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Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.

The detectives learned early on that Brinsley had arrived by bus in Manhattan.

The detectives are still at it, seeking to account for a period of time when Brinsley may well have paused to sit somewhere.

The detectives located and spoke to one person whom Brinsley had asked to help him upload something.

He wore his black evening trousers and a brown tweed jacket which one of the detectives had lent him.

Vice Squad detectives say the cult indulged in sex and drug parties.

The other two detectives were to wait in boats for the man who should be left in the yacht, and arrest him at the proper time.

At the same moment the detectives threw open the door and rushed out into the cellar.

He had heard shots from the cellar, fired by the detectives after the fleeing Craigie, and wondered what they meant.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detectives, such as: sleuth, reporter, agent, spy, police officer, and private eye.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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