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Police ProbeGangland LinkTo Club BlastCASSELBERRY (DPI) — Police probed for a possible underworld connection to three blasts Tuesday that killed at least one man and reduced aj topless go-go lounge to a pile of j smoking rubble.; Killed was John R. Berryhill, ,39, of Orlando, a convicted : felon on bail on charges in a 1 recent safecracking job.The blasts, which one obser-} ver said looked like the work of three direct hits by howitzer shells, came at 3=24 a.m. One man six miles away said he heard the explosions, which came at 10-minute intervals.' “Gasoline type bombs much 1 more powerful than TNT” did the damage, according to Seminole County Sheriff John Polk.Russell Ruslan, 25, owner of the bar 10 miles north of Or-j lando, told police he had been threatened recently by “undesirable characters” with gang”-land connections who were try-’ ing to take over his business. 1 Rustan said the latest threat t occurred Monday afternoon i when a man approached him in a parking lot and said he was going to kill him. Rustan did not identify the man.
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Panama City News
Panama City, Florida, US
Wed, Mar 18, 1970
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