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Investigators in three countries continued unraveling the plot behind a brazen $50 million diamond robbery in Belgium in February.

The FBI said Monday it believes it knows who was behind one of the most significant art heists in the United States -- the 1990 theft of 13 precious works, once valued at $500 million, from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Robbers dressed as police and armed with machine guns have stolen 120 parcels of diamonds worth millions of dollars from the runway of Brussels Airport in one of the biggest heists the industry has seen.

Fire up the griddle! Much of a huge cache of maple syrup snatched from a Quebec storage facility has been recovered, police say. Three people have been arrested and five others are being sought in connection with the theft from a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec Provincial Police said in a statement Tuesday. The theft occurred between August 2011 and July 2012, police said.

A total of 14 suspects have been indicted on accusations they stole about a million dollars from casinos in California and Nevada.

Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions....

Authorities knew they would need a lucky break to catch a middle-aged bank robber who pulled off a dizzying number of heists in a three-month crime spree that spanned across nine states....

Los Angeles police said Friday they were looking for a gang of thieves who stole an estimated $2 million in diamonds in a backpack from a man whose car they intentionally struck.

Two masked thieves who bored into a downtown Los Angeles jewelry store through a tunnel and made off with an estimated $3 million in jewelry appeared to have some knowledge about the layout of the store, sources told The Times.

Malaysian police have arrested three suspects involved in the heist of some 725,000 condoms, which have not yet been found.