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...gang's members have pulled off hundreds of robberies, stealing cash from store safes, jewelry, antiques and cars from country estates, and tractors from farmers. Federal and state investigators say they can directly tie the gang to more than $1 million in stolen loot but believe the total take is much higher...
...leader of the gang is politely spoken but hard-eyed Bruce Johnston, 39, and his top lieutenants are his brothers David, 30, and Norman, 28. The three have all served time in jail and in 1976 were convicted of stealing tractors and trucks in Lancaster County. But generally the Johnstons and their dozen or so confederates have escaped convictions, despite dozens of arrests, several indictments and trials. One reason is sloppy police work: most cases against them collapsed because of technical errors or tainted evidence. Another is the closemouthed ways of the people in southern Chester County, who mistrust outsiders...
...Leslie Dale, led the police to the body of an informer, Gary Wayne Crouch, in a shallow grave in dense woods near West Chester. A few weeks later, in the woods near Chadds Ford-a locale made famous by Artist Andrew Wyeth-state police unearthed the bodies of three gang associates: Wayne Sampson, 20, Duane Lincoln, 17, and James Johnston, 18. The three had disappeared in August, along with Sampson's brother James...
...told me that he didn't want to hurt them," Mrs. Steffy recounted. "He said he would give $12,000 to Little Bruce if he told the police he had been on dope when he testified and that it wasn't true that his daddy led that gang. But I told him that I didn' think Little Bruce was going to change his mind because he knew that his daddy had doings with Robin...
...Kwangtung province, had been hounded to death by Mao's Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, while former Defense Minister P'eng Teh-huai was purged in 1959 for policy differences with Mao. P'eng's persecution was officially attributed to the Gang of Four, but as millions of Chinese know, there was no "gang" in 1959. Because Mao himself was P'eng's judge and jury, P'eng's rehabilitation could only serve to debase Mao's reputation and enhance Teng's image yet even further...