The phrase "a heist of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a theft or robbery, often in a dramatic or cinematic context.
Example: "The movie revolves around a heist of priceless art from a renowned museum."
Alternatives: "a theft of" or "a robbery of".
Working on his plot, Grisham considered a heist of Hemingway's or Steinbeck's papers — but these are scattered in several places across the country.
One small theft is the sports story of the moment in the United States, while a heist of epic proportions, is emitting nary a peep.
The media troglodytes who decide which organizations get supreme court credentials pulled a heist of their own by barring ScotusBlog, which provides some of the best court coverage, and stonewalling questions about their retrograde move).
The best of the four non-Heat teams is likely to be the Hawks, who still have All-Star talent in Al Horford and Josh Smith and pulled a heist of their own in signing Lou Williams away from the 76ers at a reasonable price.
Fox Sports Net lured Kellerman away and created "I, Max," a heist of "Around the Horn's" intellectual property ("intellectual" is a legal term and does not describe the program), which ESPN created by ripping off its own sublime "Pardon the Interruption".
There may be little doubt that the police would have reason to suspect someone running out of a bank with a duffel bag after a heist of being the robber; the denizen of a house with blackened windows and constant visitors of being a drug dealer; the man parked in front of elementary schools for hours or days of being a child molester.
"Good Time" is a heist film, of sorts it dispatches the main heist very early on, in a brief but finely detailed scene.
— Claire Cain Miller Crooks Steal $1.5 Million in iPads From J.F.K. Nypost.com | Criminals are said to have made off with $1.5 million in iPad Minis at Kennedy Airport in a heist reminiscent of "Goodfellas".
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He passed details of the failed scam to the police but was again targeted six months later with a separate "heist of enormous scale" that saw a business associate of Branson's conned out of $2m.
I've noticed that the more you're made aware of a disease, the more you realise that a lot of people are making a bank heist of money from you supporting their foundation.
