So they looked at data on brake-line vacuum that had been collected in an unrelated investigation.
(All of this came out, in the end, during an unrelated investigation into hashish use.)
A unrelated investigation of the New York exchanges was disclosed earlier this month.
Mr. Tilsen said he believed the authorities had been in contact with the man for seven or eight months because of an unrelated investigation.
He had not seen his own legal papers since they were taken away in an unrelated investigation.
It was uncertain if the inquiry involved the partnership of the two men at Carolco, which lasted 13 years, or were unrelated investigations.
It finally gave up after the land became entangled in unrelated investigations of possible corruption in its acquisition by the current owners.
The Inquirer said the investigation was an offshoot of an unrelated criminal investigation of Philadelphia city officials and business people.
A crucial clue came from a seemingly unrelated investigation going on at the same time.
These items had been seized as evidence in unrelated investigations and arrests.