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FBI offers up to $100,000 for arrest of 1981 Brinks robbery suspect Cheri Laverne Dalton

FBI offers $100,000 reward in 1981 deadly Brinks robbery
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NYACK, N.Y. -- Forty-one years after the deadly Brinks robbery in Rockland County, the FBI is offering a reward for up to $100,000 for the arrest of a suspect in the case.

The FBI is looking for Cheri Laverne Dalton in connection with the robbery that took place on Oct. 20, 1981.

Two police officers and a Brinks guard were killed when a gang of armed men opened fire on a Brinks truck at the Nanuet National Bank at the Nanuet Mall.

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Members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground robbed the truck of $1.6 million.

David Gilbert was sentenced to life in prison for his role.

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