Federal witness protection program, yet he continued to rob banks and businesses while under Federal protection. A coin store robbery went wrong in July 1982, and he was arrested, convicted, and sent to prison in Colorado. He was later sent to a halfway house in North Dakota where he died of a heart attack in 2001. Law enforcement investigators suspected the involvement of Raymond L. S. Patriarca, leader of the Patriarca crime family, but he was never prosecuted. FBI agents who had been involved in the investigation confirmed his involvement years later, and Dussault stated that the robbery was executed at Patriarca's request. The thieves claimed that they received less than $100,000 each, with the most valuable loot going to Patriarca, including gold, jewelry, and gems. Patriarca was serving a prison sentence and felt that he was not receiving what he was due from his criminal associates, so he decided to steal from them to teach them a lesson. He had the door left open into the vault for the thieves that day, according to Dussault, and he had called for the robbery to be rescheduled at one point because his son Raymond Jr. wanted to take his valuables out of the safe first. The Bonded Vault heist was the biggest theft in Rhode Island history and the largest in the Northeast at the time, and The Providence Journal ranks it as one of the biggest in U.S. history. Tim White (The Last Good Heist, 2016) claims that the heist marked the decline of power among organized crime in the area, due to the distrust which it sowed among criminals in the region. In 2017, film producer Chad A. Verdi announced plans for a movie based on the Bonded Vault heist, titled Vault and directed by Tom DeNucci. The film was released in the summer of 2019. References Further reading External links History of Providence, Rhode Island 1975 in Rhode Island Crime in Rhode Island Organized crime events in the United States Patriarca crime family Robberies in the United States