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TRADITION
Page 4
The Battalion
Wednesday, March 7,19
Police Beat
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THE GREAT
ESCAPE
There is a new Underground
The following incidents were reported to
the Texas A&M University Police Department
between Feb. 21 and last Friday.
INDECENT EXPOSURE:
• A man who was seated in the MSC Flag
Room exposed his genitals to another man in
the room. The subject could not be located in
the area.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE:
• Officers were dispatched to Dorm 12 for a
possible drug overdose. Investigation re
vealed that the subject had ingested a large
quantity of Tylenol and an unknown painkil
ler in an apparent attempt to commit suicide.
The subject was transported to Humana Hos
pital by A&M Emergency Medical Services
personnel for treatment. A representative of
the Student Counseling Service was'notified
of the situation.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• An officer observed two subjects attempt
ing to place a bicycle in a tree on the west side
of Puryear Hall.
• Three concrete trash containers were
knocked over near the last bridge on Systems
Loop in the A&M Research Park. The re
placement cost for one of the damaged trash
containers will be $300.
TERRORISTIC THREAT:
• A man who works at the Transportation
Center reported that he had been threatened
by a co-worker. The man said he received this
information from another worker who said
the co-worker making the threat had dis
played a handgun and made a threatening
statement directed towards him.
ASSAULT:
• An Underwood Hall resident said she was
the victim of an attempted sexual assault Feb.
22. She said she wanted to speak with her min
ister before giving any information to UPD
about the suspect.
• An officer was dispatched to Underwood
Hall to investigate an assault that had just oc
curred. Investigation revealed that two female
residents had been assaulted by a man they
had just met. According to the women, they
had met the subject and his friend at a local
nightclub and had decided to return to the
residence hall with them. While in their room,
an argument occurred and one of the women
struck one of the males for making a rude
comment about her. The subject struck her in
the face causing her to fall to the floor. When
the other woman intervened, the subject hit
her in the face, bloodying her nose. The vic
tims said that before the fighting began the
second male left the room and waited outside
in the hall. The subjects fled the area after the
altercation. The women said they did not
need medical treatment for their injuries. In
vestigation continues.
• A man reported that he was riding his bi
cycle home on Avenue B when a small vehicle
drove past him and stopped. As he rode
around the car, a passenger in the vehicle
threw an egg which struck him on the fore
head. He was treated and released by the
A&M emergency care personnel.
BURGLARY OF COIN OPERATED MA
CHINE:
• Someone reported that the coin box had
been removed from a Canon photocopier in
the Pavilion. The coin box contained $300.
RECKLESS DAMAGE:
• During foot patrol of the residence hall
area, an officer observed a tan Chevrolet
truck enter Parking Area 42 and travel across
the curb and strike a tree. The operator of the
vehicle backed up and left the area. The unoc
cupied vehicle was located in Parking Area 30.
The operator of the vehicle, who was identi
fied and agreed to make restitution to the
University, was issued a citation and released.
• A woman reported that while sitting in
her car in Parking Area 42, an identified sub
ject jumped on her vehicle causing the win
dow to break.
RECKLESS CONDUCT:
• During foot patrol of the Dunn Hall
area, an officer observed a subject throwing a
basketball from the third floor down at an
other subject who was walking by the resi
dence hall. The basketball was thrown back at
the third floor subject; however, the ball
struck a window on the fourth floor. When
the officer called to the subjects to stop the ac
tivity, they fled from the area.
POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA:
• A College Station man was arrested on
four outstanding DPS warrants and for the
possession of marijuana. The man was a pas
senger in the vehicle of a man who was ar
rested for driving while intoxicated. When in
formed of his pending arrest, the subject tried
to hide a small package under the driver’s seat
which he had pulled out of his right pocket.
The package contained a green leafy sub
stance believed to be marijuana. Both men
were jailed in the Brazos County Jail.
POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY-
/MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• During patrol of campus property, an of
ficer was advised that the occupants of a red
Toyota truck were observed stealing street
signs. Officers located the vehicle and identi
fied the driver. Several street signs and traffic
control devices were located in the bed of the
truck. According to one of the subjects, the
K erty was taken from Pasadena, Texas.
subjects were released pending the veri
fication from the Pasadena Police Depart
ment.
DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED:
• Two individuals were arrested for DWI
and jailed in the Brazos County Jail in sepa
rate incidents.
