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By Jeffrey Gold
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEWARK. N.J. — Instead of
six-shooters and horses, these
modern-day train robbers used
two-way radios, night-vision
goggles and bolt cutters. Instead
of bandannas, they had ski caps
monogrammed “C RB, tor
Conrail Boyz.
And while alleged ringleader
Edward Mongon is unlikely to
become legend, authorities say
his tzang lasted longer and stole
far more than Jesse James or
Butch Cassidy ever did.
Train robbery, a quintessen-
tially 19th-century crime, is
rolling on into the 21st century.
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loaded with such merchandise as
electronics, cigarettes and tires
are the lure.
“If you can sell it on the street
easy, they’ll get it,” said James
Beach, a captain for the Union
Pacific railroad police in Fort
Worth. Texas.
Law enforcement authorities
have responded with advanced
technology of their own. Just as
Pinkerton men used the new tan
gled telegraph to track Cassidy,
today’s railroad police use com
puters to pinpoint where cargo
disappeared, and infrared
scopes that reveal people hiding
in rail yards.
Most freight bandits are hit-
and-run artists whose strikes have
little planning, such as those con
ducted by street gangs in Chicago
and Los Angeles, or by Mexican
gangs that dash across the border
in Texas and New Mexico.
Many such gangs do not
measure up in sophistication to
the Conrail Boyz, a ring centered
in northern New Jersey.s.
Steven Hanes, director of
Norfolk Southern’s police force,
pronounced the Conrail Boyz the
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roads.”
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which siding the train was headed
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By Bob Johnson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge on
Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by three residents
seeking to return a 5,300-pound Ten
Commandments monument to the lobby of the
Alabama Judicial building.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson said
removal of the monument did not unconstitu
tionally establish a religion of nontheistic
beliefs, as the residents claimed.
“The empty space or ’nothingness’ in the
rotunda of the Judicial Building is neither an
endorsement of ‘nontheistic belief’ nor a sign of
disrespect for Christianity or any other reli
gion,” Thompson said. He said the empty space
demonstrates government neutrality toward
religion.
The ruling comes after a lengthy legal battle
in a separate lawsuit that led to the granite mon
ument’s removal last week. In that case,
Thompson ruled the monument an unconstitu
tional promotion of religion by government.
Suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore had the
monument moved into the judicial building in
the middle of the night on July 31, 2001, saying
it represents the moral foundation of American
law. The monument soon became a symbol of
the fight over the separation of church andsu
drawing hundreds of protesters to Montgonx
who decried its removal.
Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defc
Coalition, said the ruling “shows the courts
now defining neutrality as the removal of;
acknowledgment of God from the pub
square.”
Ayesha Khan, an attorney for one of llK
groups that filed the original suit seel
removal of the monument, applauded the nil®
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pie’s throats,” Khan said.
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he has not decided whether to app
Thompson’s ruling.
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spokeswoman for Mississippi Gov. Rom
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Musgrove’s offer to publicly display the mor
ment for a week at the Mississippi Capitol.
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marched to the Alabama Capitol and present
wooden plaque of the Ten Commandments to GO
Bob Riley’s chief of staff. The chief of staff said
governor would consult with lawyers before o
playing the plaque.
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