Wednesday, April 5,1989 The Battalion Bexar County Jail faces shake-up after break-out Escaped prisoner charged in California murder SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Cali fornia murder suspect who walked out of the Bexar County Jail during a jail-break alert was on his way to California Tuesday to face charges in the slaying of a 9-year-old school girl, authorities said. Meanwhile, two jailers have been fired and two others suspended af ter Richard Luico DeHoyos, 31, of Los Angeles, used a wad of paper to keep his cell door from locking and later escaped from the jail, adminis trator Tom Barry said. DeHoyos, who escaped Sunday and was recaptured a short time later, was being transported to Cali fornia, jail spokesman Brian Menges said. DeHoyos waived his right to ex tradition during a hearing Monday, Mengessaid. DeHoyos is wanted in the slaying of Nadia Puente, who was last seen walking home from school in Santa Striptease leaves small-town PD in big disarray CLEAR LAKE SHORES (AP) — A striptease performance at the police station that led to the resignation of four officers has dty officials pointing fingers at each other and some suggesting a cover-up. Four officers — one paid, full time officer and three unpaid, part-time officers — resigned last month after city officials learned they had taken nude photo graphs, with a city-owned cam era, of a stripper who performed on a desk top at the station. Councilman Sandy Drake said Monday. "They apparendy stopped her for questioning, found out she was a stripper, and she volun tarily decided to put on a show for them,” Drake said. The stripper, who has not been identified, apparendy was not charged with any crime. Drake said he believes Mayor George Kesseler and acting Police Chief John Fry covered up the November inciaent. “We were all so concerned that the police chief would allow something like this to happen and then surprised that the mayor knew about it two months before the council knew about it,” said Drake, Kesseler’s only challenger in next month’s election. Drake said he is angry the offi cers were not fired. “I think John was trying to cover up for his officers,” Drake said. “This shows a tremendous lack of judgment on his part.” Drake and Councilman Don Carmichael also blamed Kesseler for not telling the council about the incident sooner. “I believe it was kept from us on purpose by the mayor,” Car michael said. “George realized it was getting back to the council, and it had to be brought out to save his hide.” The mayor called the coun- cilmen’s remarks “outright lies,” but he said he had no other com ment. Fry, who was out of town at the time of the incident and has been placed on disciplinary probation for his handling of it, said he first heard about the incident in Feb ruary and then discussed it with Kesseler. Fry, who refused to identify the officers, said he never saw the photos and was told they were de stroyed. , It’s a sad and very embarrass- ln g situation,” Fry said. “As soon as I became aware of the situa tion, I took action on it.” Ana, Calif., on March 20. Her body was found in a garbage can in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park on March 21. DeHoyos, who told reporters af ter his jail escape that he killed the girl, said he had been in San Antonio for about two weeks. “I drowned her in a bathtub,” De Hoyos said Sunday. “I didn’t know her. I just picked her up. “I was on drugs — cocaine. I was angry. I’d lost my job. I was out of my mind,” he saia. Santa Ana Police Chief Paul Wal ters said DeHoyos was linked to the slaying. “He has been positively linked to the murder through physical evi dence at the scene,” Walters said Monday. Although Nadia’s death was caused by asphyxiation, a Los An geles County coroner’s office spokesman said DeHoyos’ statement that he drowned her was not incon sistent with the findings of the au topsy. “He might have pressed her chest and then put her in the water,” coro ner’s spokesman Bob Dambadter said. DeHoyos jammed his cell lock with paper and later walked out, claiming to be a visitor to the jail, Barry said. He said San Antonio jail Capt. Hi- lario Solis, 48, a 25-year veteran of the sheriffs office, was fired for lack of supervision and recently hired jailer Kathleen Rueppel was fired for unsuccessful completion of pro bation. ■mitio’ Leatu)ig Tower Pizza FREE DELIVERY 846-8268 % and jailer Stuart Petrutsas were or dered suspended for five and 15 days, respectively, Barry said. DeHoyos 'told investigators that someone escorted him out of the jail, Sheriff Harlon Copeland said. Copeland said DeHoyos had not yet been before a magistrate nor of ficially booked into jail and still was wearing street clothes- DeHoyos claimed he took an el evator to the jail basement where he convinced an officer to let him out of the building, the sheriff said. “He claimed he was here to bail somebody out of jail and that he got lost and that he