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Indictments(Continued from Page 1) were hauling it for Robert Domberg at the timeThey were stopped and arrested by a Florida agriculture inspector. Leonard Pease But before Pease could deliver them to the proper authorities they kidnapped him and left him handcuffed to a church in a rural area of northern Hamilton county. He was rescued later, unharmedThey stashed the truckload of marijuana and returned to Chicago Later they met with Domberg to discuss what they were going to do A plan was contrived to retrieve the “pot from a wooded area near Brunswick, Ga A second plot was hatched to have Pease killed so that he couldn t testify against the Brooks brothersTHE MARIJUANA WAS recovered and returned to Chicago But the hit man hired by the Brooks bungled the job He shot the wrong man Instead of killing Pease, who, unknown to the Brooks or Domberg had already led authorities to the Brooks brothers, he allegedly shot and killed another agriculture inspector, 61-year-old Austin Gay.Late last week, William Westfall, Florida s assistant agriculture commissioner, reportedly alleged that Joe Sal-las was the man sent to Florida to “act as a hit man
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Tinley Park Palos Star Herald
Tinley Park, Illinois, US
Sun, Mar 06, 1983
Page 2
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