- Piracy
Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation. Seaborne piracy against transport vessels remains a significant issue (with estimated worldwide losses of US$13 to $16 billion per year), particularly in the waters between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, off the Somali coast, and in the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, which are used by over 50,000 commercial ships a year.
- Peter Yates
Peter Yates (born 24 July 1929 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English film director and producer. He went to Charterhouse School as a boy, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked for some years as an actor, director and stage manager. In the 1950s he started in the movie industry as a dubbing assistant and later an assistant director for Tony Richardson. He made his first film "Summer Holiday" (1963) and later "One Way Pendulum" (1965), …
- James Coburn
James Coburn was executed for the crime of robbery in Alabama on September 4, 1964. He was the last person in the United States of America to be executed for a crime other than murder or conspiracy to murder.
- Sharon Beshenivsky
Police Constable Sharon Beshenivsky (14 January 1967-18 November 2005) was a West Yorkshire Police constable shot dead during a robbery in Bradford, England. She was the eighty-ninth police officer and the sixth female officer to die in the line of duty in England and Wales, the second female officer to be fatally shot (the first was Yvonne Fletcher in an incident involving the Libyan Embassy in 1984), and the first female officer to die in an ordinary gun crime.
- Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin (born 1943) is an American radical, who was convicted in 1984 for her involvement in a robbery that resulted in the killing of three people.
- Cuttino Mobley
Cuttino Rashawn Mobley (born September 1, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers. Cuttino also known as the "Cat", attended Incarnation of Our Lord grade school in the Olney section of Philadelphia. After graduating from grade school, Cat attended Cardinal Dougherty High School and Maine Central Institute.
- Robert Iler
Robert Iler (born March 2, 1985 in New York, New York) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of A.J. Soprano on "The Sopranos". On July 4, 2001, when Iler was 16 years old, he and three others were arrested on Manhattan's Upper East Side for robbing $40 from two Brazilian tourists. Iler was charged with second degree robbery as well as marijuana possession which carried up to 15 years in prison.
- Barry Foster
(John) Barry Foster was a British actor who played numerous film roles and gained acclaim as the TV detective in the five-series-long ITV program "Van der Valk" that spanned 20 years. Born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, Foster worked as a plastics chemist before embarking on a career in acting. Foster trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, arriving there at the age of 20, a little older than the other students.
- David Rosenbaum
David E. Rosenbaum (March 1, 1942 - January 8, 2006) was an American journalist. After receiving first a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, Rosenbaum worked for a number of publications including the "St. Petersburg Times" and the "Congressional Quarterly". He worked for the "New York Times" for thirty-five years beginning in 1968.
- George Rivas
George Rivas (born May 6, 1970) was the ringleader of the infamous Texas 7 criminal group. Rivas, a career criminal, is on Texas' death row. He was born in El Paso, Texas and raised by his grandparents from age six, after his parents divorced. In high school, Rivas dreamed of being a police officer, but his interest in money and guns helped shape him into a criminal. He named his dogs Ruger and Beretta, after two gun brands.
- George Francis
George Francis (1940 - 2003) was a British citizen who was suspected of involvement in organised crime. Francis owned a mansion in the county of Kent. He worked as a scrap metal dealer. For years, however, he had been the subject of many Scotland Yard investigations. In 1981, he was involved in a cannabis smuggling operation's investigation. One officer died during the investigation. In 1983, he was questioned about a robbery of 26 million pounds that occurred at Heathrow.
- Bruce McPherson
Bruce McPherson became California's 30th Secretary of State on March 30, 2005. After being nominated by the Governor, he was unanimously confirmed by the State Senate and Assembly. Over the past year Secretary McPherson has led the charge to restore trust and confidence to the Office of Secretary of State.
- Harry Tracy
Harry Tracy (1875http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/06/17/2007-06-17_the_last_american_desperado.html-1902 was a outlaw in the closing days of the Old West. His real name was Harry Sevrin (Severin?). He is said to have run with Butch Cassidy and Hole in the Wall gang, and by the time he'd reached adulthood he was actively taking part in acts of robbery and theft. In late 1901, Tracy was captured, convicted, and incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
- James Dalton
James Dalton (died 11 May 1730) was "captain" of a street robbery gang in 18th century London. His father, also James Dalton, was Irish and fought as a sergeant in the British Army in Flanders. He was convicted of street robbery on 3 March 1720 and was sentenced to transportation. On being found in London in 1721, reputedly informed upon by the self-appointed Thief-taker General, Jonathan Wild, the elder Dalton was hanged.
