A thank you e-mail proved to be the undoing of two men accused of taking $200,000 from a New York City store at gunpoint.
Investigators allege that two men, identified as Edward Byam and Akeem Monsalvatge, robbed a cash-checking store in Queens on Feb. 14 while dressed as police officers. Byam and Monsalvatge reportedly went all out and purchased high-end silicone masks for the robbery, reports the New York Post.
Unfortunately for the robbers, investigators were able to trace the masks to a high-end prop store. Store workers shared two e-mails regarding the masks, both allegedly written by Byam, with investigators.
According to the New York Post, Monsalvatge has been arrested in the past for a similar robbery. Both men were ordered held without bail on Tuesday.
In the first e-mail, Byam confirmed the delivery of the masks to Monsalvatge's Jamaica, Queens home. In the second e-mail, Byam tells the store workers that he is "extremely pleased" with the masks and that their "realism" is unbelievable.
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