Word: lawmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice: a gang of men, dodging around cars and trees as they fired guns at one another on a sunny, suburban Miami street. But the scene was all too real, a bloody shootout between seven FBI agents and the two robbery suspects they had cornered. In the end, two lawmen lay dead--the 28th and 29th agents killed in the line of duty in the FBI's 78-year history. The suspects, William Matix, 34, and Michael Platt, 32, were also slain. As investigators last week traced the paths that Matix and Platt followed to their deaths, a strange story...
...What, then, motivated them? What did they do with all their stolen money? Were they somehow involved in the deaths of their wives? As Agents Grogan and Dove were laid to rest last week, the FBI struggled to tie together the loose ends in the twisted trail of the lawmen's killers...
...Angeles police, eyeing their roster of unsolved crimes--4,350 murders, 2,500 rapes, 4,000 robberies and 20,000 burglaries--cannot wait to plug these cases into the state's new system. Other California lawmen share their enthusiasm. "There are a lot of people walking the streets out there who think they're home free," says Orange County Lieut. Richard Olson. "Once we get these computer systems working together, they're going to be in for a surprise...
Given the sect's penchant for put-ons, as well as its reportedly declining membership and lawsuits concerning the takeover of Antelope, outsiders did not know what to make of the bhagwan's statements. Neither, evidently, did the six different groups of lawmen that jointly began examining the guru's charges last week: the Oregon state police, the FBI, the Wasco County sheriff, the Dalles police, the state attorney general's office and the U.S. Attorney's office. Wasco County District Attorney Bernard L. Smith said at week's end that his office will coordinate an investigation of the situation...
...former lawmen, and six others who will be sentenced in the next two weeks, were convicted of lying to federal grand juries investigating the killings, which occurred when police were staking out a mountaintop television tower threatened with sabotage. The officers are also facing murder charges in a trial scheduled to start in August. During their perjury trial, they insisted that they had been fighting for democracy and against Communism. Former Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, who had at first called the policemen "heroes," then reversed himself as they began to confess, was defeated in last November's election, in part...