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...three radical killers, David Gilbert, Judith Clark and Kuwasi Balagoon, did not even bother to attend the reading of the verdict, which found them guilty of killing a Brink's guard and two police officers during a $1.6 million robbery in New York's Rockland County. Gilbert tried to turn his day of reckoning into a celebration by marrying Weather Underground Radical Kathy Boudin. After the brief ceremony, conducted by a jail chaplain and sealed by a kiss, the two were hauled off to separate cells. Boudin and another Brink's suspect, Samuel Brown, will begin their...
...picks up the federal bills, of course; no one would speculate on how much they will be, though one FBI agent notes that the cost of the investigations alone was certainly more than the $1.6 million commandeered in the Brink's heist. A battle is brewing, however, between Rockland County, where the crime occurred, and Orange County, where the trial was moved in a change of venue because of prejudicial pretrial publicity. Massive security has been necessary from the beginning, and Orange County has equipped and trained a special squad of police to guard the prisoners. Overall costs have...
...been nearly two years since a group of self-styled revolutionaries shocked the nation by holding up an armored truck in Rockland County, N.Y., killing a Brink's guard and, in a subsequent Shootout, two local police officers. It was quickly apparent that the attack was not merely a last violent gasp of the radicalism born in the '60s. Information gleaned from the robbery and murder scenes led police to "safe houses" in Mount Vernon, N.Y., The Bronx and elsewhere, from which they carted away truckloads of evidence. With that material, plus leads provided by informants, police began...
...case. Led by Kenneth Walton, No. 2 man in the New York FBI office, the task force eventually grew to number more than 200, as dozens of investigators were drawn into the probe from the New York and New Jersey state police, the New York City police and several Rockland County communities. The investigation has taken task force agents as far away as Mississippi, Texas and California. One continuing focus has been on finding six fugitives named in Brink's indictments. Last week a task force raid on a District of Columbia apartment netted one of them, a woman...
...planning strategy for the two trials, federal and local officials spent a great deal of time huddling to decide who should prosecute whom. Rockland County District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz says there was "an agreement from the start" that he and the federal prosecutors would divide up the defendants according to which jurisdiction had the best evidence. Gribetz ended up trying those he was convinced he could prove were at the scene of the robbery and murders. Using racketeering, conspiracy and bank-robbery statutes, federal authorities "are trying the people we could not easily get under state law," explains Gribetz...