They could hear the barking of dogs closing in on them and finally decided to just sit back and wait for the inevitable. It was long overdue.
“It was cold—there was snow on the ground and we were in a box,” said Dominick Latella, recalling his capture following the last cat burglary he attempted with partner Pete Salerno. “I looked at Pete and said, ‘this is it.’ So we sat with our backs against a tree until the dogs came.”
It was the end of a 30-year run—a string of high-end burglaries that finally landed Latella and Salerno in prison — but not before stealing an estimated $75 - $150 million in cash and jewelry from some of the nation’s wealthiest families including the DuPonts, Gimbels, Macys and Pillsburys, taking on average a quarter-million dollars per job. Dubbed by the press as the “Dinner Set Gang” and the “Fat Cat Burglars”, the pair was finally brought to justice on January 21, 1992, on Clapboard Hill Road, in Westport.
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Greed kills. They were in it for the juice, the rush, not the cash.
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