Andre Stander
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André Stander was a police Captain in the robbery and homicide division of the police in Johannesburg, South Africa who began robbing banks in the 1970s. His father, Frans Stander, was a general in the South African Police and head of the police dog school in Pretoria. The sheer brazeness of his crimes is legendary: he would sometimes rob banks on his lunch hour, and he would often return to the scene of the crime as an investigating officer.
After robbing nearly 30 banks, he was sentenced to 75 years in prison. Stander met two inmates named Allan Heyl and Lee McCall, and the three men escaped in the early 1980s and began robbing banks again under the nom de guerre of The Stander Gang.
McCall was killed 30 January, 1984 in a police raid on the gang's hide-out in Houghton. Heyl fled to Greece where he was caught and extradited and was sentenced to 33 years in prison. Heyl was released on parole in 2005. Stander fled South Africa and was killed in a shootout with police in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1984.
He was the subject of the 2003 film Stander.
