'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery …
Sep 17, 2010 · Boston police say they can't verify that: They don't track bank robberies nationwide, and they don’t break out bank-robbery statistics from all robbery numbers for the city. But their...
Prosecutors win sweeping victory in Charlestown bank robbery …
Dec 23, 1997 · But the testimony of their neighbors helped convict five members of a Charlestown-based bank robbery gang yesterday, and the lead prosecutor said the town's "silent majority" was all for...
The Town (2010 film) - Wikipedia
Four lifelong friends from Charlestown, Boston, Douglas "Doug" MacRay, James "Jem" Coughlin, Albert "Gloansy" MacGloan, and Desmond "Dez" Elden, rob a bank wearing masks. Against Doug's wishes, Jem takes a bank manager, Claire Keesey, hostage but …
‘I have a lot of regret,’ Charlestown bank robber says of 1990s ...
Jun 2, 2023 · Anthony Shea’s life sentence slashed to 35 years. CONCORD, N.H. — On a summer day in 1994, 32-year-old Anthony Shea was part of a gang of Charlestown bank robbers that carjacked an armored...
18 Years Later, Informant May Get Away With Murder
May 17, 1998 · BOSTON — Federal prosecutors thought they had a pretty good handle on John Burke when they talked the tough guy from the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown into ratting out his brother and...
Infamous bank robber William Sequeira arrested in attempted …
Oct 6, 2022 · BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. The Boston Police Department's Bank Robbery task force tackled...
The Oral History of ‘The Town’ - The Ringer
Sep 16, 2020 · In 1995, TheBoston Globe reported that the neighborhood was “a community to which more armored car robbers are traced than any other in the country, according to FBI statistics.” Hogan recalls...
Is The Town Based on a True Story? - The Cinemaholic
Jun 30, 2020 · Its prologue says that “One blue-collar Boston neighborhood [Charlestown] has produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than anywhere else in the world. ” So many viewers must be wondering if bank robbery actually became a family trade in Charlestown?
Charlestown's Most Prolific Bank Robbers - YouTube
Feb 5, 2024 · Learn more about Anthony Shea, one of the most prolific bank and armored truck robbers, and his "no name" gang out of Massachusetts, in this clip from Season...
5 Charged in Series Of Bank Robberies - The New York Times
Jun 4, 1996 · Five men, all from the Charlestown section of Boston, have been indicted by a Federal grand jury here on charges of engaging in 11 bank and armored-truck robberies across New England,...