1,024 STOLEN BRIDAL GOWNS RECOVERED.Byline: BRAD BRAD British Rate And Data BRAD Bidirectional Reference Array Derived BRAD Bowdoin Random Access Device :-) BRad Bachelor of Radiology A. GREENBERG Staff Writer It was an early Christmas miracle that turned the November theft of $3 million in wedding dresses headed to West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. into a nationwide outpouring that helped grant the wishes of dying women. But last week, Making Memories Breast Cancer Foundation got a late Christmas gift when Border Patrol agents found the missing trailer -- with half of the 2,000 stolen gowns still inside. "I am beside myself and overwhelmed o·ver·whelm tr.v. o·ver·whelmed, o·ver·whelm·ing, o·ver·whelms 1. To surge over and submerge; engulf: waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline. 2. a. with the recovery," said Fran Hansen, co-founder and national director of the Oregon-based charity. "Everybody else sees gowns. I see wishes. These dresses are wishes." The 40-foot trailer was discovered Thursday by Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales Nogales (nōgä`lās), city (1990 pop. 19,489), Santa Cruz co., S Ariz. on the Mexican border with its adjacent city, Nogales (1990 pop. 105,873), Sonora, NW Mexico. There are copper, silver, and lead mines. , Ariz. The driver had been refused entry into Mexico by customs officials there, and when he turned around to go through U.S. Customs, officials became suspicious when they noticed masking mask·ing n. 1. The concealment or the screening of one sensory process or sensation by another. 2. An opaque covering used to camouflage the metal parts of a prosthesis. tape covering the Making Memories logo on the side of the trailer. Inside, they found 1,024 gowns. The unidentified driver was arrested and the case turned over to Immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. and Customs Enforcement, which declined to discuss details. When the trailer was stolen in November from a Scottsdale, Ariz., parking lot, Hansen had been en route to a bridal sale in West Hollywood. The event was going to finance 20 Christmas wishes for women dying of breast cancer, but five days before the bridal sale, Making Memories had nothing to sell. Individuals and designers responded to the story by donating more than 4,000 dresses, and Wal-Mart donated a new trailer. "We are almost in a better position than we were before," local chairwoman Suzanne Appel said at the time. She and Hansen repeated that sentiment Tuesday. "Our next event is April 27 and 28 in Chicago," Hansen said. "We are going to hold the biggest gown gown n. A robe or smock worn in operating rooms and other parts of hospitals as a guard against contamination. gown, n sale you have ever seen." brad.greenberg(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3634 |
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