David Ortiz, of Brooklyn and Texas, made off with about $542,000 by robbing a Brinks armored truck on Linden Boulevard. <\/p>\n
A Brooklyn man on Monday pleaded guilty to robbing a Brinks armored truck that was transporting money to a Bank of America branch in broad daylight in Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n
David Ortiz, who also resides in Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank robbery, bank robbery, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence in
\nconnection\u00a0with the robbery of the truck, according to\u00a0Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.<\/p>\n
According to court filings and statements made during the plea hearing, on the morning of June 2, 2025 at approximately 8:43am, Ortiz and an accomplice, both wearing masks and armed with guns, staged an ambush outside a Bank of America branch located at 205-02 Linden Blvd. The pair arrived before the scheduled cash delivery and waited for Brinks employees to transport money from an armored truck into the bank, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
When the employees began wheeling a bag of cash toward the bank entrance, Ortiz brandished a firearm, ordered the employees to the ground, and stole the service weapon of one of the armored car guards. At the same time, Ortiz\u2019s accomplice loaded the bag containing approximately $542,000 into a Chevrolet sport utility vehicle which did not have license plates. The two men then fled with the stolen cash, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Later, NYPD officers recovered a mask, a jacket, and a firearm discarded by Ortiz in the vicinity of Hilburn Avenue and Dunkirk Street. The stolen cash has not been recovered and Ortiz\u2019s accomplice remains at large, according to prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendant planned and carried out a violent armed robbery in broad daylight, threatening Brinks armored truck employees with a firearm while stealing more than half a million dollars destined for a neighborhood bank,\u201d Nocella said in a statement. \u201cThis calculated crime may have looked like a scene out a movie, but it was terrifyingly real, and placed the victims in fear for their lives.”<\/p>\n
When sentenced, Ortiz faces a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years\u2019 imprisonment for brandishing a firearm, in addition to any sentence imposed for the bank robbery charges, and restitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Ortiz, of Brooklyn and Texas, made off with about $542,000 by robbing a Brinks armored truck on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,116338,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-307577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-david-ortizbrinks-armored-truck","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}