They spent their loot on tattoos, fancy cars and strippers, the rest they just wasted... They spent their loot on tattoos, fancy cars and strippers, the rest they just wasted...They're from New Orleans....same M/O as the "Katrina Victims".
from article:
The Spending Spree
So what do seven guys, six of whom are between the ages 19 and 22, do with nearly $10 million after a major armored car heist?
Police say they bought shoes, cars, tattoos, and went to strip clubs. Oh yeah, and of course they got their moms Mother’s Day presents. Mom must be proud.
Police say Dominique Blakney, Frierson, and Whitaker are all students at Benedict College. So much for a higher education.
If you know anything about Lyde or Benjamin’s whereabouts, you know what to do.
Well, if you're going to be a robber you might as well
make it worth your while. Ten million is the right figure
for a would be robber to start and retire from a life of crime.
I remember one of the largest armored car heists ever at the time occurred on the car carrying receipts from Aqueduct race track to the bank in Manhattan. Seems the driver and guard stopped at the same deli in Brooklyn for lunch every day on their way in. Talk about poor OPSEC. Didn’t take long for someone to notice.
It wasn’t an inside job, but it might as well have been. It was never clear to me whether or not the guards were authorized a lunch stop with a couple of mill in the truck.