Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first "mission," a drive-by shooting, as an observer when he was twelve. Freshly inducted into a local Crip gang, he drove in a sedan he describes as a GTA as casually as if he were saying GTO or MG, though it is police parlance for "grand theft auto" -- a stolen car. He is 14 now, in juvenile detention, and mainly remembers the noise. "A lot of yelling, some shooting, and then the police sirens." He never knew what prompted the attack. His "homeboys" had brought him along to test his mettle, and he acquitted himself well...
...Theft in Gorky...
...around a card table playing a desultory game of seven card no peek, while waiting for the fuzz to arrive. In between dealing hands and looking for ways to cheat, Brett Langenderfer, 27, of Woodbridge, Va., explained that he was pretending to be wanted on a charge of interstate theft. When the agents stormed the building, Langenderfer tried to flee down a back stairway. "They call me the 'Rabbit' because I always run. It really gets the adrenaline going when the cops arrive, almost like rushing out of the locker room for a big game...
Wanger said the museum's board of trustees last week formed a subcommittee to examine the museum's security measures and insurance policies. He said theft insurance would be one of the areas discussed...
...Well-known works are found slightly more often, but about 80 percent of stolen art is never recovered," said Robert Spiel, a private security consultant in Chicago and former FBI agent specializing in art theft...