.

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1979 the Iran Hostage situation.

Prominent example of a major hostage crisis in the United States, involving the seizure of 66 American diplomats and citizens by Iranian militants at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, who were held for 444 days until their release on January 20, 1981.

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Sarah Egan, Parker Crims, Anna Burns - 2017 Hanoi Hostage Crisis (April 15th-April 22nd 2017)

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Sarah Egan, Parker Crims, Anna Burns - 2017 Hanoi Hostage Crisis (April 15th-April 22nd 2017)

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Thirty eight Vietnamese police officers were taken hostage by villagers after the police arrested four villagers without a warrant. Disputes over land rights are common in Vietnam.Throughout the 8 days these police officers were in custody, they gradually released a few officers at a time and some were to able to escape. On April 22nd, the villagers released the rest of the hostages after they were promised concessions from the government. Three years later, one thousand policeman returned to the village and killed its representative.

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The 1988 embezzlement scheme at the First National Bank of Chicago involved an attempt by four men, including a bank employee, to steal $70 million from three major customers by stealing wire transfer orders for funds destined for foreign accounts. The scheme fell apart when bank officials were alerted by the suspicious transfer patterns. They were caught before the money could be wired out. Four men were arrested, the money was initially lost, the bank eventually recovered it with the cooperation of New York banks involved in the fraudulent wire transfers.

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The Lufthansa heist 1978 was the largest cash robbery in U.S. history at the time and provided inspiration for the movie Goodfellas. An estimated $5.875 million was stolen from a Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK Airport. The robbery involved taking a group of employees hostage in order to access the vault.

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Hayden Felipe- Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis of 2002 

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Hayden Felipe- Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis of 2002 

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hostages were being taken by Chechen militants at the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow to which it lasted 3 days from October 23 to October 26, 2002. It ended when Russian Special Forces filled the theater with gas and around 150 people died, the vast majority of them as a result of the effects of the gas.

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Nahima H. -The 1991 Sacramento Hostage Crisis 

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Nahima H. -The 1991 Sacramento Hostage Crisis 

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On April 4th, 1991, a group of 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by 4 gunmen at a Good Guys! electronic store. This standoff with police and the 4 four gunmen lasted 8 hours The scene ended with six killed: three hostages and three of the four hostage-takers. The fourth hostage-taker was apprehended by authorities. An additional 14 hostages were injured during the crisis. This hostage rescue operation remains one of the biggest in American history.

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The Ocean National Bank robbery in June 1869, in Manhattan, New York City, was one of the largest heists in the city's history at that time, with George Leonidas Leslie's gang stealing roughly $768,000. The meticulously planned heist involved a three-month preparation period, a replica vault for practice, and access gained by drilling through the bank's floor from a rented basement space. The robbery was masterminded by Leslie, a former architect, and financed by the notorious fence Fredericka Mandelbaum.

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Londynn Sedlak- Platte Canyon High School Hostage Crisis 2006.

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Londynn Sedlak- Platte Canyon High School Hostage Crisis 2006.

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The gunman, 53 year old Duane Roger Morrison, took seven female students hostage and sexually assaulted them, later releasing four. When police broke open the classrooms door with explosives, Morrison opened fire with a pistol before shooting hostage Emily Keyes in the head. The other remaining hostages were unharmed.

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A man who committed a bank robbery only two months after being placed on supervised release for two previous bank robberies was sentenced February 26, 2025, to more than 15 years in federal prison. Evans walked into the Sanborn Savings Bank, and handed the teller a note demanding money.  Evans obtained cash, exited the bank, and fled on foot.  Law enforcement officers identified Evans through surveillance footage and located his residence.Evans has been convicted of four armed robberies and four more unarmed robberies and an attempted robbery not including the instant offense.  In 2008, Evans, at the age of 24, was convicted for bank robbery, and attempted bank robbery.  In 2014, at the age of 30, Evans committed a spree of three of bank robberies, as well as an escape.  Evans was sentenced in Sioux City. Strand to 188 months’ imprisonment.  He was also ordered to make $5,408.00 in restitution.  He was also sentenced to serve a consecutive 24-month sentence for the supervised release violation.  He must then also serve a 3-year term of supervised release after the prison term.

