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“We have nothing at all
right now to indicate
(Dotson’s) a suspect. He’s just
a citizen. It’s a missing per
son’s case,” Flynn said.
At Hurlock, a rural commu
nity on Maryland’s eastern
shore, Dotson’s aunt, Pat
Waters, said Tuesday that
Dotson had returned to town for
the summer and was at her
house Sunday, but they didn’t
discuss Dennehy. She didn’t
know where he was Tuesday.
Waters said Dotson is “prob
ably scared. He’s not a person
that talks a lot.”
Dotson, who was raised by
his grandmother in the family
home where Waters lives, led his
high school team to a state
championship in 1999. Waters
said her nephew “put Hurlock
on the map.”
“Even people who don’t
know Carlton, if you ask them
about him, they’ll say he’s a bas
ketball player,” she said.
Dotson, a 6-foot-7 forward,
averaged 4.6 points in a reserve
role with Baylor this season. He
decided not to return next sea
son after his playing time steadi
ly declined throughout his only
season at Baylor. He was
expected to transfer to a lower-
division NCAA school before
next fall for his final season of
college eligibility.
Brandy Helmer, who has
known Dotson since they were
in sixth grade and graduated
from high school with him, said
she didn’t think Dotson shot
Dennehy.
“Carlton’s not that type of
person,” Helmer said. “He was
an outgoing student. Carlton’s
got his head on his shoulders.”
Dennehy, 21, transferred to
Baylor last fall. He had played
two seasons at the University of
New Mexico, where he aver
aged 10.6 pointy and 7.5
rebounds his sophomore year,
but then was cut from that team
after losing his temper during
practice.
His mother, Valorie
Brabazon, told “Good Moril
America” from her Carson C:;
Nev., home on Tuesday that si
remains hopeful.
“Our son is still alive, ail
we’re keeping a positiveattituJi
about it and keeping our hops
up. And we know God is nil
him.”
Baylor President Robert!
Sloan Jr. said the university!
working with police andschod
officials were trying to comic:
Dennehy’s family.
“Nothing really preparesyn
for an ordeal like this,” Sloa
said. “While we still havemai;
questions and very few answers,
we do have confidence in fti
various law enforcement ager
cies that are operative in this at
uation.”
He said firearms are bant;
on campus but would not sir
whether he was alarmed a
reports that Dennehy aid
Dotson may have been fir®
guns. Dennehy and Dotson live:
in an off-campus apartmer:
across the street from the bas
ketball arena.
Smuggling
Continued from page 1
immigrant called one of the numbers and
was told where to go next, he said.
Prosecutors said Chavez had simply
taken over her husband’s business.
Heriberto Flores-Rebollar, 35, has several
convictions for transporting and harbor
ing illegal immigrants and is currently
serving prison time for illegally re-enter
ing the country after being deported for a
previous conviction, according to court
documents.
“We believe the evidence will show her
involvement became more (increased)
once her husband was arrested,” Assistant
U.S. Attorney Daniel Rodriguez said.
“She inherited the operation.”
Gabriel Gomez, one of Flores-
Rebollar’s associates, told authorities he
had been helping Chavez smuggle immi
grants into the country for at least eight
months and that Chavez had been
involved in transporting at least 200 loads
of people, Meza testified. The agent said
Chavez at one point threatened if Gomez
talked to authorities “his family would
pay ... his family would be harmed.”
Meanwhile, Chavez’s mother,. Maria
Luisa Gonzalez, testified that Chavez,
who was arrested June 13 trying to enter
Guatemala from her native Honduras, did
not intend to permanently flee the coun
try. Authorities in Guatemala quickly
deported her to the United States.
“She was going to come back here,"
Gonzalez said. Botley also cited Chavez
fleeing to Honduras as another reason to
deny bond.
As Gonzalez testified, her daughter
sobbed quietly, grasping a tissue, staring
at the defense table with her head bowed.
Just before Botley denied the bond
request Tuesday afternoon, an unsteady
Gonzalez had to be helped from the court
room after marshals had given her water
and friends had been fanning her. A nurse
later said Gonzalez had just become over
ly excited.
During his cross examination of
Gonzalez, Rodriguez suggested she was
not telling the truth in her earlier testimo
ny, saying investigators had a recording of
her discussing with Chavez and Gomez
how her daughter should continue to hide
from authorities.
Botley cut off questioning after
Gonzalez was asked whether she accom
panied her daughter to retrieve some
smuggling money from a house, which
she denied.
