Two Brockton brothers are accused of simulating a financial institution theft state of affairs Tuesday as an excuse for the one who labored within the Boston financial institution to take $200,000 from the vault.
“We’ve seen time and time once more workers hatching what they suppose is a intelligent plan to steal from their office, after which we see these supposedly intelligent plans unravel, often in a short time,” Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden stated. “The instant suspicions of the financial institution officers and a few extraordinarily efficient work by the investigative companies concerned led to those brothers answering to those prices in courtroom right now.”
Justin, 32, and Jenel Flounoury, 28, had been arraigned in municipal courtroom in West Roxbury on prices of larceny and conspiracy linked to their alleged scheme to pocket $197,146 in money from Vitality Credit score Union, the place Jenel Flounoury labored as a teller.
Choose John Garland ordered every of them held on $20,000 bail and scheduled pre-trial hearings for Oct. 30. Ought to they publish bail, each should steer clear of the credit score union.
A bit of earlier than 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Boston police and members of the FBI Violent Crimes Activity Power responded to a report of a theft in progress on the credit score union at 156 Spring St.
In keeping with a DA assertion, Jenel Flounoury informed police that simply minutes earlier than, an unknown male — who prosecutors say is definitely his brother — walked as much as his teller window with a notice demanding that he “hand it over.” The teller then flip round and went into the primary vault and put all of the money right into a blue ATM bag and did because the notice informed him. The “unknown male” robber then fled the scene.
However the entire incident appeared extremely suspect to the Credit score Union’s chief monetary officer, who allegedly informed police Jenel Flounoury’s actions weren’t in keeping with procedures for such conditions. Particularly, he hadn’t checked the teller drawer however as an alternative went straight to the vault with out being directed to and likewise handed over greater than was demanded. Plus, the teller had beforehand been let go for violating firm process and had solely been rehired final month.
Primarily based on that info, investigators adopted Janel Founoury to his Brockton residence the place they allegedly noticed each brothers burning what gave the impression to be clothes on a grill. Investigators bought a search warrant and raided the house at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday and allegedly discovered the money.
