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Eddie Maher: Suffolk £1m theft suspect deported from US | Eddie Maher: Suffolk £1m theft suspect deported from US |
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A former security guard wanted over a £1m theft in Suffolk in 1993 has been deported from the United States. | A former security guard wanted over a £1m theft in Suffolk in 1993 has been deported from the United States. |
Eddie Maher, 57, originally from Essex, was flown back to the UK overnight and is due to appear before Ipswich Magistrates' Court later. | |
Mr Maher, who was arrested in Ozark, Missouri, disappeared in January 1993 after a security van packed with £1m in cash went missing from Felixstowe. | |
It is understood he landed at Heathrow Airport in the early hours. | |
A Suffolk police spokeswoman said Mr Maher, formerly of South Woodham Ferrers, in Essex, would appear in court charged with theft. | |
False number plates | |
She said he was being held in custody ahead of his court appearance. | She said he was being held in custody ahead of his court appearance. |
Police said Mr Maher was "circulated as wanted" in connection with the theft of the security van from outside Lloyds Bank in Hamilton Road, Felixstowe, on 22 January 1993. | |
The Securicor van was found empty on Felixstowe seafront. | |
Police believed 50 bags containing £1m in coins, £20 notes and £10 notes, had been transferred into a stolen Toyota Previa Space Cruiser fitted with false number plates. | |
It is thought the Toyota was then driven to a car park on the nearby Landguard peninsula. | |
The money was then thought to have been transferred into a car later found burnt-out in Essex. | |
Mr Maher was working for a cable company in Ozark when he was arrested on a separate matter and accused of immigration and firearms offences in the US. |