Germano Tomassetti

I can't remember exactly, but thousands of dollars.

And at that time to be that age and to see that kind of money, it was a big deal for us.

So

Other than that, nothing was really going on.

Once I get into high school, I'm dealing with the same thing.

Now it's on a larger scale.

Now I'm getting in a fight every two weeks and I'm getting expelled constantly.

And I was just, I was just a problem at the end of the day.

I had a lot of anger built up because as I told you, I grew up in the household that I did, but around 10 years old, my dad left.

He was in and out of jail constantly.

And my mother just, I guess she had enough and they got divorced and I didn't really see him much after that.

in in jail what i mean fights or drinking or no so his his his thing was armed robbery so from from about yeah it was serious stuff so when he was 17 years old he robbed a chain out here called safeway with a couple of his friends uh they got away with like sixty thousand dollars which is a lot of money back then we're talking about 45 50 years ago

And he was so successful at it that he started doing it consistently.

So between I'm told between 17 and 19 years old, he did about five or six really big armed robberies, including like a McDonald's for like eight grand or 10 grand or whatever.

And a couple of other places.

But he took off to Montreal for whatever reason.

I don't know if he was feeling the heat or whatever it was.

But the police or the RCMP ended up catching up with him in Montreal when he was 19 years old or 20 years old.

And they arrested him and he ended up doing six years his first stint.

so like i said from a young age he was into that it's unfortunate too because he was also very he was a very hard worker in within the construction world he was a great singer i was told when he was like 16 years old that he was offered a million dollar contract in nashville to sing because he could sing like elvis presley so he had a bunch of things going for him and apparently he always blamed this is what i'm told