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Burned dog
may not be
first victim
of teen-ager
HOUSTON (AP) — A teen
ager charged with animal cruelty
for allegedly setting fire to a
prize-winning dog earlier this
month may have committed simi
lar acts before the June 2 inci
dent, a prosecutor said.
“This case is appalling,” Harris
County Assistant District Attor
ney Kris Moore said Tuesday.
“There’s evidence that this may
have happened more than one
time, and that concerns me.”
The youth, 15, one of two teen
age cousins who admitted setting
fire to the animal after getting the
idea from a movie, was charged
with animal cruelty Tuesday,
Moore said.
If convicted, the youth, from
the Clear Lake area, could face
confinement in a Texas Youth
Commission facility until age 21.
The two teens allegedly doused
a 5-year-old English springer
spaniel with charcoal lighter fluid
and ignited it at a Pasadena apart
ment complex, she said.
The dying dog, which had won
more than a dozen awards for
obedience in statewide dog
shows, hobbled home and was de
stroyed shortly afterward.
Assistant District Attorney Eliz
abeth Godwin said the youth,
who was being held in a juvenile
detention facility, “has a history
involving thejuvenile court.”
Police have withheld the names
of the teen-agers.
Godwin said the other youth,
16, also may be charged. Both
came to the police department
with their parents about a week
after the incident to admit to the
crime, officials said.
The incident prompted the
dog’s owner-trainer, Jimmy
Fincher, 34, to move from Pasa
dena to Pearland, where he is
raising a springer spaniel puppy
donated by a Houston couple
three days after the incident.
“At least something’s being
done about it,” Fincher said of
the criminal charge. “I’m just
kind of glad to be out of Pasadena
right now.”
Thursday
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Medical board drop
discipline procedure
against Killeen doct
AUSTIN (AP) — The State
Board of Medical Examiners has
decided against disciplining a Kill
een physician who is accused of im
properly treating two pregnant
women.
In addition to the vote Tuesday
not to discipline Dr. Harold Wood,
the board declined to accept the gy
necologist’s offer to give up his
medical license.
The decisions mean that Wood
can continue practicing medicine in
Texas.
However, his medical license still
carries restrictions imposed last
year by the board.
The board found that Wood not
only failed to treat a patient with
cancer, but never told her she had
the disease, which eventually killed
her.
The medical board discussed
Wood’s case for more than three
hours.
The discussion focused on a rec
ommendation by the staff that the
gynecologist be disciplined for his
recent treatment of two female pa
tients.
The women contend that they
had problems with their pregnan
cies or labor while under Wood’s
The other woman suffered
gestive heart failure during
Austin obstetrician-met:
Noble W. Doss Jr. testified tin
women’s medical records
show that Wood treated fc
properly.
Melanie Alsop, 30, thepn
whose baby died, said afte-
hearing that “justice wasn’td®
“They protect their own,’
said.
Her attorney, Bill Oxford
board members “ruled theoA
they could in view of the
mony.”
Oxford, however, criticized
medical board for not k
Wood to testify about discrepat
that w ere found between them
cal records and Alsop’s statea
about the care she receivedi
Wood.
The board placed thegynet
ist on probation for lOyeanbi
ning in November, but thedets
allowed him to continue pne
medicine.
The probation had beenr;
mended by one board memtr
met with Wood in a secret
N
care.
In one case, the woman’s baby
died three days after birth
nary session.
A legislative committee (
the board for not holdingap
hearing.
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Brownsville probe crumble Ml
as city worker gets acquitti^f
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — The
Texas Rangers came into town last
year hot on the trail of city corrup
tion, but they are now on the de
fensive after watching charges from
their probe disintegrate one by one.
The latest in a series of staggering
blows to the eight-month investiga
tion was the acquittal Wednesday of
a city employee accused of forging
endorsements on two $100 checks
used to pay for a department
Christmas party in 1985.
Wednesday’s verdict in the trial of
Cayetano Ovalle, a Brownsville Ur
ban System parts clerk, came a day
after the felony theft trial of Mayor
Emilio Hernandez abruptly ended
when new evidence appeared strong
enough to convince the special pros
ecutor to drop the case.
“I can’t believe that the Texas
Rangers were involved in this fiasco,
because this has probably been the
most one-sided investigation that
anybody could have done,” Albert
Villegas, Ovalle’s defense attorney,
said after the jury returned the ver
dict.
Cameron County Attorney Benja
min Euresti declared the city probe
over Tuesday after a judge dis
missed the mayor’s case before the
jury had heard any testimony. He
and Capt. John Dean of the Rangers’
San Antonio office agreed Tuesday
there was no reason to continue the
investigation.
Euresti originally asked the Rang
ers to come to Brownsville to look
into charges of purchasing irregula
rities at City Hall.
A grand jury returned indict
ments accusing various officials and
city employees of crimes including
bribery, gift solicitation, witness tam
pering, official misconduct and forg-
grand jury foreman had at
record, and all the indictmeaif
dismissed.
A new grand jury declines I
diet Lieck and Hodge, and Si
Prosecutor Sharon MacRaetf
seek a new indictment a
leta because of insufficientevij
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It found only enough evidence: to play
diet the mayor, the two partd BThe cii
ery.
and City Commissioner Susaa 1 employee
tin. feches ft
Then in May, the invescc for senioi
Named in the indictments were
Mayor Emilio Hernandez, City Man
ager Kenneth Lieck, City Commis-
“This has probably been
the most one-sided inves
tigation that anybody
could have done. ”
— Albert Villegas,
Ovalle’s defense attorney
sioner Tony Zavaleta, Municipal
Judge Kip Van Johnson Hodge and
Brownsville Urban System
clerks Rudy Garza and Ovalle.
Then it was discovered that the
parts
took another blow when State tin Comi
trict Judge Gilberto Hinojosljue.
missed Austin’s case before it
a jury. » "1 am
Euresti then asked fordisniiifjjhein,” B<
the gift-solicitation charges a® “1 have
Garza and Ovalle. Both had bet! ar c prett;
cused of soliciting donations the lessor
city vendors to pay foradeparc| Botellc
Christmas party.
Remaining against Ovalle* ■
forgery charge for which he*-,
quitted Wednesday. Hiswastij
case in the probe to go as (
jury verdict.
Only two cases stemmingfcl
terminated eight-month pr°V
main to be tried, both against | a »non
Hernandez. He faces a June ^ r
on a charge of aggravated ?
and a July 20 trial on k JW'Jouriu
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charges.
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