According to the FBI, more<br>bank and armored-car robbers have come out of Charlestown, Massachusetts, than<br>any other one-square-mile area in the world. With these robberies also came<br>gangland violence and corruption. Fictionalized in the movie <i>The Town</i> featuring<br>Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, this is the <i>true story</i> of Charlestown and<br>the thieves and gangsters who terrorized the community for decades. <b></b></p>On October 31, 1961, <br>Bernie McLaughlin got shot dead in broad daylight in front of a hundred<br>witnesses in the City Square section of Charlestown. Because of the ironclad code of silence in the Irish stronghold known as the "Green Square<br>Mile," no witnesses came forward. The murder ignited a bloody war between the<br>McLaughlin Gang and Buddy McClean's Winter Hill Gang that left more than sixty men<br>dead.</p>Three decades later, as<br>narcotics invaded Charlestown, and a concurrent Mob war raged between J. R.<br>Russo's North End crew and that of Patriarca-family boss "Cadillac Frank" Salemme, <br>five thieves called the "No Name Gang" committed over a hundred heists across<br>New England that cemented the enclave's infamy. Grippingly cinematic and raw, <i>Thieves<br>of Charlestown</i> delivers an unprecedented look at the real criminals who ruled<br>the streets of "The Town."</p> <p> <p></p> </p>