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 A story from the FBI

All in the Family 
Part 2: On the Trail of Armored Car Robbers

Part 1 Here

July 26, 2913 — Beginning in 1995, the Cabello family—husband Archie, wife Marian, and son Vincent—had managed to steal nearly $4 million in cash from armored car companies in three robberies over a period of 10 years, all while eluding authorities. But their crimes were about to earn them something they hadn’t bargained for—justice.

Our agents had suspected the family since a 2005 Portland, Oregon armored car robbery in which $3 million in cash was stolen, but there was not enough evidence to charge the Cabellos with the crime—that is, until we started to follow their spending habits.

“They were spending money they didn’t have,” said Special Agent Kenneth O’Connor, who joined the case in 2008 from our Portland Division. “They bought things and paid rent and utilities with more than 50 credit cards, and then used money orders purchased with the stolen cash to pay off the credit cards.”

O’Connor knew the case would require a lot of sophisticated financial investigation, so he asked the Internal Revenue Service for assistance. “I knew the IRS was well-versed in that kind of work,” O’Connor said, “and from the beginning, it was a great partnership.”

The joint investigation revealed that the Cabellos had spent more than $245,000 between 2006 and 2009 but claimed less than $35,000 in income on tax returns. The family had hoped to avoid suspicion by sticking to mostly small-scale purchases like cigars, running shoes, and used vehicles—but the numbers didn’t lie.

A few days before the statute of limitations ran out in December 2010, a federal grand jury handed down a 51-count indictment accusing Archie, Vincent, and Marian of conspiring to stage the Portland robbery and the two Milwaukee thefts and to launder the proceeds. Though released pending trial, the three were ordered to surrender their passports and wear electronic monitoring devices.

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland did an outstanding job of devising a prosecution strategy and presenting evidence to the grand jury about all the robberies,” O’Connor explained, “so that everyone understood how brazen and far-reaching these crimes were.”

In February 2012, Vincent—who had started to turn his life around while on pretrial release, taking college classes and getting engaged to be married—began cooperating and led investigators to nearly $2 million in cash in a safe deposit box.

“That was a critical point in the case,” O’Connor said. “The safe deposit box was set up under an assumed name—there was nothing that connected it to the family, and we hadn’t discovered it.”

Faced with more than 30,000 pages of evidence against him plus the testimony of his co-conspirators (Marian had also eventually agreed to testify against her husband), Archie pled guilty to each of the eight substantive counts the morning his trial was set to begin. In March 2013, a judge sentenced him to 20 years in federal prison for his role in the decade-long crime spree. Marian and Vincent each received 15-month sentences. The family was ordered to pay restitution of nearly $4 million to the victims of the thefts.

“Most Americans get by with hard work and sacrifice,” said FBI Portland Special Agent in Charge Greg Fowler at the time of the sentencing. “The Cabellos spent years scamming the system, stealing millions of dollars to pay their bills. Now they are rightly being held accountable for their crimes thanks to the great partnership between the FBI and the IRS.”

Third Year Milford Regional Named a Best Regional Hospital

by U.S. News & World Report

Milford Regional Medical Center has been recognized for the third consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-2014 Best Hospitals’ rankings as one of the region’s top performing hospitals in the Worcester Metropolitan area. The Medical Center was also named one of three top-ranked hospitals out of 29 in central and western Massachusetts and ranked 14 out of 115 hospitals statewide.

The latest rankings showcase 732 Best Regional Hospitals from nearly 4,800 hospitals across the country. Covering 94 metro areas in the U.S., the regional hospital rankings complement the national rankings by including hospitals with solid performance nearly at the level of nationally ranked institutions. Hard numbers stand behind the rankings in most specialties- death rates, patient safety, procedure volume, and other objective data. Responses to a national survey, in which physicians were asked to name hospitals they consider best in their specialty for the toughest cases, also were factored in.

Milford Regional was ranked high performing in geriatrics and pulmonology and scored high in patient safety, demonstrating commitment to reducing accidents and medical mistakes. The Medical Center also exceeded the state and national average in patient satisfaction surveys achieving high “overall” and “willingness to recommend” ratings.

