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...Wills boasted to me that he'd been stealing cars since the age of 14," says Lindsay Stott Jr., an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the muscleman's operations. "He was proud of his expertise. He was very much in love with himself." Last year the feds and local police busted Wills' six- man, 14,000-sq.-ft. "chop shop" set in an industrial park in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. But, while all his cohorts were prosecuted, Wills fled after his arrest -- and remains at large. What has emerged of his saga illustrates how easy and lucrative it is to make...
...ignition. Popular antitheft devices like The Club, which locks a steering wheel in place, never deterred him. Most thieves spray The Club with Freon and crack it with a hammer. Wills would snip it in half with a ratchet-type tool. "He said he preferred GM cars," says agent Stott. "I think he was probably just more familiar with them...
Nobody knows precisely how much of Passyunk Avenue's merchandise is hot. Palamarchuk believes it's more than 90%. Tony Kane, a special agent who covers Philadelphia for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, guesses 40%. "The general attitude on Passyunk is that if I don't buy it, the next yard will," says Kane. "You'll walk into a lot of yards and see nothing but a few doors and a lot of junk. That's because calls are made, orders are taken, and things get done through the back door...
Moulin said in an interview she asked her HRE agent, Sarah Oleson, what the policy of the office of management of housing was under such circumstances when she went to pay her rent early last week...
Last week, with the release of the most comprehensive review of Agent Orange research ever conducted, vets got some real encouragement. According to a 16- member panel of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, exposure to Agent Orange can be linked conclusively to three cancers, including Hodgkin's disease, and two other disorders. The committee also found enough evidence among the 230 studies they examined to suggest a connection with lung and prostate cancer...