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{UAH} Suspect in slayings of Boston doctors could have been deported for past bank robberies | masslive.com

Bampumim Teixeira, suspected of the brutal Friday night murders of two South Boston anesthesiologists, avoided deportation last year on two charges of unarmed robbery, reports The Boston Herald 

Police arrested the 30-year-old native of Guinea-Bissau in July after he stole $212 from the teller at the desk of Citizen's Bank on Summer Street in Boston. 

In September, Teixeira admitted to that robbery and a second of the same bank in 2014 in which he made off with $600 and never got caught. 

Both robberies saw Teixeira threatening to go on a shooting spree inside the bank if he wasn't supplied with money. 

In exchange for his guilty pleas, a prosecutor and Teixeira's lawyer agreed to a joint motion to reduce the two counts of unarmed robbery against him to two counts of larceny from a person -- a less serious charge, The Herald reports. 

Teixeira then served time in prison until around mid-April, according to The Herald. 

Guinea-Bissau is a small country on the western coast of Africa abutting Senegal and Guinea. 

According to The Boston Globe, an aunt raised Teixeira near there on the island nation of Cape Verde before moving with him to the Boston area around the late 2000s. 

Teixeira obtained a green card in 2010. 

On Friday, authorities came upon a grim scene inside a luxury 11th floor condo at 141 Dorchester Ave. -- the home of engaged anesthesiologists Lina Bolanos, 38, and Richard Field, 49. 

The doctors were dead on the floor, bound, throats cut and a message of retribution scrawled on a wall, perhaps in blood, according to The Boston Globe 

Boston police shot Teixeira, who was still inside the condo, in the abdomen. Authorities said a bag filled with Bolanos' jewelry was also found at the scene. 

According to police, Teixeira formerly worked as a security guard at the same condo complex in which the two doctors lived. 

The Herald cited federal law saying immigrants can be deported for "a theft offense" providing a prison sentence of at least one year is imposed. Teixeira's received a sentence one day short of a year in 2016. 

Federal authorities may also deport immigrants found guilty of two counts of robbery, but Teixeira avoided such a consequence due to his pleas, The Herald reports. 

Teixeira was arraigned on two counts of murder from his Tufts Medical Center hospital bed on Monday.


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