In a conference at the bench, Botley
wanted to know if Gonzalez was being
considered as a co-conspirator.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys later
appeared before Botley and they said that
if authorities questioned her in the future,
she should be advised of her rights. After
the hearing, attorneys declined to talk
with reporters about whether Gonzalez
was involved in the ring.
Prosecutors are still deciding whether
to seek the death penalty against 12 of the
14 people, including Chavez, named in a
58-count indictment unsealed last month.
The indictment accused Chavez of
leading the smuggling cell that coordinat
ed activities of three other rings involved
in the operation.
As the top figure, prosecutors say
Chavez, who is a legal U.S. resident, set
the price per immigrant, organized their
trafficking through Mexico and into the
United States, arranged safe houses in
Texas and hired transportation inland.
Nine of the indicted suspects, includ
ing Chavez and the truck’s driver, Tyrone
Williams, are in federal custody.
Authorities are still looking for five of the
people named in the indictment.
COLLEGE STATION POLICE DEPARTMENT BLOTTER
6/30/03 7:45 a.m. Burglary of a vehicle,
1301 Barthelow. Taken: stereo, speakers,
amp.
6/30/03 7:48 a.m. Burglary of a vehicle,
1301 Barthelow. Taken: stereo.
6/30/03 7:50 a.m. Major accident,
George Bush/Wellborn. Complaint of neck
pain.
6/30/02 8:39 a.m. Unauthorized use of
motor vehicle, 2611 Texas. Recovered:
1999 green Mazda 626.
6/30/03 10:13 a.m. Burglary of a vehicle,
1600 Southwest Parkway. Taken: stereo.
6/30/03 10:27 a.m. Warrant arrest, 1835
Sandy Point.
6/30/03 11:31 a.m. Burglary of a vehicle,
1600 Southwest Parkway. Taken: stereo.
6/30/03 12:37 p.m. Burglary of a vehicle,
1901 Holleman. Taken: CD player, speaker,
amp.
6/30/03 1:19 p.m. Burglary of a building,
1101 Rock Prarie. Taken: Palm Pilot, credit
cards, change.
6/30/03 1:51 p.m. Major accident.
Ponderosa/Lodgepole. Complaint of pain.
6/30/03 2:02 p.m. Warrant arrest, 2611
Texas. Injury to a child.
6/30/03 4:50 p.m. Major accident,
Longmire/Rock Prarie. Airbag burns.
6/30/03 5:17 p.m. Major accident,
University/Eisenhower. Complaint of pain.
6/30/03 6:17 p.m. Traffic arrest, 1501
Holleman. No driver's license.
6/30/03 7:10 p.m. Driving while license
suspended, 2101 Harvey Mitchell. One
arrest.
6/30/03 9:04 p.m. Possession of con
trolled substance, 400 Southwest Parkway.
One arrest.
6/30/03 9:26 p.m. Violation of a court
order, 3931 Springmist. One arrest.
7/1 /03 12:38 a.m. Failure to identify fugi
tive and warrants, 2501 Texas. One
arrest.
7/1/03 1:36 a.m. Public intoxication,
1204 Barthelow. One arrest.
7/1/03 2:30 a.m. Public intoxication,
1502 Texas. One arrest.
Iraq
Continued from page 1
;very day, leading some to worry
rbout the possibility of a Vietnam-
ityle political and military quagmire.
In Washington, President Bush
laid Tuesday that anti-American vio-
ence was expected, because Saddam
oyalists will stop at nothing to
egain power.
“These groups believe they have
bund an opportunity to harm
\merica, to shake our resolve in the
var on terror, and to cause us to leave
raq before freedom is fully estab-
ished,” Bush said. “They are wrong
md they will not succeed.
“There will be no return to tyran-
ly in Iraq,” he said.
In Tikrit, Abdullah Mahmoud al-
Chattab, who was leader of
Saddam’s Bani al-Nasiri tribe, was
ihot and killed Sunday afternoon
vhile he rode in his car.
Governor Hussein
il-Jubouri said al-
Chattab’s son, Odai,
ilso was wounded
vhen assailants fired
rofn a pickup truck
md fled the scene.
The killing high-
ighted the shifting
tlliances that have
:haracterized Iraq as
he country emerges
Tom 35 years of bru-
al, one-man rule.
Wen those eager to
listance themselves
Tom Saddam often pay dearly for
heir past links to him.
