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The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department from Nov. 18
through Sunday:
BURGLARY:
• A student reported that
someone stole her cassette deck
from a room in the Biological Sci
ences Building.
• A student reported that
someone stole the stereo system
from his car.
• An officer caught two Tarl-
ton Station residents with a stolen
microwave oven and a stolen bicy
cle on Church Street in College
Station.
The microwave had been sto
len from a residence on Second
Street and the bicycle had been
stolen from Hart Hall.
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY:
• A Dallas man reported that
while he was attending a high
school football game at Kyle
Field, a male tried to steal a gold
chain from around his neck. The
man said the would-be robber ran
away after he fought him off.
MISDEMF’ANOR THEFT:
• A student reported that
someone stole his 250-cc motor
cycle while it was parked on Coke
Street.
• One moped, two backpacks,
two bicycles and a front bicycle
tire were stolen from various lo
cations around campus.
• A student reported that
someone stole the license plate
from his vehicle.
• A student reported that
someone stole two gold rings that
she left in a restroom in the Bi
ological Sciences Building East.
• A woman reported that
someone stole the contents of her
purse, including her wallet, at a
nurse’s station in A.P. Beutel
Health Center.
• Someone stole a digital bal
ance from the Veterinary Diag
nostic Laboratory.
• Someone stole the Wail
Journnl newsstand near
Sbisa Dining Hall.
• A student reported that
someone stole his duffel bag from
in front of the president’s house
on Throckmorton Street.
• A student reported that
someone stole his 2-foot, 10-inch
Burmese python from his room
in Hart Hall.
PUBLIC INTOXICATION:
• One Texas A&M student
and three non-students were ar
rested for public intoxication at
various locations around campus
last week.
MINOR IN POSSESSION:
• An under-age College Sta
tion resident was caught with
beer on campus.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• While responding to a re
port of someone driving on the
grass in the Research Park, an of
ficer found a student who said he
was unfamiliar with the area and
had gotten his vehicle stuck in the
ditch next to FM 2818 while try
ing to leave the park.
• An Aston Hall resident re
ported that someone broke his
dorm window.
• An officer caught two teen
agers damaging vehicles on cam
pus. The teenagers’ parents were
notified.
• Someone reported that the
tires were slashed on a car at Rud
der Fountain that was to be used
as an object of aggression and be
beaten to smithereens in the Cir
cle K International fraternity
“Car Bash”.
INDECENCY WITH A CHILD:
• A woman reported that her
son was confronted by two men in
the Married Student Housing
Playground. The woman said one
of the men bared his buttocks and
anal cavity to her son.
Lions Club takes
aid to Guatemala
despite day delay
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REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — A Li
ons Clubs convoy carrying 14,000
pairs of eyeglasses and other hu
manitarian aid to Guatemala left the
Texas-Mexico border Wednesday
after a delay that began when the
group said it refused to pay Mexican
officials $6,000 to pass through the
country.
The 38 club members continued
their southward journey Wednesday
afternoon, ending an unscheduled
24-hour stop. Their trip resumed af
ter they negotiated to pay $800 for a
Mexican customs inspector to ac
company their 12 vehicles to the
Guatemalan border.
Their convoy of six ambulances,
two fire trucks, a school bus, a car a
van and a pickup truck to be left in
the impoverished Central American
nation originated in Indianapolis,
Ind., on Saturday. The convoy in
cludes club members from Indiana,
California, Sweden and Texas.
They crossed the Rio Grande at
Hidalgo into Reynosa on Tuesday
morning, but spent the day in a cus
toms lot after they said officials told
them it would take three custodians
at $2,000 each to travel with their
caravan. The group turned back and
spent Tuesday night in a motel in
McAllen before returning Wednes
day to Reynosa.
This marks the fourth year the Li
ons have traveled with humanitarian
cargo for Guatemala, James Cam
eron, 56, of Urbana, Ind said.
“We’ve had a problem every year
here at this border,” Cameron said.
Last year, he said the Lions only
paid $30 per vehicle to cross Mexico.
“It’s real discouraging, because
we’re all volunteers, and we’re just
trying to help people down in Guate
mala, and we re trying to improve
international relations instead of
running them down,” Cameron said.
