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THE BATTALION
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HOUSTON (AP) — It could
ced to ‘|lWai ^e months or years to return
t s the lone suspect in the deaths of
was a at . „ <
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Texas from Britain so he can be
retried using new DNA evi
dence, a Travis County assistant
district attorney said.
Robert Elmer Kleasen, who
narrowly avoided the electric
chair 25 years ago, was behind
bars in a British prison
Wednesday at the request of U.S.
authorities.
Officials at Scotland Yard said
the 69-year-old Kleasen was
ordered detained Monday on two
extradition warrants related to
u
We [knew
Kleasen’s] sentence
was going to be up.
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— Bryan Case
assistant district attorney
the Oct. 28, 1974, robbery-slay
ings of Mormon missionaries
Mark Fischer, 19, of Milwaukee,
and Gary Smith Darley, 20, of
Simi Valley, Calif.
Kleasen was nearing the end
of a three-year British prison
sentence.
“We knew he was there. We
also knew his prison sentence
was going to be up,” said Bryan
Case, a Travis County assistant
district attorney.
Case said prosecutors are pre
pared to try him using DNA
issults that detected blood of one
Ithe missionaries on his pants.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Cocaine shipment seized at Texas border
HIDALGO (AP) — A hidden compartment in a vehicle crossing the bor
der from Mexico yielded cocaine with an estimated street value of about
$3 million, according to federal agents who arrested the car's driver.
U.S. Customs Service inspectors confiscated 75 pounds of cocaine
from the vehicle crossing the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge.
The seizure was the largest of 18 drug busts made by U.S. Customs
officials in South Texas during the past week, said Rick Pauza, a U.S.
Customs spokesman.
He said a 32-year-old suspect was arrested and charged Friday by a
federal court with importation and possession of a controlled substance
with the intent to distribute.
Pauza said agents discovered the narcotic hidden in a compartment
behind the back seat of a 1992 Grand Marquis being driven by Jose
Pablo Rios-Ramirez, a Mexican citizen.
Law officers have confiscated 968 pounds of marijuana and 161
pounds of cocaine from area locations since Oct. 17.
San Antonio resort
plans may be halted
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — If
environmentalists in Central
Texas have their way, a devel
oper’s plan to build a resort on
the recharge zone of a massive
underground water reservoir
will be put on hold until a geo
logical survey is done.
They are urging the San
Antonio City Council not to
approve a special tax district
that would support the project
over the Edwards Aquifer. San
Antonio is the country’s largest
metropolitan area that has
relied solely on groundwater
for its municipal needs.
The aquifer also supplies
Texas’ largest springs, which
contain federally endangered
fish and other creatures.
Annalisa Peace, an environ
mentalist who has pushed for
extra aquifer protection, said
she would rather have council
members vote the district down
until city officials learn more
about the property.
And state Rep. Art Reyna,
D-San Antonio, who helped
craft the law that allows the
coyncil to create the tax dis
trict, is now advising the coun
cil not to approve the develop
ment and to instead approved
to buy the land and turn it into
a public park.
Reyna said he initially sup
ported the legislation to make
sure the city’s financial inter
ests were protected. But he now
believes it would be an environ
mental mistake.
“It was a project that,
frankly. I did not know enough
about at the time of the bill,” he
told the San Antonio Express-
News in Thursday’s editions.
The opposition comes as
talks are under way between
city staff and Lumberman’s
Investment Corp. for the com
pany to build up to three golf
courses, two hotels and 3,000
homes, businesses and apart
ments on 2,855 acres it owns in
northeastern Bexar County.
Lumberman’s says the resort
is an environmentally friendly
alternative to what it could do
with the property. Under a plan
filed 15 years ago, the company
has the legal right to build up to
9,000 apartments, businesses or
homes on 1,812 acres of the
property.
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