Wanted For:

• Bank Robbery
  West Hartford , CT
• Armed Robbery
• Theft from Interstate Shipment
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Possible Location(s):

• Puerto Rico
• West Hartford , CT
• Cuba

Latest Airing:

• July 26 2008
• July 28 2007
• December 11 2004
• February 22 2003
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Elusive Bank Robber Lands On FBI's Top Ten List

Victor Gerena, one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, is wanted for the 1983 robbery of a Wells Fargo armored truck depot in West Hartford, Conn.

The FBI says on September 12, 1983, Gerena took two of his fellow Wells Fargo employees hostage and escaped with $7 million. According to federal authorities, Gerena pulled a gun, tied up his hostages, and injected them with an unknown sleep-inducing substance. 

Gerena then loaded the money into a rented Buick and fled to Massachusetts.

The FBI says Gerena was recruited and trained for the robbery by Los Macheteros, a violent Puerto Rican independence movement.

Agents state the Macheteros moved Gerena through Texas to Mexico in a trailer home, and then sent him to Cuba, where he may still be hiding.

As a result of the FBI's intensive investigation into the robbery, 19 alleged Macheteros were indicted, resulting in numerous felony convictions.

But 25 years later, Gerena remains on the loose, and his status as one of the FBI's most-wanted men proves that law enforcement officials won't give up until this thug is brought to justice.