PUBLIC INTOXICATION:
• Someone was arrested and charged with
public intoxication near the Academic Mall
area. The subject was jailed in the Brazos
County Jail.
MINOR IN POSSESSION:
• During patrol of campus property an of
ficer observed two vehicles parked near the
Parson’s Mounted Cavalry Barn. Upon his ap
proach one of the vehicles sped away. The sec
ond vehicle was occupied by four College Sta
tion juveniles who were in possession of
alcoholic beverages. The children were re
leased to the custody of their parents.
HARASSMENT: *
• Six people received harassing phone calls
in separate incidents.
• A woman reported that she has been ha
rassed by someone who leaves notes on her
car, which she parks in Parking Area 62.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT/CIVIL DIS
TURBANCE:
• A College Station man reported that af
ter an argument in his office, his ex-girlfriend
took the keys to his vehicle and office while he
was gone.
CRIMINAL TRESPASS:
• An officer was dispatched to investigate a
report of three subjects attempting to open
vehicles in Parking Area 48. The three sub
jects were located and identified as College
uLaiion l esiUeiiis. wnc 01 me individuals was
issued a criminal trespass warning and re
leased. The other two subjects were arrested
for criminal trespass because both had pre
viously been issued criminal trespass warn
ings. They were incarcerated in the Brazos
County Jail.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A man reported that his bottle of heart
medication had been removed from his jacket
which was located in a locked custodial closet
on the sixth floor of the Sterling C. Evans Li
brary.
• During patrol of campus property, an of
ficer observed a 1983 Chevrolet Camaro rest
ing on its wheel hubs in the center drive of
Parking Area 3. The owner stated he had
loaned the vehicle to two friends and that one
of them would meet the officer at the vehicle
The man’s friend who met the officer stated
that when he and his roommate returned to
campus the tires were intact. The stolen tires
and rims were valued at $600.
• Someone reported that the freshman
chemistry seating charts had been stolen from
a bulletin board in Heldenfels Hall.
• Thirteen flags were removed from the
flagpoles in front of the MSC circle. The flags
represented the countries of various student
organizations who were participating in the
events of International Week.
• A man reported the disappearance of
seven T-shirts from a clothes dryer on the
third floor of Dunn Hall.
• An officer was dispatched to check on an
illegally parked vehicle in the driveway of the
president’s residence. Investigation revealed
that a car had been hot-wired and driven from
its parking space near the Duncan Dining
Center. The operator of the vehicle stated the
vehicle was taken on Feb. 25.
• A man reported that while resting upon
a couch in the Remote Computing Center, he
had placed a volume of the IEEE Commu
nications Periodicals beside him. He awoke to
discover that the volume of periodicals was
gone. He said he had checked the volume out
of the Sterling C. Evans Library the previous
night.
• A woman reported that she received a
call from a person who had found her purse
in the first floor women’s restroom of the
Blocker Building. The woman, who was un
aware of the theft until contacted by the caller,
stated the purse was taken from a room in the
same building Feb. 2 1.
• A College Station area business reported
the theft of four of their magazine racks from
various locations on campus.
• A tailgate was removed f rom a 1987 Ford
truck parked in Parking Area 40.
• A tan car cover was removed f rom a car
in Parking Area 30.
• A license plate was removed from a 1983
Honda XLR 600 motorcycle which was
parked on Coke Street.
• A woman reported that one of her car
hub-caps was stolen from her vehicle which
was in Parking Area 38.
• Three purses were stolen from various
areas around campus.
• Two backpacks wer&^stolen in two sepa
rate incidents.
• Six bicycles were stolen from six campus
locations.
BURGLARY OF A HABITATION:
• A woman reported that a 1.5 carat di-
amond -pendant was removed from her
Krueger Hall room.
Colombian terrorists kidnap
oil supervisor, demand ransom
HOUSTON (AP) — An oil drilling supervisor has
been kidnapped by a Colombian terrorist group that is
demanding a $15 million ransom, spokesmen for the
Houston-based company said.
Officials from Western Geophysical Co. of Houston
said Monday they suspended work on an oil explora
tion project in Bogota, Colombia and laid off 200 Co
lombian employees after the employee, William Cuero,
was abducted.
Cuero, a native Colombian, is believed to have been
abdgcted by the National Liberation Army, or ELN,
company officials told the Houston Chronicle.
The company said guerrillas told them the group in
tended to kidnap an American, but have refused to free
Cuero.
Western Geophysical has refused to pay the ransom
and is providing little information on the kidnapping in
fear for Cuero’s safety, the newspaper reported.
