The hope now was that Perez might shed light on that and other unsolved crimes, including the whereabouts of the bank-robbery money and the identities of Mack's accomplices.
The Irish government has stressed that all paramilitary and criminal activity - including robberies, money laundering and fuel smuggling - must stop before a power-sharing government can be restored in Northern Ireland.
In 2010, Brown and thirteen other members of the Black Guerrilla Family were indicted for conducting a racketeering conspiracy inside various Maryland prisons that entailed the use of violence, threats of violence, intimidation, extortion, armed robberies, money laundering, bribery, narcotics trafficking, retaliation against witnesses, and obstruction of justice.
Mr. Green, who is charged with burglary and robbery, took money from the woman's wallet and from her home, the spokesman said.
On a police videotape, Mr. Salley said he and Mr. Smith had planned a strong-arm robbery for money and the marijuana sold by one of the victims, Jennifer Stahl, out of her apartment above the deli.
The purpose of all this mayhem – so ugly close-up, so apparently entertaining when reconstituted and served up several decades later – was not to lay on some colourful East End diorama for the media, but to commit armed robbery, demand money with menaces and run industrial-scale fruit machine rackets.
Paul Shearholdt testified at a preliminary hearing Wednesday that each of the suspects said the group was roaming near USC looking for someone to "flock" — a term they used to describe robbery — for money.
His statement came after months of allegations linking the I.R.A. -- and Sinn Fein -- to crimes including a bank robbery, a money-laundering ring and a killing.
The decision by Judge Robert Stolz came after the prosecutor, Laurie T. Smith, said that one of the boys had told the police that "he doesn't do robberies for money but for entertainment".
To back up the claim, Barnes documented the Death Row Records cofounder's extensive brushes with the law in nearly 300 pages of written arguments and supporting evidence, including more than two dozen police reports and an affidavit that implicate Knight in robberies, extortion, money laundering, assaults, witness intimidation and battery.