- Kimberly Guilfoyle
Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle (born March 8, 1969) is a cable news personality and the ex-wife of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. She is currently the anchor of "The Lineup", a weekend crime show that airs on Fox News Channel, and was previously an anchor at Court TV and a legal analyst/commentator for CNN and ABC. Guilfoyle previously served as an Assistant District Attorney at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office from 2000 to 2004.
- Colin Ireland
Colin Ireland is a British serial killer known as the "Gay Slayer" because he specifically murdered gay men. Ireland, a former soldier who had picked up convictions for burglary and robbery in his twenties, decided to become a serial killer as a New Year resolution at the beginning of 1993, when he was 39. That year, while living in Southend, he started frequenting Coleherne pub, a gay pub in west London.
- Antoinette Frank
Antoinette Frank (born 30 April 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer who was convicted of one of the most notorious crimes in recent New Orleans history: the robbery of a restaurant where she worked as a security guard, and the murders of three people, including her partner on the police force, who was also a security guard at the restaurant. Frank is one of two women on Louisiana's death row at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, …
- Hone Harawira
Hone Pani Tamati Waka Nene Harawira is a New Zealand politician. He was elected to Parliament for the Māori Electorate of Te Tai Tokerau in the 2005 general elections as the Māori Party candidate. Harawira is a veteran activist and protestor, having participated in a large number of demonstrations supporting what he sees as Māori rights. His first major role came in the protests surrounding the 1981 Springbok Tour, …
- Jason Derek Brown
Jason Derek Brown is a fugitive currently wanted by the FBI for first degree murder, armed robbery and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
- Douglas Slocombe
Douglas Slocombe (b. February 10, 1913) is a British cinematographer who has enjoyed a long career in the British film industry. His many films as director of photography include "Robbery" (1967), "The Italian Job" (1969), "Nijinsky" (1980), the James Bond film "Never Say Never Again" in 1983, and the three Indiana Jones films between 1981 and 1989. His early films as cinematographer included many of the most famous Ealing comedies, …
- Mark Frechette
Mark Frechette (December 4, 1947 - September 27, 1975), was an American film actor. He is best known for his lead role in the 1970 film "Zabriskie Point", directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, in which he was cast despite having no previous acting experience. He appeared in two other films made in Italy, "Many Wars Ago" ("Uomini Contro", 1970) and "La Grande Scrofa Nera" (1971).
- James Field
James Field (c.1714 - 11 February 1751) was a sailor and boxer in England in the 18th century who was hanged for robbery. He was born in Dublin, and spent most of his early life involved in petty crime. His criminal record meant that in Ireland he spent most of his time on the run, so he moved to London. There he continued his life of crime, becoming well-known in the underworld. Wanted for various robberies he avoided capture by going to sea, …
- Squizzy Taylor
Joseph Leslie Theodore Taylor ("Squizzy Taylor") (b. 29 June 1888 in Brighton, Victoria d. 27 October 1927) was a Melbourne based gangster. He earned the nickname 'Squizzy' due to an ulcerated, droopy left eyelid. He began his working life as jockey on John Wren's pony circuit and at the age of 18 received his first conviction for assault. He went from petty crimes, such as pickpocketing to stand over activities such as murder and armed robbery.
- Brittany Holberg
Brittany Marlowe Holberg (born January 1, 1973) is a woman on Death Row in the U.S. state of Texas. On Friday, March 27, 1998, Holberg was convicted of the November 13, 1996, robbery and murder of 80-year-old A.B. Towery Sr. in his southwest Amarillo home and was sentenced to death by 251st state District Judge Patrick Pirtle. The victim had been stabbed nearly 60 times with weapons such as a paring knife, a butcher knife, a grapefruit knife, and a fork.
- Billy Ray Hamilton
Billy Ray Hamilton is an American convicted murderer who conspired with Clarence Ray Allen to murder eight witnesses to a crime committed by Allen in 1974. Hamilton met Allen in Folsom Prison in 1979. Allen befriended Hamilton and allegedly offered to pay him $25,000 to carry out the murders. At Folsolm Prison, Allen used to refer to Hamilton as his "good dog", though at the time of Allen's trial, he claimed to only have met Hamilton three or four times.
- Chris Hogg
Chris Hogg (born March 21 1985) is a professional footballer for Hibernian, United Kingdom. Previously international captain for England U15s, Hogg trialled with Manchester United and played in the FA Cup for Boston United before moving to Ipswich Town and then Hibernian. He was educated at Conyers School, Yarm. In January 2005, Hogg was severely injured whilst trying to prevent a car robbery in Middlesbrough. Hogg never played a game for Ipswich Town, …
- Rebecca Falcon
Rebecca Falcon (born December 24, 1981) was convicted of felony murder for a her part in a foiled robbery of a taxi cab driver. In November, 1997, Falcon had been intoxicated when she agreed to pull off a robbery with a stranger. The driver of the car was killed in her presence, however, her part in the robbery meant she was deemed to be culpable in his death. She was convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1999.
