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A priest, a ticket-office manager and three other people have been arrested in the robbery of $73,000 in cash and $1 million in tickets to the hit Broadway musical “Les Miserables,” New York police said Wednesday. The five were charged with criminal possession of stolen property in last February’s robbery of the Manhattan Theater Office. Police arrested one of the managers, Michael Caracciolo, 39, the following month. Caracciolo, who had $34,000 in cash and 2,132 tickets for the perennially sold-out show--worth $100,000--was indicted. The latest came Wednesday, when Lawrence Zorza, a 46-year-old New Jersey priest, walked into the ticket office and allegedly offered to sell $40,000 in tickets. Later in the day, Vinnie DeCarlo, 52, of Philadelphia; George Trad, 74, of New York and Guiseppe Fico, 45, of Randolph, N.J., also attempted to sell the tickets.

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