Bank robbery is the criminal act of stealing from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence. This refers to robbery of a bank branch or teller, as opposed to other bank-owned property, such as a train, armored car, or (historically) stagecoach. It is a federal crime in the United States.
A masked man poses as a bank robber during a demonstration of a German device that protected cash and sounded an alarm during a robbery (1931).
Patty Hearst takes part in the April 1974 Hibernia Bank raid with other SLA members.
Expended dye pack after a Los Angeles area Bank of America robbery, January 2, 2008. This particular pack was concealed inside a stack of twenty-dollar bills.
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.
This 15th-century painting depicts money-dealers at a banca (bench) during the Cleansing of the Temple.
Sealing of the Bank of England Charter (1694), by Lady Jane Lindsay, 1905.
Interior of the Helsinki Branch of the Vyborg-Bank [fi] in the 1910s
Banco de Venezuela in Coro.
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