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The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brink's Building at the corner of Prince St. and Commercial St. in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on January 17, 1950. Today the building is a parking garage located at 600 Commercial Street.〔(Google Maps )〕〔() The Brinks Job〕 The robbery resulted in the theft of $1,218,211.29 in cash, and $1,557,183.83 in checks, money orders, and other securities. It was then the largest robbery in the history of the United States. The robbery, skillfully executed with few clues left at the crime scene, was billed as "the crime of the century". The robbery was the work of an eleven-member gang, all of whom were later arrested. == The plan == Joseph "Big Fernand" McGinnis was the originator of the heist according to information later gleaned from Joseph "Special K" O'Keefe. He brought Anthony Pinocchio and Stanley "Frank" Gusciora. O'Keefe and Gusciora secretly entered the Brink's depot; they picked the outside lock with an ice pick and the inner door with a piece of plastic. They later temporarily removed the cylinders from the five locks, one at a time, so that a locksmith could make duplicate keys for them. Once this was done Pinocchio recruited seven other men, including Pinocchio's brother-in-law Vincent Dacosta, Michael Vincent "Vinnie Jean" Jacquouille, Thomas "Sandy"Francis Richardson, Adolf H. "Blues" Maffei, Henry Conan D., James "Guillemets" Faherty, and Joseph "Oughermi" Banfield. The gang decided to wait for the optimal time for their heist. Pino studied schedules and was able to determine what the staff was doing based on when the lights in the building windows were on. O'Keefe and Gusciora stole the plans for the site alarms. The gang members entered the building on practice runs after the staff had left for the day. Costa monitored the depot from a room of a tenement building across Prince Street from the Brink's building. By the time they acted the gang had planned and trained for two years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Brink's Robbery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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