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September 9, 1994
State
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ifficials concerned about sea
irtle deaths in Gulf of Mexico
■ jSTON (AP) — Turtle
hs go largely unnoticed in
.shna, conservationists in
liay.
■ vaters just across the
is line, endangered turtles
Bshing ashore on marshy
Knd muddy beaches in un-
H' high numbers this year,
licularly the rare Kemp’s rid-
se: turtles, The Houston
■ported today.
Iiisiana is certainly a con-
Hecause of their lax en-
■ent,” said David Costa, a
earch associate at the Insti-
■ Marine Life Sciences at
xas A&M University in
Iveston. “When you see the
libers we’re seeing, it’s defi-
slpal arming.”
The turtle death rates in
Louisiana have caught the eye of
federal authorities.
Andy Kemmerer, regional di
rector of the National Marine
Fisheries Service, said authori
ties are beginning to respond
with tougher enforcement in
western Louisiana waters.
Officials say that some
shrimpers from the upper Texas
coastline, near Port Arthur,
have started working along
western Louisiana, in part to
avoid the rigid government en
forcement campaign in Texas.
Launched Sept. 1, the cam
paign is the second crackdown
this year and resulted after 42
endangered turtles washed up
on beaches since Aug. 21, ac
cording to the Texas Sea Turtle
Stranding and Salvage Network.
In all, 456 sea turtles have
died along the Texas coast this
year, 243 of which are Kemp’s ri-
dleys, said Donna Shaver, state
coordinator for the network. The
previous Texas high was 355 in
1990.
In Louisiana, accurate report
ing is hampered by the many re
mote inlets that can easily hide
carcasses, and the fact that few
volunteers are out looking for
turtle bodies.
At least 126 sea turtles have
died in 1994, said Bruce Koike,
coordinator of the Louisiana
Sea Turtle Stranding and Sal
vage Network.
Koike could not say what the
Louisiana record is since this is
his first year to track turtle
deaths.
1 proposes cataloging sex offenders’ fingerprints
fey Cameron/Tw R>nM L L O O O T
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itliorities to use DNA to match
ligerprints, blood samples
(if TIN (AP) — DNA fingerprints of convict-
se offenders would be catalogued in a
glide registry for law enforcement under
slltion proposed Thursday.
HBer a bill being authored by state Rep. Bri-
Lf- V II J*Call, R-Plano, samples of blood would be
111. *Cl|jj®|Bfrom convicted sex offenders upon their re-
■from prison.
‘ Department of Public Safety then would
horized to process the blood samples and
I Bern into a database. Like regular finger-
ige^-old traditionFriing, authorities use DNA technology to
t’i ell Practice of :"|Si the unique makeup of a person’s blood
| Bt a sample collected at a crime scene,
fore a footballgaijMCall said the program would cost Si.4 mil-
start and 8700,000 a year to maintain,
access to the tratijjlll said the necessary funds could come from
by police officersffilB) grants provided in the recent crime bill.
_ jl Be sexual aggressor ... does two things. It’s pre-
esentative of the D-aibe that he will commit his crime again and
rvices said that they anc j he leaves behind evidence at the scene of
across the railroa: (a. ime that can absolutely connect him to the
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crime,” McCall said.
“Law enforcement all over the state has said give
us the tools and we will finish the job.”
Critics of DNA testing question whether a
registry would be cost effective and whether it
would infringe on a person’s privacy.
Since last year, data from DNA registries in
12 states have led to the arrests of five people in
murder and rape cases, according to John R.
Brown, manager of the FBI’s DNA Identification
Index Program in Washington, D.C.
When asked if such results were cost-effective,
Brown said, “I think you would need to talk to a vic
tim of a sexual assault or the family of a victim who
died as the result of a murder to determine that.”
Patsy Day, of Victims Outreach in Dallas, said,
“This is a very early stage of this game and we have
to look at this as an investment.”
Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, a DNA expert at Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston, said the registries
are a new technology that must be given time to
work. “I think you have to look at the project as one
that will build efficiency,” Caskey said.
Ken Williams, deputy chief of the Austin Police
Department, said the technology has the potential to
save the costs of officers investigating a case.
Woman pleads
guilty to running
prostitution ring,
blames husband
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas
(AP) — A woman accused of
operating a prostitution ring
employing bikini-clad maids
has pleaded guilty, blaming
the scheme on her estranged
husband.
Linda Hernandez, 23,
pleaded guilty Wednesday to
a felony charge of engaging in
organized criminal activity.
At the hearing, she testified
that her husband, Mark
Williams, masterminded the
business, handling the money
and training female employees
how to avoid police detection.
The couple were co-owners
of Bikini Maids, which Ms.
Hernandez said employed
about 20 women.
In exchange for Ms. Her
nandez’s guilty plea and testi
mony against her husband,
she was placed on five years’
probation, fined $1,000 and
ordered to perform 200 hours
of community service.
Before the plea bargain,
she had faced a maximum 20
years in prison.
Assistant District Attorney
Gail Sadoskas said Williams,
who is scheduled to stand tri
al Oct. 10, has been offered a
plea agreement for a two-year
jail sentence.
Williams’ attorney, Vir
ginia Koblizek, confirmed
that the possible deal was be
ing discussed. “It may not be
the only offer made,” she said.
Williams has said he was
unaware that his employees
were being paid for sex until
he conducted his own investi
gation by secretly videotaping
his wife and another Bikini
Maid employee having sex
with a man.
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