
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 28, 1993                   TAG: 9303280129
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: E-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO                                LENGTH: Short

ROBBERY SUSPECT MAY BE IN CALIF.

A Virginia man who has been running from authorities since 1972 when he allegedly participated in a bank robbery and hijacking may be living in the San Francisco Bay area, authorities said.

The FBI said William W. Graham, 38, is the last known fugitive in the case in which Graham and four others allegedly robbed a bank in Arlington, Va., in 1972 and then hijacked an airplane to Cuba. Three people died during those crimes.

Two weeks ago the FBI and Virginia authorities said they believed Graham was back in the United States and living on the West Coast under an assumed name.

The search has narrowed to San Francisco.

"We think he's here. But we don't know where. We don't know where he lives or where he works," FBI spokesman Rick Smith said Friday.

Graham, along with Charles Tuller and Tuller's three teen-age sons, are suspected of robbing the Arlington Trust Company bank on Oct. 25, 1972.

The bank manager and a police officer were fatally shot in that incident.

Four days later, the men hijacked an Eastern Airlines plane and headed to Cuba. A ticket agent was killed during that incident.

Tuller, the alleged mastermind of the crimes, and his sons later returned to the United States and were arrested during a bank robbery.

They were eventually sentenced to life in prison.

The FBI had all but dropped its search for Graham because Cuba refused to extradite him to the United States, Smith said.

by CNB