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I DALLAS (AP) — Police have not identified the bad
ly burned body, but said it was found in the trunk of
a car often driven by a Dallas pastor who has been
r/ missing nearly a week.
Friends and relatives of the Rev. Daryl McNealy, 31,
an associate pastor at the Greater El Bethel Baptist
Church in the city’s Oak Cliff section, are bracing for
t|ie worst.
■ The burned-out car was found late Friday night. Po
lice said dental records will be checked in an effort to
■|*;V Kpentify the body.
Officials classified the case as a homicide but would
ot disclose the cause of death.
Nira McNealy, the pastor’s sister, said about 200
lends and family gathered Saturday at the McNealy
family home to pray.
|l The family is mystified about his disappearance,
1 she said.
“It’s been frustrating and painful the last few days,
jst not knowing,” she said. “Everybody knows some-
ling is wrong.”
The car, which had first been sighted in a wooded
area of Oak Cliff on Wednesday, was reported burn
ing about 11:15 p.m. Friday.
Firefighters found the body in the trunk after ex
tinguishing the blaze.
Family members said they were not alarmed when
they did not see McNealy Tuesday or during the day
on Wednesday.
But when he missed the family’s Thanksgiving
dinner Wednesday night, they knew something
was wrong.
“We realized that none of us had talked to him,”
McNealy said. “The red flag kind of came up. We
knew something was wrong.”
The family reported him missing to police on
Thursday after he failed to show up for a church ser
vice on Thursday.
“It is not in his character for us to go days without
seeing him or hearing from him,” the sister said.
“We’re a close family and we try to keep up with each
other.”
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tie and put me in prison,” she
said, “but God took the opportu-
ity to cleanse me ... I see myself
s a better person.”
In 1990, Dallas County Commis-
ioner John Wiley Price gave her a
|ob, paying her out of his own pock-
t when he could not immediately
ind a place for her on the county
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so she could take full-time control of
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she made to use her freedom to
help others.
“I made a conscious decision that
I needed to come here full time,” she
said. “I had to make a decision. That
decision is 1 stepped out on faith.”
“/ think God left a little
bit of bitterness within
me. Not toward anyone
in particular, but
toward the system”
— Joyce Ann Brown
founder of Mothers (Fathers) for the
Advancement of Social Systems Inc.
The agency helps former prison
inmates find jobs and get acclimated
to society. It also uses her well-rec
ognized name to focus attention on
people wronged by the justice sys
tem. But it was not until now that she
decided to dedicate all her time to
running the four-person operation.
The organization’s office is filled
with reminders of Brown’s life and
those who helped renew it.
The most prominent is a poster
sized photo of Price, wearing a stern
expression. Others include a smiling
Jenny Jones, among the television
talk-show hosts to whom Brown has
told her story.
That story dates to 1980, when
Brown and another woman, Rene
Michelle Taylor of Denver, were ar
rested on charges of robbing a North
Dallas fur store in which owner Ru
bin Danziger was shot to death as
his wife watched.
Taylor’s fingerprints were found
on the getaway car, and she later ad
mitted to the killing. Although there
was no evidence that Brown and
Taylor knew each other, the car had
been rented to a Joyce Ann Brown
of Denver.
Brown of Denver was tracked
down in her hometown and admitted
loaning the car to Taylor. Meanwhile,
a police officer remembered a Joyce
Ann Brown in Dallas who had some
brushes with the law. Coincidentally,
she was employed in a fur store.
Despite the lack of physical evi
dence linking Brown of Dallas to the
crime, she was found guilty of being
an accomplice, largely because of
the testimony of Danziger’s wife and
a jail cellmate who said Brown ad
mitted her participation.
Information eventually was re
vealed that the cellmate, Martha
Bruce, was a convicted perjurer,
and that prosecutors had failed to
provide that information to de
fense lawyers.
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exican farmers protest NAFTA, imports
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ay and advertisi MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of nationalists
:ast TV’s abilityp'from the dusty northern plains rode their horses into
I Mexico City yesterday; this time it was not Pancho Vil
la but a group protesting farm policy, agricultural im-
lorts and the North American Free TLade Agreement
IjNAFTA).
