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Wheelchair-bound shoplifters flee on foot

Business & Money: 30 Jan 12
Two apparently disabled would-be shoplifters got up and legged it after being confronted by supermarket staff, leaving a secret compartment in the wheelchair packed with pilfered coffee. READ »

Swedish police hunt 'Halloween mask' killer

National: 27 Dec 11
The shooter who killed one man and injured two others at a cafe in Malmö in southern Sweden on Monday wore a mask like those seen in the 2010 Hollywood film "The Town" and remains at large, police said Tuesday. READ »

Bomb threat closes Stockholm shopping mall

National: 28 Nov 11
Kista shopping centre in northern Stockholm was closed for several hours on Monday after a masked gang robbed a jewellery store and a suspicious package was later found in a stairwell. READ »

Young Swedish girls in home invasion horror

National: 21 Nov 11
Two young girls were left locked in a toilet while burglars raided their home in Gothenburg on Monday morning. READ »

Police target burglary crime wave

National: 20 Nov 11
Police in Halland in southern Sweden directed their efforts on Saturday night to catching robbers responsible for a recent wave of burglaries. READ »

Robbers jailed after pooping at crime scene

National: 31 Oct 11
Two men suspected of robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year and arrested after forensics discovered their faeces near the getaway car, have been sentenced to prison, a Swedish court ruled on Monday. READ »

Police slammed for 'slow' response

National: 28 Oct 11
Swedish police officers' slow response to the spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm in 2009 has come in for stinging criticism from the National Swedish Police Board’s own inspection unit. READ »

Thieves charged after pooping at crime scene

Society: 19 Oct 11
Three piles of human excrement left at a crime scene in central Sweden served as key evidence in the case against two men charged for tying up and robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year. READ »

Swedes arrest three men over Spain murder

National: 8 Aug 11
Swedish police said on Monday they had arrested three Romanians suspected of murdering an elderly woman during a robbery in Spain. READ »

New technology sheds light on criminal images

Science & Technology: 24 Jun 11
Sweden’s police will now be able to identify criminals from pictures and videos with the aid of new technology that can compare a suspect in an image with police record photos. READ »

Masked robbers target Stockholm auction house

National: 20 May 11
A prestigious auction house in central Stockholm was robbed around midday on Friday when two masked robbers ran in and ordered the shocked clients to drop to the ground. READ »

Police face machine gun fire in bank robbery

National: 18 May 11
A branch of Handelsbanken in Flen in eastern Sweden was robbed on Wednesday morning by masked men armed with machine guns. Police later issued a nationwide-alert in hopes of catching the perpetrators. READ »

Stockholm gold heist nets 'millions'

National: 13 May 11
A gold wholesaler in Stockholm was robbed on Thursday afternoon and after a haul which ‘picked the shop clean’, the thieves are believed to have escaped with a substantial amount of money. READ »

Stockholm helicopter heist inspires US e-book

Lifestyle: 28 Mar 11
While the Hollywood-esque robbery of a Stockholm cash depot continues to play out in the Swedish courts, American journalist Evan Ratliff recently published the first in-depth account of the heist, The Local's David Landes explains. READ »

Malmö 'femme fatale' robbers charged

Society: 25 Mar 11
A gang of six who are alleged to have drugged and robbed a 25-year-old Malmö man after one of their number, an 18-year-old girl, had used her charms to trick her way into his apartment, were charged on Friday. READ »

Sack of urine led to Swedish thief's capture

Society: 9 Mar 11
A forgotten bag full of urine led to the conviction of a Swedish bank robber who had locked himself in the vault of Copenhagen bank. READ »

Santas steal gun from Swedish palace guard

National: 24 Dec 10
Two men dressed in Santa hats and masks attacked and robbed a guard at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on Thursday night, making off with the guards loaded weapon. READ »

Slain Swedish bride's husband freed from jail

National: 11 Dec 10
Shrien Dewani, who is wanted in South Africa for his involvement in the murder of his Swedish bride on their honeymoon, left prison on bail on Friday, with his spokesman saying he would continue "bereavement counselling." READ »

Guilty verdicts for helicopter heist suspects

National: 7 Oct 10
Several suspects involved in last year’s Hollywood-style helicopter heist of a cash depot south of Stockholm were found guilty on Thursday. READ »

