Frank "Frankie" Hagar is an elderly former bank robber and master thief for decades.
Biography
Frank Hagar was a Navy sailor who served on the USS Magpie and a veteran of the Korean War.
He was one of the best thieves in New York City for over forty years. In the 60s and 70s, if a big score went down, odds were Hagar was the mastermind. Hagar was involved in jewel heists, bank jobs and armored car robberies. He once hijacked a Radio Motor Patrol Police car, with a sleeping cop in the back, just to prove he could steal it. His last arrest was in 2004 for possession of stolen TVs, though he walked. His former son-in-law said Hager used to steal "anything that wasn't nailed down".
Patrolman Donald Cragen arrested him once in the 1970s.
By 2009, Hager no longer stole and was living in a nursing home due to dementia.