Word: thief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Catch a Thief--Thursday at 9 p.m., Friday at 8 and 10 p.m. and Sayurday at 8, 10 and 12 p.m.; Lowell Dining Hall
Sears had identified Miller a few weeks ago in a police photo book as the suspected thief of his stolen camera. When he recognized Miller in the dorm last Wednesday he grabbed his arm and yelled for help. Wang and Sears managed to pin Miller to the floor long enough for the police to come and arrest...
...five years the Bridgeport, Conn., city government and police force had been under extensive federal investigation. Apparently frustrated by the lack of results, the FBI decided to try an old-fashioned sting. The bait was Thomas Marra Jr., 28, a convicted car thief awaiting sentencing. Marra's father and uncle held a $100,000-a-year contract from Bridgeport to tow stolen cars-or did until last May, when motorists complained that equipment had been pilfered from the recovered autos. The FBI plan: Marra would offer Police Superintendent Joseph Walsh $30,000 to reinstate the contract. Walsh agreed...
...country. He closed down U.S. and British military bases, expelled 25,000 descendants of Italian colonials, nationalized foreign banks and decreed that all signs and documents be written in Arabic. A devout Muslim, he banned liquor imports and imposed the Sharia (Islamic law), which can, for example, punish a thief by amputation of a hand. In 1970 Gaddafi's Libya became the first Arab oil-exporting country to demand substantially higher prices for crude. Around the same time, Gaddafi struck a deal with the Soviet Union, exchanging oil for what would become an arsenal of highly sophisticated weaponry...
...then joined Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in 1915 at a salary of $21 a week. Pinkerton's kept detective reports anonymous, so exactly what Hammett did in the line of duty cannot be checked. He later claimed that he was once sent out to find the thief who had stolen a Ferris wheel. He left Pinkerton's after three years to enlist in the Army, but less than a year later he was discharged, severely disabled with tuberculosis. He went West, married a nurse he met during one of his hospitalizations and did part-time work...