Jewelry thief dies in getaway car smash-up

National: 30 Sep 10
A man who robbed a jewelry shop in western Sweden died after the gang's luxury getaway car smashed into a lamp post. Two of the man’s accomplices were also injured in the violent crash. READ »

Helicopter heist trial closes in Stockholm

National: 9 Sep 10
The court trial of the ten men charged with the dramatic helicopter heist on a cash depot in southern Stockholm last September wrapped up on Wednesday, a judge in the case confirmed. READ »

Accused deny helicopter heist as trial opens

National: 2 Aug 10
The ten men suspected of involvement in a spectacular cash depot heist have denied all charges as their high-profile trial opened amid huge media and public interest in Stockholm on Monday. READ »

Two helicopter heist thieves still at large

National: 19 Jul 10
Ten men caught after a helicopter heist at a cash depot in southern Stockholm belonging to security company G4S were sentenced on Monday, while two other known thieves remain unidentified and at large. READ »

Interview: How a Swedish model exposed Goa's drug dealing cops

Lifestyle: 4 Jun 10
Swedish model Lucky Mångårda Amori went to Bollywood to act, but first she directed a real-life Indian crime drama. Paul O’Mahony meets the former reality TV show contestant who trained a camera on the police and captured corruption on an epic scale. READ »

Chef hurls meat cleaver at fleeing thief

National: 13 May 10
A chef at a Stockholm restaurant rushed out of his kitchen on Thursday afternoon and threw a meat cleaver at a departing thief as his restaurant was robbed for the second time in a week. READ »

Police dismiss robbery in progress as 'stag night'

National: 30 Apr 10
When police received a call about an ongoing robbery at a shopping centre in Norrköping in eastern Sweden they dismissed the report as stag night antics and declined to send a unit. READ »

Helicopter heist netted 39 million kronor: report

National: 22 Apr 10
The spectacular helicopter heist in Västberga in southern Stockholm last autumn netted some 39 million kronor ($5.4 million), according to a police source, as a further arrest is made in the case. READ »

Robbers drag 86-year-old woman behind walking aid

National: 26 Mar 10
An 86-year-old woman was dragged several metres behind her wheeled walker on Friday during an assault and robbery in central Gothenburg. READ »

Thieves open fire in Södertälje supermarket

National: 1 Mar 10
Police are searching for four armed robbers who opened fire with a hand gun and a rifle during a supermarket robbery on Saturday in Södertälje, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm. READ »

Police slammed over helicopter heist

National: 16 Feb 10
The Swedish police made several serious mistakes in connection with the helicopter heist robbery at Västberga cash depot in southern Stockholm last autumn, according to a former police superintendent. READ »

Snow causes traffic havoc in western Sweden

National: 1 Feb 10
Snow falls caused extensive traffic problems on Sunday night and into Monday morning. Several accidents occurred in western Sweden while no fatalities were reported. READ »

Heartless thieves steal Haiti cash

National: 23 Jan 10
Robbers broke into a the premises of the Red Cross in Laholm, western Sweden, and made a swift exit with the safe containing around 20,000 kronor ($2,762) collected for earthquake victims in Haiti. READ »

Helicopter suspect held on Caribbean island

National: 14 Jan 10
A 30-year-old Swedish man suspected of having a role in the brazen helicopter-aided robbery of a Stockholm cash depot has been arrested in the Dominican Republic. READ »

Swedish ex-Nazi 'proud' of Auschwitz sign role

Politics: 8 Jan 10
Former neo-Nazi Anders Högström has come clean in the Swedish media about his part in the theft and subsequent recovery of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp. READ »

Swedish police give gang of left shoe thieves the boot

National: 3 Jan 10
Police in Skåne in southern Sweden have busted an international ring of left shoe robbers. Two men have been arrested for stealing seven single shoes. READ »

Two more held as police look for second pilot

National: 19 Nov 09
Prosecutors on Thursday requested remand hearings for two more men suspected of involvement in the dramatic helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm. READ »

'Hamburglar' hits Stockholm-area McDonald's

Society: 12 Nov 09
A hungry thief sent an employee from a Stockholm-area McDonald’s to hospital on Wednesday night before making off with a booty that included more than just money. READ »

Two more helicopter heist suspects arrested

National: 21 Oct 09
Two more men have been detained in connection with last month’s spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot in Västberga south of Stockholm. READ »

