Apollo Robbins
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Apollo Robbins is a sleight-of-hand artist, security consultant and self-described gentleman thief
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Robbins gained notoriety after pickpocketing Secret Service agents accompanying former president Jimmy Carter
, the publicity led several law-enforcement groups to contact him about his techniques.
Gentleman thief
In the Victorian vernacular, a gentleman thief is a particularly well-behaving and apparently well bred thief. A "gentleman" is usually, but not always, a man with an inherited title of nobility and inherited wealth, who need not work for a living. Such a man steals not in order to gain material...
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Robbins gained notoriety after pickpocketing Secret Service agents accompanying former president Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
, the publicity led several law-enforcement groups to contact him about his techniques.
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