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Hutchison said the consortium will continue to see
a commitment of counter-terrorism training at the
federal level.
With an annual budget of $50 million and over 500
acres of outdoor facilities, TEEX conducts more than 7,000
classes each year and trains more than 133,000 workers.
Dr. Kemble Bennett, director of TEEX and associate vice
chancellor of engineering, said TEEX helps to increase re
sponse across the nation and around the world.
“Many of our courses require intensive hands-on ex
ercises," Bennett said. "Knowledge isn't enough to ensure
success. You've got to be able to apply that knowledge. We
make sure you can."
Training aids are continually upgraded and new ones
are added, Bennett said. A recent addition to the center is an
exercise for the the Passenger Train Emergency Response
course, which is made up of six passenger cars and loco
motives arranged to simulate an Amtrak train derailment.
TEEX, headquartered in College Station, includes full-
scale training aids that enable students to gain hands-on
training by making first responders more capable of ef
fectively handling emergency situations.
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Dickey
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Dr. Michael Friedland, dean of
the College of Medicine, said the
college is proud to have Dickey in
its family.
"We are terribly excited for Dr.
Dickey," Friedland said. "She is ex
traordinarily worthy of this recog
nition, and we are saluting her
achievements. By Dr. Dickey re
ceiving this honor, this reflects on
the prestige, stature and status of
our faculty and University. We
consider her achievement an hon
or to the University."
State Sen. Steve Ogden said this
is a wonderful honor for Dickey.
"I knew her before she was fa
mous, and I think her achievement
is fabulous," he said.
Elizabeth, Danielle and Wilson,
Dickey's children, said they are
proud of their mother.
"We are more proud than words
can express," Danielle said. "She's
excelled in everything that she's
done, but on top of that, she's a
great mom."
All the proceeds from Dickey's
dinner will fund scholarships for the
Texas A&M University Health Sci
ence Center College of Medicine
Dean's Excellence Scholarship Fund.
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Dallas suburb’s 'Blue House’ was home
to illegal drug ring, federal authorities say
PLANO, Texas (AP) — Neighbors said the little blue
house on the east side of this Dallas suburb was as busy as
a drive-through, with scores of clean-cut youths beating a
path to its door to buy heroin.
"Fifty to 60 cars a day were making purchases," James
Queen, who lives next door, told The Dallas Morning News.
"And on the weekends it was twice as many — any time
of the day or night."
Federal authorities say the house was the epicenter of
a drug ring that sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of
heroin and cocaine before it was closed down last spring.
In response to a string of heroin-related deaths and res
idents' complaints, Plano police raided the blue house
twice last year, although the investigation into the drug
ring continued until last week.
On Wednesday, a state and federal task force an
nounced a 36-count indictment against 29 alleged
drug pushers.
In the raids of April and May 1997, police arrested the
suspected drug peddlers and turned the house over to its
rightful owner.
Federal officials and police say 24 of the defendants are
directly connected to the 1997 deaths of Milan Malina, 20;
George Wesley Scott, 19; Rob Hill, 18; and Erin Baker, 16.
They are among the 17 young people in Plano to die of
heroin overdoses since September 1994.
"The people that we charged, we believe the evidence
will show, were actively involved in distributing this
drug," U.S. Attorney Mike Bradford of the Eastern District
of Texas, which includes Plano, said.
"And they have the same responsibility, in our
opinion, of anyone else causing the injury, deaths and
the pain that happened in this community. They
should be held responsible."
Federal authorities say the black tar heroin that killed
the four youths came from the poppy fields of Guerrero,
Mexico. The drug ring's alleged leader, Ecliserio Martinez
Garcia, 38, also is from Guerrero.
Martinez Garcia and three partners—Aurelio Mendez,
36; Salvador "Chino" Pineda Contreras, 26; and his broth
er, Jose Antonio Pineda, 22 — based their Collin County
operations in McKinney, about 15 miles north of Plano.
They worked ou t of a house a few blocks from the city's
downtown square.
It was a close-knit operation, authorities said — and
profitable. According to last week's indictment, officials
found $54,610 beneath the seat of a car carrying Martinez
Garcia and Mendez on Aug. 1,1997.
The indictment alleges the ring targeted Plano as an un
tapped and lucrative new market.
In the indictment, Pineda Contreras was quoted as
saying that he was aware of the Plano overdoses and
deaths, but "once the heroin was distributed, it was not
his problem."
Before the crackdown, the dealers "never had to wor
ry about their accountability, that their poison might kill
somebody," Sgt. A.D. Paul, a Plano narcotics officer, told
the newspaper. "But now they have to think about it."
A trial for the 29 people indicted last week is tentative
ly set for Sept. 21.
Bradford said the defendants face 20 years to life in
prison if they're convicted. They won't be eligible for pa
role and would probably have to serve at least 80 percent
of their sentences, he said.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A 60-year-
old Brownsville woman could
spend the rest of her life behind
bars for hiring a hitman to kill her
daughter's ex-boyfriend.
Dora Cisneros was convicted
May 12 in federal court of hatch
ing a plot in which telephone
calls and travel from Mexico were
involved in Joey Fischer's shoot
ing death. Sentencing is set for
later today.
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the conviction that he was pleased
with the verdict.
"This woman is a murderer of
children," he said. "She needs to
be put away."
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relationship with Cisneros'
youngest daughter, Cristina, in
the summer of 1992.
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lowing March in his driveway as
he prepared for school.
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der in a 1994 trial in state court.
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