Gilbert William Galvan Jr. (born c. 1957) [1] 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.

2022年9月10日 · Is it true that Gilbert Galvan's wife didn't know he was a bank robber? Yes. A Bandit fact-check confirms that after escaping from jail and making it across the border to Canada, Galvan eventually met a Canadian woman named Janice (renamed Andrea Hudson and portrayed by Elisha Cuthbert in the movie).

2015年4月28日 · For two months last summer an unusual bank robber shocked, mystified and captivated the US. She was a woman, she was short, young and well-dressed, and she held up a string of banks in quick...

Gilbert Galvan Jr, a charming career criminal, escapes from a Michigan prison and crosses the border into Ontario, Canada where he assumes a new identity as Robert Whiteman. After falling in love with a woman he cannot provide for, he turns to robbing banks and discovers that he is exceptionally good at it.

2015年5月15日 · 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 touch: Gilbert Galvan was...

On September 19 th , 1987, a well-dressed man entered a bank in Spokane, Washington, pulled a gun on a teller, and announced he was holding up the bank. He showed the terrified bank employees a police scanner, and claimed that he would know if they tried to alert the police. The robber ordered everyone into the vault, then followed them in.

"Geezer Bandit" is the name given by the FBI to a man who committed a series of bank robberies in Southern California. [1] The Geezer Bandit is accused of robbing at least sixteen banks so far, many in the San Diego, California, area. His last known robbery occurred on Friday, December 2, …

2007年6月29日 · "It's a life sentence, and it should be," U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday said in giving Rafael Angel Rondon the maximum sentence of 149½ years for his role in six bank robberies....

1987年10月9日 · A holdup man believed to be the Gentleman Bandit, who netted $350,000 and was responsible for the third-highest number of bank robberies in FBI history, died of gunshot wounds suffered during...

In Seattle, Special Agent Larry Carr is the man behind some of the most unique names assigned to bank robbers—“Attila the Bun,” “Groundhog Day Bandit,” Hollywood Bandit.” The catchy names...