Nearly four decades after a 1988 armored car service heist of $1.3 million in cash, the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently identified the suspect, who died of natural causes in December.
John Anthony Quinn, also known by various aliases such as Dale Calvin Cluckey, Dale Clucke, Jack Quinn, James Sullivan, and on his deathbed as Jim Klein, was wanted for his alleged role in the April 1988 theft of $1.3 million in cash from Federal Protection Service, an armored car service in Riviera Beach, Florida. He was 48 at the time of the theft.
The FBI said that, at the time, Quinn was employed as a manager at Federal Protection Service, and federal investigators alleged he stole the money from the company’s vault.
He was a federal fugitive wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution by the FBI and for first-degree grand theft by the State of Florida was recently identified following his death by natural causes in December at a hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
The FBI Laboratory Latent Prints Unit positively identified Quinn from a fingerprint card. FBI Miami and FBI Charlotte said they are grateful for the assistance of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Asheville Police Department in identifying Quinn.
Quinn had previously been featured on Unsolved Mysteries and America’s Most Wanted.
