Boston Police Ruse Puts 54 in Custody, Not Movie
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BOSTON — Police used a phony movie to make some real arrests.
They sent letters to 3,800 people wanted on charges ranging from shoplifting to drug dealing, and invited them to be extras for a movie.
The suspects were told they could make more than $200 a day if they showed up Sunday at Boston’s South Station bus terminal for the filming of “The Rocky Marciano Story,” officials said. Fifty-four showed up.
They were met by officers posing as employees of the fictitious Crown Productions and escorted onto buses--which took them to police headquarters.
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