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Gilbert William Galvan Jr. (born c. 1957) is an American bank robber. Having spent many of his adult years in prison, Galvan fled to Canada where he assumed the name Robert Lee Whiteman and began a three-year spree robbing banks and jewelry stores in the 1980s.
Sep 10, 2022 · When the police began looking into the pattern of Robert Whiteman's business trips, they discovered it was a perfect match with the jewelry store robberies. On June 12, 1987, Whiteman boarded a plane and flew to London, Ontario where he robbed a bank for $22,000.
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May 15, 2015 · Lake County. Masterminds. The man once notorious as the “Flying Bandit” — named after slipping out of prison and robbing 59 banks and jewelry stores from Vancouver to Halifax — has lost his...
Dec 29, 2021 · For the past 50 years, he was a fugitive wanted in one of the largest bank robberies in Cleveland’s history, living in Boston under a new name he created six months after the heist in the...
May 16, 2015 · The man once notorious as the “Flying Bandit” — named after slipping out of prison and robbing 59 banks and jewelry stores from Vancouver to Halifax, including in Peterborough — has lost his...
Mar 12, 2015 · Whitehead, who was wearing khaki pants and holding a firearm, entered the bank and forced a bank customer to the ground at gunpoint before pulling a black beanie over his face. From the lobby, Whitehead pointed a firearm at a bank teller and demanded that she open the door to the teller area.
May 30, 2017 · It was a shocking news story at the time — Eugene D. Miller, then a 53-year-old veteran Westmoreland County newspaperman, was arrested for a two-year, three-county bank robbery spree that...
