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HOUSTON (AP) — A
Taiwanese national pleaded
guilty Tuesday to charges of
conspiring to hold a Chinese
national hostage pending
payment of a smuggling fee.
Kan Yen Feng, 42,
admitted in federal court in
Houston to conspiring to seize
Fu Mei Chen, 31, to compel
others to pay a smuggling fee
as a condition for her release.
Feng faces up to life in
prison. He will be sentenced
Dec. 17.
Court documents say Fu
Mei Chen arrived off the coast
of Guatemala by ship from
China in February 1998 with
many other Chinese nationals.
Her family paid $15,000 for
her to be smuggled into the
United States.
Chen later learned her fee
was $40,000, and Feng
admitted to holding her in
Guatemala for 15 months. In
May 1999, he turned Chen
over to Mexican smugglers,
and they smuggled her into
Brownsville.
She was then delivered to
another smuggler, Yung Ming
Chen, 43, in Houston. She
couldn't afford the smuggling
fee and was told that she
would be sold to other
smugglers in New York City.
June 1, 1999, Fe Mei Chen,
who was being held in a
second story room at the
Roadrunner Inn on Highway
59 in Houston, fell and broke
her hack while trying to
escape. She was taken to a
hospital while Yung Ming
Chen was charged with
immigrant smuggling.
Assistant U.S. Attorney
Edward Gallagher said Fe Mei
Chen has partially recovered
from her injuries, but she
occasionally uses a wheelchair
and must use a cane to walk.
He said she has a temporary
visa, and prosecutors will help
her seek a permanent visa to
stay in the United States when
Feng’s case is concluded.
Yung Ming Chen was
sentenced in February last
year to 27 years in prison. He
also was ordered to pay a
$100,000 fine and pay nearly
$99,000 in restitution for Fe
Mei Chen’s medical
expenses.
Yung Ming Chen's
accomplices, Zeng Yuan Wu,
32, a Chinese national from
Houston, and Duan Qiang
Zhang, 33, a Chinese national
from Los Angeles, also
pleaded guilty to smuggling
and were sentenced in March
last year to 12 and 18 months
in prison, respectively.
Paul Schell, who has faced
First-term troubles ranging
from riots to Boeing’s
departure, was trying Tuesday
to avoid being the first Seattle
mayor voted out of office
since 1956.
City Attorney Mark Sidran
and King County Councilman
Greg Nickels were mounting
strong challenges in the
primary. Schell needed to beat
at least one of* them to
advance to November’s
general election.
Last week’s terrorist
attacks were “the kind of
context that is going to favor
an incumbent, for stability,’’
said local historian Walt
Crowley. But he said Schell
“has a tremendous capacity to
screw up’’ and questioned
whether the mayor would
survive the primary.
Schell, 63, knows he has a
lot to overcome. He slept as
Mardi Gras rioting left one
dead and more than 70 injured
this year. Boeing didn’t warn
him before announcing it was
moving its headquarters to
Chicago.
But the city’s handling of
the 1999 World Trade
Organization protests has
most strongly marred his
tenure. About 50,000
demonstrators overwhelmed
the 400-plus police officers
assigned to control them; the
city shut down in clouds of
tear gas.
“Paul Schell has had his
chance and I think we need
new leadership in the city,’’
said apartment manager Gary
Kirch, 56, who voted for
Nickels.
The top two finishers in the
primary advance to the
general election. Schell,
Nickels and Sidran — all
Democrats in this liberal city
of 563,000 people — led a
field of 12 candidates.
The last Seattle mayor to
lose a general election was
Allan Pomeroy in 1956. It’s
been even longer since a
mayor failed to survive the
primary — Charles Smith in
1936, Crowley said.
Schell has been stressing
his record in Seattle’s
neighborhoods, where he
boosted spending on roads and
helped raise millions of
dollars for new or improved
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known for
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which
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public and banned sitting on
sidewalks in some business
districts.
State Fair Association INS detains 2 men
hires cleanup company f° r q ues tio n ing
DALLAS (AP) — The State Fair
Association will pay a private company
$700,000 to clean up the grounds this year,
leaving thousands of local workers out of a job.
