What he got instead was a surprise. New York City / Robbery #281574. Wells Fargo, which transports cash for clients, stored the money in its vault pending the opening of banks on Monday. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Sentry Armoured Car Company was robbed of $11 million by its guard Christos Potamitis and his associates. The obviously well-planned attack was the fifth robbery in the New York metropolitan area since 1972 in which more than $4 million was stolen. After smashing a 3-feet-square hole through a cinder-block wall outside the Merrill Lynch depot, the four then crawled inside and broke through a second wall to reach the second floor of the Wells Fargo terminal, which is at Houston and West Streets near the Hudson River. The robbery is overshadowed only by the $11.2 million that disappeared from the Sentry Armored Courier Co. in the Bronx in December, 1982. '', Mr. Potamitis, who is 25 years old and lives in Queens, was the only Sentry guard on duty when the theft took place. An empty tan money bag was inside the truck, and detectives found that the lock on the rear door was cracked. Mr. Argitakos's father, Steve, was sentenced to four years and fined $5,000 for hiding stolen money. Sentences of 15 years and fines of $35,000 were imposed on both Christos Potamitis, a former guard at Sentry, and Eddie Argitakos, a Queens accountant. No guard was on duty Sunday afternoon when the robbers broke into a neighboring warehouse and then smashed into the terminal building, Nicastro said. Like many New Yorkers tired of winter, Cristos Potamitis, 25, a former security guard for the Bronx-based Sentry Armored Car Courier Co., went to Puerto Rico late last month for a vacation. Another man, Nicholas Gregory, is a fugitive in the case. He stressed that none of the defendants had provided any information to help the authorities ''retrieve the stolen funds. 'A Crime of Greed'. 9 million in 1997. Judge Weinfeld, who gave sentences below the maximum total possible, imposed maximum fines on the father and son. Radha Blank’s ‘Forty-Year-Old Version’ on Netflix highlights racism in the theater industry. We asked 40 Black theatermakers for their stories. The police also are investigating why the firm`s sophisticated alarm system failed to function. Partly because the robbers picked the only time during the week when the facility is empty--no guards had been on duty since 2 p.m. Sunday--police speculated that they were familiar with the company`s procedures. '', Steve Argitakos, a Queens businessman who is 49, was accused solely of helping to hide some of the money stolen from Sentry. Four armed, ski-masked gunmen battered down two walls with sledgehammers to enter a Wells Fargo terminal in Lower Manhattan on Monday, surprising and disarming four guards and escaping with $8 million in cash that they loaded aboard one of the company’s armored trucks. The robbers, described as white males ages 40 to 45, had gained entry to the terminal by first breaking into an adjoining warehouse used by the Merrill Lynch brokerage firm. Four armed robbers stole $7.8 million in cash early Monday in a daring holdup of a Wells Fargo Co. terminal on Manhattan`s Lower West Side. The Times endorses one incumbent and three newcomers for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. The Wells Fargo armored truck was discovered later Monday on a lot near the Brooklyn Bridge. Arrests made in Sentry heist. A set of keys also was found next to the vehicle. CBS Evening News for Monday, Dec 13, 1982 View other clips in this broadcast → ... (NYC) Robbery at Sentry Armored Car Company examined; films shown. The employees were ordered to close their eyes and were handcuffed to a nearby forklift truck. Police said the raiders in Monday`s assault broke into the deserted terminal building on the southern edge of Greenwich Village by smashing through two cinder-block walls with drills and sledgehammers. Most of the theft involved cash, only about $1 million of it was recovered, and Sentry went out of business. Wells Fargo security cameras videotaped the operation, but the gunmen’s faces were hidden by their masks. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. '', The defense lawyers were Arnold D. Roseman for Mr. Potamitis, Joel Winograd for Eddie Argitakos and Michael Washor for Steve Argitakos. In 1982, a group of small-time thieves broke into the headquarters of an armored car company in the Bronx and stole $11 million. [MEAD - notes reaction to news.] Police were questioning Wells Fargo employees and searching the company`s personnel files in an effort to determine how the robbers knew the layout and routines of the terminal and how they had knew about the large amount of cash in the vault at the time. 3 ARE SENTENCED TO PRISON TERMS IN SENTRY THEFT. The conspicuously bright red truck--minus the $7.8 million--was discovered abandoned three hours later in a parking lot beneath the Brooklyn Bridge approach on the Lower East Side. The security company is not related to San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank. Though it was an inside job, the robbers tried to make it look like a standard heist. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. The largest cash heist in history was the December, 1982, holdup of the Sentry Armored Courier Co. in the Bronx. At least 106 people shot, 14 fatally, in Chicago weekend violence, Watch live: Gov. #6 Sentry Armored Couier, New York, New York, 1982 On the evening of December 12 th , 1982, 25-year-old Cristos Potamtsis, a guard for Sentry Armoured Courier, and a friend attempted to pocket a cool $11 Million ($27.4 Million today) while Christo was on shift that night. Weather Alert in Winnebago, Ogle, McHenry, Livingston, Lee, La Salle, Lake, Kendall, Kankakee, Kane, Iroquois, Grundy, Ford, DuPage, DeKalb and Boone counties. [sergeant Thomas O'HALLORAN - describes robbery.] Mr. Argitakos, his voice breaking with emotion, implored the judge to be ''a little bit lenient with my father.
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