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The Battalion
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rving rape suspect led
louble life, lawyers say
f WORTH (AP) —
r ting man accused of
jug three women,
b I them and video-
«the acts is sched-
io appear in court
. _ jayfor a hearing on
| ©-al motions.
lomeys for Steven
my Sera, 39, are ex-
'de-jjto fight Arkansas
icutors’ motions,
har sthose t° reveal his
th ia i record anci to
Jni^tthe jury with evi-
| ien hetried to leave the
try. He will be ap-
linuio before Circuit
1U1 ^ iam Pope.
ra, who sits in a
jm,Ark., jail in lieu
pllion bond, faces
ftape charges in as
States.
iestigators say Sera,
Ear-month period,
women in
Missouri and
fort Worth suburb of
pville. He is accused
ngeach victim Ro-
the so-called
Irape drug that left
tunconscious.
at sets apart this
|investigators say, is
iera videotaped his
seach time.
His was a heinous
It covers three
i.It involves a fairly
rave man,” said
iShort, a prosecutor
fern,Ark., where one
;ket
time
Sera, 39, is accused of drugging
3 women with Rohypnol
of the rapes was reported.
"And it has to do with sex
and drugs.”
No one had filed a
complaint against Sera
before his estranged
wife, Nancy Sera, found a
videotape of some of the
alleged incidents at their
Irving home. That
chance discovery, police
say, led to Sera’s arrest.
Indeed, the women
were unaware of the at
tacks until the videotape
was discovered, police said.
Sera’s Warren attorney,
Clint Huey, could not be
reached for comment Sun
day by The Associated
Press. His Fort Worth attor
ney, Don Gandy, referred
comment to attorney John
Hall of Little Rock, Ark.,
who did not return a tele
phone call Sunday.
Colleyville police ar
rested Sera at his Irving
home June 26, a few days
after Mrs. Sera found the
videotape. Almost an
hour long, it shows Sera
committing sexual acts
on unconscious, naked
women, prosecutors said.
He is charged with rap
ing a 32-year-old Col
leyville woman last De
cember in her home.
Freed on $150,000
bond, he was arrested
again July 12 at a Dallas-
area travel agency after he
scheduled a trip to Mexi
co with another woman,
police said.
In Warren, Sera was
charged with kidnap
ping, drugging and rap
ing a 26-year-old woman
last November. Sera also
has been charged with
the attempted rape of
another Warren woman.
In Missouri, he is
charged with a sexual as
sault count and three
counts of deviant sexual
assault against a 20-year-
old Springfield, Mo.,
woman last September.
If convicted, Sera
could face up to life in
prison in Arkansas, up to
20 years in Texas and up
to seven years in Mis
souri. He could be sen
tenced to an additional
20 years under federal
legislation applying to
use of an illegal drug as a
tool of rape or other vio
lent crime President
Clinton signed into law
last year.
Married to Sera for
eight years, Mrs. Sera had
been pregnant with their
second child when he was
arrested. They married af
ter a quick engagement,
even though she knew lit
tle about his past.
“I was not aware of his
first marriage or that he
had a daughter until his
family told me six months
after we were married,”
she told the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram.
In 1990, Sera was arrest
ed on suspicion of felony
grand theft in Richmond,
Calif., but that was reduced
to a misdemeanor charge
of odometer rollback, ac
cording to court records.
Nancy Sera said after
she and Steven married,
they moved repeatedly
because he couldn’t
hold a job.
“He’s been fired from
about every job,” Mrs.
Sera said. “I don’t know
why, but he would have
lots of excuses.”
Finally, they settled in
Irving, where they lived
for four years.
Despite his spotty
employment record,
Steven Sera opened
Chandler Lumber in the
Dallas suburb of Farmers
Branch in March 1995
with financial help from
an Arkansas business
man. Sera eventually
bought out his partner.
Sera’s Arkansas partner
later took control of the
Warren yard, which con
tinues operating.
ouston mayoral race nears end
I miididates push to finish last-second campaigns, recruit voters
|ioca 3UST0N (AP) — As the Hous *
' e^.Myoral campaign winds to a
r candidates are still trying to
Liiia/tvoters. Mostly, however, they
jjhei T 10 make sure the converted
p a . ut to vote.
^iceyou’re down to the final
or three or four days, it boils
toa question of just turning
nurbase,” said Chris Turner,
?aign manager for candidate
pe Saenz. “The persuasion
of the campaign is pretty
a over."
»se sentiments were echoed
Ion Payne, press secretary for
frown, the mayoral front run-
«lio spent Sunday morning at
different church services.
'lost of the main work has been
(up to this point,” Payne said,
impaign workers for the lead-
tcandidates spent the week-
oiocking on doors, passing out
paign literature and making
lecalls to get their supporters
2 | S j -(voting booths.
p a full-scale effort to try
squeeze as many more votes
( (can,” Howard Opinsky,
hnan for Rob Mosbacher,
Candidates attended ral-
church services and candi-
(forums, among other public
events.
“I’m out with the people making
sure that my message gets out
there,” Brown said before a Sunday
candidate forum in the Houston
suburb of Clear Lake.
Several candidates who turned
out for the Clear Lake forum dis
cussed a Houston
Chronicle/KHOU-TV poll pub-
“You want to persuade
them theyVe made a
terrible mistake and change
their minds.”
LEE BROWN
HOUSTON MAYORAL CANDIDATE
lished Sunday that showed about 18
percent of 831 voters polled still un
decided about the mayor’s race.
Brown said he was not surprised
by the poll, which showed that he
and Mosbacher were the clear lead
ers among voters — Brown with 30
percent and Mosbacher with 26.9
percent. George Greanias, who was
third in the poll with 14.6 percent,
said since it was conducted in late
September and early October, it
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