Gilbert Galvan
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title:
Gilbert Galvan
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Gilbert William Galvan Jr. is an American bank robber. Having spent many of his adult years in prison, Galvan fled to Canada where he assumed the name Robert Lee Whiteman and began a three-year spree robbing banks and jewelry stores in the 1980s. The media dubbed him the Flying Bandit and the Phantom Bandit. Galvan's exploits were the subject of a 1996 true crime book, The Flying Bandit, written by Robert Knuckle and Ed Arnold, which was adapted into the 2022 film Bandit.
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American bank robber (born 1957)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Galvan
date created:
2022-12-15T00:26:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T23:05:07Z
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