White, Almando Pando and others at a store in Brooklyn.  As soon as the appellants left, Pando asked White if he wanted to earn some money by driving a tractor-trailer truck from 39th Street and 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn to Manhattan.  White agreed to do so.  He was driven to the location of the tractor-trailer.


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Also on the morning of February 19, approximately 440 tin ingots valued at $70,000, which had just arrived from Malaysia by ship at the Brooklyn waterfront, were loaded there onto a tractor-trailer which was driven away from the loading area about noon by one Albert Uphouse.  When Uphouse stopped at a red traffic light a few blocks from the loading area, the door on the passenger side of the tractorwas suddenly opened and appellant DeLorenzo jumped in.  At gun-point, DeLorenzo ordered Uphouse to drive the tractor-trailer to 39th Street and 3rd Avenue.  He did.  At that intersection, upon further order of DeLorenzo, Uphouse got out of the tractor and got into the rear of a waiting car.  Appellant McCarthy was behind the wheel of the car.  DeLorenzo got in and sat next to McCarthy.  The three drove around Brooklyn for about four hours.  Eventually Uphouse was released somewhere in Brooklyn.


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In the meanwhile, still on February 19, White arrived at the intersection of 39th Street and 3rd Avenue where the tractor-trailer had been left by Uphouse at DeLorenzo's order.  White drove the tractor-trailer by pre-arrangement to a parking lot in