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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1981
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issued was “just one of those things that slipped by us.’
Only one person noticed the misspelling or at least
pointed it out to him. Parsons said.
Former narcotics agent
admits lying in testimony
StufT photo by Greg Gammon
United Press International
DALLAS — A former under
cover agent whose testimony
helped convict a Tyler man for
assaulting her partner now admits
she did not know who the assailant
was, the Dallas Morning News re
ported Thursday.
The Morning News reported
former narcotics agent Kimberly
Ramsey Matthews told federal au
thorities she did not know who
shot her partner, Benjamin Creig
Matthews.
The two agents married after
their 1978-79 narcotics investiga
tion ended.
Mrs. Matthews earlier had tes
tified Kenneth Bora had shot her
partner. Bora, sentenced to 20
years in prison for the shooting,
was released from jail in August
after federal authorities were told
he had been framed by Matthews
in another case.
The Morning News reported
that as part of a plea bargain
arrangement, the Matthewses will
not be prosecuted for other cri
minal offenses based on their
undercover work. The judge in
the case, however, is not bound by
the agreement, the paper said.
The source also told the Morn
ing News Matthews firebombed
Kim Ramsey’s car so they could
collect the insurance and that Tyl
er police officials had planned to
discredit one of the paper’s repor
ters by planting cocaine in his car.
then informing Dallas police.
The reporter, Howard Swindh
had written several articles critic;
of the way Matthews and M:
Ramsey carried out their undei
cover probe, which led to 121 ir
dictments. The plan was neve
carried out.
Army investigates veteran’s arrest
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LAREDO — Fort Sam Hous
ton authorities are investigating
the case of a decorated Vietnam
veteran who was arrested by milit
ary police and held on erroneous
desertion charges.
Maj. Thomas Estes arrived in
Laredo Wednesday to begin in
vestigation of the Sept. 26 arrest of
Roque Vela, who was spirited to
Fort Sill, Okla., and spent four
days in jails before being cleared
of desertion charges in what the
Army later described as “a compu
ter error. ”
Maj. Estes told the Laredo
News he had been sent by Col.
Alvin Hill, commanding officer at
Fort Sam Houston, to “look into
the facts and circumstances about
the military police who came
down and apprehended Mr.
Vela.”
Estes declined to discuss de
tails of the investigation.
Vela said he had been called by
Fort Sam Houston officials Tues
day and was asked if he would
grant Estes an interview.
"He told me that he wanted to
speak with other witnesses as
well,” Vela said Wednesday.
“Evidently they (the Army) are
trying to get both sides of the
story.”
Vela said Estes was investigat
ing “the part the Fort Sam Hous
ton MPs played in the incident;
what they did or did not do cor
rectly. ”
Vela, decorated for service in
one of Vietnam ’s most vicious bat
tle zones and honorably dis
charged in 1968, was arrested by
military authorities while attend
ing a birthday party.
Officers, brandishing a warrant
for his arrest, took Vela into cus
tody despite his protests and
assurances he could provide proof
of his honorable discharge.
Vela was detained for four days,
including a night’s stay in the
Webb County jail before he was
transferred to the Bexar County
jail in San Antonio and then to
Fort Sill.
It was later discovered Vela’s
personal file in the Pentagon had
not been kept up to date and his
field file was burned in a 1973 fire
at a records center in St. Louis.
Vela said he was told Friday by a
member of GOP Sen. John Tow
er’s staff that the Army was im
plementing changes in its file
system.
“As for me, I don’t think things
will ever be the same again,” Vela
said. “Of course, I’m back to my
business and family routine, but
this kind of thing puts me in the
spotlight.”
Vela, awarded the Army Com
mendation Medal for valor in Viet
nam and the Purple Heart, said he
had received calls and letters of
support from across the country.
“Those are the good things,” he
said. “On the other hand, this did
do harm to my.credibility as it was
put in question and I also lost
quite a bit of money during that
time.”
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