Armed robbers hit Michelin-rated eatery

Society: 19 Oct 09
Armed robbers broke into the Michelin-rated Sjömagasinet in Gothenburg in western Sweden on Sunday night, tying up the maître d' and making off with tens of thousands of kronor. READ »

Helicopter heist hits global top ten list

National: 5 Oct 09
September's helicopter cash depot heist in Stockholm qualifies as one of the ten most spectacular heists of all time, according to a new list published by Time magazine. READ »

Police probe Serb ties to helicopter heist

National: 29 Sep 09
Police in Serbia suspect the mastermind behind last week's brazen helicopter heist is a 40-year-old Bosnian Serb living in Belgrade known as the 'gangster king'. READ »

Swedish police 'knew of helicopter heist plans'

National: 28 Sep 09
Swedish police had been forewarned by counterparts in Serbia about plans to rob a Stockholm cash depot, according to media reports. Meanwhile, details have emerged about six suspects who remain in police custody. READ »

Several arrests made in helicopter heist probe

National: 27 Sep 09
Several people were arrested on Sunday afternoon for their suspected involvement in last week’s spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm. READ »

Helicopter heist: millions offered as reward for tips

National: 25 Sep 09
Stockholm police have received more than 300 tips from the general public in connection with the helicopter heist in Västberga on Wednesday. Security firm G4S has offered a 7 million kronor ($1 million) reward for information. READ »

Helicopter robbery - how it happened

National: 24 Sep 09
The Swedish police have been roundly criticized for their slow response to the audacious helicopter robbery of a cash depot in Västberga south of Stockholm on Wednesday. Here's how it happened. READ »

Hunt continues for helicopter robbers

National: 24 Sep 09
Swedish police continue to hunt for suspects and faced criticism following the well-orchestrated, helicopter-aided theft at a cash depot in Västberga south of Stockholm on Wednesday. READ »

Man arrested in helicopter heist probe

National: 23 Sep 09
Swedish police have one person into custody for suspected involvement in the Hollywood-esque helicopter-aided robbery which took place at a cash depot near Stockholm early Wednesday morning. READ »

Helicopter heist causes cash flow concerns

Business & Money: 23 Sep 09
While police continue to gather evidence, traders and store owners in the Stockholm area are concerned over a possible shortage of cash following the spectacular robbery of a cash depot south of the city. READ »

Stockholm cash depot hit by helicopter heist

National: 23 Sep 09
Robbers used a helicopter to carry out a spectacular theft at a cash depot south of Stockholm early Wednesday morning. The helicopter was found later in the morning about 30 kilometres north of the crime scene. READ »

German court convicts high-speed Swede

National: 2 Jul 09
The 52-year-old head of one of Sweden most infamous gangs was sentenced in Germany on Tuesday to three years and three months in prison. READ »

Prison for Gothenburg post depot robbers

National: 11 Jun 09
A Gothenburg court on Thursday sentenced 13 people to prison for their role in the dramatic robbery of a postal depot in January 2008. READ »

Police foil Umeå security depot heist

National: 24 May 09
A dramatic shoot out after a robbery at a security depot in Umeå in northern Sweden left one of the robbers with gunshot wounds as four of the gang were arrested. READ »

Partygoers bound and robbed by armed thieves

National: 24 May 09
Two middle-aged couples were bound and robbed by five armed masked men in a house in Rimbo near Stockholm on Saturday night. READ »

Japanese popstar dressed as pineapple robbed in Malmö

Society: 5 Apr 09
Japanese popstar Hideki Kaji was beaten and robbed in the middle of a recording session in Malmö on Saturday, while dressed as a pineapple. READ »

Man assaulted with axe outside Swedish hospital

Society: 16 Feb 09
A man leaving an emergency room in Varberg in western Sweden on Sunday night was forced to readmit himself after being attacked by axe-wielding robbers outside the hospital. READ »

Sixteen charged for brazen postal heist

National: 9 Jan 09
Prosecutors on Friday indicted 16 people in Gothenburg District Court for their role in the audacious robbery of a postal depot near the city’s central train station in January 2008. READ »

Burglary bid by big blue bunny backfires

Society: 9 Oct 08
A massive blue bunny, along with a shotgun-toting accomplice, were arrested on Wednesday afternoon following their unsuccessful attempt at robbing a currency exchange office in Farsta, south of Stockholm. READ »

