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United Press International
IUNTSVILLE — Texas
throw inmate James Michael
Iddle wears the tatoos of the
i'an Brotherhood, a white
ftremacist group whose sec-
b are locked in its members
I, Behind prison walls.
Juio and ■ Bri d d , e) 27, of Glendale,
ose, appa*if iW on’t say what hisconnec-
>1 world eiM is with the group, whose
vhathetkiottois “Kill to get in and die to
)anon,builBout.” But Atlanta FBI agent
■ Procopio said the organiza-
- e a ion started in San Quentin Pi is-
■nCalifornia in the 1960s and
I has about 300 members
■ionwide.
■‘The Brotherhood is the best
of prison groups and
|ir members are stone-cold
They are the best argu-
nt 1 know for the death pen-
said Procopio, who helped
he conviction of Barry “The
on” Mills, a reputed commis-
erof the Brotherhood.
Briddle, who is called “Cos
by other inmates, wears a
isdka and the Nazi SS light-
igbolt tattoo on his left arm.
maintains silence on the sub-
of the Brotherhood,
jlisten to me,” Briddle told a
uston Chronicle reporter. “I
n’t fear the death penalty
ligingover me. But I do fear a
[ce of steel in my belly. Let’s
talk about the Brother-
bd.”
Hers.
The Aryan Brotherhood was
born during the prison strife in
the late 1960s. Its hard core
were the members of an old Nazi
prison group. They banded
together to protect themselves
against black and Hispanic mili
tants, said Bill Hankins, an agent
of the state security unit in the
California prison system.
The Brotherhood operates
through intimidation and fear
tactics. Hankins said.
Now the Texas prison system
has Briddle, whose behavior
pattern fits the Brotherhood
prototype.
He was convicted earlier this
year for the rope strangulation
of Bob Banks in his home. An
accomplice, Pamela Lynn Peril-
lo, 26, was convicted for the
strangulation of Bob Skeens, 26,
of Houma, La., killed along with
Banks. Both Briddle and Perillo
were sentenced to die.
Procopio said the trial of
Mills, 33, for the killing of in
mate John Sherman Marzloff in
a federal prison two years ago,
was the first glimpse the public
got of the Brotherhood.
Mills bore on his stomach the
German words “Weiss Macht,”
which means “white power.”
But the code of silence is strin
gently maintained by its mem
bers who fear they will be killed
for revealing the secrets of the
organization.
United Press International
DALLAS — Cotton may be
king in Texas, but there is grow
ing concern among law enforce
ment officers that marijuana has
the potential to become one of
the state’s major cash crops.
“We don’t know how big the
problem is here in Texas. That’s
part of the problem,” said
George Ellington, a Department
of Public Safety officer based in
Kerrville.
“It’s ever-increasing. I under
stand it’s probably the fifth crop
in the nation right now agricul
ture-wise. It’s the No. I crop in
California I believe,” said Tom
my Ryno, Ellington’s partner,
“and I believe No. 4 in Okla
homa.”
The problem is not with mom
and pop operators — marijuana
smokers who cultivate a few
plants in the back yard for their
own use. The problem is com
mercial marijuana farms.
Bastrop County Sheriffs De
puty Paul Alexander joked that
commercial marijuana produc
tion has become so prevalent in
Bastrop County that the Cham
ber of Commerce should offer
membership to growers.
Alexander said that in a five-
month period last fall, author
ities discovered six pot farms
and seized 12,000 to 14,000
pounds of marijuana.
“We had plants we had to cut
down with chainsaws,” he said.
“We had plants that were 21 feet
tall. I’m serious. Full-grown men
couldn’t pull them. They grew
like trees.”
The DPS does not keep sepa
rate figures for the smuggled
and home-grown marijuana it
confiscates, so there is no way to
be sure how big Texas mari
juana production is, but Roger
Coston of the Drug Enforce
ment Administration insists that
imported marijuana is a much
bigger problem than home
grown.
“When you compare it to the
multi-tons that are imported
across the border,” Coston said,
“it pales in importance.”
Ryno agreed, but he said
American-grown marijuana is
gaining an edge on the foreign
competition.
“In Mexico (and) Columbia
marijuana trading is dropping
off and they’re blaming it on
home-grown.”
Ryno said Americans began
to cultivate their own marijuana
out of fear.
