Word: looted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the man behind the wheel of the getaway car, waiting for the robbers to come pelting out of the bank with their loot. The cop (Bruce Bern) has a never-explained obsession with putting this particular wheelman behind bars. This leads to the burning of much tire rubber, the crunching of much metal, but not much psychological or sociological edification. And not much emotional involvement in the proceedings, since neither man is ever shown to be anything but a grim-faced psychopath, hiding under the fashionable guise of being a "professional...
...with a prominent figure in a different sort of enforcement business, Big Tuna. Levinson complained, according to a police informant, about his misfortune. For reasons of his own, Big Tuna sympathized. An order soon went out from River Forest: return the swag. The gang reluctantly obeyed, handing over the loot to Accardo who, police and FBI officials believe, kept it at his home, which is guarded by an elaborate alarm system...
...thieves, who could have been called "the gang that couldn't think straight," belatedly decided that they had a raw deal. So at least two of them, Mendell and Garcia, broke into Accardo's house while he was in Florida. Police are not certain whether the gang recovered the loot but assume they did. Accardo did not file a complaint with the police and refused to cooperate when they learned about the burglary...
...friend, Donald Renno, 31, were found stabbed to death in a car parked behind a tavern in suburban Stickney. Almost all of Moretti's ribs had been broken. According to police, Moretti was killed because he had not told Mob bosses when the gang asked him to fence the loot. On the day of his death, Moretti had discovered that his car's power steering had been tampered with. So he asked Renno, who had no known Mob connections, to drive him to his destination. Renno was presumably killed because he had witnessed Moretti's murder...
Completing the harvest is no easy task. Windfall loot has spawned violent crime. Crop thefts and armed robberies now loom as more ominous threats than police busts. "The paranoia gets so thick around here in October that you could cut it with a knife," says an Oregon grower...