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Next to be nabbed were two more members of the Weather Underground Organization: Jeffrey Carl Jones, 34, and Eleanor Stein Raskin, 35. Their Bronx address had been found on a piece of paper in one of the safe houses. Jones, like Boudin, was one of the five original members of the Weather Bureau, W.U.O.'s governing council. He and Raskin, who have a four-year-old son, were arraigned in New York last week on a 1979 charge for possession of explosives. Raskin was later released on $ 100,000 bail posted by her brother. The couple have not been linked with the Brink's job.
But Eve Rosahn has. Rosahn, 30, owned a tan Honda and had rented a red Chevrolet van used by the Nyack thieves. Investigators found a rental agreement for another car, signed by Rosahn, in a search of Boudin's apartment. Last week Rosahn was indicted as an accessory in the robbery and three killings in Nyack. District Attorney Gribetz asked that no bail be set for the activist. "She's an individual who would flee the jurisdiction," he said. In fact, Rosahn had been temporarily freed only days earlier on $10,000 bail posted by her radical-minded mother, in connection with an antiapartheid rioting charge. Rosahn's alleged complicity provided a clearer link with a third leftist group, the May 19 Coalition, a Weather Underground offshoot that is believed to include Boudin and Clark.
The richest stash of evidence was found at an apartment building in Mount Vernon, N.Y., where police had spotted one of the getaway cars used in the Brink's job, a tan Ford. Inside the building, investigators found bloodstained clothing, incriminating fingerprints and a very observant superintendent named Dennis Vasquez. Vasquez told police and federal agents that just hours before their arrival, he had seen five people load the contents of an apartment into a tan van and other vehicles. From photographs, he and his wife identified the five: Cynthia Priscilla Boston, 33, and her common-law husband, William Johnson, 33; Samuel Smith; Donald Weems, 35, an escaped convict, former Black Panther and suspected Black Liberation Army member; and Marilyn Jean Buck, 34, chief gunrunner and the only white member of the B.L.A. Buck had already been linked to the case, since two safe houses and one set of getaway-car license plates had been traced to her two known aliases. Boston's involvement implicated yet a fourth revolutionary organization: the black separatist Republic of New Africa.
The trail of the tan van carried federal agents to New Orleans, where Boston and Johnson live, and then on to rural Gallman, Miss., 30 miles south of Jackson. At a local farmhouse they found and arrested Boston. Wisely, she did not resist. Surrounding the house was a small army of 50 G-men, four SWAT teams, two tanks and, overhead, two helicopters. Another 50 agents and two more tanks were stationed near by. Boston, who prefers the name Fulani Sunni-Ali to what she calls her "slave name," is the minister of information for the R.N.A. The farmhouse was apparently used by the group to give paramilitary training to teenagers.