article_snippet.sent: Police are believed to have identified one of the men behind the jewel heist in Hatton Garden, as it was revealed The Ground Gang could have been inspired by similar robberies in Los Angeles in the 1980s.
article_snippet.sent: Police are believed to have identified one of the Hatton Garden raiders after releasing CCTV images of The Ground Gang as The Ground Gang raided the bank vault over the Easter bank holiday .
article_snippet.sent: In the 1986 robbery, The Ground Gang tunneled into a bank vault over a long weekend, triggering alarms on the Friday that were not investigated, before raiding safety deposit boxes stored inside three vaults.
article_snippet.sent: It was not until the week following the raids that police were called and discovered the robbers had dug into a bank vault using heavy machinery, in very similar circumstances to the Hatton Garden raid.
article_snippet.sent: The Boy in the River, told MailOnline: 'There is obviously a lot we don't know about the Hatton Garden heist, but on the surface they look very similar. '
article_snippet.sent: The timeline fits almost exactly, right down to the alarm being set off on a Friday and the break in being discovered on a Tuesday.'
article_snippet.sent: The crew had stashed quadbikes underground for a quick escape, but the raid was in fact not discovered until the start of the following week when staff arrived to find the bank vault ransacked.
article_snippet.sent: Police then discovered the tunnel, littered with 'an enormous number' of polystyrene coffee cups, and surmised that the raiders were probably sewer or construction workers who had decided to turn the raiders skills to a sinister new use.
article_snippet.sent: In both Hatton Garden and the LA raids, the gangs bored into vaults using heavy drills (pictured), broke in over a long weekend, set off an alarm on the Friday that wasn't checked out, and raided safety deposit boxes .
article_snippet.sent: In The Ground Gang, and Mr Hoskins believes the group who raided Hatton Garden (picutred) must have known about the group who raided Hatton Garden (picutred), or read the book inspired by the group who raided Hatton Garden (picutred) .
article_snippet.sent: Again, the group who raided Hatton Garden (picutred) had used heavy tools to cut the group who raided Hatton Garden (picutred) way into a bank vault over the course of a weekend, and again the group who raided Hatton Garden (picutred) had set off an alarm on the group who raided Hatton Garden (picutred) way in.
article_snippet.sent: In the Hatton Garden raid, the Met Police have said the raiders broke into the building on the second floor, disabling the lift before lowering the Met Police down the shaft and breaking into the basement.
article_snippet.sent: the Met Police then climbed back up to the ground floor to let other gang members in through a side entrance, before all making the Met Police way to the vaults where the Met Police drilled the Met Police way inside.
article_snippet.sent: CCTV from the scene reveals that a white Transit Van parked outside a white Transit Van business for two minutes in November last year before two hooded men are seen walking past .
highlights_snippet.sent: Officers thought to have identified supposed ringleader of jewel thieves .
  