> Business had been rippingly good, so the proprietor of P.F.F. Inc., a front for a fencing operation in Washington, D.C., decided to throw a party for customers to celebrate five months of successful traffic in stolen goods. But to the dismay of the purse snatchers, car thieves and assorted other heist artists who showed up for the blast, P.F.F. Inc. turned out to stand for Police-FBI Fencing Incognito, the largest and most successful undercover undertaking in the city's history. Last week when the party was over, 126 people had been arrested, among them...
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