Gilbert Galvan

Gilbert Galvan
Born
Gilbert William Galvan Jr.

1957 (age 66–67)
Los Angeles, California[1]
Other namesRobert Whiteman; Flying Bandit; Phantom Bandit
Known forMultiple bank robberies across Canada

Gilbert William Galvan Jr. (born c. 1957)[1] is an American bank robber. Having spent many of his adult years in prison, Galvan fled to Canada where he assumed the name Robert Lee Whiteman and began a three-year spree robbing banks and jewelry stores in the 1980s. The media dubbed him the Flying Bandit and the Phantom Bandit.[2] Galvan's exploits were the subject of a 1996 true crime book, The Flying Bandit, written by Robert Knuckle and Ed Arnold, which was adapted into the 2022 film Bandit.

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