U.S. Navy veteran Howard Bach, who turned 100 in July, joined the Force in 1948 after serving four years on a battleship in the Pacific during WWII. He’s the NYPD’s oldest retired gumshoe, still plays ...

On this day, Nov. 2, in 1980, Willie Sutton, the “Babe Ruth of bank robbers,” died at age 79. Man arrested at Atlanta airport after family told police he wanted to 'shoot it up' Pirro identifies two ...

When someone asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, he was famously quoted as saying, “Because that’s where the money is.” If he were alive today, Willie Sutton would probably work in the ...

William Francis “Willie” Sutton, Jr. born on June 30, 1901 gained national attention and the listing on the FBI’s most wanted posters as a bank robber. His career as a bank robber spanned a forty-year ...

I read the recent obituary on Donald Shea with interest [“NYPD vet dead at 90,” News, July 29]. But it left out a key fact about the arrest of bank robber Willie Sutton. Arnold Schuster, the man who ...

When the famed Depression-era criminal, Willie Sutton, was asked why he robbed banks he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” Nearly a century later, that’s still true, although modern ...

I am not that Willie Sutton. Even though I (sort of) share a name with the infamous bank robber, I've never been arrested. I visited jails and prisons. By choice. I've never spent a night in one. So I ...

WILLIE D. SUTTON Was born April 6, 1915 to Lizzie Nash Sutton and A.D. Sutton, Sr. in Corsicana, Texas. He was the second eldest of five children. All of his siblings preceded him in death. His twin ...

Among the more humorous and memorable misquotes of the 20th century was Willie Sutton's apocryphal response to a reporter asking him why he robbed banks: "Because that's where the money is." But while ...

ELYRIA – Art Daniels Sutton, Sr., age 60, of Elyria, peacefully passed away on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. He was born on June 22, 1953 in Lorain, Ohio to his parents Willie and Helen Sutton, Sr. He ...