A self-described “master thief” career criminal is hoping to catch a break on his prison sentence from burglarizing a Brink’s warehouse during which he accidentally set millions of dollars on fire.
“Everything in between goes toward the federal sentence,” Murphy said in a letter to The Associated Press.
The 2008 break-in at E.A. Dion Co. in Attleboro, Massachusetts, attracted attention beyond the theft of the Super Bowl rings and the approximately $2.5 million in other goods taken. Murphy and his accomplices’ trademark garb of all-black outfits and their access through the roof earned them media mentions as “Ocean’s Eleven”-style burglars after the 2001 heist movie.
Murphy’s many jobs included a break-in at a Berkshire armored car facility in Massachusetts in 1991 and at a Costco warehouse in Pennsylvania in 2004. He was also implicated in the theft of 1.8 million prescription drug pills from an AmerisourceBergen warehouse in 2006.Murphy also attempted fraud at times, including a bogus priest abuse claim in the late 1990s against the Archdiocese of Boston seeking $850,000, which landed him in prison for two years.
Murphy studied the facility for months, sending an accomplice to track employees’ comings and goings and even visiting himself to hand out water bottles and cigarettes at a nearby homeless shelter in hopes of providing DNA evidence that would lead authorities away from him and his gang. Authorities arrested Murphy a couple of weeks later on suspicion of carrying out the E.A. Dion case after a Super Bowl ring was found in his girlfriend’s purse. Months later, he was identified as the chief suspect in the Brink’s robbery.
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