To his best recollection, his father, Gustave, "was a rumrunner," he said.
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Before Mr. Rupolo, several mobsters and gamblers and at least one rumrunner were believed to have been encased in or weighed down with concrete.
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Before Mr. Rupolo, several reputed mobsters and gamblers and at least one rumrunner disappeared from New York and were believed to have been encased in or weighed down with concrete.
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For example, during the WestPac Rumrunner exercise held in January, Air Force maintainers from Kadena Air Base were deployed to nearby Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, allowing the Air Force to refuel and resupply jets in two locations on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
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Identified by police as matching the description of the man who rented the apartment in which Potter's body was found, he was arrested in Pittsburgh shortly after, although he denied any knowledge of the murder, stating "I'm a gentleman, a rumrunner!". Charged with Potter's murder, Martin was convicted; however, he later won a retrial and was acquitted.
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She returned the fire with a machine gun set > up on her forward deck. The machine gunners ran to cover when the shells of > the Seneca began to fall so close to their mark that they kicked the spray > over the Tomaka's deck."Sea Rumrunner Held on 2 Liquor Charges," The New > York Times, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, Nov. 27, 1923, p. 21.
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USCGC Legare, a patrol craft of the 125-foot class, was built by American Brown Boveri Electrical Corp., Camden, New Jersey. She commissioned 17 March 1927 and patrolled out of New London, Connecticut as part of the Coast Guard's campaign against rumrunners. In 1929, the Legare pursued and seized a rumrunner, the Flor Del Mar, which was promptly abandoned by its crew. In 1931 she transferred to Pascagoula, Mississippi, to patrol the gulf coast.
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Walsh was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 2, 1910, and graduated in 1933 from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. His first assignments were aboard the Coast Guard cutters that captured "rum runners" between Cuba and Nova Scotia during prohibition. In September 1934, Walsh transferred to Coast Guard Cutter Yamacraw, based in Savannah, Georgia. As boarding officer, he played an important role in the capture of the notorious rumrunner Pronto in January 1936.
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Sorrells was convicted in federal court largely on the strength of Martin's testimony that he was the only one who had asked about acquiring liquor. Three other witnesses testified on rebuttal as to his general reputation as a rumrunner. In his defense, Sorrells said that he had told Martin that he "did not fool with whiskey" several times before yielding. One of the acquaintances present also testified that he had no idea either that Martin was a government agent or that Sorrells dealt in liquor.
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In 1930, Martin, a Prohibition agent in Haywood County, North Carolina, heard from informers that Vaughno Crawford Sorrells, a factory worker at Champion Fiber Company in Canton, had a reputation as a rumrunner. He arranged to visit Sorrells at his home in Sorrells Cove in Canton, on July 13, accompanied by three acquaintances of Sorrells. He had them introduce him to Sorrells as a fellow veteran of the U.S. Army 30th Infantry Division who had served in World War I and was passing through the area. At several times during an hour and a half of conversation and reminiscing the agent asked Sorrells if he would be so kind as to get a fellow soldier some liquor.
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