Word: bensalem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Someone finally has the nerve to tell it like it is. Let the U.S. send a message to Yasser Arafat that neither we nor Israel will deal with him or any other Palestinian until he controls the terrorists and ends their attacks, suicide or otherwise. ALLEN SOKOLOFF Bensalem...
...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 a living abducting and dismembering automobiles in America...
...never served time despite nine arrests, was happy to oblige. Even today, after his star student's fall, Palamarchuk makes no excuses about the milieu he inhabited. "What are you driving?" he asks, single-eyeballing a reporter's rented Chevy Corsica in a parking lot in his hometown of Bensalem. "Ahhh, that's easy to steal." Palamarchuk has raging gray hair, grungy clothes and the thick, menacing fingers of a man who's been plundering cars since the 1950s. During World War II, Palamarchuk claims he served on an underwater-demolition team in the Pacific, being paid, in effect...
...that's how law enforcement cracked down. Wills quarreled with a partner, who ratted to the Bensalem police. Government agents then rented the chop-shop property to Wills as part of a sting operation. Over a four-month period last year, the FBI and police tracked 35 cars -- some from as far away as Washington and North Carolina -- into two of Wills' warehouses. Half the cars were stolen; many others were insurance "give-ups" by financially strapped car owners. Not long after, the FBI revealed itself, Wills escaped and law enforcement officers have been tracking him ever since -- with...
Wills' cohorts pleaded guilty and most have already served their sentences. "We put more time into this case than those creeps spent in prison," snaps Charles Maddocks, a detective with the Bensalem police. "We slap their wrists and kick them back onto the streets." Meanwhile, somewhere in America, Mark Wills is probably pumping iron, and perhaps stealing cars...