'Sewers of gold' gang are held after their perfect plan goes down the drain
It was a crime mystery combining elements of the films Ocean's Eleven,
The Third Man and the 1979 heist movie Sewers of Gold, also known as The
Great Riviera Bank Robbery.
Police in Naples had been baffled for months. Six times they were on the
verge of capturing would-be bank robbers in the act —- and six times the
gang vanished, apparently into thin air.
Three of the aborted raids were even on the same bank, the Antonveneta
in the Galleria Umberto I, a smart, wrought-iron-and-glass, art deco
shopping arcade opposite the San Carlo Opera House.
When police made arrests yesterday the secret of the gang apparently
emerged —- one of those in custody is Salvatore Oliva, the former head
of the drains and sewage department for Naples city council.
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Sinkhole and Town: Now You See It ...
A huge and ravenous sinkhole that threatened to swallow this little East
Texas oil town gobbled more crumbling earth Thursday but spared, at
least for now, homes, the high school and the main road, Farm to Market 770.
The little East Texas oil town of Daisetta was threatened.
“It’s unreal — the earth just wallered up,” said Lynn Wells, the mayor
and fire chief, who monitored emergency efforts, speeding back and forth
on his red Harley-Davidson.
Since the rim of an underground salt dome collapsed and the ground
cracked and gave way abruptly Wednesday morning, the hole — already one
of the largest on record, geologists here said — has grown to about 600
feet by 525 feet and 150 feet deep, said Cpl. Hugh Bishop of the Liberty
County Sheriff’s Office.
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