Workers who lined up early Monday to
apply for the jobs were met with signs that
read, “We Do Not Have Any Grounds or
Housekeeping Positions This Year.’’
The fair association has for years employed
ticket takers, parking lot attendants and local
residents to maintain grounds during fair time.
About 1,500 people handled the cleanup jobs
last year.
But a private company has been hired this
year in a move fair officials say will save
money and improve efficiency.
Bob Hilbun, the fair’s vice president of
maintenance and engineering, says, “It’s been a
humongous hassle” trying to keep the minimum-
wage jobs filled and properly supervised. He said
using a private firm will help reduce workers’
compensation claims and insurance costs.
“Why are they cutting us out?” asked
Dwight Harris, who was ready to apply to work
his ninth fair.
“How could you let a contractor come in
when we’ve been coming out here 10 to 15
years?” said Curtis Mack, who said he had
“never missed a day” in 13 years of working
the fairgrounds.
The ticket and parking lot jobs have been
filled. But workers are still needed for this
107th State Fair of Texas, which begins a 24-
day run Sept. 28.
Sharon Martin, a maintenance worker at
the Dallas Convention Center, told The
Dallas Morning News for Tuesday’s editions
that she made about $1,300 last year cleaning
up around Big Tex. She saved her earnings
for Christmas presents.
Middle-school
students charged
with terrorist threats
FORT WORTH (AP) -
Three middle-school
students have been charged
with making a terrorist
threat for allegedly
threatening and harassing a
schoolmate who was born in
India.
Police say the charges
against the three Forest Oak
Middle School students
qualify for misdemeanor
prosecution, but they’ll ask
prosecutors to upgrade
charges to a felony hate
crime.
The three were taken into
custody Friday after another
student told school officials
NEWS IN BRIEF
that the three were taunting
and threatening to “shoot and
kill’’ the Indian student in the
wake of last week’s terrorist
attacks on New York and
Washington.
Two of the students
detained are 13 years old, the
other is 14. All have been
suspended from the southeast
Fort Worth school.
Fort Worth school
superintendent Thomas Tocco
this week sent letters home to
parents promoting tolerance.
UT System offers
resources to help
with attack aftermath
AUSTIN (AP) - The
University of Texas System is
offering its medical and
technical expertise to help
emergency response officials
in Washington, D.C. and New
York.
Chancellor R.D. Burck said
Tuesday the 15-campus
system has trauma surgeons,
nurses, lab technicians,
forensic scientists,
counselors, psychologists,
social workers, translators
and other experts ready to
help in any way needed.
“The full resources of the
UT System are available to
the nation in response to
these tragic events,’’ Burck
said.
UT Southwestern Medical
Center in Dallas already has
pitched in. A medical team
drove to Washington last
week to deliver skin grafts.
TYLER, Texas (AP) — Two men being held on
immigration violations in an East Texas jail were
questioned Monday by the FBI.
On Friday evening, an INS agent arrested Mohammed L.
Fahad, 18, on a federal detainer.
Tyler-based FBI agents arrested Mustafa Abu Jdai, 28,
early Saturday and are holding him for the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service,, according to Smith County jail
records.
The pair, caught with expired visas, will be in the county
jail until Thursday, when they will be transferred to Fort
Worth to begin deportation proceedings, the Tyler Morning
Telegraph reported in a story for Tuesday’s editions.
INS spokesman Tomas Zuniga in Dallas declined to talk
about the men and referred questions about them to the FBI.
“We’ve been instructed not to make any comments on
anything related to Tuesday’s tragic events,” Zuniga told
The Associated Press on Monday evening.
Spokesmen for the FBI did not immediately return calls
to the AP.
Fahad was born in India while Jdai’s jail information
does not list a country of origin, said Lt. Deal Folnlar, jail
administrator. He said he does not know where they were
arrested or whether they know each other.
The two were interviewed by the FBI on Monday
morning, a sergeant in the Smith County jail told the AP.
The INS fingerprinted the pair that evening, said the officer,
who declined to give his name.
The men have been segregated from the other prisoners,
kept in isolated cells.
“That’s for safety purposes. In general population, they
might have problems,” Smith County Sheriff’s Department
Maj. Bobby Garmon.
Tyler is about 90 miles'of Dallas.
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