 “Being recognized as one of the region’s best hospitals for the third year in a row is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our physicians, nurses, ancillary/support staff, volunteers and trustees. Working together, it is our mission to provide leading-edge diagnostics, clinical excellence and state-of-the-art treatments to our patients,” states Edward J. Kelly, president of Milford Regional. “I’d like to congratulate everyone at Milford Regional for this honor.” Contributed Content

EMC Q2 2013 Earnings Increase 6% Over Q2 2012

July 25, 2013 — EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today reported quarterly financial results that were highlighted by record second-quarter consolidated revenue, net income and EPS. The company achieved year-over-year revenue growth across all three of its federated businesses, with continued steady growth from EMC Information Infrastructure, double-digit growth from Pivotal and accelerating double-digit growth from VMware.

Second-quarter consolidated revenue was $5.6 billion, an increase of 6% compared with the year-ago quarter. Second-quarter GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $701 million. Second-quarter GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share increased 10% year over year to $0.32. Non-GAAP1 net income attributable to EMC was $907 million. Non-GAAP1 earnings per weighted average diluted share were $0.42, an increase of 8% year over year.

EMC generated year-to-date operating cash flow of $2.9 billion and free cash flow2 of $2.3 billion, and ended the second quarter with $17.6 billion in cash and investments.

Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “The strength and demand we saw during the quarter, despite a cautious IT spending environment, speaks to the soundness of our strategy, the value customers see in our federated business model, and the massive opportunity ahead in cloud computing, Big Data and trusted IT. EMC Information Infrastructure, VMware and Pivotal are positioned on the leading edge of these significant trends. Each business is focused on building its own unique technologies and independent partner ecosystems to offer customers greater choice. Collectively they add up to a very competitive technology stack that not only addresses our customers' top IT needs in 2013, but also their longer-term business transformation priorities.”  Contributed Content

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ROADWORK NOTICE UPDATE

Due to contractors scheduling conflicts our pavement management roadwork schedule has changed to the following start dates.

7/25/13 - Huckleberry Rd – Fruit St (East) to 1500’ South of Fruit St (East).

7/26/13 - Colonnade Dr – Fruit St to Roosevelt Rd.

7/26/13 - North St – Fruit St to 2180’ West of Fruit St.

One lane of traffic will open on Huckleberry Rd and North St during work working hours. Work hours will be 7am – 5pm.

Colonnade Dr will be closed during working hours. Traffic will enter and exit the subdivision by using Roosevelt Rd.

Please expect minor delays and seek alternate routes when possible.

Thank you,

Mike Mansir

Hopkinton Highway Manager

 A story from the FBI

All in the Family 
Part 1: Husband, Wife, and Son Stole Millions from Armored Cars

 July 24, 2013 — A shaken driver handcuffed to the door of his armored car. Millions of dollars stolen. An investigation involving turncoat family members, and an indictment handed down just days before the statute of limitations ran out.

It may sound like the plot of a Hollywood thriller, but that’s how the long saga of the Cabello family unfolded—in a crime spree spanning more than a decade that finally landed Archie and Marian Cabello and their son, Vincent, behind bars.

It all began in 1995 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while Archie was employed as an armored car driver. One day, he arranged for his wife to meet him on his route, where he handed her a bag containing more than $157,000. He later told the police that the money had simply disappeared.

Three years later, the couple recruited their son into the family crime business. Vincent took a job working as a vault clerk for an armored truck company. One night, Archie—wearing a hat and fake beard and using a BB gun as a prop—staged a robbery at the company during his son’s work shift, cuffing Vincent’s hands and legs. While Vincent played the victim, Archie made off with $730,000 in cash. Authorities never charged anyone in the 1995 or 1998 thefts.

The Cabellos moved to Portland, Oregon in 1999, and father and son took jobs working for security or delivery companies. The family seemed to lay low until 2005, when Archie took a new job as an armored truck driver. By December of that year—believing they had gotten away with the two previous robberies—the family was ready for another heist.

On December 6, 2005, Archie was driving an armored car loaded with $7 million in cash, including two shrink-wrapped bricks containing $1.5 million each. Using disposable cell phones provided by Marian, father and son arranged a meeting point, where Archie passed off both bundles of cash—$3 million in hundred-dollar bills—to Vincent, who concealed it in a duffel bag. Playing the victim this time, Archie drove the armored truck several blocks away, handcuffed himself to the truck door, and flagged down a passerby to call police. Vincent, meanwhile, made his getaway and stashed the loot in a safe deposit box in Bellevue, Washington.

