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Student captured, charged in mailbox bombing spree
The Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — A 21-year-old college student was charged yesterday in the string of pipe bombs left in mailboxes in five states after he was arrested on a wind-swept highway outside Reno, ending a manhunt that stretched across half the country.
Luke J. Helder of Pine Island, Minn., was captured after dropping at least one gun out his car window, said Alan Davidson, spokesman for the Nevada Highway Patrol. A bomb squad was called to check the vehicle for explosives.
westbound vehicle and tipped off authorities, who pulled him over after a 40-mile chase that reached 100 mph.
"It is him," said Gayle Jacobs, an FBI spokeswoman in Las Vegas.
Helder was stopped more than 1,500 miles from western Illinois, where some of the first bombs were found Friday. A motorist on Interstate 80 spotted Helder's
U. S. Attorney Charles W. Larson said Helder was responsible for the injuries suffered Friday by a woman in Tipton, Iowa.
The capture came just eight hours after the FBI issued an all-points bulletin for Helder and said it wanted to question him about the 18 pipe bombs found since Friday. His father, at the family's home in Minnesota, also pleaded with Helder: "Please don't hurt anyone else ... You have the attention you wanted."
Six people were wounded -
none seriously — by bombs left in mailboxes in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and Texas. The Tipton resident, Delores Werling, 70, suffered cuts and sharpel wounds to her hands and face
Most of the bombs were accompanied by the notes warning that more "attention getters" were on the way.
Before the arrest, FBI agent Jim Bogner in Omaha, where the investigation is centered, refused to say how Helder had become part of the case.
But tidbits about Helder began coming in yesterday: Authorities said he apparently made a cellular phone call that was relayed through a southern Utah on Monday afternoon. And a college newspaper in Wisconsin said it gave the FBI a seven-page letter yesterday that was received over the weekend and signed with Helder's name.
Obstruction trial starts for firm
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Partners at Arthur Andersen "realized the law was coming" when they decided last fall to shred Enron-related documents, a federal prosecutor said yesterday as testimony began in the accounting firm's obstruction of justice trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Friedrich told jurors that Andersen had paid a $7 million fine a year earlier to settle allegations of wrongdoing in an unrelated case and that was enough motive to destroy documents and computer files related to Enron's complicated web of financing.
Friedrich cited notes by an Andersen attorney in early October that warned a government investigation of Enron was "highly probable."
pleaded innocent to a single count of obstruction. Its attorneys have insisted Andersen did not authorize the destruction of information related to the government investigation.
The accounting firm has
A conviction could be the final blow to Andersen, which has lost clients, partners and employees in the Enron fallout.
The case also is being watched closely because the government's likely star witness — former Andersen auditor David Duncan, who was in charge of the Enron account — could reveal details on the complicated partnerships that led to Enron's controversial bankruptcy filing in December.
Defense attorney Rusty Hardin said Andersen was simply following a "document retention policy" and should have been shredded needless files for months. At
one point, he held up for jurors a thick stack of papers.
"These are e-mails and documents that reflect differences" between the Chicago headquarters and the Houston audit team over Enron, he said. "If these documents showed internal arguments ... wouldn't you expect those to be destroyed?"
Hardin labeled the government's case a "rush to judgment" to find Andersen officials who, according to the indictment, "corruptly persuaded" others to wipe out documents.
But prosecutors suggested Andersen was still hurting from a $7 million fine paid to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that Andersen had issued false and misleading reports on behalf of Waste Management Inc.