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Three men plead guilty to stealing $510,000 from armored car on Long Island

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Updated July 12, 2019

On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced that three men accused of stealing $510,000 from an armored car on Long Island on November 2, 2018 have pleaded guilty.

The heist was an inside job perpetrated by armored car driver Alexis Laguerra, 30, Raymond Soto Jr., aka “Rambo”, 28, and his father Raymond Soto Sr., aka “Razor”, 48.

Laguerra was an employee of GardaWorld, a Montreal-based armored car company with a local branch in West Hempstead.

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Three men indicted for stealing $510,000 from armored car on Long Island

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On December 21, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced that Alexis Laguerra, Raymond Soto Jr., and Raymond Soto Sr. had been charged with bank larceny following the theft of $510,000 from a Garda armored car in Valley Stream on November 2.

Laguerra, 30, of Brooklyn, was an employee of Garda at the time of the incident.

He was arrested on a criminal complaint sometime between December 17-21.