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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm John Lemley. Authorities in Sartel, Minnesota say

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Speaker 1: a mystery that began more than half a century ago

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Speaker 1: may finally be closer to a solution. Police now believe

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Speaker 1: a car pulled from the Mississippi River, along with human

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Speaker 1: remains found inside, are those of Roy Benn. Ben was

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Speaker 1: last seen September twenty fifth, nineteen sixty seven. After breakfast

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Speaker 1: at the Kings End Supper Club, he entered his metallic

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Speaker 1: blue nineteen sixty three Buick Electra and vanished. That mystery

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Speaker 1: lingered for nearly fifty seven years until August tenth. That's

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Speaker 1: when an angler on the Mississippi near County Road I

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Speaker 1: spotted what looked like a vehicle under the water and

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Speaker 1: called police. The Stearns Minton County Sheriffs Office dive team

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Speaker 1: went in, confirmed the find, and days later freed the

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Speaker 1: intact car from decades of sediment. Collins Brother's towing brought

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Speaker 1: it to the surface, where it was towed to the

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Speaker 1: Sartell p Police Department. Investigators from Sartel Police, the Benton

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Speaker 1: and Stearns County Sheriff's Departments, and the Minnesota Bureau of

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Speaker 1: Criminal Apprehension combed through the vehicle. Inside, they found remains

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Speaker 1: and evidence linking the car and the body to Roy Benn.

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Speaker 1: A press release says that connection came from the remains themselves,

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Speaker 1: items inside the car, and the vehicle's VIN number. Officials

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Speaker 1: also noted Ben was wearing a dark suit, a white

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Speaker 1: French cuffed shirt, and gold and pearl cuff links. Back

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Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty seven, Ben was a widower, the owner

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Speaker 1: of an apartment building and of Saint Cloud Gas and

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Speaker 1: appliance service. His family described him as financially secure, with

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Speaker 1: no debts and possibly carrying thousands of dollars the day

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Speaker 1: he disappeared. Authorities say no one ever touched his bank accounts,

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Speaker 1: credit cards, or the registration of his car in the decades.

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Speaker 1: Sense loved one said Ben was happy, with no reason

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Speaker 1: to walk away from his life. The remains are now

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Speaker 1: with the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office for further investigation and

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Speaker 1: formal identification. We turned to a sweeping crackdown on organized

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Speaker 1: retail theft in California. Authorities in Ventura County have dismantled

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Speaker 1: what they called a major theft ring responsible for stealing

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Speaker 1: ten million dollars worth of merchandise from home Depot, marking

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Speaker 1: the retailer's largest theft case to date. The ringleader, David All,

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Speaker 1: who owns Arya Wholesale, reportedly orchestrated more than six hundred

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Speaker 1: thefts across seventy one home Depot stores last year alone.

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Speaker 1: He allegedly paid thieves in cash for high end electrical items,

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Speaker 1: which were then resold online, including through eBay. The forty

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Speaker 1: count criminal complaint names All, his ex, and his brother

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Speaker 1: in law, all facing prosecution. If convicted, all could face

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Speaker 1: up to thirty two years in prison. Authorities credited recent

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Speaker 1: funding and new legislation allowing multi county prosecutions for enabling

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Speaker 1: the bust. Turning now to Los Angeles, a joint operation

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Speaker 1: between the LAPD and the Sheriff's Office has apprehended a

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Speaker 1: burglary ring responsible for nearly one hundred break ins throughout

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Speaker 1: the region. In early morning raids, Seven men aged between

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Speaker 1: twenty two and forty seven were arrested. Three more suspects

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Speaker 1: have since been added, two men already facing attempted murder

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Speaker 1: charges and another who surrendered. That brings the total number

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Speaker 1: of arrests to ten. Authorities seized stolen luxury items, firearms, narcotics,

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Speaker 1: burglary tools and communication devices in a raid earlier this year.

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Speaker 1: Investigators had also uncovered fake IDs, credit cards, jewelry, and

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Speaker 1: additional firearms. District Attorney Nathan Hockman vowed to pursue maximum penalties,

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Speaker 1: emphasizing that close interagency cooperation and intelligence sharing proved pivotal

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Speaker 1: in dismantling the network. A former sheriff's deputy in Georgia

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Speaker 1: has been sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for

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Speaker 1: using excessive force against a black detainee and a jailhouse

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Speaker 1: beating caught on video. Twenty seven year old Ryan Beagle

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Speaker 1: pleaded guilty earlier this year to violating the civil rights

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Speaker 1: of Jarrett Hobbs, who had been booked into the Camden

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Speaker 1: County Jail in Woodbine, near the Georgia Florida line September third,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Federal prosecutors say security footage from that

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Speaker 1: night showed Hobbs standing alone in his cell when five

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Speaker 1: deputies entered. At least three, including Beagle, punch Hobbs repeatedly

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Speaker 1: in the head and neck. He was then dragged into

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Speaker 1: the hallway and slammed against a wall. Beagle was fired

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Speaker 1: and arrested more than two months later, after Hobbes' attorney

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Speaker 1: released the jail video to the public. Two other deputies

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Speaker 1: involved also faced state charges of battery and violating their

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Speaker 1: oaths of office. Hobbes, from Greensboro, North Carolina, initially faced

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Speaker 1: felony charges stemming from the incident, but prosecutors later dropped

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Speaker 1: them citing insufficient evidence. Camden County later paid Hobbes an

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Speaker 1: undisclosed cash settlement to avoid a civil lawsuit. So far,

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Speaker 1: Beagle is the only one to face federal prosecution. Thanks

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Speaker 1: John for the latest crime in justice news. Go to

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Speaker 1: find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolt homicides. With

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