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College Station, Texas
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FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
Police said Thursday they have issued an
rrest warrant for a third suspect in a shoot
ing rampage that killed one man and in
jured five others during an apparent dis-
iute between drug dealers and
ounterfeiters.
Bryan police arrested Carl Alvin Crad-
lock, 40, of Dallas late Tuesday night out-
ide a local convenience store. Early
Wednesday, they arrested Bruce Kevin
Bannister, 30, of St. Petersburg, Fla., at a
Bryan home.
Both men remained in the Brazos
County Jail Thursday with bond set at
$100,000 each, authorities said.
Police spokesman Sgt. Choya Walling
said Thursday that Ray Craddock, 31, of
rural Brazos County also had been charged
with murder and a warrant was issued for
his arrest. He is Carl Craddock’s brother.
“X
I he shootings appear to be
where the retaliation
culminated. We had two sides
mad at each other.”
— Sgt. Choya Walling,
police spokesman
Six men were shot late Monday and early
Tuesday outside bars and on a nearby
street.
One of the victims, Marion Leon John
son, died late Tuesday night from gunshot
wounds he received to the head.
Two 12-gauge shotguns, two .22-caliber
pistols and a .25-caliber pistol were found at
the house where Bannister was arrested,
police said.
Walling said informants have told police
that in recent weeks, the suspects in the
shootings had tried to purchase drugs in
Bryan using counterfeit $20 bills. Drug
dealers, he said, discovered the money was
fake, then declined to deliver the drugs.
“The shootings appear to be where the
retaliation culminated,” Walling said. “We
had two sides mad at each other.”
Walling said police have not been able to
find out which of the victims, if any, were
involved in drug deals. No charges have
been filed against any of the victims, he
said.
Fore!
Graduate student Duncan Rhodes hits a ball at the Texas A&M
driving range during his intermediate golf class Thursday af-
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
ternoon. Rhodes said he took the freshman level course to off
set his strenuous graduate course load.
Rains resigns post;
still undecided on bid
for governor in 1990
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Jack Rains, Class of ’60, resigned
as Texas Secretary of State Thurs
day, a possible prelude to a 1990
race for the Republican gubernato
rial nomination.
Rains, a Houston businessman be
fore joining Gov. Bill Clements’ ad
ministration, said he will enter a pri
vate law firm and decide on the
governor’s race in 30 to 45 days.
“I have a lot of people who are
anxious to support me in that race,”
he said.
Rains, a top adviser to Clements in
past campaigns, last year said he was
95 percent certain about making a
governor’s race. He said Thursday
he was not interested in any other
office.
“I’m not a committee man,” he
said. “I’m an executive.”
Rains, who holds a bachelor’s of
business administration from Texas
A&M and a law degree from the
University of Houston, was a
founder of a Houston design firm.
He will join the Houston office of
the law firm of Winstead, McGuire,
Sechrest & Minick.
But politics remains on his mind,
and he said he will talk with friends,
family and others about the gover
nor’s race.
A poll published by the Houston
Chronicle and Dallas Morning News
last month showed Rains with the
lowest name identification of five
potential Republican candidates.
Leading that survey was George
W. Bush, the president’s son. Rail
road Commissioner Kent Hance, an
unsuccessful GOP gubernatorial
candidate in 1986, was second, and
Amarillo oilman T. Boone Pickens
was third.
Midland oilman Clayton Williams,
Class of ’54,set to launch his guber
natorial campaign Wednesday, also
ranked ahead of the secretary of
state.
But Rains said he wasn’t con
cerned.
“If you compare me to someone
who has run six times in 12 years
(Hance) and spent millions of dollars
— I’ve never run a race, I’ve never
spent a nickel. I would expect to be
behind them,” he said. “I wouldn’t
bet the farm on an early poll.”
Rains also said he has no worries
about funding a gubernatorial bid,
which many political consultants say
could cost $15 million or more.
“I’ve been a (political) fundraiser
in Texas for some 20 years. I think
I’ve demonstrated a track record
that I can put money together. My
political base is in Houston, and it’s
known for being able to back candi
dates,” he said.
