Due to unsatisfactory conduct, drunkenness, refusal to seek employment, and association with known criminals, his parole was revoked, and he was returned to the Massachusetts State Prison. Even after these convictions, OKeefe and Gusciora continued to seek their release. After nearly three years of investigation, the government hoped that witnesses or participants who had remained mute for so long a period of time might find their tongues before the grand jury. He was so cold and persistent in these dealings with his co-conspirators that the agents hoped he might be attempting to obtain a large sum of moneyperhaps his share of the Brinks loot. Reports had been received alleging that he had held up several gamblers in the Boston area and had been involved in shakedowns of bookies. By this time, Baker was suffering from a bad case of nerves. In addition, McGinnis was named in two other complaints involving the receiving and concealing of the loot. After these plans were reviewed and found to be unhelpful, OKeefe and Gusciora returned them in the same manner. Even with the recovery of this money in Baltimore and Boston, more than $1,150,000 of currency taken in the Brinks robbery remained unaccounted for. Immediately upon leaving, the gang loaded the loot into the truck that was parked on Prince Street near the door. He was granted a full pardon by the acting governor of Massachusetts. Born in Italy in 1907, Pino was a young child when he entered the United States, but he never became a naturalized citizen. Both had served prison sentences, and both were well known to underworld figures on the East Coast. An attempted armored truck heist in South Africa was caught on camera recently; it illustrates the dangers of the job. There were the rope and adhesive tape used to bind and gag the employees and a chauffeurs cap that one of the robbers had left at the crime scene. They did not expect to. In the back were Pino, OKeefe, Baker, Faherty, Maffie, Gusciora, Michael Vincent Geagan (pictured), and Thomas Francis Richardson. Mr. Gilbert was 37 on the day of the attack, Oct. 20, 1981, when nearly $1.6 million in cash was stolen from an armored Brink's car outside the Nanuet Mall near Nyack. Apparently, they had planned a leisurely trip with an abundance of extracurricular activities.. As a protective measure, he was incarcerated in the Hampden County jail at Springfield, Massachusetts, rather than the Suffolk County jail in Boston. At 6:30am, six armed robbers from a south London gang entered the premises of the Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow. Following their arrests, a former bondsman in Boston made frequent trips to Towanda in an unsuccessful effort to secure their release on bail. The theft changed the face of the British underworld. He was not involved in the Brinks robbery. The Great Brinks Robbery was the biggest armed robbery in U.S. history at the time. On the afternoon of August 28, 1954, Trigger Burke escaped from the Suffolk County jail in Boston, where he was being held on the gun-possession charge arising from the June 16 shooting of OKeefe. Allegedly, other members of the Brinks gang arranged for OKeefe to be paid a small part of the ransom he demanded, and Costa was released on May 20, 1954. Subsequently, this machine gun was identified as having been used in the attempt on OKeefes life. The crime inspired at least four movies and two books, including The Story of the Great Brink's Robbery, as Told by the FBI. The Brink's truck was robbed in the early morning . He claimed there was a large roll of bills in his hotel roomand that he had found that money, too. Police who arrived to investigate found a large amount of blood, a mans shattered wrist watch, and a .45 caliber pistol at the scene. They did not expect to find the Aladdin's cave to contain some 26m in gold bullion and diamonds that they stumbled upon. Until the FBI and its partners painstakingly solved the case. Investigation revealed that Geagan, a laborer, had not gone to work on January 17 or 18, 1950.). Nonetheless, the finding of the truck parts at Stoughton, Massachusetts, was to prove a valuable break in the investigation. And the gang felt that the chances of his talking were negligible because he would be implicated in the Brinks robbery along with the others. Through long weeks of empty promises of assistance and deliberate stalling by the gang members, he began to realize that his threats were falling on deaf ears. They were checked against serial numbers of bills known to have been included in the Brinks loot, and it was determined that the Boston criminal possessed part of the money that had been dragged away by the seven masked gunmen on January 17, 1950. The conviction for burglary in McKean County, Pennsylvania, still hung over his head, and legal fees remained to be paid. Among the early suspects was Anthony Pino, an alien who had been a principal suspect in numerous major robberies and burglaries in Massachusetts. OKeefe claimed that he left his hotel room in Boston at approximately 7:00 p.m. on January 17, 1950. