Word: hangars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles along the Pacific Coast, that a "Mr. Morgan" had been overheard talking about transporting large sums of money across state lines. Suspecting an illegal cash-laundering operation, Ventura detectives tried to trace Morgan. The trail led to Morgan Aviation, an aircraft repair shop in a leased hangar at Mojave Airport on the edge of the Mojave Desert, 90 miles north of Los Angeles. The company was operated by William Morgan Hetrick, who used his middle name as his first. Ventura police notified the U.S. Customs Service of their suspicions...
...building, spending some $225,000 on carpeting, a sophisticated machine shop and an advanced computer. "Everything he bought was first class," recalls Airport General Manager Dan Sabovich. "I used to take friends there just to show it off." But few aircraft or customers seemed to be using the hangar. Said Sabovich: "I thought he must have an angel?a financial backer...
Hetrick, in fact, rarely worked at the hangar, leaving operations to his eldest son. But he had a sidekick, Stephen Arlington, 34, a former Navy frogman in Viet Nam, who shared a Hetrick enthusiasm: scuba diving. The two often flew off to Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean and took trips to the Bahamas on Hetrick's 46-ft. trawler, the Highland Fling, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hetrick also owned five airplanes and a 53-ft. yacht, the Ivory. Arrington, said a former Morgan employee, was "a kind of super gofer" for Hetrick...
...office of the DEA had picked up tips as long ago as March 1980 that Hetrick might have been flying coke from Colombia to a landing strip near Biloxi, Miss. Not until last May, however, did agents get more tangible reports that Hetrick was planning to use his Mojave hangar as a place to off-load coke and marijuana from incoming aircraft. He had even boasted about a Colombian coke connection, federal agents learned. They were also told that Hetrick was looking for a U.S. bank to convert his illegal profits into a legitimate savings account more easily...
Save-More Car Rental. The Hangar Charcoal Steaks. Cheetah Nude Dancing. The Vault Self-Storage Warehouse. Rich's Place Package Goods and Cocktails. The signs flash by on this dreary four-lane strip. "Welcome to Wheeling-the village with feeling." Finally, painted in neat black-and-white script, a tastebud red alert: Le Français. The building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue...