Search Details

Word: stolen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...woman, Nancy J. Covello '87, said yesterday that although the intruder did not threaten or harm her, he had stolen $4 and ransacked several drawers in her four-woman Wigglesworth suite before she discovered him around...

Author: By Adam H. Corfain, | Title: Student Finds Thief in Closet; Intruder Escapes With Money | 4/7/1984 | See Source »

...investigation which led to yesterday's arrests began with an apparently insignificant complaint of a stolen drill press six months ago. During the investigation into the incident--which eventually led to the recovery of the drill press--police developed an anonymous source which informed on the ring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Police Arrest Ten Suspects In Break-Up of Steal-to-Order Ring | 4/3/1984 | See Source »

...price. Methamphetamine, at $60 a gram, is the discount drug of choice on the West Coast and a multimillion-dollar-a-year business for a new form of organized crime, a California-style Cosa Nostra on wheels. "We've got contract murders, interstate narcotics transactions, shipments of stolen property, cars and weapons," asserts U.S. Marshal Budd Johnson, member of a San Diego drug task force, the Organized Special Investigation Team (O.S.I.T.). "The Hell's Angels today are the new Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...refuses to believe that the son she raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells stolen meat at the behest of his boss, a remote functionary of the Philadelphia Mob. Mickey finds himself obliged to soothe his wife's pain in two ways: by coming up with the $6,000 or so it will take for a mahogany coffin and a dignified funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...living away from home and making frequent long-distance calls. Once a number is obtained, hundreds of people may end up using it. "Students have been known to take out ads announcing the numbers and the fact that free calls can be made from them," Mixon said. In California stolen numbers bring from $2 to $10 each on the black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Card Sharks | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

Previous | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | Next