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Jewelry, gems, high-end watches and other valuables worth millions of dollars were stolen from a transport vehicle in Southern California. OKeefe was the principal witness to appear before the state grand jurors. Others fell apart as they were handled. The FBI also succeeded in locating the carpenter who had remodeled the offices where the loot was hidden. David Ghantt was the vault supervisor for Loomis, Fargo & Co. armored cars, which managed the transportation of large sums of cash between banks in North Carolina. On September 8, 1950, OKeefe was sentenced to three years in the Bradford County jail at Towanda and fined $3,000 for violation of the Uniform Firearms Act. This man claimed to have no knowledge of Pinos involvement in the Brinks robbery.). On the evening of January 17, 1950, employees of the security firm Brinks, Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts, were closing for the day, returning sacks of undelivered cash, checks, and other. The person ringing the buzzer was a garage attendant. This underworld character told the officers that he had found this money. On November, 26, 1983, three tonnes of solid gold bullion was taken by six armed robbers from the Brink's-Mat security depot near . None of these materialized because the gang did not consider the conditions to be favorable. The hoodlum was taken to police headquarters where a search of his person disclosed he was carrying more than $1,000, including $860 in musty, worn bills. FBI investigating $150 million jewelry heist of Brinks truck traveling from San Mateo County to Southern California. While the others stayed at the house to make a quick count of the loot, Pino and Faherty departed. A new BBC crime drama series follows the gripping twists and turns of what was dubbed the "crime of the century" in the 1980s. Two days after Christmas of 1955, FBI agents paid another visit to OKeefe. Geagan claimed that he spent the evening at home and did not learn of the Brinks robbery until the following day. The full details of this important development were immediately furnished to the FBI Office in Boston. The heist happened on Prince Street in Boston's North End on Jan. 17, 1950. OKeefe immediately returned to Boston to await the results of the appeal. The Brinks case was front page news. On 26 November, 1983, six armed men did break into the Brink's-Mat security depot near Heathrow Airport expecting to find around 1m in pesetas. Three of the newspapers used to wrap the bills were identified. There was James Ignatius Faherty, an armed robbery specialist whose name had been mentioned in underworld conversations in January 1950, concerning a score on which the gang members used binoculars to watch their intended victims count large sums of money. On June 4, 1956 a man named "Fat John" admitted he had money that was linked to the Brink's robbery in his possession. A detective examines the Brinks vault after the theft. The Brinks vehicle, followed closely by guards traveling in an automobile, turned onto a stone-paved lane called Old Bethel Road. That prison term, together with Pinos conviction in March 1928 for carnal abuse of a girl, provided the basis for the deportation action. Much of the money taken from the money changer appeared to have been stored a long time. You'd be forgiven for mistaking the 2005 Miami Brinks heist for a movie script. Pino could have been at McGinnis liquor store shortly after 7:30 p.m. on January 17, 1950, and still have participated in the robbery. Shortly after these two guns were found, one of them was placed in a trash barrel and was taken to the city dump. Continuous investigation, however, had linked him with the gang. He advised that he and his associate shared office space with an individual known to him only as Fat John. According to the Boston hoodlum, on the night of June 1, 1956, Fat John asked him to rip a panel from a section of the wall in the office, and when the panel was removed, Fat John reached into the opening and removed the cover from a metal container. Despite the lack of evidence and witnesses upon which court proceedings could be based, as the investigation progressed there was little doubt that OKeefe had been one of the central figures in the Brinks robbery. Then the lock cylinders were replaced. Each of these leads was checked out. Some of the bills were in pieces. Burlap money bags recovered in a Boston junk yard from the robbery, Some of the recovered money from the robbery. BY The Associated Press. The pardon meant that his record no longer contained the second conviction; thus, the Immigration and Naturalization Service no longer had grounds to deport him. While on bond he returned to Boston; on January 23, 1954, he appeared in the Boston Municipal Court on the probation violation charge. If passing police had looked closer early that Saturday morning on November 26, 1983, they would have noticed the van was weighted down below its wheel arches with three tons of gold. Unfortunately, this proved to be an idle hope. Prominent among the other strong suspects was Vincent James Costa, brother-in-law of Pino. In a report which was released on January 16, 1953, the grand jury disclosed that its members did not feel they possessed complete, positive information as to the identify of the participants in the Brinks robbery because (1) the participants were effectively disguised; (2) there was a lack of eyewitnesses to the crime itself; and (3) certain witnesses refused to give testimony, and the grand jury was unable to compel them to do so. The wall partition described by the Boston criminal was located in Fat Johns office, and when the partition was removed, a picnic-type cooler was found. Costa claimed that after working at the motor terminal until approximately 5:00 p.m. on January 17, 1950, he had gone home to eat dinner; then, at approximately 7:00 p.m., he left to return to the terminal and worked until about 9:00 p.m. He arrived in Baltimore on the morning of June 3 and was picked up by the Baltimore Police Department that evening. On November, 26, 1983, three tonnes of solid gold bullion was taken by six armed robbers from the Brink's-Mat security depot near . During 1955, OKeefe carefully pondered his position. During the regular exercise period, Burke separated himself from the other prisoners and moved toward a heavy steel door leading to the solitary confinement section. "A search warrant was executed in Boston covering the Tremont Street offices occupied by the three men" (FBI). All right, he told two FBI agents, what do you want to know?.