Customs officials with the Mexi
can government said Wednesday
that there had been a misunder
standing Tuesday between the Lions
group and customs employees at the
international bridge.
“Some of the customs agents must
have been misinformed if they
quoted that price ($6,000),” Jorge
Martinez Galvan, assistant Mexican
customs chief at Reynosa, said.
“This fee ($800) for the customs
inspector is to ensure that none of
the cargo stays in Mexico,” Martinez
said.
Jim Ross, 62, a Lions member
from Indianapolis, Ind., said getting
through Mexican customs has been
the greatest obstacle in the three
previous years the group has taken
glasses to Guatemala.
“Once we get through this part of
it and get into Guatemala, people
are so grateful for what we’re bring
ing down,” Ross said, adding that
people in the interior of Mexico alsp
have been helpful in past years.
In addition to the used glasses, the
group also is hauling 15,000 articles
of clothing, 76 pairs of crutches, 26
walkers, six wheelchairs, 11 portable
toilets, 19 pairs of wrist-support
crutches and 200 hand-made stuffed
animals for orphans.
The used glasses gathered from
donations around the United States
are marked for the prescriptions
they match. Most Guatemalans can
not afford the $ 100 a pair would cost
in the Central American nation,
Cameron said.
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1 DALLAS (AP) — The key witness
Ijainst Randall Dale Adams in his
U77 capital murder trial testified
IVednesday that Adams is innocent
in the killing of a Dallas police offi-
Death row inmate David Ray Har-
|s, called as a witness in Adams’
aring to seek a new trial, said he
as alone in a car stopped by Officer
obert Wood, who was killed in the
icident Nov. 28, 1976.
Harris acknowledged his finger
as on the trigger when Wood was
tot, but stopped short of saying he
iled the officer.
But based on Harris’ testimony,
tate District Court Judge Larry
araka said he would determine that
arris had admitted to the killing.
Baraka did not rule on Adams’ re
quest.
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Wood and sentenced to death, but
the sentence later was commuted to
life in prison. He has maintained his
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first implicated Adams. Harris said
prosecutor Doug Mulder had prom
ised “to take care of’ other criminal
charges pending against him in re
turn for his testimony.
“Did Randall Adams kill Robert
Wood?” attorney Randy Schaffer
asked Harris, who was wearing an
orange jail uniform, handcuffs and
shackles.
“No, he did not,” Harris replied.
“Randall Adams knew nothing
about this offense and was not in the
car at the time (Wood was shot).”
Harris had initially said he and
Adams were both in the car when it
was stopped by Wood and Officer
Teresa Turko. Harris said he
crouched down in the car as Adams
shot Wood.
But Wednesday Harris changed
his story and said he was alone.
In court testimony and in a taped
television interview presented as evi
dence at the hearing, Harris stopped
short of saying he killed Wood.
“You can draw your own conclu
sions,” Harris said in an interview
for Fox Television. “I’m not going to
sit here and tell you that I did it . . .
Why should I?”
The interviewer asked Harris if
his finger was on the trigger. “Yes, it
was,” Harris said.
Under questioning from prosecu
tors, Harris said again that he is not
admitting he killed Wood.
But Baraka said, “As far as the
court is concerned, he is telling me
that he did.”
Eight men indicted for mail fraud
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Eight
men have been indicted on mail
fraud and money laundering
charges after consumers complained
they were promised fishing boats,
but got rubber rafts instead.
The 34-count indictment re
turned Tuesday was the result of an
investigation by U.S. Postal Service
inspectors and includes 30 counts of
mail fraud and four counts of
money laundering.
The indictment alleges that peo
ple were contacted by mail and led to
believe that they were chosen to re
ceive a valuable prize, such as a fish
ing boat or a wide-screen television.
When consumers called the com
pany to claim the items, they re
ceived a sales pitch for specialty
items and were told they had to
make a purchase to claim the items,
the indictment alleges.
When the consumers discovered
the items were not what they were
led to believe. The fishing boat was
an inflatable raft and the wide
screen television was a magnifying
lens.
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