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Even in the Peabody neighborhood, where housebreak-ins rose nearly 77 percent last year, thesubject of the community meeting two weeks ago waswhat residents termed a more pressing concern thancrime: zoning.
When Lt. Robert Ames, who is in charge ofpatrol for the Riverside neighborhood, attended ameeting for residents in the first week of March,he said he had expected to hear complaints about arash of car break-ins.
That includes the use of stolen airline tickets. According to the INS, stolen tickets are part of a package deal, including phony IDs and Social Security cards, that smugglers provide to their clients. And for one person, Barbara Pisa, that news was vindication of sorts. For three years, ever since...
The Chicago break-ins were part of a nationwide crime wave that has victimized more than 600 agencies, netting perhaps 500,000 tickets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And the crimes are continuing. A Marietta, Ga., agency was recently hit twice for 6,000 tickets. "It's organized crime...
Last month Pisa wrote Arizona Senator John McCain, a sponsor of an airline-passenger bill of rights, to tell him about the stolen plane tickets. Intrigued, McCain forwarded Pisa's letter to the Justice Department. It arrived just about the time the INS was arresting those illegals trying to fly...