Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...referee approached him. "You know, my son plays good harmonica," he said. "He used to have 35 of them, and took then on tours all over the country before they got stolen in some hippie town in Florida...
...season to be-among other things-greedy. From private and federal land as well as commercial lots, untold numbers of Christmas trees are stolen every year for resale. One of the most ambitious schemes to date was uncovered last month in Colorado. Armed with forged permits and maps, six men conned a group of Denver tree distributors into bankrolling them by showing them seven sample trees. The group then went off to remote slopes and, with a crew of ten, buzz-sawed 2,000 more trees, that would probably have brought a total of $14,000. A neighbor heard...
...agents, who late last week arrested Medlin in a New Orleans motel. Only $3,100 was found in his room. Medlin was turned over to authorities at a federal prison halfway house in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been serving two consecutive five-year sentences for interstate transport of stolen vehicles before escaping two months ago. Said O'Keefe, awed at Medlin's ability to flimflam network executives: "If he's a con artist, he doesn't need to be in crime. He should be in Hollywood. He would be making a million dollars a year...
...Sigi Holmes,* a detective suffering a near-terminal case of sibling rivalry because Big Brother Sherlock is always getting the good cases, he becomes a pawn in one of the latter's non-stop games of mastermind with Professor Moriarty. This one has something to do with a stolen state document on which the fate of empire trembles...
President Costa Gomes lifted the partial siege that he had imposed on Lisbon during the rebellion, even though military authorities continued to look for 30,000 or so weapons that leftist soldiers claim to have stolen from arsenals and distributed to their civilian allies. Roadblocks were thrown up around the country, and cars were searched. Despite these efforts, however, only some 200 weapons had been recovered by week...