The Stopwatch Gang was a group of three Canadians, Paddy Mitchell, Lionel Wright, and Stephen Reid, who made a living robbing banks in the United States and Canada.
From 1974[1][2] to 1980, they robbed more than 140 banks and stole the equivalent of about $15 million Canadian dollars.
[5] On October 31, 1980, FBI agents arrested Wright and Reid in the Sedona, Arizona area near Slide Rock State Park.
The gang's story is recorded in several television documentaries and books, including Mitchell's autobiography, This Bank Robber's Life, which he wrote from prison.
[10] Mitchell was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2006, and died on January 14, 2007, in the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. in the prison hospital at the age of 64.