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San. Antonio police: Friday. were .preparing. to. file formal charges. of theft against seven Mexican Nationals +caught in the break-up of an international shoplifting rmm |, |, Six’ women end. one man were. arrested early” Friday” at the corner:of: Houston and: Jef ferson. Streets and a search of their downtown hotel room=re vealed approximately $2,000 s worth of loot, mostly ‘women’s dresses’ and underclothes. Dats, Manuel, Ortiz and H. L. Freeman, who made the arrest acting..on a tip from. former Set. Joe Lara who now works for “a department store as a private, detective, said that the suspects would first have to stand trial in San Antonio be fore being ‘deported. They came into the U.S. om, visitors’ passes, Ortiz ‘said. ‘ Over half the loot, ‘approxi mately$1,000 worth, had been taken’ from one San Antonito de partment store. The ring, which operated only two days while in the city, worked like this: ~ one The women ‘casually filtered ‘through the aisles of the stores and stuffed their lifted foot into lowersize,’ bloomers and over- coats they, Were wwearing
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Mar 08, 1952
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