Court awards compensation for stolen drug money

National: 3 Sep 08
Sweden’s highest court has ruled that a drug dealer robbed of the proceeds from his illicit activities has the right to compensation from the state. READ »

Copenhagen heist suspect has perfect alibi

National: 19 Aug 08
One of the Swedes remanded in custody in connection with a multi-million kronor robbery in Copenhagen has the perfect alibi: he was in Swedish detention at the time of the raid. READ »

Swede in custody for Copenhagen heist

National: 17 Aug 08
A 28-year-old Swede has been remanded in custody in connection with a multi-million kronor robbery in Copenhagen on August 10th. A further three Swedes and a Dane are set to face the remand court. READ »

Billionaire offers big reward for missing Swedish dog

Society: 15 Aug 08
An anonymous billionaire has offered 100,000 kronor ($15,876) to aid the recovery of a stolen Swedish dog, according to reports. READ »

Stockholm hit by wave of cash transport heists

National: 24 Jul 08
Stockholm was hit by multiple cash transport robberies on Thursday. Armed moped robbers hit transports in the suburban neighbourhoods of Nacka and Älvsjö. READ »

Swede risks double jeopardy for German heist

National: 4 Jun 08
The 32-year-old Swedish man suspected of involvement in a spectacular 1995 Berlin bank robbery has already been convicted and served his sentence for the crime in Lebanon. READ »

Swede held for dramatic 1995 German bank robbery

National: 3 Jun 08
A 32-year-old Swede has been arrested on suspicions of having participated in the spectacular 1995 robbery of a bank in Berlin. READ »

Armed robbers hit two banks in western Sweden

National: 19 May 08
Two banks were robbed on Monday morning in town of Charlottenberg, not far from the Norwegian border. READ »

Eight charged over remote-control bank heist

National: 7 May 08
Eight men have been charged for their attempt to remotely transfer millions of kronor from a Swedbank branch was thwarted by an alert staff member. READ »

78-year-old attacks armed bank robber

National: 14 Apr 08
Fed up with thefts at his local bank, a 78-year-old retired prison worker took matters into his own hands when he met three armed robbers. READ »

Robbers attempt heist at cashless bank

National: 11 Apr 08
Three would-be bank robbers sped off empty handed from the Swedbank branch in Älvsjö south of Stockholm on Thursday night. READ »

Malmö rocked by morning crime wave

National: 6 Mar 08
Police in Malmö have created a special unit to investigate a wave of crimes in the city on Thursday morning. READ »

Six arrested for Gothenburg postal robbery

National: 4 Mar 08
Six men were arrested for suspected involvement in the Gothenburg postal depot robbery. READ »

Police thwart remote-control bank heist

National: 30 Jan 08
Robbers tried to steal millions of kronor from a Swedish bank by hijacking one of its computers, only to be foiled by an alert employee, police say. READ »

'Not much missing' after spectacular robbery

National: 29 Jan 08
A spectacular robbery in Gothenburg last week brought meagre financial rewards for the perpetrators, police in the city said on Tuesday. READ »

Three Gothenburg postal suspects to remain in custody

National: 27 Jan 08
All three men claim their innocence in one of the country’s most brazen robbery attempts. READ »

Armed robbers hit Gothenburg gambling den

National: 26 Jan 08
An armed gang of 15 men hit a gambling den in Gothenburg, making off with 100,000 kronor. READ »

Gothenburg man victim of 'Guns n' Roses' robbery

National: 25 Jan 08
A men expecting flowers was instead met with drawn pistols. READ »

'Stand back or we'll shoot'

National: 25 Jan 08
Several armed men robbed a bank in Åtvidaberg on Friday morning. READ »

Fast facts: big robberies in Sweden

National: 22 Jan 08
Sweden has been the scene of a number of big cash robberies in recent years. Here's the lowdown. READ »

Men arrested over spectacular Gothenburg robbery

National: 22 Jan 08
Three men have been arrested after Tuesday morning's robbery at a postal depot in Gothenburg. "This robbery was on a bigger scale than any I have seen before," says police chief. READ »

Bomb alerts lead to Gothenburg road blocks

National: 22 Jan 08
Cars burnt out following armed robbery at Gothenburg post terminal. READ »

