AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 ‘HW. 54027 Docld: 32332303 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90101-10044 HQ 52-72398-329 Document Information FBI HQ DOJ 08/22/1961 1 JOSEPH RAYMOND MEROLA STUART SUTOR . PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 07/29/1998 INDEFINITE LET Page 1 Date: 6/2/2015 Released under the John Kennedy Wss5assination Records Ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW 54027 Date: ns—-25-2017
prvedls eg fo] C Assistant Attorney General August, 22, 1961 ; . Herbert Je Miller, JP. N at on 5 - ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED. STUART Suror, EE AL. DA TE plulos THEFT OF. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY; INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF. i STOLEN PROPERTY ; PEDERAL FIREARMS ACT, NEUTRALITY MATTERS ; CONSPIRACY _ Information has peen. received by cur Miami Office: from an informant who has requested that his identity not be vevéaled, that Joseph Merola, one of those convicted in captioned matter, has been making statements. that he would not have to serve any of the sentence imposed upon him. . Merola was one of six subjects convicted in United States District Court, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in January, 1960, for his participation in the case involving the Getober, 1958, burglary of a National Guard Armory in Canton, Chio, in which rifles, carbines, and submachine guns valued at over $25,000 were stolen, Merola was sentenced on February 4, 1960, to a term of five years’ imprisonment and was fined $10, 000, He has remained free on appeal bond since February 5, 1960, ._fhis conviction has been upheld by the Third Circuit Court. of Appeals and the United. States. Supreme. Court’ on June 19, 1961, denied his petition for a writ of: - certiorari, — Merola: and. other defendants are to report to . the United States Marshal in Pittsburgh by noon.on August 25, 1961,.to commence service of their sentences. that this matter has been takem care of in Philadelphia and it has cost him a “tremendous bundie" to have his pending five- | year sentence suspended and be placed on probation, Merola further indicated that. he was to appear before a Federal judge in Pittsburgh on the 24th or 25th of August when he was supposed to start serving his Renters and will be placed on probation : at that time, ae Es: id , BLA | Mohr No action thas t been ken bee is \pureay with regard Callan. $9 this information an gone © it Mg taken, t SKEW ile le a Lo specific instrueéions rom you. Gln s Le an aa EC cag) arent oS on got OS) ™ oe soot <— Mercola is reported by the informant to have stated DeLoach Evans Malone Evans _ dh, gay ous ‘Rafe = s y 7 es : - Sulliven 1 Mm, Staffeld =! | Jt ¢ ; yg , hy 9 AUG Sa 1961 i Tavel Note: / This info received from MM 722-C, clos associate of Merola, Trotler fe nom mero! has been in contact with Departmental Attorney.—William-S3: Ingram — ennys, Haas also considered a top jewel thief by the Miami Office Gundy za) fi\NAR, RQow Lei rELeryre uviTl_land has admitted to Agents. that he was  &, ag 96/700 07 HRppengayse FPS Badr theft ‘last winter in | | HW. 54027 DoclId: 32332303 Page 2?