The lights were out on Prince Street. In the darkness, a flashlight flashed off and on several times. The all-clear had been given. Seven men in peacoats, chauffeur’s caps, and gloves emerged from the back of a 1949 Ford stake-body truck. The “crime of the century” was about to take place.
The heist of Brink’s in Boston had been more than two years in the making. Anthony Pino had eyed the Brink’s building in 1947 when it was located on Federal Street. The move to Prince Street in December 1948 proved a Christmas gift to the well-known Boston thief. The new location simplified the hit.