“The more they (terrorists) are in the dark, the bet
ter,” company spokesman Jaen Lawrence said.
Western Geophysical is a joint venture of Beverly
Hills, Calif.-based Litton and Dallas-based Dresser In
dustries Inc.
Gordon Barrows, owner of the Barrows Co., a New
York-based firm that tracks laws and other data affect
ing oil companies in foreign countries, estimated more
than 100 petroleum company employees have been kid
napped in the past decade in Colombia.
I he more they (terrorists) are in the
dark, the better.”
— Jaen Lawrence,
spokesman
“It’s been like this for at least 10 years, and it’s getting
worse,” he said.
Last month, ELN kidnapped and freed three Ameri
can hostages abducted as part of its “Operation Colom
bia” campaign, designed to protest U.S. intervention in
Latin America.
Court removes boy from home
Brother of boy who died from alcohol poisoning
placed in grandmother’s care pending mother’s trial
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EVERMAN (AP) — A judge ruled
Tuesday that the brother of a 5-
year-old boy who died from drink
ing 10 ounces of bourbon be tempo
rarily removed from his mother’s
custody, officials said.
The mother, Patricia Griffin, 31,
was being held at the Tarrant
County Jail on $10,000 bond on a
charge of injury to a child by gross
negligence in the death last Wednes
day of her son, Raymond Thomas
Griffin II.
Doctors said the boy suffered irre
versible brain damage after drinking
the bourbon and some beer on Fri
day night. He had a blood alcohol
level of .55 percent, five times the le
gal definition of intoxication in
Texas. He died at a hospital after
life-support machines were discon
nected.
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Tarrant County Juvenile Court
udge Scott Moore ordered the boy’s
rotner, Rasad Griffin, 2, placed in
custody of his grandmother, Peggy
Price, said Michael Beene with the
Department of Human Service.
Child protective services workers
took Rasad from Griffin’s home af
ter Raymond’s death.
“The child is being placed in the
physical care of the grandmother
pending further orders by the
court,” Beene said. But the depart
ment will continue to monitor care
of the youngster, he said.
The department will maintain
“managing conservatorship” or legal
guardianship of the youth, Beene
said.
“The mother still has parental
rights,” Beene said. “But we can con
sent to medical treatment and the
like for the child.”
The mother was also ordered to
undergo a psychological evaluation,
he said.
The next scheduled hearing is in
six months.
Also charged in Raymond’s death
is Anthony Jimerson, 21. He is
charged with first-degree felony in
jury to a child and is being held in
lieu of $100,000 bond. Griffin is
charged with a third-degree felony.
Witnesses have told police that Ji
merson wanted the boy to go to sleep
at a neighborhood gathering March
2 so he could be alone with Griffin,
said Police Chief Roger Larm.
Larm said Monday that Griffin
was negligent because the boy did
not receive immediate medical atten
tion. The offense carries 10 years in
prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Court denies
application
for appeal
Juror’s ‘passing remark
not enough for mistrial
DALLAS (AP) — The 5th Dis
trict Court of Appeals has de
clined to grant a new trial for a
man who was convicted in the
slaying of two homosexual men in
a Dallas park.
The conviction and subsequent
30-year prison term given to
Richard Bednarski led to remarks
by District Judge Jack Hampton
that he didn’t give Bednarski the
maximum sentence of life in
prison because the victims were
homosexuals.
Defense lawyer Kevin Clancy
claimed Bednarski should have
been granted a mistrial and even
tually a new trial because oneol
the jurors told his fellow jurors
that he had visited the scene of
the slaying to take some mea
surements while the jury was
deadlocked.
Appeals court justices Monday
denied the claim and noted that
the juror’s “passing remark” that
he had visited the crime scene did
not count as new evidence.
The court noted that the juror
did not say what he did or saw at
the park and was immediately ad
monished by other jurors not to
discuss the incident further.
The defense also argued that
one of the victims had told police
just before he died that his assail
ant was “stocky” and this descrip
tion did not fit Bednarski.
The justices noted that other
evidence pointed to Bednarski
and said the addition of the word
“stocky” to the man’s description
of the assailant did not shake
their confidence in the guilty ver
dict.
Several witnesses who attended
North Mesquite High School tes
tified that Bednarski, a student at
Richland Community College,
was the only one armed when a
group of teenagers went to Re-
verchon Park to harass homosex
uals. Bednarski testified that his
former classmates lied.
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