Two arrests after dramatic bank robbery

National: 19 Jan 08
The two men are suspected in at least one of Friday’s armed bank robberies south of Stockholm. READ »

Bank robbers open fire

National: 18 Jan 08
Armed robbers blew up a safe and fired shots during raids at two banks in a Stockholm suburb on Friday morning. READ »

Bank rammed by armed robbers

National: 15 Jan 08
Two men made off with an undisclosed sum of money following an armed bank robbery in Västerås. READ »

Armed robbery at Malmö supermarket

National: 23 Dec 07
A supermarket in Malmö was robbed by armed men on Sunday morning. No one is reported to have been hurt in the raid. READ »

Ulla, 51, repels axe-wielding thieves with butter knife

Society: 19 Nov 07
Three young thieves wielding knives and axes failed to factor in the possibility of cutlery being produced during a raid on an antique store in Gotland. 'I was like a mother in a serious rage,' says store owner Ulla. READ »

Exchange office held up in Helsingborg

National: 23 Oct 07
Police in Skåne are searching for robbers who held up a foreign exchange office in Helsingborg on Monday night. READ »

Robbers foiled by shoddy planning

National: 22 Oct 07
Two armed robbers who raided a bank in south eastern Sweden on Monday could have saved themselves a lot of hassle by carrying out some basic reconnaissance work. READ »

Four arrested for armed raid

National: 19 Oct 07
Two men have been arrested following an armed robbery on a secure cash delivery vehicle in Hedemora on Friday morning. READ »

Woman arrested for cash depot heist

National: 21 Sep 07
A young woman working for security firm Panaxia has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in Wednesday's cash depot robbery in Stockholm. READ »

Cash deliveries suspended after raid

Society: 2 Sep 07
One of Sweden's leading secure cash delivery companies has suspended deliveries of foreign currency to and from Swedish airports, saying it will not resume services until police can guarantee security. READ »

Shots fired in security vehicle raid

National: 1 Sep 07
A major police operation has been launched after a security vehicle was robbed late on Friday night in Märsta, near Arlanda airport, north of Stockholm. The van was blown up and shots were fired in the incident. READ »

Robbery at central Stockholm bank

National: 14 Aug 07
Security guards delivering cash to a bank in central Stockholm were robbed on Tuesday morning. READ »

Småland bank robbed at gunpoint

National: 3 Aug 07
Eyewitnesses have reported an explosion during a bank robbery in southern Sweden on Friday morning. Four armed and masked men robbed the Swedbank branch in Sävsjö, Småland. READ »

Teen cleared of murdering colleague

National: 31 Jul 07
A 17-year-old boy has been acquitted of murdering a 35-year-old colleague at a restaurant in western Sweden. The murdered man was killed in the restaurant in Borås in April. READ »

Cash vehicle robbed at gunpoint in Stockholm

National: 27 Jul 07
Four armed men robbed a secure cash transport vehicle in Stockholm on Friday morning. The men, carrying automatic weapons, detonated an explosive charge in the vehicle. READ »

Man wanted for armed robbery turns himself in

National: 31 May 07
A 30-year-old man has presented himself at a police station after a warrant was put out for his arrest. The man is among those suspected of opening fire on police in the course of an armed robbery on Wednesday. READ »

Police issue warrant for arrest of armed robber

National: 31 May 07
A 30-year-old man is wanted by police in connection with an armed robbery in Stockholm on Wednesday. The robbers opened fire on police during the raid. READ »

Police shot by Stockholm robbers

National: 30 May 07
Robbers opened fire on police officers in Stockholm on Wednesday following a raid on a secure cash transport vehicle. READ »

'Bomb' left behind after raid on Securitas depot

National: 24 May 07
A Securitas depot in Linköping has been robbed by a gang using a suspected bomb, road spikes and and earthmover. Despite the gang's apparent organization, they left empty-handed. READ »

Robbers place 'bomb' outside police station

National: 8 May 07
A suspected bomb was placed outside a police station in Stockholm on Monday by robbers before they went to raid a nearby bureau de change. READ »

Sweden refuses pardon for former Serb leader

National: 26 Apr 07
Former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has been refused a pardon by Sweden's government, meaning she will continue to serve her sentence in Hingseberg jail, central Sweden. READ »

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