"Boston police foil armed robbery at McDonald’s; Two masked men arrested" by Laura Crimaldi, Globe Staff November 06, 2014
It was closing time just after midnight Thursday at a McDonald’s across from Boston Common, and an employee was walking a co-worker to the front door. When he opened it, the two got a surprise.
Two men forced their way into the restaurant, bound the workers’ wrists with shoelaces, then repeatedly punched a manager while pointing a gun at his face, police said. They left carrying two backpacks stuffed with cash before dumping clothing and gloves in an alley behind the restaurant, according to police.
But the robbers did not get away with it, thanks to the work of a Boston police officer who confronted the men in the alley behind the restaurant, Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans said.
“He was able to basically hold them at gunpoint and he . . . placed them under arrest,” Evans said in a phone interview.
Those two suspects, Mason McKoy, 27, and Andre Nesbeth, 26, were each ordered held on $100,000 bail during an arraignment Thursday at Boston Municipal Court. They face charges of armed robbery, kidnapping, assault and battery, and assault with a dangerous weapon, officials said.
Police are also investigating whether the men are tied to a similar robbery at the same restaurant Oct. 4, when two assailants tied up employees and brandished a firearm during a closing-time robbery, said Sergeant Michael McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman.
“We’re looking at the possibility they could have been responsible for that one, too,” Evans said.
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In court, defense attorneys for McKoy and Nesbeth asked Judge Michael Coyne to fit them with GPS bracelets and order house arrest, saying they have minimal criminal histories. Coyne refused and set bail at $100,000 each, far more than the $10,000 sought by Suffolk assistant district attorney Susan Terrey. Both men are scheduled to return to court Dec. 4.
While waiting for their case to be called, the men sat together in court with their hands and ankles in shackles, laughing....
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