Show I IGAN GANG STEALS Ii 93 MOTORS Leader of Ring Bares Activity of Band andIs and Is Sentenced BOISE Idaho Jul July J 1 1 J A Emple Empie pleaded guilty to transportation transportation transportation tation and conspiracy to transport i stolen motor vehicles vehicle in the tho federal fed fed- federal fed federal eral court Monday and was sen sen I to serve two years ears in a aI federal ral prison I Empie Empio organized and directed the movements of o an auto theft ring that operated without detec detec- detection detection detection I tion for tor three years A total of ot floats float's which Emple's Empie's Emple I IA gang suns stole stol traced by the federal fed fed- fedI ted cral I eral elal agency before he h was allowed Ito to enter his hla guilty plea and never neverIn neverin neverIn I In the history of ot this jurisdiction I have have such startling revelations he been n made mado In such a 1 case Empie gave rave the tir officers every er assistance assistance in checking up the stol stol- stolen stolen stol stolen en cars many of which are now In the poss possession of ot innocent pur- pur purchasers pur purchasers chasers who do not hold old valid title For lor the agents agent's benefit j Emple Empie barEd the machinery of or his ring Few of the cars he stole himself he said said but paid his agents either a commission or a flat rate rat when they delivered them to him Cars stolen In one city were nev nev- never never er sold In the same place were altered sufficiently to def defy identification and the engine num num- numbers numbers numbers bers were changed chanced Then Empie or a 0 member of his gang cane drove them toMme to some distant city Boise city Spokane Baker La Grande Po- Po Pocatello Pocatello Po-catello Po catello or other places place in the north nort northwest west area and area and turned tunEd them Into money 1 Most fost of o the ca cars r stolen were ere Fords Dodges and Chevrolets 01 aU al I though a few large laree ones were handled handled I 00 |