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Jayla - The Orlando night club shooting in 2016

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Jayla - The Orlando night club shooting in 2016

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Orlando nightclub shooting in Orlando Florida, United States. This happened on june 12,2016, duration time was three hours and 12 mins. The number of hostages that we there were 320 people. At around 2:00 am on June 12 Omar Mateen arrived at the club parking in the parking lot. He got out and walked toward the building armed with a semi-automatic rifle and an automatic pistol. He was wearing He was wearing a green, blue, and white plaid dress shirt, a white T-shirt underneath, and tan cargo pants. He some how bypassed all security and began shooting at the crowd.

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The Northern Bank Robbery - Dead Centre ToursThe Northern Bank robbery, which occurred on December 20, 2004, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was a £26.5 million heist. Gangs of armed men took the families of two bank officials hostage and forced the officials to remove the money from the vault. The sophisticated, large-scale crime involved tiger kidnapping tactics and precise knowledge of the bank's systems and protocols, making it one of the biggest bank robberies in British history. While the Provisional IRA was suspected, they denied involvement, and no one has ever been convicted for direct participation in the robbery.

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Jenny & Lilly J- 1991 Sacramento “Good Guys”

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Jenny & Lilly J- 1991 Sacramento “Good Guys”

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In Sacramento, California, on April 4th, 1991, four masked gunmen entered an electronics store called Good Guys. They took 41 employees and customers hostage, which lasted for about eight hours before it was finally resolved by a violent shootout. Which killed three hostages and three of the four gunmen, while the fourth gunman was captured, and 14 hostages were injured. That was after hours of negotiations, while tactical units were deployed and a bulletproof vest was exchanged for some hostages.

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Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis January 15, 2022 - Leslie Nunez

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Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis January 15, 2022 - Leslie Nunez

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The colleyvile sinagogue hostage crisis was a 2022 incident where a 44 year old man was armed with a piston which he used it to take four people hostage in a synagogue in colleyville, Texas. On January 15 2022, when a British Pakistani man entered the congregation during a sabbath service which then started hostage negó ensued, a Pakistani national and alleged al-Qaeda operative imprisoned in nearby Fort Worth for attempted murder and other crimes. He released one hostage after six hours, and the remaining three hostages escaped eleven hours into the standoff. Tactical officers from the FBI Hostage Rescue Teamsubsequently entered the synagogue and fatally shot Akram.

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On February 8th 2024 on a train in the west of Switzerland a deranged man took 15 people hostage while having possession of an axe and knife. As the police came into the train to collect the hostages the man ran to the police with the axe trying to kill them which led to him being shot and killed. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2024/02/09/swiss-train-hostage-crisis-ends-with-suspect-killed-and-hostages-freed_6507468_143.html

Emily L and Priscilla R.

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Sacramento hostage crisis

April 4th, 1991

4 gunman held 41 customers and employees hostage at a “Good Guys!” Electronic store in Sacramento, California. They did not have a set list of demands ranging from money and helicopters. The negotiation lasted 8 hours and resulted in 6 deaths, 3 of the hostages and 3 of the suspects. The 4th suspect was captured and 14 hostages were left injured.

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Two convicted felons have been hit with a slew of criminal charges, accused of shooting two police officers and taking eight people hostage in south suburban Harvey earlier this week. CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports 40-year-old David Jordan, Dixmoor, and 41-year-old Peter Williams, of Chicago, each were charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer, eight counts of home invasion, eight counts of aggravated kidnapping, and one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault Thursday night.

