Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Messing with Big Tuna is not a smart move, as the gang soon finds out. Six of them end up dead...
...cold, dark January night. John Mendell, 31, and Steve Garcia, 29, both burglars by trade and members of a gang of jewel thieves, creep up to a sprawling ranch-style house in the swank Chicago suburb of River Forest. The owner is vacationing in Florida, and there is $1 million in jewelry inside?jewelry they believe is rightfully theirs. A conversation can be imagined...
...Mendell, the gang last December broke into a vacant building near a police station in a seedy section of Chicago's Near North Side. With acetylene torches, they burned their way into a jewelry store next door, used an electronic device to circumvent a burglar alarm and stole more than $1 million worth of jewelry, silver and furs...
...Levinson happened to be acquainted with a prominent figure in a different sort of enforcement business, Big Tuna. Levinson complained, according to a police informant, about his misfortune. For reasons of his own, Big Tuna sympathized. An order soon went out from River Forest: return the swag. The gang reluctantly obeyed, handing over the loot to Accardo who, police and FBI officials believe, kept it at his home, which is guarded by an elaborate alarm system...
...thieves, who could have been called "the gang that couldn't think straight," belatedly decided that they had a raw deal. So at least two of them, Mendell and Garcia, broke into Accardo's house while he was in Florida. Police are not certain whether the gang recovered the loot but assume they did. Accardo did not file a complaint with the police and refused to cooperate when they learned about the burglary...