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CSUR TS HES: BEEBE je Zs, mt AL it Fee RES OTL AR HO 4 FBi Agents Jack R. Colfer, Ridge, South Dakota. the line of duty. “samples of meta] offered for sale contained no ;Platinum. As a result, savings of $60 million Were recorded and a metallurgist was found guilty. | Commercislized interstate vehicle theft rings operated. by professional thieves continued to “pose a problem for the FBI in Fiscal 1975. Dur- _ ing that period more than 200 such ring cases - were under active investivation as violations of the bucrsiate Transportation of Stolen Motor meme Vehicle (ITSMY) Statute. ; ; In Fiscal 1975, 1,103 persons were convicted under the Theft from laterstate Shiparent Statute. Some §19 million in fines, Savings dnd recoveries Some 28 convictions were recorded by the daring Fiscal 1975 for violations of the luter- t¢ Transportation of Obscesne Matter (ITOM} tuic, Sentences totaled more than 63 years fines exceeded $93,000. Thirty-five fugitives ‘Were located. ~ ., Was tecorded by the FBI in these investigations. feft, and Ronald A. Wiltioms, right, shot to death on June 26, 1975, near Pine Special Agents Coler and Williams were the 25th ond 26th FBL Agents killed in Crime on Government and Indian Reservations FBI investigations of crimes on Governz,ent and Indian reservations resulted in 1,874 con- victions and the location of 874 fugitives during Fiscal 1975. The FBI solved a number of heinous crimes including murders which took place on Govern- ment reservations. One such case investigated by the FBI's Alexandria Oftice concerned a hom- icide of a Department of Avriculture female em- ployee whose body wus found in February, 1974, on 2 ailitary base in Virginia, Extensive, ins. vestigation by the FBI disclosed the identiéy of the two individuals involved. These men #ere arrested for this crime, pleaded guilty, and Were sentenced to the Federal penitentiary. Text continued on page 10