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AmericanPilotArreA twin-engine C18 air •aft earrvine firearms tlt;the troops of Rebel-leader Fidel Castro in Cuba wasapprehended by Countyand State police about 12:15 p. m. yesterday at Municipal Airport.When taken into custody the pilot expressed dismay that he had been caught bya “bunch of hillbillies.“BULLETIN!Monongalia County Polic* tsst night unloaded hot” tiro* arms from a confiscated twin-engine aircraft at the Municipal Airport under the watchful eyes ot U. S. Customs officials.inspector Riley, supervision for Customs in this district, arrived at 8 p. m. to learn the serial numbers on the firearmsfiMMf coincided with tho«t lt;»nsome 320 guns stolen from a National Guard Armory in Canton, Ohio, on Oct. 14.Authorities said the serialcheck now gives them the grounds to preen charge*against the pilot arrested here whHe gassing his plane- far a trip to Cuba with the Nre-Stuart Sutor, 14. of Hialeah.Fla., will be arraigned beforeU. S. District Attorney Albert E. Morgan in Fairmont sometime this morning.Meanwhile, the arms are being kept under heavy guard at the airplane until Federal agents remove it.The firearms total about ISO pieces. Included are carbines in burlap feed sacks, about 12 in each; M-l rifles, 7 or 8 in a bag; two 130 cat. solinoids; four grease guns (45-cal.); seven 22-caliber; and a 30-caliber machine gun, the shell of which measures about IH inches in diameter.At the seen* of the unloading last night were FBI Agents Charles Watson and Vernon Daniels of the Fairmont Branch; Inspectors Riley and Lacy of Customs in Philadelphia; Inspector W. D. Rowan of Customs in Pittsburgh; and Peter J. Grooiendorst. Air Intelligence Officer from the U. S, Border Patrol from Buffalo, N. Y„ and David Blackwell, Regional Air Intelligence Officer from the Border Patrol from Burlington, Vt.Authorities said th* aircraft hat been tracked by radar from Pitts burgh's Allegheny Airport yester day morning and the local Civi Aeronautics Administration waialerted. j ^Meanwhile, United Press International learned from officers in Butler, Pa., that three men who helped load the plane at a small town airport at Tarantum, Pa.,arrested yesterday after-aft)Mnoon I NobyCattroInterrogation of the pilot continued for three hours in the afternoon, A Customs Inspector Riley w*as flown in from Philadelphiafor investigation Whether the pilot would be clMiffcrtjtransferred from Morgantown wanot yet known. riThe pursuit of the smugglers was to have taken place over a period of about two weeks |w Buffalo, N. Y. Border Patrol fAi authorities said the plane was part of a round-trip service from thi U. S, to Cuba, Firearms were tlt;hava been carried on the flight goato Cuba and aliens on the return 560 trip hi the U. S !«»,The plane and its pilot, Stuart mu Sutor, 34, of Hialea. Fla, were; * surround d by three .County depu gre ties, Constable Red Jolliffe and beflt; State Police Corporal W. B Spud- “beg’MSS th-Polk’!? did not immediately cn . !y i(Commut'd, Pg 2, Col 7) jut I♦
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Morgantown Dominion News
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Wed, Nov 05, 1958
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