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our Texans under investigation
for possession of assault weapons
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lucatia federal investigators have been drawn into a mys-
eleasc terious web surrounding the arrests of four Tex-
tionDi ans and an unemployed Virginia man in a motel
^om filled with “unconventional warfare, assas-
nation-type” weapons.
A fifth Texan, who claims to work for a Dallas-
ea defense contractor, was arrested in a nearby
om at the EconoLodge motel in a crumbling
irt of Washington, where police said they
und six children, ranging in age from 6 to 16.
Social services workers say they are attempting
t ranc to identify the parents of the children, described
its o>;|Hs well-behaved and well-cared for, as the six
Edults remain in the city jail, each facing 41 sepa-
studcc |pte misdeameanor weapons charges.
The adults are jailed on a $50,000 bond; their
ext court date is May 15.
A day before the hotel raid, another Texan be
lieved connected to the group, Ruben Anzuldua
of Mission, was apprehended by the Secret Serv-
e outside the Soviet Consulate.
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group of individuals might be planning to enter
the Russian Consulate . . . with automatic weap
ons.”
Information received by police tied an orange
car to the group, and authorities reported spot
ting the vehicle in front of the consulate last
Thursday.
“Minutes later, two males exited the consulate
and got into the car,” court files indicate. The car
was stopped by the Secret Service, and agents
spotted a .22 caliber gun protruding from under
the front passenger seat, the files said.
“Defendant Ruben Anzuldua had been in the
car’s front passenger seat,” the file said. He is also
in jail on $50,000 bond, facing three weapons
charges.
Police and other officials have said little since
the 3:10 a.m. motel arrests Friday, and court doc
uments provide a sliver of information in a case
that appears to link the group to the Paraguayan
Embassy.
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officer” at a Dallas-area defense contractor that
manufactures bomb bodies and missile hard
ware.
An officer, speaking on background, said the
weapons seized are the “weapons an assassin
would use. They were unconventional warfare,
assassination-type stuff.”
One of the men told police he has a nervous
condition and lives on disability payments; two of
the women claim to be former employees of
Texas Instruments, another Dallas-area defense
contractor. One of those women, Billie Joy
McEwen, 43, of Rowlett, is a licensed firearms
dealer who told police she suffers from a recent
abdominal injury.
Another woman, also unemployed, has a heart
murmur; and the only non-Texan, Kelvin Dee
Owen Jr., 21, of Reston, Va., told police he is a
former worker at a Washington guest-house and
prior to that, was a waiter at the French Market
Grill in Augusta, Ga.
learned the emergency vehicles
were for fellow students involved
in an accident.
Daniel Mulcahy Jr. and his
edtti date, Erin McMahon, were en
ewl fl route to a school-sponsored all-
night party offered as a drug-and
alcohol-free safe alternative when
Mulcahy’s 1984 Corvette, a grad
uation present, careened into a
concrete-lined culvert near the
entrance of a shopping center.
Mulcahy, 17, suffered a frac
tured skull and crushed abdomen
and died later Sunday morning at
Houston Northwest Medical Cen
ter.
McMahon, 18, was released
from the medical center Tuesday.
Friends and classmates of Mul
cahy erected a white cross Tues
day at the accident site a few
blocks from the school.
Among the scrawled messages
covering the crucifix, one stood
out: “We love you, Danny.”
Three white roses and yellow
ribbons decorated the cross,
along with parts of the car
wrecked in the accident.
His funeral was held Wednes
day morning at St. James Catholic
Church.
Burial was at Resthaven Me
morial Gardens.
During a rosary Tuesday, Mul
cahy’s open casket was sur
rounded with high school me
mentos: a football signed by his
teammates, his varsity letter
jacket, a lion mascot.
“He was telling everyone to be
careful,” said William Welch, who
played defensive tackle alongside
Mulcahy, a defensive end on
Spring High’s varsity football
team.
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Animal shelter receives grant,
lowers cost of adopting pets
By Holly Becka
STAFF WRITER
Pets at the Brazos Animal Shel
ter can be adopted for a $20 dis
count throughout May because of
a $1,500 grant the shelter re
ceived from the Purina Pet Par
ent Program.
Shelter Director Kathy Bice
said dogs may be adopted for $25
and cats for $20 because of the
grant.
“This is the second year we’ve
received the grant,” Bice said.
“Purina donated $1,500 for the
‘Pets for People Program’ in the
name of Safeway to reduce (the
cost of) adoptions this month.”
Purina’s nationwide program
helps underwrite the cost of ani
mal adoptions during May in con
junction with “Be Kind to Ani
mals Week.”
“This grant will cover 75 adop
tions,” Bice said. “Last year we re-
Brazos
Animal Shelter
ceived $1,200, so this will go a
little further.”
Bice said this is the peak season
to get a pet because so many are
available and because of the
grant.
“Each adoption comes with $30
worth of coupons for trips to local
vets,” she said. “This program
will give people the incentive to
adopt pets instead of getting free
ones, which really don’t turn out
to be free at all because of li
censes, shots, worming and neu
tering.
“With this program, you’ll ac
tually be getting more than you’re
paying for.”
Bice said the Brazos Animal
Shelter is continuing its applica
tion process and overnight wait
ing period before an animal may
be adopted.
“This reduces the return rate
and the impulse buying rate,” she
said. “We want people to really
think before they adopt a pet. We
want them to sleep on it and
make sure they’re prepared to
deal with the health, care and
training of that animal.”
She said the adoption process
includes describing the environ
ment the animal will be in,
whether potential owners keep
other animals, whether the owner
will neuter, worm and give heart
medicine to the pet, if they have a
fenced-in yard for big dogs or a
written agreement with their
landlord stating they are per
mitted to have the pet.
“We want to make sure the ani
mal will have the best home possi
ble,” Bice said.
7-Eleven sells San Antonio sites
to operators of Stop N Go stores
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — 7-Eleven has sold its 75 San
Antonio stores to National Convenience Stores, a cor
poration that operates Stop N Go stores and which now
has about one-third of the convenience store market in
San Antonio.
The multimillion-dollar sale is the latest for Dallas-
based 7-Eleven, a subsidiary of Southland Corp., which
hopes to unload 1,000 of its stores to pay debt incurred
from a leveraged buyout in December 1987.
Stop N Go dominates the Houston market with 500
stores, including 279 purchased from 7-Eleven last
year, and is second behind 7-Eleven in the Dallas-Fort
Worth area with about 140 stores, compared to 400 7-
Elevens.
7-Eleven, however, continues to dominate the indus
try with about 7,100 stores, followed by Circle K with
about 4,660 stores and Stop N Go, with 1,155, and
growing.
Stop N Go has shifted from 1,100 stores in 21 mar
kets, to 1,J55 stores in ten markets.
“Our focus over the last three years has really not
been on numbers of stores, but we have been busy re
structuring our market base, selling stores in markets
which we did not have real penetration and buying
stores in markets where we had a very important pres
ence,” said Pete Van Horn, president and chief exec
utive officer of National Convenience Stores.
“We think that is strategically very important and it
positions us as we move forward in our advertising and
it will be more important in the overall formula for suc
cess while being cost-effective in advertising expendi
tures,” Van Horn said.
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