Reportedly 76 officers and two helicopters took part in the armed raid.

First, he was arrested for an 'armed raid' with friends on a petrol station, but charges were dropped.

He also did five years in 1992 for another armed raid.

Officers stayed at the house until nearly daybreak yesterday after the armed raid.

Thought to have carried out an armed raid before his recapture.

The thieves hoped to steal up to 250 million ($315 million), police said, and had planned to carry out the raid this weekend.

In an interview in 2004, he admitted to having paid police to carry out the raid, but when they later demanded more money he refused.

The film rights to a book being written by one of the gang who allegedly carried out the raid are being snapped up.

He added that the operation was aimed at the people believed to have carried out the raids and those involved in the gang's organisation.

Over the same period, the number of raids carried out with search warrants fell from 5,850 to 3,046.

They ransacked several rooms as they took 2,500 in cash and several thousand pounds' worth of jewellery in the early morning raid.

Those arrested in early morning raids include solicitors, surveyors, developers and a bank official.

The current investigation into journalists and their sources has led to more than 100 people being arrested or questioned under caution, many after early morning raids on their homes.

Given the intelligence available it would have been unforgivable not to order the raid.

Top brass ordered the raids over a plot that was feared to be increasingly taking shape.

Quick had ordered the raid.

They worked covertly after corrupt police warned him about planned raids.

They feared that burglars could use the photos to plan raids.

Police have used the microdrones to track off-road motorbikes in public parks and to plan raids in hard-to-reach locations.

They were among 11 marmoset monkeys and four parrots worth 10,000, taken in a carefully planned raid.

Horsemen can raid a village and be gone with their loot before a land army can be gathered.

She gutted the fruit bowl and raided the village shop for suet.

She said her community live in constant fear of the authorities, who often raid their villages.

The nomads, stronger than ever, started to raid some villages.

Players control the title character who, in a medieval fantasy setting, struggled against the powers of an evil sorceress raiding her village.

This raid targeted the area at the western end of the runway.

Most of these raids targeted the naval base and dockyard facilities on the island, though several minelaying missions were conducted in nearby waters.

Estimates on the number of fatalities range from five to as high as 80, with the higher numbers being claimed by those reporting that the raid targeted civilians.

A successful raid gaining airspace over the opposing force provides strategic and economical advantages.

He organised and led a successful raid on the enemy's trenches with great skill and courage.

They told themselves that the weather would turn bad before they could complete a successful raid, and that such a late start would spell disaster.

For conspicuous gallantry and tenacity during a successful raid on the enemy's trenches, when in command of half a squad of grenadiers.

Successful raids could target just about anything online, but they tended to have one thing in common: a surge.

A heavy mist contributed to the enemy's surprise raid.

A judicial source said tax and social security inspectors had taken part in the surprise raid alongside gendarmes and work inspectors.

She claimed to have conducted a surprise raid on one of the hotels and found that not everything was going on legally.

The data watchdog will gain the power to make surprise raids on companies suspected of involvement in the illegal harvesting of personal data.

That meant crackdowns now resembled espionage plots, with moles in factories, sting operations and surprise raids on suspected counterfeiting operations.