Oldest Mass. Inmate, a ‘Criminal Through and Through,’ Dies at 92
Massachusetts inmate Nick George Montos committed his first offense as a teenager and the last at the age of 78. The oldest prisoner in the state, he died Sunday at the age of 92.
A former prosecutor once called Montos a “criminal through and through,” the Boston Globe reports. Over a 60-year-period, Montos robbed banks and jewelry stores and stole cars. He was arrested for his last crime, the attempted robbery of an elderly antiques store owner, after she was able to loosen the bindings he had used to tie her up and beat him with an aluminum baseball bat.
Montos had a heart attack a few years ago and suffered from prostate cancer, the story says. He recently sought a commutation of his sentence due to poor health, but the parole board did not act on his request.
The antiques store owner, Sonia Paine, told the Globe she is happy Montos died in prison. “I have no sympathy for a person like this,” she said.
“I wish he’d come in again,” said Paine, now 86. “I’d beat the hell out of him.”
