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The Boston Globe Wednesday, May 24, 1972 :4" 23 Brockton man gets 21 yrs. for Brink's robbery. checks, were thrown over the wall of a reservoir in the Blue Hills that Sunday, night. The money containers and checks were found by an MDC crew in the area on the following night before bringing it back to the motel to be divided on Sunday, Dec. 29, 1968.

Kelley said the chests, boxes and bags, which contained the $524,000 in cash and a like sum in kous stole license plates and cars to be used in the robbery. Kelley, who said he was in protective custody of the Federal government, testified that Roukous also engaged a room at a Brock ton motel where the gang went with the loot after the robbery to split it up. Before it was split up, on the day after the robbery, Kelley said Roukous took it to the home of a relative where he guarded it all Essex DA won't press police brutality charges By William Cash -Globe Staff A Brockton jewelry salesman was sentenced to 21-25 years in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday when a jury of eight men and four women found him guilty of armed robbery in connection with the robbery of a Brink's armored truck Dec. 28, 1968, on Canal street in the North End. Judge James C.

Roy im-. posed the sentence on Ste-. phen J. Roukous, 42, when the jury returned its verdict after two hours deliberation. Roukous was indicted on June 9, 1969, along with four other men in connection with the armored truck robbery.

The other four have since been tried and sentenced to Massachusetts State Prison. They include Charles Domenico of Braintree, Rocco Novello of Jamaica Plain and Carmelo Merlino of Canton, who were each sentenced to 25-40 years after a lengthy triaL The fourth man, Santo DiaFerio of West Roxbury, was sentenced later because of a heart attack suffered during the triaL He pleaded guilty and received a 10-15 year prison sentence. Roukous fled at the time of his indictment and was arrested by the FBI in Al-lentown, last August. Authorities he was wearing a wig, carried a passport with a false name and American and Lebanese currency totaling nearly $6000. John J.

"Red" Kelley, so-called mastermind of the armored truck heist, was the chief government witness against Roukous. Kelley testified that Roukous was in on the robbery from the start. Kelley said he and Rou 1 J. 1 By Tony Pearson Globe Correspondent SALEM There is no to substantiate allegations that police brutality "exists to an appreciable extent in Beverly," according to Essex County Dist. Atty.

John P.S. Burke. Nor is there sufficient evidence to bear out accompanying charges that Salem District Court frequently fails to grant hearings on citizen complaints alleging brutality, Burke said. i- in question. He said that i officer confirmed talking with Sheehan, but denied, admitting he had committed perjury.

Burke said the matter of whether "to proceed in some other manner is for the appointing authority." The appointing authority in this case is the mayor, Herbert F. Grimes, who for the past eight months has been trying unsuccessfully to terminate a court order restraining him from exercising any administrative Control Beverly department. As a the District Attorney told Beverly Police Chief Edward Aucone he presented no evidence on either charge to the Essex County Grand Jury during its recent two-week session here. Burke had assigned State Police Lt. Frank Joyce, attached to chusetts State Police headquarters in Boston, to investigate allegations made in the Sheehan police survey, which is a detailed study of the 70-man Beverly Police Dept.

published last January. A letter from Burke to Aucone stated that Sheehan (Harold Sheehan of Medway is author of the police survey) said a Beverly police officer (not identified) told him "on two occasions he perjured himself on the witness stand to protect another Burke, said Lt. Joyce conferred with the officer VERY WARM FOR MAY Two youngsters cool off in Government Center fountain as Boston's temperatures climbs past 80 mark. (Globe photo by Phil Preston) ik ir tsgpv 3S Q355B 'top 1XI3S EKS 1 0 -4 7)1 -c MPT J) ff i five Pill iirstw. V4 7 0 -i "i.i -ifl i- -i rtj.