Alan Golder

Alan William Golder, also known as the "Dinnertime Bandit", is an American burglar who specialized in stealing jewelry from mansions, while their owners were inside their residences eating dinner. Between 1976 and 1980, Golder allegedly stole an estimated $25 million dollars worth of jewels and cash. Golder was arrested in 1980, and pleaded guilty as an accessory to the 1978 [...] of millionaire Lawrence Lever, who was shot during a robbery gone awry.

Golder was paroled in 1996, but returned to burglary according to police. It is estimated that between 1996 and 2001, Golder stole approximately $5 million in jewelry and cash from homes and estates in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. He is also believed to have struck in Preston Hollow, an affluent suburb of Dallas, Texas in early 1998, when Republican fundraiser Harold Simmons had 100 pieces of jewelry worth $960,000 stolen. A rash of burglaries in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut in 1996 and 1997 is attributed to him. He was arrested in Antwerp, Belgium on December 14, 2006, by Belgian Federal Police. During his time in jail in Antwerp, Belgian authorities stated that they would not be charging Alan Golder with any crimes.

On November 21 2007, after nine years on the run in Europe, Alan Golder was escorted from Antwerp Prison to Brussels, where he was formally taken into custody by a Greenwich Connecticut Detective and two U.S. Marshals. He was flown from Brussels to New York City's JFK Airport, and then taken to Greenwich, CT where he was charged him with 38 felony counts and one misdemeanor including burglary, larceny, robbery and kidnapping. On November 23, 2007 Golder was arraigned in Stamford Superior Court in Connecticut.

Alan Golder plead not guilty in court on December 11th at 10:00 A.M. in Stamford, Connecticut. Alan's attorney, Howard Ehring stated that Alan did not "live the life of a wealthy man while in Europe". Mr Golder has tried to blame his half-brother(s) for the crimes.

Alan Golder is due in court next on 16th January 2008 for a BOND reduction hearing. This is considered a pre-trial hearing.

Alan Golder was released on Parole in June 1996, after serving 15 years of a 25-years-to-life sentence for second degree [...]. He got his sentence reduced by informing on 24 members of a mob run "Gold Ring", a sophisticated jewelry fencing operation, including Anthony "Figgy" Ficarotta. He was on a life parole mandate and due to his violation of parole, he is almost certainly going to be imprisoned for the rest of his NATURAL life, regardless of the outcome of his trial for The 50 or so suspected burglaries (there are others too). Alan Golder absconded from NY Parole in November 1997 after feeling that the mob or feds were after him.

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