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===Notorious crimes=== Medford was the location of some infamous crimes: * One of the biggest bank robberies and jewel heists in world history<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://homenewshere.com/wilmington_town_crier/article_66a96848-fb70-5ac2-acf7-f3899b679d4f.html|title=Splitting the loot on Oxford Road|first=LARZ F.|last=NEILSON|website=Homenewshere.com|date=February 12, 2011 |access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2000/03/09/burglar_caught_in_violent_web/|title=Burglar caught in violent web|first=Shelley|last=Murphy|newspaper=Boston.com|date=March 9, 2000|access-date=August 20, 2020|via=The Boston Globe}}</ref> happened on Memorial Day weekend in 1980, when several crooked officers of the Medford Police and Metropolitan District Commission Police forces robbed the Depositors Trust Bank in Medford Square, yielding an estimated $25 million. The book ''The Cops Are Robbers: A Convicted Cop's True Story of Police Corruption'' is based upon this event. Salvatore's Restaurant, now known as "The Vault", located at 55 High Street in Medford Square, is partially in the same location as the bank that was robbed. The private dining room in the restaurant uses the bank's vault door as an entrance way, and the hole in the corner of the ceiling that the robbers crawled through was left intact for nostalgia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.resdiary.com/restaurant/salvatoresmedfordsquare|title=Salvatores - Medford Square|website=resdiary|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> * An admitted Mob execution by [[Somerville, Massachusetts|Somerville]]'s [[Winter Hill Gang]] of Joe "Indian-Joe" Notarangeli took place on April 19, 1973 at the "Pewter Pot" cafΓ© in Medford Square, now called the "Lighthouse Cafe."<ref>"Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the Boston FBI and a Devil's Deal, "Dick Lehr (author), Gerard O'Neill (author) 1-891-62040-1 Public Affairs Press</ref> * In October 1989, the FBI recorded a [[American Mafia induction rituals|Mafia initiation ceremony]] held by the [[Patriarca crime family]] at a home on Guild St. in Medford.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/30f0d4059505bee760d581b304b2d2ec|title=Jury Hears Tapes Of Mafia Induction Ceremony|website=AP NEWS|access-date=August 20, 2020}}</ref>
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