Authentic Police Cases #21
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains two main stories: "The F.B.I. Smashes Racket in Wetbacks," which follows FBI agents as they pursue Willie Sutton and others involved in smuggling operations, culminating in their capture in New York and subsequent transfer to Holmesburg Prison; and "Wily Syndicate of Diamond Smugglers," in which customs officials work to break up a diamond smuggling ring operating through Mexican ports and into New York, with protagonist Carlo eventually being cleared after his involvement with the syndicate's smuggling operations is exposed.
Willie Sutton earned his nickname "the Actor" by posing as messengers and police officers to pull off audacious bank and jewelry robberies across New York—a specialty that made him the nation's most wanted criminal and landed him in Sing Sing Prison with a thirty-year sentence. This biographical account follows his clever crimes, daring prison escape, and relentless evasion of law enforcement across multiple states, as detectives from New York's finest join forces in a determined manhunt.
Tony Gordano settles into island life and respectable society, but when a vineyard owner dangles easy money for smuggling illegal workers across the border, the born sucker can't resist—he partners with a Mexican contact to organize the trafficking operation. As Gordano's profit margins climb and the shipments flow steady, FBI agents Dave Rox and Miguel Sanchez close in on the smuggling ring, racing to dismantle the operation before the next delivery arrives.
A struggling young artist becomes an unwitting pawn in an international diamond smuggling scheme when a charming Parisian man gifts him tubes of oil paint—actually concealing a fortune in gems—to carry back to America. When a syndicate gunman botches the retrieval and police begin closing in, the operation unravels faster than anyone anticipated. This crime tale weaves art, deception, and high-stakes smuggling into a tense game where nobody's quite as clever as they think they are.
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