A gang of thieves who made off with $3.8 million during at least 15 heists of armored trucks and ATMs in Chicago’s south suburbs were undone by a series of unfortunate mistakes — including crashing a car, failing to discovers a tracking device in a money bag and keeping a wrapper. from a series of stolen quarters, the FBI revealed in a court filing unsealed last week.

The crew, known as the “Perry Avenue Boys” because they were based around 124th Street and Perry Avenue in West Pullman, had been targeting armored vehicles since 2016, according to the FBI. But they saw their luck run out during the robberies between Halloween 2022 and November 2023.

Ten men now face federal robbery conspiracy charges in those attacks, according to the feds.

Their modus operandi involved cruising the south suburbs in stolen Nissans and Infinitis they called “flippers,” chosen for how easy they were to steal, according to an FBI request last year for a search warrant for the records. telephone. The FBI statement offers new details about how the case was solved.

The thefts were in Lansing, Country Club Hills, Orland Park, Chicago Heights, Homewood and Blue Island.

In a 2022 Halloween heist, the crew allegedly ambushed a Brink’s courier in Lansing, forcing him to use a fingerprint scanner to unlock the truck’s cash box, the FBI said. The robbers got away with more than $1 million, but they botched their escape.

Police chased the suspects onto Interstate 80, where their white Dodge Charger crashed. Corrie Singleton, now 23, tried to run but was caught, according to the FBI.

His brother, Darrell Singleton, limped to an international pancake house, borrowed a phone and called his mother for a ride, the FBI said. Despite the close call, he allegedly resumed robbing the bank’s armored trucks.

In May 2023, an Apple AirTag hidden in cash stolen from a robbery outside a Homewood Jewel-Osco store further unraveled the gang’s plans. After $1.1 million was taken from a Brink’s truck, the GPS device led law enforcement to a home in Calumet Park. There, officers caught Darrell Singleton, now 20, and accomplice Devonte Davis, now 28, and recovered the loot, the FBI said.

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In 2021, an armored theft of trust turned deadly when GardaWorld employee LaShonda Hearts was fatally shot and her partner was wounded during an attempted ATM robbery at a Bank of America branch in the 200 block of West 83rd Street in Chatham.

The robbers continued to hold up a cellphone store at gunpoint, police said. Two of them, Antwon Montgomery and Deandre Jennings, then killed their accomplices, Naiqwon Harper and George Holmes, police said.

“There is no honor among thieves,” a prosecutor said at a court hearing for Montgomery, 22, and Jennings, 23, who are awaiting trial in Cook County Criminal Court on murder charges in the three murders.