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That information, plus the confession of Irwin, enabled the FBI to arrest two other suspects—sometime Salesman Barry Keenan, 23, and Beach Bum Joseph Amsler. And John Irwin was still talking. Twice before, he said, he had been involved in a plan to snatch Sinatra. "Once in Arizona," he said, "we just missed connections." On a second occasion, Irwin said, he had convinced his partners that the plan should be abandoned. Both Keenan and Amsler were charged by federal authorities with kidnaping, an offense punishable by a maximum life term in prison. But Irwin was charged only with "aiding and abetting" a kidnaping, a lesser offense punishable by a prison term to be set by the court.