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Man Stole From Rich, Police Say

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The Associated Press

Published: November 24, 2007

STAMFORD, Conn. - A man dubbed the "dinnertime bandit" for allegedly robbing wealthy homes - often while residents dined - was brought before a judge Friday for arraignment, nine years after he fled to Europe.

Alan W. Golder, 52, did not enter a plea and was ordered held with bail set at $3 million.
Golder was extradited from Belgium on Wednesday and taken to Greenwich, where police charged him with 38 felony counts and one misdemeanor including burglary, larceny, robbery and kidnapping, stemming from 16 break-ins in 1996 and 1997.
Golder fled the United States in 1998 after police obtained a warrant for his arrest in connection with the break-ins. The suspect in those robberies was nicknamed the "dinnertime bandit" because the burglar would strike affluent homes in the early evening. Authorities estimate nearly $1 million in goods were taken in the Greenwich thefts.

Authorities say Golder is also a suspect in 50 burglaries in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania netting about $5 million in jewelry.

The Greenwich burglaries occurred while Golder was out on parole for the 1978 murder of Long Island, N.Y., real estate developer Lawrence Lever, who was fatally shot by an accomplice of Golder during a break-in at his home.

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