New Yorkers Plead Guilty To 'movie-like' Bank Heists
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published December 16, 2017 | 09:25 AM
Four New Yorkers have pleaded guilty to blow-torching their way into bank vaults and making off with more than $5 million in burglaries likened to a Hollywood movie, US officials said Friday
New York, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Dec, 2017 ) :Four New Yorkers have pleaded guilty to blow-torching their way into bank vaults and making off with more than $5 million in burglaries likened to a Hollywood movie, US officials said Friday.
Michael Mazzara, 45, Charles Kerrigan, 42, and Anthony Mascuzzio, 38, assisted by Christopher Kerrigan, 40, stole more than $5 million in cash, jewelry, collectables, and other valuables from bank vaults and safe boxes, prosecutors said.
The burglaries took place in Brooklyn and Queens in April and May last year. All four pleaded guilty at separate Manhattan federal court hearings and will be sentenced next year, prosecutors said.
They face the prospect of years behind bars.
"Like a scene from a movie, these defendants used blow torches to cut into bank roofs, and subsequently vaults and safe deposit boxes, to steal more than $5 million in cash and customer valuables," said acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim.
The defendants cut through the banks' roofs and vaults with acetylene torches -- targeting an HSBC bank in Brooklyn and a Maspeth Federal Savings Bank branch in Queens. In Queens, they hid their crimes by building a plywood shed on the roof.
breaking open deposit boxes, they snatched more than $600,000 in cash and more than $4.3 million in diamonds, jewelry and other valuables, prosecutors said.
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