A Boston police officer kept watch at the Citizens Bank at 35 Washington St. in Brighton, turning customers away after a robbery yesterday. Police recovered the stolen cash from the back seat of a taxi in front of the bank, where a dye pack had exploded.
(PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF)
Robbers strike at four banks in Boston area
Dye pack foils at least 1 heist
A Boston police officer kept watch at the Citizens Bank at 35 Washington St. in Brighton, turning customers away after a robbery yesterday. Police recovered the stolen cash from the back seat of a taxi in front of the bank, where a dye pack had exploded.
(PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF)
Bank robbers went on a binge this week in the Boston area. Over the past two days, robbers hit two banks in Brighton, one in Dorchester, and another in Medford, where a man wearing a Yankees hat entered a Citizens Bank and fired a handgun just before the branch closed Thursday night, police said. No one was injured. (Full article: 466 words)
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