On Monday, the same thief apparently robbed the same restaurant for the fifth time in the past eight months. Tim Noble said Tuesday. The thefts began March 9, when a man in his 20s and wearing a ski mask, walked into Captain's Carryout and ordered the clerk to hand over the store's cash. On June 11, a man matching that description robbed a different clerk. Although the thief had a gun those times, he used a knife during three more holdups this month, police said.
Authorities believe it was the same man.
He says he was willing to do the time, but not when his prison guard was also the victim of his crime. So DePina sued that guard, the state Department of Correction and 17 other prison employees, claiming they did nothing to stop perpetual harassment from a man bent on exacting revenge. The saga started in 1991, when DePina met up with Filipe Monteiro on a street in the city's Roxbury section. DePina admitted he shot Monteiro in the head, but said Monteiro and a large group of friends had bullied him and tried to take his motorcycle. He pleaded guilty to assault charges and was sentenced in March 1992 to serve four to 12 years in the state's maximum-security prison in Walpole.