?se platform even* Repeating Villa’s famous feat — almost 85 years to
the masses inaf the day after the mustachioed rebel leader rode into
sees nationalT' the capital in December 1914 during the Mexican Rev-
a in New York,!;} olution — the group, El Barzon, rode 52 days over
y want to usetfeif.OOO miles (2,000 kms) from the border city of Ciu-
r Internet addresj dad Juarez to Mexico City.
'e playing with 1 # The 200 riders, accompanied by thousands of sup-
mmercial buyem Porters, passed out fliers protesting the poverty and
igeles, said. undercapitalization of the nation’s farms, and accus-
econd commenw'g f he government of allowing in cheap foreign im-
5 a bold movef'j Ports of grain and fruit.
; “Did you know that even after the Mexican Revo
lution, 30 million people live in poverty on Mexican
farms?” one banner carried on the march read.
Oscar Chacon, a Ciudad Juarez native wearing a
wide-brimmed straw hat and sitting astride a bay
mare, said the trade pact between the United States,
Canada and Mexico was largely responsible for the
farmers’ problems.
“We’ve got boxes of apples piled up unsold in Chi
huahua,” Chacon said. “Why are they letting in ap
ples from the United States?”
El Barzon — which stages militant protests on behalf
of farmers and debtors forced into insolvency by high
interest rates — is demanding a renegotiation of NAF
TA to provide greater protection for Mexican farmers.
The procession included dozens of used U.S. cars and
trucks that the Mexican government has not allowed to
be legally imported, despite the fact U.S. vehicles are
much cheaper than any available in Mexico.
San Antonio police
reporting robberies
by unskilled thieves
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Au
thorities believe the city’s
newest bank robber is more
brazen than bright.
A man in his 30s wearing a base
ball cap and sunglasses entered a
Bank One branch on Saturday. Ap
pearing to brandish a gun, he de
manded cash from three tellers and
fled with a bag of money.
Police found a toy gun in a near
by grocery parking lot, and they be
lieve that was the robber’s weapon.
While Saturday’s robber is free
, so far, authorities cite a list of in
ept local bank robbers who
haven’t been so fortunate.
Gerald Wayne Atkinson, a
drifter from Illinois, was convicted
last month of unarmed robbery and
attempted robbery in San Antonio
and sentenced to 57 months in jail.
Police said Atkinson walked into
a bank in March and handed a re
ceptionist a holdup note.
The startled employee apol
ogized, saying she did not han
dle money. Atkinson snatched
back his demand note and hur
ried out the door.
Atkinson showed up at a near
by bank a few hours later, waited
in line and handed a teller his let
ter — a polite note, ending with
“Thank you.”
He walked away with cash but
was quickly captured by officers still
investigating his botched first job.
Karlton Halbert may be San
Antonio’s oldest serial robber, em
barking on a 15-month crime
spree at age 69.
The retired insurance agent
was arrested in 1995 after trying
to spend $300 in bills that had
been tainted red by an exploding
dye pack.
Officers who searched Halbert’s
home found a hold-up note, more
marked money and a wig that
helped witnesses identify him.
“It wasn’t very smart, that’s for
sur,”’ the now 75-year-old grand
father of 10 told the San Antonio
Express-News. He was released in
May from a Fort Worth jail after
serving a four-year sentence for
unarmed bank robbery.
Hollywood sometimes por
trays bank robbers as brilliant
thieves who precisely carry out
complicated schemes to outwit
bankers and police. Experts said
reality is much different —- that
many robbers act impulsively and
are often unarmed.
“Usually it’s just an opportu
nity that presents itself — people
just wanting some quick money,”
said Lt. Michael Akeroyd of the
San Antonio police department’s
bank robbery unit. “They may be
temporarily unemployed, trying
to impress a girlfriend or strung
out on drugs.”
Federal authorities say they
solve more than 60 percent of U.S.
bank robberies. San Antonio offi
cials say they make arrests in
more than 65 percent of cases.
This year, authorities have made
arrests in 10 of Bexar County’s 21
bank robberies.
Bank robberies have dropped
5.8 percent over the last three
years nationally, to 7,584 in 1998,
but they are increasing in Bexar
County, from 18 in 1997 and 16
last year to the 21 since January,
according to county records.
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