Tag: Robbery

One chilly winter morning in 1995, two unlikely criminals were about to embark on a daring adventure. It was on January 6 in the streets of Pittsburgh when McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson decided to make their mark in the world but in the most peculiar way. They planned to rob not one, ...

One chilly winter morning in 1995, two unlikely criminals were about to embark on a daring adventure. It was on January 6 in the streets of Pittsburgh when McArthur Wheeler and Clifton Earl Johnson decided to make their mark in the world but in the most peculiar way. They planned to rob not one, ...

It was nearly the perfect crime. Just after 7 p.m. on the evening of January 17, 1950, five armed men crept into the vault room on the second floor of the Brinks security firm building on Prince Street in Boston’s North End. The robbers wore soft shoes to muffle the sound of their footsteps...

The Brink’s Robbery was the greatest heist in the country up to that time. A group of eight men in Captain Marvel masks and peacoats stole about $1.3 million in cash and $1.5 million in checks, money orders and other securities from the supposedly impenetrable Brink’s building. The Brink...