- Brandon Hein
Brandon Wade Hein is a convicted felon currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for his involvement in the 1995 stabbing murder of 16 year-old Jimmy Farris, the son of an LAPD police officer. Hein and two other youths who were present when the murder took place, as well as the actual killer, …
- Charles Bolles
Charles Earl Bolles (1829-Disappeared 1888-1917?), alias Black Bart, was an American Old West outlaw noted for his poetic messages left after each robbery. He was also known as "Charles E. Boles," "C.E. Bolton," "Charles E. Bowles," and "Black Bart the Po8." A gentleman bandit, Black Bart was one of the more notorious stagecoach robbers to operate in and around Northern California and southern Oregon during the 1870s and 1880s.
- Herman Ashworth
Herman Dale Ashworth was a murderer executed by the U.S. state of Ohio. He admitted to the aggravated murder and aggravated robbery of Daniel L. Baker whom he beat to death on 10 September 1996. He was executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility after spending 3,025 days on death row. Ashworth met Baker for the first time while drinking at the Wagon Wheel bar in Newark, Ohio.
- Jarvis Jay Masters
Jarvis Jay Masters (b 1962) is an American Buddhist currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California. He arrived at San Quentin in 1981 charged with armed robbery.
- Eddie Leonski
Edward Joseph Leonski (12 December 1917 - 9 November 1942) was a serial killer who committed his crimes in Australia, although Leonski himself was American. Born in New York he was called up for the US Army in February 1941 and arrived in Melbourne on February 2, 1942. On May 3, 1942, Ivy Violet McLeod, 40, was found dead in Albert Park, Melbourne.
- Crazy Titch
Crazy Titch (born Carl Dobson), 23, is a British grime MC from Stratford, East London currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Richard Holmes in Walthamstow. Having previously spent five years in Aylesbury (HM Prison) for robbery, handling stolen goods, theft, burglary and criminal damage, Dobson turned his attention to music, and secured a support role with D12.
- Robert Opel
Robert Opel was a photographer and art gallery owner most famous as the man who streaked during the 46th Academy Awards in 1974. He sneaked backstage posing as a journalist and ran naked past David Niven flashing a peace sign while Niven was introducing Elizabeth Taylor.
- Zeev Rosenstein
Zeev Rosenstein (born 1954) is an infamous Israeli mafia boss. He was charged with distributing massive amounts of Ecstasy in the United States, after 700,000 tablets were seized in a Manhattan apartment. He was arrested in November 2004 in a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Israeli Ministry of Justice. After exhausting his legal options in Israel, according to a highly significant precidential decision by the Supreme Court of Israel, …
- Dan Clifton
Dan Clifton (1865-1896?), known as Dynamite Dan, was a western outlaw and member of the Doolin Gang. Clifton was a minor criminal wanted in the Oklahoma Indian Territory for robbery, safecracking, and cattle rustling before joining the Doolin Gang in 1892. Upon joining the gang, Clifton took part in the remainder of the Doolin Gang's bank robberies including the 1893 gunfight with law enforcement at Ingalls, …
- James Calvin Tillman
James Calvin Tillman is an African-American man who served 18 years in prison for a rape which he did not commit. Tillman, of East Hartford Connecticut, was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree, sexual assault in the first degree, robbery and assault in the third degree and larceny in the second degree in 1989. The charges resulted from an attack on a white woman in Hartford, Connecticut that occurred on January 22, 1988.
- Adam The Leper
Adam the Leper was the leader of a fourteenth-century robber band, operating in the south west of England in the 1330s and 1340s. Like the north Midlands bandits Eustace Folville and James Cotterel, he and his gang specialised in theft and kidnap. Unlike these contemporaries, he seems to have concentrated mainly on urban centres. His men would apparently enter a town while a fair was in progress and the place would be conveniently filled with 'strangers'.
- Kelso Cochrane
Kelso Cochrane (1936/7 - 17 May 1959) was an Antiguan immigrant to Britain whose murder sparked tensions in London. Cochrane had moved to London in 1954, where he had settled in Notting Hill and worked as a carpenter. He aimed to save sufficient money to study law. After fracturing his thumb in a work accident, he was attended at Paddington General Hospital. While walking home, he was set upon by a group of white youths and stabbed him with a stiletto knife.
- Eleanor Jarman
Eleanor Jarman (1904 - undetermined) was a U.S. runaway, fugitive from justice, and robber who was jailed, escaped from jail in 1940, was placed on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, and remains missing.