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"Robbers was here"

Criminal records are made to be broken. In 1974 robbers got away with a $4 million cash haul at the Purolator Security warehouse in Chicago. That record stood until 1978, when $5.8 million in money and jewels disappeared from a Lufthansa cargo hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Last week that high mark fell once more, and again the record was set in New York City.

The gang of at least three thieves that hit the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co. went about their business with remarkable efficiency. Near midnight two of the bandits, dressed in ski masks...

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