This man, subsequently identified as a small-time Boston underworld figure, was located and questioned. Thus, when he and Gusciora were taken into custody by state authorities during the latter part of January 1950, OKeefe got word to McGinnis to recover his car and the $200,000 that it contained. Since the robbery had taken place between approximately 7:10 and 7:27 p.m., it was quite probable that a gang, as well drilled as the Brinks robbers obviously were, would have arranged to rendezvous at a specific time. Mr. Gilbert was 37 on the day of the attack, Oct. 20, 1981, when nearly $1.6 million in cash was stolen from an armored Brink's car outside the Nanuet Mall near Nyack. He. The results were negative. On November 26, 1981, six armed men from South London broke into the Brink's-Mat warehouse near London Heathrow. Within two months of his return, another member of the gang suffered a legal setback. While action to appeal the convictions was being taken on their behalf, the eight men were removed to the State prison at Walpole, Massachusetts. There are still suspicions among some readers that the late Tom O'Connor, a retired cop who worked Brinks security during the robbery, was a key player, despite his acquittal on robbery charges at . The Brinks Mat Robbery: The real story that inspired The Gold. Brinks Heist: Mystery of the Missing Millions And the gang felt that the chances of his talking were negligible because he would be implicated in the Brinks robbery along with the others. In the series Edwyn Cooper (played by Dominic Cooper) is a lawyer who gets involved in the robbery, deciding he wants to earn some big bucks. The gang members who remained at the house of Maffies parents soon dispersed to establish alibis for themselves. The Transit's heavily armed occupants had stolen the bullion less than an hour earlier from the Brink's-Mat security warehouse 12 miles away at Heathrow. (Geagan, who was on parole at the time, left the truck before it arrived at the home in Roxbury where the loot was unloaded.
