Word: holdup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This latest step in the police drive to apprehend the four men who pulled the smoke bomb stickup followed hard on the heels of Tuesday's arraignment of Nicholas Mavrides, 39, of 38 Prince Street, Cambridge, on charge of having participated in the holdup...
Maverides, a 38-year old Prince Street, Cambridge, resident, was indicted Monday by a Middlesex Country grand jury on the armed robbery charge. Seven witnesses of the Coop holdup were said by police to have established Maverides' connection with the Friday, January 9 robbery...
None of the other three participants in the Coop holdup is yet known to have been apprehended by police...
...robbery, executed under the cover of two smoke bombs, seized funds that had just been delivered to the Coop for check cashing purposes. Over 200 customers and 75 employees were in the Coop building at the time of the holdup, but most of them, distracted by the first smoke bomb, failed to realize what was going...
...problem facing police last night was the fact no member of the gang had ever been seen in the Square previous to the holdup...