wanted to get out,” Copeland said. Barry said he had issued a mem orandum to jail guards on Friday be cause of a tip by federal officers about a rumored jail break. “Security is always your main con cern, be especially alert of any suspi cious circumstances or acts on any one’s part,” Barry’s memo stated. “We cannot stress the importance of these measures to prevent a possible escape.” Records show Solis was fired in March 1988 for participating in a Super Bowl pool at the jail. Solis was later reinstated by the Bexar County Civil Service Commis sion, which ordered him paid $ 10,000 in back wages. Records also show Solis was sus pended for 25 days in October 1986 for failing to perform his duties. The records did not elaborate on the reason for his suspension. Prof discovers revolutionary microwave tube By Mia B. Moody REPORTER A Texas A&M experimental phys ics professor has discovered technol ogy that may make long-distance calls via satellite possible, decrease the size of a satellite dish to that of a barbecue grill and improve superac- curate radars. Dr. Peter McIntyre said he was working to improve the source of power for linear colliders when he discovered possible applications for his research in other areas. “Before this invention, two-way satellite communication wasn’t con ceivable,” McIntyre said. “Now this development is highly likely. In fact, I hope to have a prototype tube de veloped in two years. ” McIntyre said his invention penoh ably would decrease the price of mi crowave products. “The tube I developed is much simpler and compact, so the unit cost would be modest,” he said. “Not only would it increase efficient, it would decrease the price of all products that could use the tube.” McIntyre’s improved source of power is dubbed the “Gigatron” as a salute to the popular A&M saying, “Gig ’em.” Another reason for the name is that the high power device will produce billions (giga) of volts of energy, McIntyre said. The Gigatron also could make ra dars more accurate in detecting images. “Presently radar images are big and not sharp,” he said. “The Gigi- tron could make it possible to pro duce a smaller sharper picture. This could give airplanes more accurate images and make it possible to re duce accidents. It also could make it easier to detect missiles far eno««|eh away to do something about them.” Page 7 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$s$s$$$$$$$$$J Make $1000 in ONE WEEK!!! L/T tyy <=fr Senate OKs budget increase; denies rate hike on some loans AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would f ive the Legislature an additional 246 million to spend this session and slapped down a measure that would have raised interest rates on certain cash loans. After a last-minute vote roundup, senators also approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would give private building owners until September 1993 to sue for the cost of removing asbestos from their buildings. There was no opposition to a bill that would provide lawmakers an extra $246 million as they write a state budget for 1990-91. T he bill would increase taxes on certain insurers’ gross premiums for a net gain of S3 milhon and would put into law — for a gain of $113 million — the settlement of a lawsuit that had challenged Texas’ system of taxing out-of-state prop erty and casualty insurance compa nies. A 31-0 vote returned the bill, with amendments, to the House. Sen. O.H. “Ike” Harris, R-Dallas, failed in his effort to win approval of a bill that would have raised in terest payments on finance com pany loans of up to $8,250. Harris’ bill was tentatively ap proved March 29 by an 18-7 vote, even though it drew criticism as a loan-shark measure. When he tried to bring it up Tuesday for final passage, the vote was 16-15, and he needed 21 votes. . Harris had maintained that higher rates were needed to keep certain lenders in Texas. Sen. Carlos Truan, D-Corpus Christi, asked if he was aware of a list being circulated mcluded the names and ethnic origins of em ployees who would be fired if Har ris’ bill failed to pass. “It’s almost equivalent to black mail,” Truan said. Harris said he was not. 3 ware ot the list and considered such a tactic “distasteful.” “That’s not the proper way to do anything,” Harris said. Sen. Hector Uribe, D- Brownsville, walked the Senate floor until he had gathered just enough votes to suspend rules, which led to passage of the asbestos measure. His proposed constitutional amendment states that suits for damages that otherwise might be barred by statutes of limitations could be filed until Sept. 1, 1993. “Without a doubt, asbestos kills people. We’ve known that since 1935,” Uribe said, but his proposal was amended to exclude personal injury lawsuits. Uribe said limitations don’t run against public entities but do against private buildings and facilities, and that is why his measure is need ed. 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