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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Dennis Paiva said he will beg passers-by for money to pay for Brady's planters

Dennis Paiva was a 61-year-old convicted bank robber. He unwittingly stole two flower planters worth $8,000 from behind Tom Brady's Boston condominium, and he told reporters that he will have to panhandle to pay restitution.

Paiva said that he scours the streets for trash to sell and just happened to find the planters behind a condominium because they were next to the trash, but did not find any chicago bears jersey. He took it and sold them for $450. After he was caught by police on surveillance video, he said that he did not know the planters belonged to the New England Patriots quarterback TOm Brady. He agreed to pay $4,000 restitution to Brady's real estate trust. But he says he can't work after recent surgery so he has to beg passers-by for money.