Al-Khattab “had many enemies
ind he had confiscated a lot of prop-
:rties and killed many people,” the
governor said, adding, “The person
vho killed him could have taken
u
They are wrong
and they will not
succeed. There will
he no return to
tyranny in Iraq.
99
— George W. Bush
president
Several Tikrit residents said the
lers could have been Saddam loy-
sts angered at the tribal leader’s
blic disavowal of the ousted dicta-
Saddam still enjoys a degree of
pularity in Tikrit, where he built
ads and schools and soccer fields,
all graffiti here reads, “Pray for
ddam’s victory because he’s a gen
ie Iraqi” and “May the occupation
1 and may Saddam return.”
“He’s just, he’s pious, he’s a real
uslim, he loves his people,” said
krit resident Abu Ahmed at the
mtion of Saddam’s name.
Most other Iraqis express disdain
r Saddam, yet anti-U.S. forces
ve persisted in stepping up attacks
occupation forces in recent days.
On Tuesday, assailants traveling
a vehicle in central Baghdad fired
•ocket-propelled grenade at a U.S.
litary vehicle, wounding three sol-
jrs. Another grenade slammed into
J.S. truck on a road 12 miles south
Baghdad, injuring three soldiers.
In western Baghdad, U.S. troops
ot and killed two people when
fir car didn’t stop at a checkpoint,
witnesses said. A U.S. military
spokesman said he had heard about
the incident but could not confirm it.
Later, two civilians were shot and
killed at another checkpoint, one by
soldiers who feared he was an insur
gent and another by a stray bullet,
witnesses said.
The increasing attacks have killed
more than 22 U.S. soldiers and
wounded dozens more since major
combat was declared over on May 1,
and many troops have become quick
er to pull their guns.
A U.S. sweep dubbed Operation
Sidewinder moved against insurgents
in the so-called “Sunni triangle”
north and east of Baghdad for a third
day Tuesday. The Army’s 4th
Infantry Division conducted 25 raids
and detained 25 suspects, a military
statement said. No major fugitives of
Saddam’s regime were among them.
In Fallujah, a blast in a cin-
derblock building in the courtyard
the al-Hassan mosque
“ killed 10 Iraqis and
wounded four late
Monday, said Col. Guy
Shields, spokesman for
the U.S. military in
Baghdad. Iraqis insist
ed the blast was caused
by a U.S. missile — an
account the military
denied.
After the explosion,
dozens of people gath
ered around the site
shouting anti-American
slogans.
“There is no God
but Allah, America is the enemy of
God,” they chanted, as a crane lifted
pieces of concrete.
Fallujah, 35 miles west of
Baghdad, has been a hotbed of anti-
American activity and scene of sev
eral confrontations involving U.S.
troops.
Meanwhile, a weekend explosion
at an ammunitions depot killed at
least 15 people and injured at least
four near Hadithah, 150 miles north
west of Baghdad, officials said
Tuesday.
Metal scavengers dismantled 155
mm artillery rounds, spreading gun
powder on the ground at the depot
that housed old Iraqi artillery. A
spark there Saturday triggered the
blast, local officials said.
Policeman Lt. Saad Aziz said
there was a large pile of TNT at the
depot, and people were smoking.
“This kind of TNT is very sensitive
to heat. A small spark could set the
whole thing off,” he said.
Mohammed Nayil Assaf,
Hadithah’s mayor, put the death toll
at 25 and the injured at 6. He insisted
that U.S. troops failed to adequately
protect a large amount of ammuni
tion stored in the area.
“It was a tragic day for Hadithah,”
he told the Associated Press outside
the town hall, near a 3-foot-high pile
of shell casings seized from looters.
Libraries
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NEWS IN BRIEF
City courts relocate
The City of College Stai
Municipal Court and to
Court will move to a new to
tion on Krenek Tap tod
beginning July 5.
The current location is on
Texas Avenue next to tilt
College Station Poict
Department.
The Municipal Court will cte
on July 3 and remain dosed
through July 7. No court busi
ness will be handled during tint
period.
Recipients of citations issued
by the College Station Polite
Department or the Fid
Department will receive a full H
business days to enter a plea on
their citations.
Teen Court, which has beet
meeting at the College Statiot
City Hall, will begin hearing al
cases at the new location begin
ning July 7.
O'Malley
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has taken a vow of poverty and
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san power. In Palm Bead
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