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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Arthur Williams (September 26, 1946 - July 11, 2010) was an American career criminal who achieved early notoriety as New York City's "Elevator Bandit," who perpetrated a string of armed robberies in apartment buildings across Manhattan, mostly to support a heroin addiction. Given a three year term in prison, Williams was released after two years. During the 34 years from 1975 to 2009, Williams spent 33 of those years in prison, with the exception of a two-month period after his release from jail when he went on a drug-fueled crime spree in 1980 that was widely publicized in the media. In 2010, he drove from his home in Alabama to New York City, where he conducted an armed robbery of a Manhattan boutique while using a cane and an oxygen tank and wielding a gun which he fired in the store. On the road back to Alabama, Williams robbed a pair of roadside hotels and then went back on the highway, where a police chase in Maryland ended in his death when he was thrown out of his Cadillac, which he had been driving at 120 miles per hour (190 km/h).

ISBN-13

9785512330647

ISBN-10

5512330640

Weight

0.46 Pounds

Dimensions

8.27 x 5.83 x 0.35 In

List Price

$19.95

Format

Paperback

Pages

166 pages

Publisher

Published On

2012-03-01



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