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Anna Wilson, Kamila Sojko - 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis

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Anna Wilson, Kamila Sojko - 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis

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On April 4, 1991, 41 employees and customers were taken hostage by four gunmen and held at an electronic store in California

Near the end of the hostage crisis, six people were killed: three hostages and three of the four hostage-takers. The fourth hostage-taker was captured by authorities, and an additional 14 hostages were injured during the crisis. This hostage crisis remains the largest hostage rescue operation in US history, with over 40 hostages having been held at gunpoint

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Lilly Lave, The 1996 Honolulu Hostage Crisis

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Lilly Lave, The 1996 Honolulu Hostage Crisis

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February 6th, 1996 In sand island, Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 year old John Miranda took hostages at his old job of employment, The Seal Masters Of Hawaii building. Miranda was previously working at the building but got fired 8 months prior to the crisis. He was enraged over having no money or job, he also accused the company higher ups of racism and firing him solely because the was Hawaiian/Puerto Rican. Miranda was armed with a sawed off shotgun and a knife, as he entered he demanded 20,000$ in cash from the company. As the police were called Miranda took 5 employees working in the building as hostage, one of them being his former supervisor/ vice president of the company. During this crisis 2 hostages were injured, one seriously, but Miranda was the only Fatality. Miranda opened fire with his shotgun and shot George once in the leg. Nearly half of his leg was blown off. During negotiation Miranda dragged George to an open window to show police he was already shot, he than threatened that the had do intention of peacefully surrendering. At some point, Miranda was focused on something else and George climbed out the same open window, and fell 10 feet to the ground below. Around 2:30 p.m., John Miranda stood with one of his hostages McNeil in the street surrounded by police. As Miranda reached for his gun to kill McNeil The police shot him in the chest, and passed away. A few Weeks after the hostage event, he was found to have murdered his former girlfriend prior to the crisis.

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Colton Cunico, 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis, January 29, 2013

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Colton Cunico, 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis, January 29, 2013

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Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran boarded a school bus in Midland City, Alabama near a highway. The bus had children and a driver aboard and Dykes demanded the driver give him a six and eight year old child, when the driver refused Dykes shot him 5 times and proceeded to run off with a 5 year old boy, taking him to an underground bunker on Dyke’s property equipped with bombs and a PVC pipe. Through the PVC pipe, negotiators were able to communicate with Dykes in hopes to get him to let the boy go. Dykes requested to be able to hold the hand of a specific female reporter and the kill himself on live tv. After 6 days of negotiations, they started to break down and FBI hostage rescue agents had to take action, so they threw stun grenades in the bunker, entered, and shot Dykes, rescuing the 5 year old boy in good condition.

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Alex Leonchik-The Securitas Depot Robbery-February 21-22, 2006

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Alex Leonchik-The Securitas Depot Robbery-February 21-22, 2006

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The largest cash robbery in British history. The robbery was planned by an inside man who gave the robbers pictures of the inside. The day before the robbery the branch manager was kidnapped and then the robbers followed up by kidnapping his family, they then they held them hostage and forced the branch manager to comply. The robbers then gained access to the cash cages and took over $83 million dollars. Some of the robbers were caught and then the makeup artist that designed the masks became a key witness in the case.

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Iran Hostage Crisis

November 4, 1979

Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy

In Tehran and captured 52 Americans. They were

Angry because the United States let Iran’s former

leader, the Shah, come to America for medical care. The

Hostages were held for 444 days in tough conditions. They

were finally released on January 20, 1981, the day Ronald Reagan

Became president.

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In April 2022, Chicago police shot and killed a suspect, Frank Campbell, after a hostage situation at an apartment complex near the Ford City Mall. The standoff began after Campbell shot and wounded two people: his girlfriend, Reshawn Crawford, and her 78-year-old father.

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Date: August 8, 1963

Location: Buckinghamshire, England

A gang of 15 men, led by Bruce Reynolds, stopped a Royal Mail train traveling from Glasgow to London. The train was carrying millions of pounds in used banknotes. Using a false signal light to stop the train, the robbers overpowered the driver and crew. They then unloaded 120 mail bags containing £2.6 million which is equivalent to over £50 million today and escaped to a nearby hideout.