ingots, arrived in the vicinity of the smelter, it pulled to the side of the road where Komplita was waiting.  McCarthy, DeLorenzo and Pando talked with Komplita.  Following this conversation, McCarthy directed White to back the truck up to the smelter where White and Pando, with the help of two employees of the smelter, began unloading the ingots.


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At 11:35 A.M. on February 24, agents of the F.B.I., who had had the three appellants as well as White and Pando under surveillance that day, moved in and arrested them.  White and Pando were arrested at the smelter.  The three appellants were arrested about 20 feet from a diner near the smelter.  After the arrests, one of the F.B.I. agents went to the smelter wherethe hijacking.  From the government's standpoint, it came about this way.  The driver of the hijacked truck, Uphouse, had been unable, prior to trial, to identify from photographs the man who suddenly opened the door on the passenger side of the tractor, jumped in and gave him orders at gun-point.  At the trial, however, when Uphouse saw DeLorenzo for the first time since the hijacking, he immediately made an in-court identification of DeLorenzo as the hijacker.2  From the standpoint of DeLorenzo, his skillful trial counsel during summation appears to have accommodated himself to the surprise sufficiently to have made the following argument to the jury, thus effectively confirming the relevance of the hijacking evidence to the possession charge:


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"I say to you very frankly, that