Brink’s Killings Suspect Seized by FBI in N.Y.

Marilyn Jean Buck, charged with murder and armed robbery in the $1.6-million holdup of a Brink’s armored truck in 1981, was arrested Saturday with a companion as they left a suburban diner, the FBI said.

Buck, 38, was arrested without incident along with Linda Sue Evans, 38, who is charged with harboring a federal fugitive, said Lee Laster, FBI assistant director for New York. Both women had handguns in their purses, he said.

“It is a substantial development . . . since we have been seeking (Buck) for nearly nine years,” said Kenneth Walton, a deputy assistant FBI director.

Used False Identities

The FBI said Buck had been evading capture through use of a sophisticated underground network that included the use of false identities and “safehouses.”

The FBI began a “massive surveillance” after an informant told agents that Buck would be in the New York area over the weekend.

The women are scheduled to be arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

In the Oct. 20, 1981, robbery, a Brink’s truck was stopped near Nanuet, and one Brink’s guard was killed and two others were wounded. When the robbers were later stopped by Nyack policemen, a shoot-out ensued in which two local policemen were killed and another wounded.

Escaped From Prison

Laster said Buck, who shot herself accidentally during the holdup, had been sought since 1977, when she escaped from a West Virginia prison where she was serving time on weapons charges.

He identified Buck as the only white member of the extremist Black Liberation Army and charged that she served as a communication link between the group and other radical organizations, including the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers and the Republic of New Afrika.

Five persons have been convicted of the robbery and murders of Brink’s guard Peter Paige and officers Waverly Brown and Sgt. Edward O’Grady.