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Criminal records are made to be broken. In 1974 robbers got away with a $4 million cash haul at the Purolator Security warehouse in Chicago. That record stood until 1978, when $5.8 million in money and jewels disappeared from a Lufthansa cargo hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Last week that high mark fell once more, and again the record was set in New York City...
From San Jose, Reagan flew to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He never left the airport there. He and President Roberto Suazo Cordova spoke together in a conference room, walked to a hangar and read boilerplate speeches. Suazo Cordova, who presides over Central America's poorest country, wants $100 million in U.S. aid to retire 75% of the Honduran budget deficit. Honduras has a strong claim on American largesse: it has lately been a staging area for U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista forces. Reagan met Guatemala's Rios Montt (who had flown to Honduras earlier) for a brief talk. Then...
...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...