FBI SOLVES $8.2 MILLION N.Y. THEFT

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DATE: THURSDAY, February 4, 1993                   TAG: 9302040188
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short
FBI SOLVES $8.2 MILLION N.Y. THEFT
The $8.2 million robbery of an armored truck company was solved Wednesday when almost all of the cash was found in a closet and two men were arrested, authorities said.
The money, in $100 bills, had been taken Dec. 27 from the Hudson Armored Car Co. with the help of a guard on duty at the company, said James M. Fox, head of the FBI's New York office. Authorities found the money in five unopened packages in a Brooklyn apartment.
The burglars couldn't spend much of the cash because the bills were sequentially numbered and easily could be traced, Fox said.
"We felt we knew very early on who the felons were in this case," he said. The brother of one of the arrested suspects was the guard on duty the night of the burglary and was being sought.
- Associated Press

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