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The first armored car robbery in the U.S. occurred in Bethel Park on March 11, 1927, when a Brinks truck, heading towards the Coverdale Mine about a mile away was attacked.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.shtml |title=Pittsburgh Magazine: March 2007: Rick Sebak: Gangster History in Bethel Park! |access-date=2009-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715121217/http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.shtml |archive-date=2008-07-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Bandits Dynamite Armored Pay Car and Take $104,250 |issue=March 12 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C13FA3C591B7A93C0A81788D85F438285F9&scp=18&sq=Coverdale,%20Pennsylvania&st=cse |access-date=2009-01-10 | journal=The New York Times | date=March 12, 1927}}</ref> [[Paul Jaworski]] and [[The Flathead gang|Flatheads gang]] destroyed the road with dynamite to steal a mining payroll.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sebak |first=Rick |title=Gangster History in Bethel Park ! |url=http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.shtml |access-date=2009-01-10 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080715121217/http://www.wqed.org/mag/columns/sebak/2007/0307_armored_car.shtml |archive-date = 2008-07-15}}</ref>
==Geography==
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