“Several years ago when they
started the paraquat spraying in
Mexico, the spraying kind of put
a scare into people,” he ex
plained. He said that led pro
ducers to experiment with cross
breeding, and one of the results
was sinsemilla, a strain of mari
juana from 7 to 10 times more
potent than what Ryno called
regular marijuana.
“A full-grown plant could
yield up around 2 or 3 pounds,”
Ryno said of the high-grade
marijuana. “On the street this is
selling for approximately
$2,000 a pound, so you’re talk
ing about a plant that can make
$6,000.”
But pot growing is a sophisti
cated business, one that involves
a good deal of up-front money.
Ryno believes organized crime is
involved.
“Somewhere there has to be
some front money,” Alexander
said. “Most people don’t have
the money in their pockets to
start something like this. It takes
a lot of money to get started, a lot
of fertilizer and a lot of irriga
tion. You know they have their
overhead.”
But it does not take much
land. Alexander said the biggest
patch Bastop County authorities
discovered last fall wasjust 3 or 4
acres, and he described it:
“They had a drying shed with
exhaust fans. It looked like a
tobacco plantation.”
Alexander said growers are
drawn to Bastrop County for a
number of reasons:
“Good soil, good sandy loam,
lots of good old sunshine, no
pollution, lots of irrigation, and
it’s isolated.”
But Ryno insisted growers
could raise a bumper crop
almost anywhere if they use
greenhouses.
Aside from the money, Ryno
said, growing marijuana is
attractive because it is less risky
than trying to smuggle drugs
into the country.
“When an old boy grows his
own, he’s got control of it from
the day it comes up to the day it’s
harvested. The risks of being de
tected aren’t nearly so great (as
in smuggling),” he said.
Alexander agreed.
“It’s a pretty good way to re
tire and buy a place in Puerto
Vallarta (Mexico),” Alexander
said.
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United Press International
OUSTON — A woman, 37,
with a friend for a re-
rman to fix their truck, was
ed by an unidentified man
owalked up to the truck win-
wand shot her to death Mon-
jy night. ' .,
The woman from Liberty
d immediately, police said,
r boyfriend was not injured,
hough he was sitting next to
r in the vehicle. No names
Ive been released.
Police said the woman, her
yfriend and his brother were
living in southeast Houston
but 9:15 p.m. Monday when
truck broke down. The
went to call for help and
|e couple waited inside the cab
truck.
Three unidentified Hispanic
males approached the vehicle,
and one, armed with a .38 cali
ber revolver, put the gun to the
truck window and fired, police
said.
The three men fled on foot.
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO —A trial for
New Orleans restaurateur
Joseph Marcello, accused of
lying to a grand jury about his
knowledge of the assassination
of a federal judge, was post
poned Tuesday for the conveni
ence of both sides.
Marcello was to make last-
ditch arguments to have his trial
moved to New Orleans and was
to go to trial later Tuesday if the
judge refused. The hearing and
trial will be rescheduled in a
week or two, a clerk to federal
Judge H.F. “Hippo” Garcia said.
Marcello argued at a hearing
last month that publicity about
the 1979 shooting death of fed
eral Judge John H. Wood has
been so extensive in San Anto
nio that he could not receive a
fair trial.
But prosecutors said Marcel
lo, the brother of organized
crime leader Carlos Marcello of
New Orleans, would face even
more prejudice in his home
town.
Marcello is not accused in
Wood’s death, but prosecutors
say they have a tape of Marcello
referring to the people involved
in the slaying. Before the grand
jury in June 1980, Marcello re
fused to identify his voice on the
tape, they said.
The FBI tapes were made
when Carlos Marcello’s office in
Metairie, La., was bugged dur
ing the federal Brilab investiga
tion.
If convicted, Marcello could
be sentenced to 10 years in pris
on and fined $20,000.
Garcia’s decision could be a
clue to future change of vepue
rulings in the Wood case. Five
defendants accused in Wood’s
hired slaying have asked
another judge to move their
trials out of San Antonio be
cause of pretrial publicity.
They have pointed out that
even the federal courthouse in
San Antonio is named for
Wood, and the federal judges
were his friends.
Wood was gunned down out
side his San Antonio townhouse
the morning of May 29, 1979 —
the first federal judge killed in
this century. El Paso gambler
Jimmy Chagra, who faced a
drug trial in Wood’s court, and
four others have been indicted
in the death.
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