News from St. Petersburg Florida police indicates that considerable resources are being put to apprehend the killer of a Brink's truck guard, killed in a robbery on Jan. 23, 1982.Police figure that two individuals close to Montreal's Irish mob, the West End gang, played a role in the affair.
Joseph Warner was 44 and a father of five when he was needlessly shot over what turned out to be bonds that had no value to the thieves who just discarded the paper off a boat.
The killer might be somewhere around the age of 80 now and so police are hoping that an ex-girlfriend or someone else with an inside story might come forth and bring justice to the deceased.The West End Gang universe is not an infinite one and our ever-popular all-time West End Gang Power Rankings list pretty much covers the main characters.
Police issued sketches of the suspects and sent Coolopolis a third sketch of one of the two suspects sbut with a mustache.
The thieves pulled off the heist dressed as elevator repairmen, a trade several members of the local Irish mob practiced, notably the bank robbery-tastic Johnston brothers, who are all dead and are not considered suspects anyway.
Police are offering a reward in the $18,000 CDN range. The suspect with the moustache bears a slight resemblance to Earl Poirier, who was killed along with his girlfriend in Park Ex by two men wielding hammers in 1984. Poirier was a safecracker said to be in Billy McAllister's crew, as was suspect in his killing was 67-year-old David Stern, a partner-in-crime who was subsequently blown up in a car bomb in Cote des Neiges three years after that.
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