Word: nicastro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd began to gather silently last Monday afternoon on the streets adjoining the Boerio Supermarket in Rosario, Argentina's third-largest city. The tin-roofed grocery store had served its middle-class neighborhood for years, so manager Luis Nicastro recognized many of the well-dressed people outside the store as his regular customers. Some of the others were toothless, hungry folk in tattered clothes, who came from nearby shantytowns. By 2 p.m., a mob of more than 500 filled the parking lot. "I thought of closing the doors," Nicastro says. "But what good would it do? With all this glass...
...laundry detergent, frozen foods and toilet paper into their Peugots, Volvos and even waiting taxis. Within 20 minutes they had destroyed the bakery at the rear of the store, smashed out the windows and broken open the cash registers. As the looters left, one of them, laughing hilariously, asked Nicastro, "What time do you open tomorrow...
...eyes. The gunmen handcuffed the four employees and began heaping the cash into a nearby Wells Fargo truck. Within minutes they had stashed $7,896,000, leaving some $12 million behind. The truck was later found abandoned under the Brooklyn Bridge. Said New York City Chief of Detectives Richard Nicastro: "They were very calm. And they did it in a very cool and collected manner...
...Fargo executive offices on the second floor. Though the depot has an elaborate warning system, the robbers set off no alarms. Police investigators suspect that the thieves probably had inside information. The FBI says there are "concrete leads." Asked why the thieves left so much cash in the vault, Nicastro replied, "Maybe they got tired of lifting...
Torres had apparently locked himself in the basement of the building for several hours after the Sunday night stabbing and was not found by police who combed the area. Chief of Detectives Richard Nicastro told the Associated Press...