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Profile |
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Name: Victor Manuel Gerena
(Victor Ortiz)
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Sex: Male |
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Race: Hispanic |
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Age Now: 50 |
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Height: 5'6" - 5'7" |
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Weight: 160 - 170 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Combs hair straight back, no part
Can only grow a sparse mustache |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Green
Glasses |
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Other Physical Characteristics: Has striking green eyes |
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Wanted for :
Bank Robbery, West Hartford, CT;
Sep 12, 1983
Armed Robbery ;
Sep 12, 1983
Theft from Interstate Shipment ;
Sep 12, 1983
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : West Hartford, CT
Robbing a bank |
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Possible Location : Puerto Rico
West Hartford, CT
Cuba |
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Last Known : West Hartford, CT |
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Traits |
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Ethnic Puerto Rican, speaks Spanish |
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Speaks English with Spanish accent |
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Owns wire rim prescription glasses |
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Drinks lots of strong coffee |
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Lifts weights, jogs, plays racquetball |
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Dresses neatly, everything in place |
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Has precise, meticulous handwriting |
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Watches TV news, discusses politics |
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Was a paralegal assistant at the Puerto Rican Center for Justice in Hartford |
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Has worked as a machinist, truck driver, security guard, concessionaire, playground worker, aide at state capitol |
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Belongs to Los Macheteros, a Puerto Rican militant separatist group |
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Case Story |
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Elusive Bank Robber Lands On FBI's Top Ten List |
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Victor Gerena, one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, is wanted for the 1983 robbery of a Wells Fargo armored truck depot in West Hartford, Conn.
The FBI says on September 12, 1983, Gerena took two of his fellow Wells Fargo employees hostage and escaped with $7 million. According to federal authorities, Gerena pulled a gun, tied up his hostages, and injected them with an unknown sleep-inducing substance.
Gerena then loaded the money into a rented Buick and fled to Massachusetts.
The FBI says Gerena was recruited and trained for the robbery by Los Macheteros, a violent Puerto Rican independence movement.
Agents state the Macheteros moved Gerena through Texas to Mexico in a trailer home, and then sent him to Cuba, where he may still be hiding.
As a result of the FBI's intensive investigation into the robbery, 19 alleged Macheteros were indicted, resulting in numerous felony convictions.
But 25 years later, Gerena remains on the loose, and his status as one of the FBI's most-wanted men proves that law enforcement officials won't give up until this thug is brought to justice. |
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