Nick George Montos

Nicholas George Montos (November 8, 1916 – November 30, 2008) was an American criminal, associate of the Chicago Outfit and a fugitive. Montos was the first person to be placed twice on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. At his death in 2008 aged 92, Montos was the oldest inmate in the state of Massachusetts.

By 1945, he had set himself up in Chicago and was convicted on charges of burglary and postal larceny. More burglary charges in Alabama and Mississippi were filed against Montos in 1949, 1950 and 1951. On September 8, 1952 he was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for the first time after a escaping prison multiple times while serving time for a robbery in Georgia. He had beat a 74-year-old man and the man's sister with a gun with three others. He was arrested in 1954 as he prepared to rob a freight train in Chicago. On March 2, 1956, he was added to the list for a second time for escaping prison. He was arrested 26 days later in Memphis, Tennessee in his hotel room by federal agents when he was recognized by a citizen.

Two years later Montos escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary using a hacksaw. He was again placed on the FBI fugitives list and caught 26 days later. From 1957 to 1962, he was imprisoned at Alcatraz, and was soon recaptured upon release for an armed robbery.

After being released from prison in May 1973, he joined the payroll of Chicago Teamsters Local 714 while moonlighting as a burglar in Youngstown, Ohio. In the late 1970s, he was living in the Chicago suburb of Forest Park and working for Chicago Outfit members John Monteleone and James Torello. He was a prime suspect in the attempted murder of Milwaukee Mafia member Vincent Maniaci in 1977.

In 1985, Montos was arrested with three accomplices while robbing a Hammond, Indiana jewelry store. They were caught because their walkie-talkies shared the police band. He then jumped bail and fled to Greece. Sometime in the early 1990s, he returned to the U.S.

Montos attempted to rob a Brookline, Massachusetts antiques store in 1995. He tied up its owner, 73-year-old Sonia Paine, referring to her with an antisemitic epithet. She managed to escape and attack Montos with a baseball bat.