Local authorities and FBI investigators called in to help with the case immediately became suspicious when they learned that Archie and Vincent had been “victims” of similar crimes in Milwaukee six years earlier. A search warrant executed about a week after the Portland heist turned up credit cards and cash, but not enough to connect the family to the robbery.

“We knew the Cabellos weren’t being honest about what happened,” said Special Agent Kenneth O’Connor, who worked the case from our Portland Division, “but initially, there was not a lot of evidence linking them to the crime.” After months of surveillance and investigation, the case grew cold.

But thanks to the diligence of our investigators, along with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland, the Cabellos’ luck was about to run out…

Next: Following the money.

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Trooper Photog on Restricted Duty

Following a duty status hearing this morning at Massachusetts State Police General Headquarters, Sgt. Sean Murphy was placed on restricted duty until further notice while an internal investigation is conducted. State Police will conduct an internal investigation into Sgt. Murphy’s release of departmental photographs to a media outlet last week. The investigation, which is expected to take several weeks to complete at the minimum, will determine whether Sgt. Murphy violated State Police rules, regulations, policies or procedures. State Police took from Sgt. Murphy his use-of-force equipment, badge, and identification, and he will be assigned to administrative duties while on restricted duty. Additionally, he is being transferred from the Office of Media Relations to the Division of Field Services. The department will have no further comment while the internal investigation is ongoing.

Dave Procopio

Massachusetts State Police

Office of Media Relations Press Release. Massachusetts State Police Photo from Boston Magazine.com.

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Milford Regional First To Offer Single-Site Robotic Surgery

In Central Massachusetts

Milford Regional Medical Center is the first hospital in central Massachusetts to offer Single-Site™ da Vinci® robotic-assisted surgery technology available for gallbladder surgery. This new state-of-the-art procedure allows the surgeon to remove the gallbladder though a single, small incision in the belly button. Benefits of this leading edge surgery include minimal pain, low blood loss, faster recovery time and virtually no scarring.

Until single-site da Vinci technology came along, the only option for minimally invasive gallbladder surgery involved the surgeon making three to four incisions that were one to two inches in length. Through these openings, scopes and other tools were carefully inserted to view and remove the organ. With the new single-site robotic-assisted surgery, only one incision, or “port,” is made at the belly button, through which all instruments are inserted. The surgery is performed in about an hour and the patient can go home on the same day.

Each year, about one million people in the United States have their gall bladder removed.  Forty percent of these patients are women, ages 18 to 44.  Many women in this age group are sensitive to scarring.  Single-site surgery eliminates this concern since the new technology leaves no visible scar.

Da Vinci is a robotic surgical system used in complex minimally invasive surgery. With da Vinci, the surgeon controls the movement of miniaturized wristed instruments from a console where he can view a magnified, high resolution 3D image of

the surgical site. The benefits for the surgeon – and ultimately the patient – of using the da Vinci surgical system is superior visualization, improved dexterity and range of motion and enhanced surgical precision.

 “This exciting new procedure is one more step we have taken to make surgery less invasive and more beneficial for our patients,” states Edward J. Kelly, president, Milford Regional Medical Center.   “To be the first hospital in Central Massachusetts to offer single-site robotic surgery demonstrates Milford Regional’s commitment to providing patients with the most up-to-date minimally invasive surgical options.”

In addition to single-site gall bladder removal, several Milford Regional surgeons are performing robotic-assisted surgery in gynecology for hysterectomy and removal of uterine fibroids; and in urology for prostate and kidney cancer.  Milford Regional also offers a wide range of minimally invasive conventional laparoscopic surgeries.

General surgeon Philip Cohen, MD, performs single-site da Vinci gallbladder surgery at Milford Regional. To make an appointment at his Milford practice, call 508-458-4250. To learn more about robotic-assisted surgery or watch a patient video about this surgery, visit Milford Regional’s Web site at www.milfordregional.org/ , click on health services, then surgery and look for robotic surgery.