Antonino And Marcell's The Stopwatch Gang

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Actually Antonino and Marcell had a much bigger goal in mind: they had heard about The Stopwatch Gang: a small gang of transplanted Canadians (Paddy Mitchell, Lionel Wright and Stephen Reid) and who had made a very good living robbing banks in the west of United States and Canada. They had robbed an estimated 100 plus banks and had gotten >$15 million (in 1980 US dollars) and the brothers wanted to do better than they had done and wanted to do it all at home verses having to go south of the border as has been suggested to some Canadian businesses (like TYDBE and the wanna-be plastic surgeon). The Stopwatch Gang's biggest heist took place at a Bank of America branch in San Diego in 1980 and was $283,000; it set a California record for the …show more content…

They would watch the first few bags go by (they were usually of full of coins) and then when the guard started bringing the bags full of paper money in, they would strike. 7 They would pull their guns out and force everyone down on the ground and take the money and leave the bank and hop in the getaway car and they did all of this in less than 90 seconds. 8 They then would get rid of all the disguises by bagging them and putting the bag out for the first garbage truck going to a dump site and then switched the plates back and remove the racing stripes and split up into different vehicles. 9 The Stopwatch Gang did this many times throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s and they never shot anybody. 10 And where the stopwatch gang went wrong and what lead them to be arrested was 10.1 They did not dispose one bag full of evidence properly: the FBI got it before it went to the landfill and 10.2 they also had let one of their car rentals be traced back to their true

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