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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.

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Anthony Mascuzzio sentenced to 7 years in prison

Anthony Mascuzzio, 38, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 7 years in prison on Friday for his role in two 2016 bank burglaries.

Mascuzzio was part of a crew that burglarized an HSBC bank in Brooklyn and a Maspeth Federal Savings Bank in Queens. They used oxygen and acetylene torches to cut through the roofs and into the vaults of both banks. According to prosecutors, the total amount of the loss is almost $21 million.

The crew also included Michael Mazzara, Charles Kerrigan, and Christopher Kerrigan.

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Charles Kerrigan sentenced to 16 years in prison

Updated: November 20, 2019

On April 11, 2018 in Manhattan federal court, Charles “Duke” Kerrigan, 42, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in prison for his role in two 2016 bank burglaries.

The Mazzara burglary crew

Kerrigan was part of a burglary crew that targeted banks in and around New York City. They typically broke into bank vaults and safe deposit boxes by cutting through a roof or a wall. The crew included Michael Mazzara, Anthony Mascuzzio, and Kerrigan’s younger brother Christopher Kerrigan.

The crew burglarized an HSBC bank branch in Brooklyn in April 2016, and a Maspeth Federal Savings Bank branch in Queens in May 2016. They stole approximately $331,000 in cash and $103,000 in property from the HSBC bank, and approximately $297,000 in cash and $20,157,000 in property from the Maspeth bank.

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Staten Island man sentenced to prison for bank burglaries

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On Friday morning in Manhattan federal court, Christopher Kerrigan, 41, of Staten Island, was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his role in two 2016 bank burglaries in Brooklyn and Queens, New York.

Kerrigan was part of a burglary crew that targeted banks in the New York City area, and usually broke into bank vaults and safe deposit boxes by cutting through a roof or a wall. The crew included Michael Mazzara, Anthony Mascuzzio, and Kerrigan’s older brother Charles Kerrigan. All of the defendants have already pled guilty. Christopher Kerrigan was the first to be sentenced.