Clements praised Rains as “a su
perb” secretary of state, but he
stopped short of endorsing Rains as
his successor.
Mattox says allegations
of bribery are ‘hot air’
AUSTIN (AP) — Breaking a
|jhree-day silence, Attorney General
‘im Mattox branded as “hot air”
Thursday allegations that $125,000
vas slated for him to intercede in an
insurance lawsuit.
Mattox also charged that the cam
paign of his Democratic gubernato-
ial primary opponent, state Trea
surer Ann Richards, is behind pub
licity about the allegations which be
gan surfacing Monday. Her cam-
paign denied it.
I “There have been allegations
made that money was given to bribe
me,” Mattox said. “There have been
allegations made that monies were
given to bribe my assistant who han
dled the case. Allegations were made
there were monies given to bribe the
judge. All of which is a bunch of
| nonsense.”
I A reference to the payment alle-
.. gation was made in a f raudulent in
surance lawsuit that was related to
fjhe Dallas bankruptcy case of Joseph
| F. Landis and his Intercon Reinsur
ance Brokers, Ltd.
I The company, Landis and others
also are named in a related civil suit
in U.S. District Judge Barefoot
Sanders’ court in Dallas. In that suit,
Lloyd’s U.S. Corp., alleges fraudu
lent practices by Landis’ company.
In January proceedings in a U.S.
Bankruptcy Court hearing involving
Landis, his company and Lawrence
Dale St. John, another defendant in
the Lloyd’s lawsuit, the $125,000 was
discussed.
According to a transcript, Samuel
D. Rosen, a New York attorney for
Lloyd’s, asked bankruptcy trustee
Don Navarro if he was “aware that
Mr. Landis and Mr. St. John have
testified under oath that this
$125,000 payment of Mr. Landis’s
money was for the purpose of con
veying it to the attorney general of
the State of Texas?”
Navarro said he had heard about
that testimony, and had heard that
Landis’ $125,000 was given to an in
termediary, Dallas businessman Gail
Cooper, a campaign contributor and
fundraiser for Mattox.
But Navarro said he also under
stood that Landis’ lawyer said he
gave the $125,000 to Cooper as a
consulting fee for his help in locat-
Chinese sentence three men to death
Officials parade other arrested pro-democracy activists on television
Jim Mattox
ing a new insurance carrier for
Landis.
Following Cooper’s involvement
on Landis’ behalf, a judge reversed
his $3.2 million default judgment
against Landis after the attorney
general’s office presented him with
an overriding court order, the Dallas
Morning News reported in a copy
right story Thursday.
BEIJING (AP) — Arrested pro-democracy activists
with shaved heads and placards hanging around their
necks were paraded on Chinese television Thursday,
and three others were sentenced to death for torching a
train during a riot.
The executions, ordered by a Shanghai court, were
the first in the nationwide crackdown on the student-
led demonstrations for a freer China.
Television news also said a student leader surren
dered to authorities.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested nation
wide since army troops and tanks moved into Tianan
men Square in Beijing on June 3-4 to suppress the
movement, which called for freedom of the press and
an end to official corruption.
The violent confrontation touched off demonstra
tions and riots in cities throughout China.
On June 6, crowds set a train ablaze after it ran
through a barricade erected by demonstrators near
Shanghai station, killing six people.
Official media reported 21 railway security officials
were beaten by protesters. It said the rail line was closed
for 50 hours, nine train carriages ruined and 900 bags
of mailed burned.
The three condemned men “frenziedly smashed the
railway carriages and set fire to police motorcycles and
the carriages” during the attack, the official Xinhua
News Agency reported. “They also prevented firefight
ers from extinquishing the fire and beat them cruelly.”
Xinhua identified the men as Xu Guoming, a con
tract worker at a brewery, Bian Hanwu, who is unem
ployed, and Yan Xuerong, a radio factory worker.
They were given three days to appeal.
Seven more people were on trial in the case, Shang
hai radio said.
Another 26 workers were shown on the noon TV
news being led by armed police onto a stage before a
packed hall in the northeastern city of Changchun.
