Arizona republican., 1921-06-20
,CARS STOLEN BYI
 CAL|F0 F0RN|A CANC| RECOVERED HERE
flnal Clean-Up Of Opera
 tlons of Imperial Valley ~SAuto Thieves Made with V Return of Nine Cars

"a. S1 ~ Return of Nine Cars
 n.s with the recovery in Phoenix Of psen atolen in Califronia and sold rsre. Frank P. Kline and Herbert c. x..t MILL. ngents for the Pacific Coast xne1t bureau, announced yes oey tney had completed the final S.e.n-up of the operations of the Inn valley gang of auto theives, one Sne largest and strongest bands tue eoQtnWest. The sheriffs office, rey se1d. assisted them in recover &n4 tne ntne stolen cars in this city. The last of the nine cars was re- covered Friday when !. Rogers Of the MiQW4y garage of Venice, Calif., Identified . Ford car in Peoria as one Wn1cn nAd been ntoIen from his sev- ret monthe ago st Venice. Mir. Rog- erp loft Phoenix Saturday afternoon to dr1ve his car hack to California
 Parsons, who formerv w1s con- nected with the theft bureau of the Arixone Ftne Insurance company, e4id tho recovery of the cars in Phoenix was made following the con- xession of Dan Herliley, member of the Imperial valley gang. Herliley. Rar1ona oaid, confessed to selling several cars to Phoenix second hand car dealern.
 using this confession as | means Of getting on the trail of the cars. Raroons and Kline spent several weeks in Phoenix. assisted by deputy sheriffa, in locating sne ears. Some of tho cara. they said had passed through three or four hands before they finally located them. Tn each case. after . stolen car was located tho owner was brought here to iden- tify the car and 1t was returned to Ca1ikornia. Mont of the cars recov- cred, the officers said, had been stolen h Lon AngeleA or nearby towns. Etght Of tho ecars were found in Phoenix and one In Peoria.
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 Last April, ParAons and Kline. working In conjunction with federal agents. broke up the Imperial valley ganG, Whoae op<srations had extended 6vor . period l,f three months and had been carried on in several states, with the trec0vfry of se stolen cars md tho arrest Of Beyeu of the nine members of tho eane. Three of the mGmbers have been convtcted under T tho pyer act which makeD x a felony T.fo txnnSpOrt a atolen car across a 8fato line, and have been sentenced to serxe fermn In federal prisons The ofhers under arrest win be tried in Federal court in Los Angeles on Juno 1z.
 With ths recovery of the nine cars in Phoenix. Eotal of s7 cars ntoIen by tho gaug have been recovered. Officers estImake the gang had stolen nore than 12S cars In the three months 1t operated. The gang had In headquarters in Calexico. Calif.. ond Mex3cali. Lower California. and opernted on either side of the Mexi- can line. Their principal hang out. z officer said. was in notorious sa- <ioon ana eamtllin9 joint in Mexicali. pe ownsx and the bartender keepins Ehe books,
 The Arixonf motor vehicle laws, fhe officers sai6. vas material help to the eang in their operations They cited this Arbitration: A member ol fhe rnnE would come to Phoenix and eecure and Arizona license on a car which ho did not opVn.g1 His method waa to 10 fcl the county assessors office here and get an application foi v Iicense on acar by paying the taxes nud rivfnk q Let of fake motor mum EFT nnd ' fake address in Phoenix ol fhe countv. with this application ha eecured a license at the capitol ant eifher look it to California or sent l hv n,nii fo this gang in Calexico- On u,ember cf ti,a rang, they said, con feseed That he had secured five IL cense plates in as many days by thi method.
 After the license plates were re ceived in Calexico, a member of tn gang would fsteal car and the plate were then plsaced on 1t after the mote number had been changed tp agre with the numbers given in secur1n the license. The gang also used Tax bills of sale from a fictitious firm Phoenix called the Western Aut Sales company to a member of th gang, who fn turn gave bill of sal to the purchaser of the car. When large car wsis stolen, the officers sai the gang usually drove 1t over Il line into Mexico, where was oi' posed of without changing the hcen' plates or tile motor numbers.
 The gangss operations in brinSiI California e.ars to Phoenix to sell, Il officers said. varied from those ust in taking and selling cars in Califo nia After stealing car in Califo fia, the gang brought it to Phoen without changing the license platt although they changed the mot numbers. The car was driven throus under a California license plate al soId here with the plate on it. Mer bers of the gang, officers said, co fessed they drove a stolen Californ car to Phoenix and drove back
 Calexico irI car stolen from Phoen ! Imperial valley which had been stol in Phoenix These were returned
 their owners.
 The members of the gang, the
 ficers said, were unable to tell
 number Of cars they Mad stolen
 where they had gotten them
 where they had sold them, as tn
 operations were of such magnit'
 that they were unable to keep r
 ord Most of the cars were sold a
 figure somewhere near the real Va
 of the car.
 The seven members of the gang
 rested, according to officers, were
 q James, Curley Alexander, J. K
 calbert ;Shoenig, alias Cal Duke, tR Adams. Dan Herliley, and Le \ I.or,,e- TWO members of the gi Mare now in Mexico.