Louvre heist reminiscent of old Las Vegas break

The thieves who stole some of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre last month while dressed as maintenance workers may have been a shock to some, but for the Mob Museum’s Claire White, the brazen tactics utilized in the heist were nothing new.

That’s because Las Vegas has also been the scene of some pretty notorious and headline-grabbing break-ins and robberies over the years. From a high profile diamond theft in the 1950s to the infamous Hole in the Wall Gang’s antics of the 1970s and 1980s to the tow truck-aided burglary of a local Elvis museum in the 2000s, Southern Nevada has also seen its fair share of inventive burglars targeting high value loot.

“Looking at the Hole in the Wall Gang is a super-relevant and interesting comparison to what so recently happened at the Louvre, just be