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Friday, September 1,1989
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. AUSTIN (AP) — Austin police
will likely become the first in Texas
to again carry stun guns and officers
plan to practice using the restraint
devices on each other.
“They’re unbelievable,” said Offi
cer Gene Parker, who tested a new
version of the device, which is made
by an Austin firm, on his beat this
spring. “I can’t say enough good
apout them.” _
Police Chief Jim Everett says he \/\/qIHq
plans to approve the use of an up- d LI Lr
dated stun gun. Three years ago, the
department found an earlier stun
gun unreliable.
Officers will have to buy their own
$150 stun gun, since the equipment
is optional. Those who do will i
in a ten hour training program r
week, which will include officers
ing stun guns on each other.
Officers who have been on the re
ceiving end of stun guns during
training sessions describe the pain as
intense, but short-lived.
“It hurt when it was applied to my
skin, but it quit hurting when it was
taken away,” said Senior Sgt. Robert
Pulliam, who added that the shock
on his leg brought him to his knees.
Complaints about stun guns used
in the early to mid-1980s ranged
from inadequate battery power to
jolts that were either too weak or too
strong.
Inmate admits
to involvement
in murder plots
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — After
confessing to involvement in a mur-
der-for-hire plot, a Texas inmate
sent to prison from San Antonio has
been sentenced to 12 more years be
hind bars.
The Texas Department of Cor
rections prisoner, 23-year-old Kevin
James Veschi, agreed to the sentence
to avoid trial for at least three other
murder-for-hire schemes.
He was sentenced Wednesday in
Brazoria County after he was found
guilty in state district court of crimi
nal solicitation to commit murder.
Veschi pleaded no contest to the
charge.
His new sentence will be “stacked”
on a life sentence and three 20-year
sentences Veschi was serving for at
tempted capital murder, armed rob
bery and burglary.
Authorities contend that the mur
der-for-hire plots were devised from
Veschi’s maximum-security cell at
the Ramsey I Unit.
He is accused of conspiring with
convicted murderer Jonn Marco
Civella to arrange the killing of John
Bello, 43, of Freehold, NJ.
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Judge postpones hearing, restrains gambling ship
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A federal judge
postponed a hearing Thursday on whether im
migration officers may deport crewmen of the
gambling ship Le Mistral, keeping in place a tem
porary restraining order preventing the action.
A hearing in U.S. District Judge Filemon V.
Vela’s court in Brownsville was continued until
Sept. 8.
The proceeding on whether to grant a tempo
rary injunction came after Vela granted a tempo
rary restraining order Wednesday banning U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials
from deporting the ship’s crewmen.
INS officials had warned the ship’s owner, Is
lander Cruises of Port Isabel, to comply with im
migration laws. INS spokesman Virginia Kice
said there were 46 crewmen on board from for
eign countries.
“The immigration laws covering foreign crew
men are very specific and very strinj ent,” Kice
said Thursday after the hearing. She said the
INS declined to comment further on the matter
because it is now in litigation.
Laws prohibit foreign crewmen from staying
in the United States more than 29 days without
leaving and docking at a foreign port. INS re
cords show foreign crewmen on the Le Mistral I
have remained in port longer than 29 days, offi- I
cials said.
When asked about the trips required of his for- I
eign crew, Islander Cruises owner Tem Fowlkes
said, “We hadn’t missed a one.”
“We take it (the trip) with the ship empty, just
with the crew members on to qualify with this
law,” Fowlkes said.
Before the INS was served with the restraining
order, District Director Jerry Sewell said he was
hopeful authorities would not have to take action
against crew members.
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