Robbers picked the weekend after a holiday to strike, FBI says

YOUNGSTOWN — A group accused of stealing $7 million in cash and checks from an armored car company knew the business would have unusually large amount of money on hand because of the busy shopping weekend after Thanksgiving, the FBI said.

“The group who pulled off this theft thought they’d have an early Christmas. Instead they found themselves holed up in a trailer in a secluded area of West Virginia, hiding from the law,” FBI Frank Figliuzzi said Monday.

Roger Lee Dillon, 22, and his live-in girlfriend, Nicole N. Boyd, 24, and Dillon’s mother, Sharon Lee Gregory, 48, of Youngstown, all of Lowell Avenue were arrested by FBI agents around 4:30 a.m. Saturday at a trailer near Pipestem, W. Va., just east of Beckley.

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