This feature by reporter Kelly Pedro was first published on the front page of the Aug. 21, 2004 print editions of The London Free Press

It was supposed to be a normal Monday morning for the eight Bank of Montreal employees.

But Jan. 30, 1996, would be anything but normal – a team of professional bank robbers would change that.

Anyone walking by the bank on Wellington Road, just north of its intersection with Base Line Road, would have thought everything was fine. But, inside, a carefully crafted plan was unfolding, a plan that ran so smoothly bank employees didn’t even know – at first – they were being robbed.

Within mere minutes, the robbers, disguised in theatrical makeup, carrying automatic weapons and using tiny headsets to communicate, would round up and handcuff the bank’s employ

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