Several had large placards around their necks giving
their names and their sentence to labor reform, a type
of prison. They were accused of instigating social un
rest and spreading rumors.
The placards were similar to a practice during the
1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when ultra-leftist Red
Guards paraded their victims through the streets wear
ing humiliating signs on their chests. Senior leader
Deng Xiaoping, who won the power struggle after Mao
Tse-tung’s death in 1976, was among those persecuted
during the Cultural Revolution.
At the top of the government’s wanted list of dissent
ers are 21 members of the student union that led the
pro-democracy movement in Beijing. Official media
announced Wednesday that two had been arrested.
Television reports on Thursday said Xiong Wei, 23,
a student at Qinghua University, turned himself in to
Beijing police after traveling from the northeastern city
of Shenyang with his mother.
“He handed over materials he wrote to show his will
ingness to fully resolve his problem,” it said as several
documents were shown.
The three top student leaders — Wang Dan, Wu’er
Kaixi and Chai Ling — were among the 18 fugitives re
maining on the wanted list.
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Feds issue drug indictments against TINS workers
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A six-month un
dercover investigation has led to federal drug
jindictments against nine people, including
seven who worked at an Immigration and
’ laturalizadon Service detention center, au
thorities said.
The indictments, issued Tuesday in McAl
len, were ordered unsealed Thursday after
seven arrests were made, Assistant U.S. At
torney John Crews said.
Seven of those indicted had worked either
lor the INS or a private security firm at the
|Port Isabel Service Processing Center, where
tndocumented aliens are detained before de
ntation, authorities said. The center Thurs-
lay had a detainee population of about 1,300.
Eight suspects appeared Thursday af
ternoon before U.S. Magistrate Fidencio
^arza and each was released on a $ 10,000 un
secured bond. Garza scheduled their arraign-
tent for Wednesday morning.
The indictments allege that cocaine and
marijuana was sold to someone working in co
operation with investigators. Crews said.
“The amounts of drugs are relatively
small,” he said. “What makes it exceptionally
Crews said no detainees were involved in
the alleged offenses.
Arrested and charged in indictments with
conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute
“Wha. makes it exceptionally significant, to us, however, is that
the offenses are alleged to have occurred either at the service
processing center or by individuals employed by the United States.”
— John Crews,
Assistant U.S. Attorney
significant, to us, however, is that the offenses
are alleged to have occurred either at the
service processing center or by individuals
employed by the United States.
“And it’s the position of this office that any
amount is too much when it comes to that. We
won’t tolerate it.”
and possession with intent to distribute less
than 50 kilos of marijuana were Joe Rice, 25,
of Brownsville, a Burns International Secu
rity Services officer at the center; Orlando
Castro, 29, of Brownsville, also a Burns offi
cer; Jessie Hernandez, 33, of San Benito, a
Burns officer; Conrado Medrano, 31, of
Brownsville, an INS cook at the center; and
Enrique “Ricky” Chavez, 31, of Brownsville.
Arrested and charged with conspiracy to
possess with intent to distribute and posses
sion with intent to distribute less than 500
grams of cocaine were Conrado Medrano; Is
rael Perez, 31, of San Benito, an INS deten
tion enforcement officer at the detention cen
ter; Jose Serna, 40, of San Benito, a Burns
officer; and David Medrano, 25, of
Brownsville, brother of Conrado Medrano.
One men who was a detention officer at the
processing center also has been charged in in
dictments but was still at large late Thursday.
Edmundo Nieto of Brownsville, who also
was a detention enforcement officer, was
charged with conspiracy to possess with intent
to distribute and possession with intent to dis
tribute less than 50 kilos of marijuana.
Nieto resigned his post with the INS in the
past month, according to INS spokesman Vir
ginia Kice.
23-year-old
found dead
in motel room
A 23-year-old man was found
dead Thursday afternoon in a
room at the Ramada Inn at 1502
Texas Ave.
A press release by the College
Station Police Department said
preliminary investigation indi
cates a probable suicide.
An autopsy has been ordered
for the man, a resident of Port
land, Ore., and an investigation is
pending.