STRATEGIC PARTNERS
May 29, 2002
BOSTON -- Boston authorities are looking for a man who dressed like a guard to rob a Brink's truck at gunpoint of more than $1 million outside an ATM on May 25, according to a Boston Herald report.
The robbery was the third in a series of armored car heists in Boston in the past year, all of which involved Brink's trucks. No arrests have been made.
FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkewicz told the Herald that the Boston Bank Robbery Task Force is investigating whether the three daytime robberies are connected, but there is no information at this point to suggest a link.
In the most recent incident, a white man wearing a light blue dress uniform confronted two Brink's guards as they were making their first stop of the day at an ATM near Quincy Market, Marcinkewicz said.
"(The guard) exited the truck and saw a white male standing right by the exit door with one foot propped on the steps of the truck,' a police report states.
The suspect allegedly backed the guard into the truck, struck him in the face and held a gun to his head. He then tied the guard's hands behind his back and yelled to the driver not to look in the back or he would shoot him, according to the report.
The suspect then ordered the driver to take him several blocks over to Milk Street, where he handed the driver two zip-ties and ordered him to lash himself to the steering wheel.
The suspect fled in an unknown direction with several money bags, which authorities confirmed contained more than $1 million.
Brink's officials in Boston did not return calls seeking comment, and a spokesman at Brink's corporate office in Darien, Conn., declined to comment, according to the Herald.
