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bank robberies takes place in the seven-county purview of the FBI'S Los Angeles office. The last day without a bank holdup was Oct. 4,1979. Says Lieutenant Joe Patterson of the Los Angeles County sheriffs robbery squad: 'The word is out on the street, in jail, among junkies: 'Hey, man, if you're hurting, go to the bank.' " Even as bank robberies are generally declining in the U.S. (down 11% during the first half of 1983), they are growing more rampant in Los Angeles (up 18% last year). The Friday before Christmas...
...stickup of a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet. Five prosecution witnesses identified him, but gave contradictory answers to questions about the robber's height and weight. For the defense, nine of Geter's colleagues testified that he had been at work at the time of the holdup. No physical evidence, like fingerprints or a gun, was presented. Still, in October 1982 the all-white jury found him guilty. At the sentencing hearing, Investigating Detective James Fortenberry testified that he had spoken with the sheriff of Bamberg County, where Geter grew up. The South Carolina sheriff, said Fortenberry, had told...
...police officers killed James Bowden Jr., an unarmed man with no criminal record who was returning from a nightly visit to his mother's apartment. The cops said they thought Bowden was driving a car reported earlier that day in connection with an armed holdup in Cambridge (they were wrong). The officers blocked Bowden from pulling away from the curb near his mother's housing project, approached the car and put three bullets in his head...
...year in federal district court in New York City in connection with the robbery, none was found guilty of participating in the crime. Two defendants were convicted of racketeering and conspiracy in connection with crimes dating from 1979. Two were convicted of being accessories after the Brink's holdup, while the remaining pair was acquitted. Of the 28 counts against the defendants, 21 were thrown out by the jury...
...from downtown, the elegance is gone. There, amid broken glass, dank, urine-stained hallways, and discount shops, live more than 1,000 Marielitos, many sporting the telltale tattoos that mark them as former prisoners in Cuban jails. Squalid $8 rooms serve as base camps for drug dealers, prostitutes and holdup gangs. Nearby MacArthur Park, once a palm-lined site for shuffleboard and paddleboats, long ago became outlaw territory...