U30 suspects arrested 155 times

The two men under arrest and suspected of being the “U30 Bandits” both have incredibly long arrest records. Together the half brothers have been arrested 155 times as adults.

A court affidavit shows Dimitri Long, the alleged trigger man, has 70 adult arrests on his record.

The alleged driver of the getaway car, Michael Coty, has 85 adult arrests.

The lightening fast U30 robberies terrorized area banks for four months this year.

U30 Bandit: Bank Robbery Photos
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In each robbery, a heavily disguised man carrying a gun, and sometimes an explosive device, burst into banks demanding cash and threatening tellers. 

The case is dubbed “U30” because the robber was in and out of the banks in less than 30 seconds.

The affidavit shows that during each robbery the gunman was in constant radio contact with the getaway car driver, who was counting down the seconds, starting with 40. The driver then ordered the gunman to get out of the bank when he ran out of time.

Police say the men stole $45,000 during seven robberies.

They were arrested on July 1. Police followed them to the bank and arrested them outside.

Long, of Norwood, has another 21 arrests on his juvenile record, including an unarmed robbery that sent him to Department of Youth Services custody.

Those records strongly suggest Dimitri Long is a white supremacist.

In 2004, Long was arrested for a brutal attack on a Norwood man, simply because he had dated a black woman.

According to affidavits in the U30 case, Dimitri Long is covered with tattoos. One of them across his navel reads: “White Pride.”

Before the bank robberies even started, a suspicious bomb device was found at a payphone outside St. Bartholomew's church in Needham with a note attached.

It read in part: “Jew babies. White power.”

Investigators believe the device planted that day was dry run for all of the U30 robberies.

Coty’s arrested include drug charges, stolen cars and even an escape from East Boston District Court in 1985.

Records also show Coty’s wife filed restraining orders against him three times in 2000, 2004 and 2007.

EXCERPT FROM BOB'S BLOG
"I don't know the circumstances behind every arrest of these two suspects. But when one man is arrested 91 times (adult and juvenille) and the other 85, and neither man is 50 years old, there is a huge problem. So again I ask, what does it take to get serious jail time in Massachusetts?"

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