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Teenage girl wanted for capital murdei
TEXAS CITY(AP) — An 18-year-old Hitch
cock girl wanted on capital murder charges re
mained in the Galveston County Jail Wednesday
after eluding authorities for more than a year.
Teresa Moreno Dennis of Hitchcock was ap
prehended on Friday in El Salvador, where au
thorities say she had been staying with a relative
of her newborn baby’s father for four months.
Dennis was certified to stand trial as an adult
at the age of 17, in connection with the August
1999 murder of 40-year-old Johnny Owens Jr.
His body was found in a room at a Texas City
motel, where he had been stabbed more than 30
times and robbed.
Details of Dennis’ activities in El Salvador were
not available.
“The capture was the result of an investigation
being conducted locally,” said FBI agent Bob
Doguim said in Wednesday’s editions of the Texas
City Sun. “The investigation determined that she
was in El Salvador. At that point, our guys sent the
lead to Interpol and they worked to find her.”
Dennis was indicted on one charge of aggra
vated robbery and capital murder after she was ar
rested within the week of the murder. Abo\J
was considered an accomplice in connection I
the murder pleaded guilty. He is now servings!
year prison term.
She was labeled a fugitive in May whenshtf
not appear for a hearing.
Through a series of leads, police and FBIasi|
tracked her to El Salvador.
Along the way, she became pregnantar
child. She has other children who are stayi
a guardian in Houston, said Sgt. Brian Goetsj
who spearheaded the murder investigation.
Federal asbestos case
News in Brief
results in conviction
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston
man is facing up to five years in
prison and a $250,000 fine after a
jury convicted him of failing to com
ply with regulations governing as
bestos removal and using undocu
mented immigrants to do improper
clandestine removal work.
Federal authorities said the con
viction Tuesday of Eric Kung-Shou
Ho, 48, concluded a six-day trial and
came in the first federal asbestos
criminal case prosecuted in Texas.
Ho was convicted of failing to file
with the Texas Department of Health
the required notice of intent to reno
vate and disturb asbestos-laced ma
terial and failing to adhere with En
vironmental Protection Agency rules
covering work practices.
The case involved renovation of
an abandoned Houston hospital from
December 1997 to March 1998.
Ho was accused of hiring undoc
umented workers from Mexico to
scrape fireproofing that contained as
bestos from metal beams in the build
ing. Prosecutors said he also ih-
structed the workers to work at night
to avoid detection, failed to warn
them of the dangers of asbestos ex
posure and failed to provide them
with adequate protection from expo
sure to asbestos.
A March 1998 explosion at the
worksite led to an investigation by
the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration and uncovered the il
legal asbestos abatement work.
In April 1999, Ho and two of his
corporations were fined $1.1 million
for violating federal workplace rules
regarding asbestos.
Last August, the Texas Depart
ment of Health served him with a no
tice of violations of state laws cover
ing asbestos removal. Ho settled that
case by paying a $44,500 fine.
Lawmakers push
for university in
southern Dallas
school officials said.
West said the bill has a stn
chance of passing, with 27of|
senators as co-authors. Joness
he also expects many co-sp
DALLAS (AP) — If two state law
makers have their way, southern
Dallas County eventually will have
a full-fledged four-year university.
Sen. Royce West and Rep. Jesse
Jones, both Dallas Democrats, plan
to introduce a bill that would create
the University of North Texas at Dal
las out of the UNT System Center.
The center, located in an office park
near Interstate 20, currently is a
satellite campus of the University of
North Texas in Denton.
“Now, it’s in the embryonic
stage,” West said. “With the pass
ing of the bills, the university ac
tually will be born."
The school began offering
classes a year ago, and now
serves 574 students taking ju
nior,- senior and graduate-level
courses- in a variety of degree
programs. By 2007, the branch
should have 5,000 students,
Houston man fails
in robbery attemp
HOUSTON (AP) —Alone!
man’s attempted robbery
southwest Houston superma
failed early Wednesday whenj
lice arrived, authorities said.
Houston police spokesm
Martin DeLeon said the man
entered an HEB Pantry s:;j
shortly before it was to oper ;
a.m. apparently fled the scs
when officers showed up
ments later.
The nine employees in!
store were unharmed
gunfire was reported,-.Del
said. Officers were told the'
was armed with a handg.
pointed it at one of the woiif
and demanded she open'
store safe.
Chris
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Aviation student, instructor killed in eras!
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DENISON (AP) — An aviation student and
his instructor were killed Tuesday evening when
their plane crashed during a training Bight over
Lake Texoma, authorities said.
Lynn C. Mathew, 19, of Mesquite and John Ja
cob Marcum, 20, of Baker City, Ore., were killed
when the two-seat Cessna 152 collided with a sec
ond plane, said SE Oklahoma spokeswoman Pam
Mauldin.
Marcum was a certified aviation instructor for
Southeast Oklahoma University, which runs the
largest aerospace program in Oklahoma. The two
were on a routine training Bight when the crash oc
curred, Mauldin said.
The second plane, a Cessna 172, landed safe
ly in Sherman after the collision. The aircraft was
based out of Dallas' Addison Airport.
The occupants of that plane, Jeoffrey Reese and
Nicholas Woodyard, were not injured. Reese re
potted a large gash in his fuselage, said John Clabes,
The L
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a spokesman for the FA A in Oklahoma Cit). •Cpand
Reese said he felt something strike his plafpartic
“It was just a little before 6 p.m. and we dg Mi
about to head back to Addison when we fellBm'ht;
Reese said. f^yshare
Reese said he was fairly sure s<Jm#g'itof
substantial than a large bird had strucUispk
After sending out a mayday call. Reese lean
that Oklahoma Highway Patrol had spotter
downed plane in the water near the PlatterB I
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