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larged an ex-convict with capital
mrder in the shooting death of an
Environmental Protection Agency of-
icer outside a restaurant during an
Apparent robbery last month, police
laid.
| Anibal Garcia Rousseau, 47, also
being sought for the robbery of a
forth Harris County bank last month,
'as charged Oct. 29, two days after
'itnesses identified him as the gun-
lan who shot EPA agent David Del-
fta in the parking lot of a Houston
istaurant.
The capital murder charge against
Rousseau, who remains at large,
Stemmed from the Oct. 27 incident,
When he allegedly approached Delitta
id another EPA agent at gunpoint as
tey arrived to meet other agents for
[inner.
As the agents got out of their car,
Rousseau approached them, pointing
a chrome, short-barrel, .38-caliber
listol and ordered them to place their
pallets and money on the trunk of the
”ar, investigators said.
Delitta, who formerly worked as an
fgent with the U.S. Drug Enforce-
lent Administration and was li-
fensed to carry a weapon, went for
lis pistol and was shot by Rousseau,
police said.
Delitta, who died the next day, had
forked in the EPA’s enforcement di-
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Fleeing, unarmed prisoner
shot under questionable law
HOUSTON (AP) — A Tennessee law
similar to one allowing Harris County
sheriff’s detectives to shoot a fleeing,
unarmed prisoner Saturday was declared
unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme
Court in 1985.
Roland Brothers Jr., 28, apparently
used a handcuff key to free himself and
the detectives shot 12 times as he ran
away from the county jail. Three shots
hit Brothers, the fatal one entering his
back.
District Attorney John B. Holmes Jr.
said the Texas statute, even if declared
unconstitutional, would probably pre
vent a state criminal prosecution of the
two deputies.
“Texas has a right to say when it will
hold a person criminally responsible for
his actions and when it will not,”
Holmes said. “There might be a civil
suit.”
In 1985, the Supreme Court declared
unconstitutional a Tennessee statute sim
ilar to the Texas law. The case involved
a lawsuit by the relatives of a 15-year-old
burglary suspect shot in the head as he
fled from police.
The Tennessee law allowed police to
kill any fleeing person suspected of a fel
ony. However, the high court said police
can shoot an escaping suspect only if
they reasonably believe the suspect poses
a threat of serious physical harm to the
officer or some other person.
Two civil rights lawyers said Monday
Harris County may face a federal lawsuit
because the state law that Sheriff Johnny
Klevenhagen says justifies the shooting
is likely unconstitutional.
Klevenhagen said the detectives, who
have been relieved of duty with pay, fol
lowed department policy and state law
allowing peace officers to shoot escaping
prisoners.
There is no question that the law al
lowing officers to shoot fleeing inmates
is unconstitutional, attorney Gerald
Bimberg said.
“There ought to be a whopping law
suit waiting in the wings,” he said.
‘‘They’re dead in the water. ’ ’
Ken Sparks, another attorney, said the
officers can only say they shot Brothers
to stop him from escaping. “They knew
he was not armed, because they had
searched him,” Sparks said. “They
patted him down. ’ ’
Detectives Barry Rizk, 29, and Robert
Nichols, 34, shot at Brothers while he
was running from a parking area near the
entrance to the jail’s booking desk.
FBI officials said they will investigate
Brothers death.
Brothers was arrested by Jersey Vil
lage police Saturday on charges of unau
thorized use of a motor vehicle.
Police left puzzled
by thieves stealing
pumpjack engines
New traffic tickets facilitate
write up of two violations
MOUSTON (AP) — New traffic tick
ets that allow police officers to write two
violations on one form could easily spark
a turnaround in a yearlong decline in tra
ffic citations, police and court officials
say
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after a year of plummeting revenues as
fljjlice wrote fewer and fewer tickets, it
Blears the slowdown has bottomed out
the numbers may be creeping back
up, officials said.
■Before, police had to write up separate
violations on separate tickets, making
multiple tickets an annoyance. Police
have had the new ticket forms about two
to be present'd«: W ee k s . and Municipal Courts adminis-
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“I’ve heard a few officers comment
that it’s extremely convenient to write up
a second violation,” Hollingsworth said
Monday.
Drivers who speed or run red lights are
at a much higher risk now of getting a
second citation for not wearing a seat
belt or having an expired inspection
sticker.
September marked the nadir of a traf
fic ticket roller coaster ride that has
wreaked havoc on city budget projec
tions. From an average of about 60,000 a
month in most of 1986, tickets soared to
90,000 a month late that year. Then,
from 85,403 written in January 1987,
tickets plunged to 41,187 in January
1988, and then dropped still further to
.30,151 in September.
In October, police wrote 35,191 tick
ets — the largest monthly increase since
ODESSA (AP) — Organized thieves
roaming the oil patch have been stealing
a specific brand of pumpjack engine and
leaving behind few clues, puzzled au
thorities say.
Lawmen estimate that 40 Continental
C-66 and C-96 pumpjack engines have
been stolen in recent months in West
Texas and Oklahoma. The loss is esti
mated at $240,000, Odessa police Cpl.
Jim Atwater said.
The culprits prey on isolated pump-
jacks and apparently aren’t deterred by
the engines’ 1-ton weight or whether
they are bolted or welded in place.
Theft reports from Oklahoma, Abi
lene, Big Spring and cities in between
have been coming into the Petroleum In
dustry Security Council, executive direc
tor Boyd Burdett said.
“The scary thing is that it’s a
change,” Burdett said. “This is an in
crease in a particular area. That means
that some people have gotten pretty well-
organized. I’d say right now it’s one of
our worst problems. ’’
The engines move the pumpjacks up
and down in an action that draws oil out
of the well.
Bandits probably have targeted the
Continental engines because they use
natural gas for fuel, are easily repaired
and operated, and because replacement
parts are plentiful, said Billie Mac Milli-
can, 60, district production superinten
dent for Maxus Exploration Co.
Millican said a Continental engine was
stolen last July from a Maxus pumpjack
in south Midland County. The three-bar-
rel-a-day well was shut down for about a
week while Maxus bought another en
gine, Millican said.
“I could have had one on there the
next day, but I waited until everybody
had their questions answered,” he said.
The same engine had been stolen
about 10 years ago and police recovered
it, but Millican said he doesn’t expect the
same luck this time.
“We’ll never find it,” he said. “Peo
ple who do that kind of business already
know where to go with it. ”
Midland County Sheriff’s investigator
Butch Brazell said the cases are difficult
to solve because the pumpjacks are iso
lated and stolen engines are hard to iden
tify.
He said it would be impractical to
check serial numbers on used pumpjack
engines sitting in storage areas or being
sold as used equipment because “there’s
too many of them and there’s not enough
manpower.”
Atwater said thieves might be mis
taken for honest workers.
“When you’re out in the oil field and
you’re driving through, it’s nothing un
usual to see a crew working on a pump
jack,” he said.
Both investigators are mystified as to
where the engines end up.
Millican said he thinks thieves disaas-
semble the engines and parts, but Bur
dett said he thinks the engines are sold at
auction and at used-equipment stores.
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