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Dorchester man who convinced a pal to give him a ride across town to rob a bank pleads guilty

To charges of bank robbery, that is, not abusing a friendship.

Andrew Higgins, 44, could get up to 20 years behind bars when sentenced in US District Court in October for robbing the Hyde Park Savings Bank branch on Centre Street last Nov. 13. He pleaded guilty yesterday, the FBI reports.

Higgins told a friend he needed to cash a check there and the friend drove him over and then waited while Higgins went inside, robbed the place, then rushed out and told his friend to floor it because of a fight he'd allegedly just had inside. The friend dropped Higgins off at the Shaw's on River Street in Dorchester Lower Mills, then got stopped by a cop in Mattapan who'd heard the radio alert for his car. Meanwhile, Higgins took a cab back to his Savin Hill apartment - where police were waiting. Police recovered $2,594.

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Higgins, now considered a career criminal, will be a guest of the federal government at one of our finer penal institutions, the FBI reports.

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