Word: colton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dusty stretch of track outside Colton, Calif., a railroad bull confronted three rumpled men about to hop a stalled desert-bound freight. "Turn around," ordered the policeman, resting one hand menacingy on his gun. Frisking the hoboes, the lawman squinted in disbelief: their driver's licenses bore upscale California addresses in West Los Angeles, Marin County and Palm Springs. "Beverly Glen Boulevard?" the policeman demanded of one robust tramp wearing suspenders and carrying a Swiss army knife. "What is this...
...promised 30 days in jail and a $2,000 fine if further annoyed, everyone hid, returning well after midnight to catch the train. They succeeded, but with difficulty. Comfortable boxcars are giving way to sealed containerized loads. The riders settled for a chilly flatcar under a heaving truck, leaving Colton amid a terrifying anvil chorus of wheels, cars and couplings stressing and whining. But a neophyte's raw nerves are soon lulled by the classic rhythms of clickety-clack, as he crawls into a warm sleeping bag to enjoy a moonlit panorama of passing desert and mountains unmarred by highway...
...have strong evidence against [Odom and Colton] in the most recent break-in," said James F. Dwyer, a Cambridge Police detective. He declined to comment further on the case against the two alleged intruders...
...remains unclear whether Colton and Odom were the only two intruders in the early June break-in, and whether they were sponsored by a political organization to conduct the break-in, described as the most violent of the seven...
...Brown said, "There has been a history of government and conservative groups hiring criminals hiring criminals to do their dirty work." She added that police suspect that there might have been a third man with Odom and Colton when they broke into the church basement...