Armed holdup in Forest Hills this morning

By adamg on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 1:25pm

WBZ-TV reports two robbers armed with a semi-automatic weapon got away with $150,000 from Forest Hills Check Cashing on Washington Street after locking employees in a back room around 9 a.m.

Neighborhoods:

Jamaica Plain

Topics:

Crime

Free tagging:

Forest Hills

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Comments

JP is getting more and more

By Anonymous on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 3:43pm.

JP is getting more and more dangerous. This happened right next to the Forrest Hills T stop, just a couple of blocks from the Police Station. I moved to JP last year -- it looked like a nice little place -- and now I'm looking to get out of this neighborhood: vandalized cars; dirty streets; and, if you read the police bloggers, tons of crime, not to mention the recent shootings nearby. Bye bye JP.

Payday Loan?

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 4:01pm.

Oh, I see that it was the check cashing store that was robbed, not their customers. I guess robberies like paycheck loans and huge margins to cash checks happen there everyday and are not newsworthy.

I think the owner needs to learn some respect for his employees, too. "Girls"? Are underage females permitted to work in these places, or is this asshole just slightly less forcefully demeaning and coercive than the gun-wielding hoodlums?

Girls?

By Ron Newman on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 4:09pm.

I'm not sure where you got that word from, as I don't see it in the link that Adam provided. Also, there's a variation of that word in your username ;-)

Girls

By adamg on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 4:25pm.

Probably from this article, which also uses the word "brazen," which should go without saying in a story in the Globe (as opposed to a story in the Herald).

Bad Luck or Bad um... Credit?

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 4:41pm.

boston.com/...fire_hits_stores_in_jamaica_plain/

This same guy was burned out a year ago.

Wow.... 150 large? What a

By Anonymous on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 6:52pm.

Wow.... 150 large?

What a score!

Shame on them for holding that much cash on site. 30 to 50k should be sufficient.

Unregulated banking

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 10:18pm.

Yep. 150 large. I suspect that the robbers had a keen sense of when they would be most loaded up, too.

Did they have dye bombs? No. Panic buttons for the staff to hit? Nope. Other safeguards present in banks that don't keep half that much cash on hand? Nope.

I somehow suspect that their insurance company is done with them.