Escapee Captured After Dramatic 100 Mile Michigan Chase
A 19 year old escapee David M. Closser hijacked a car with hostage Connie Allen a 16 year old girl from Ionia. The pair fled along Interstate 96 across southern Michigan for about five hours covering nearly 100 miles before Closser crashed a second police car and was captured. Allen was released unharmed and Closser was in fair condition with a concussion.
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Howell
Mich
Ionia Reformatory
David M. Closser
Livonia
Michigan
Connie Allen
Ionia
Here
Crosser
Lansing
Closser
Nia
Brink's heist solved in Montreal gang arresting mother and four children
Police say eight suspects arrested in Montreal and Laurentians after recovering over 100000 of the 28 million Brink's heist funds nine weeks earlier. One gang member, John Slanvey, was killed May 15. Authorities link money to a car and a cottage in the mountains. The raid involved a 60 year old mother and her three sons and two daughters plus two brothers arrested elsewhere.
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Montreal
Rene Daigneault
Eight
Daigneault
Laurentian Mountains
John Slanvey
Mie
Laurentians 130
Jean-Claude Rondou
Brink's Money
Montreal Financial District
I Ve
Vestigatin Sa
Ota
Careless Campers Spark Major California Wildfire
Firefighters battle a 12 000 acre blaze in Los Padres National Forest after a camper tossed a cigarette into dry brush. Officials warn of possible camp restrictions as a severe fire season looms with drought conditions similar to 1924 and early reports show thousands of acres burned across state forests.
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San Francisco
California
Los Padres National Forest
Here
Ito Waldapfel
OTE Secent Service
Waldapfel
Tom Harlan
Forest Service
Berkeley Hills
Jack O'Neal
California Division of Forestry
Sacramento
O'Neal
Los Padres
New Hampshire Governor Uses CB Rumor to Nab Speeders
Concord NH AP reports Gov Mel Thomson nicknamed Little Bear uses a green limousine and police radio to chase speeders. A growing number of truckers and motorists now employ Citizens Band radios to locate state troopers or bears awaiting enforcement on highways.
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Concord
N.H
Citizens Band
Meldrim Thomson
New Hampshire
Thomson
Bodies Found on Southern Pacific Tracks Near Chandler
Three Indian children aged 8 to 14 were found on Southern Pacific tracks near Chandler Aziz. Mortuary attendants removed one body. deputies said two boys and a girl may have been stabbed before being left on the tracks. Police investigate possible homicide.
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Southern Pacific
Chandler
Aziz
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Ohio
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