University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1983
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Preliminary hearings begin today for drug suspects
By DON HENRY Staff Reporter
Nine of 17 Lawrence area residents arrested Thursday on charges of drug sales are to appear today in Douglas County District Court, jail records
More than 90 police, sheriff's and Kansas Bureau of Investigation officers arrested 17 people on charges of possession and sales of drugs. The arrests were made at many different locations in the city and in Jefferson and Leavenworth counties, Lawrence Police Chief Richard Stanwix said.
RON LIN, assistant police chief, said all the Lawrence police officers were called early Thursday morning to help make the arrests.
Jerry Harper, Douglas County District Attorney, said the arrests followed about a year of investigation that included several drug purchases by officers with the Lawrence and Douglas County Drug Unit. The drug unit is composed of two Lawrence police officers and a sheriff's officer.
"This wasn't really a 'drug bust,' " Harper said. "We simply reached a point where it was time to process these cases."
He said the arrests were made simultaneously so that possible sus-
peets would not flee the area after hearing of isolated arrests.
The district attorney's office issued warrants for the arrest of 26 people suspected of possessing and selling drugs, Harper said.
"IHOPE THIS will put 20 deal-out of business," Harper said, "and it will cause anyone else dealing in drugs to reassess what they are doing.
"So far we have not charged anyone who is the 'kingsin' in drug dealings in the city," he said.
Harper said that the arrests meant the end of the drug investigation in Lawrence but that the unit would continue to seek drug dealers.
Stanwick said the police had warrants for the arrest of three other suspects who were hospitalized and for one who was arrested on charges in Douglas County Court on other charges.
Rex Johnson, Douglas County Sheriff, said the suspects in the hospital would not be arrested until they were released.
STANWICK, JOHNSON and Harper said the drug unit needed more money to make larger drug purchases during investigations.
"To make really big arrests," Johnson said, "we need from $2,000 to $5,000, and we just don't have the money to make a buy like that."
Harper said, "In this investigation
we were working under the most severe kinds of restraints."
Stanwis said he would talk to City Manager Buford Watson to request the funding.
Johnson said he would ask Douglas County commissioners for more money.
THE AFFIDAVIT against Thomas W. Wales, one of the suspects, alleges that Wales sold to a drug investigator drugs that included marijuana and second.
Wales is charged with four counts of possession and sale of marijuana and six counts of sale and possession of a controlled substance. He is free on $5,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court today.
Olin, assistant police chief, said the suspects might give police information that could lead to the arrest of larger suppliers.
"We've already interviewed some of the people and have received some people."
More arrests are likely to be made as a result of the investigation, he said.
HARPER SAID he thought that the charges against those arrested might be altered if the suspects gave the police valuable information.
"It's not uncommon for cases to be changed around," he said, "and that is
one of many considerations we'll look at."
The names, ages, charges, bond amounts and court dates of those involved.
- Kimberly K. Morse, 20, two counts of possession with intent to sell marijuana, free on $2,500 bond, preliminary hearing April 8. Patricia T. Reeves, 20, one count of possession with intent to sell marijuana, free on $2,500 bond, preliminary hearing Tuesday.
- Brett A. Amerine, 18, one count of consent with intent to sell marijuana, free on $750 band, to appear today, John L. West Jr., 34, one count of consent with intent to sell Marijuana, free on $3,000 bond, preliminary hearing April 11.
- Mark Wagner, 22, three counts of sale of cocaine, one count of delivery of marijuana, one count of falsely reporting a crime and one count of grand theft; on $1,500 bond, preliminary hearing Thursday. Keith Tate, 30, four counts of sale of marijuana, free on $3,000 bond, preliminary hearing today.
- Mark Logan, 27, one count of sale of a narcotic drug, one count of sale of marjuana and one count of sale of cocaine; free on $7,500 bond, to appear today. Earnest E. Smith, 51, Leecompton, two counts sale of marijuana, free on $10,000 bond, preliminary hearing Thursday. Donald I. Fowler
Jr., 26, one count of sale of hashish and one count of sale of marijuana; free on $2,500 bond, to appear today.
- Louis George Galloway, 19, three counts of sale of marijuana, free on $3,000 bond, to appear today Tyrone I Dyse, 27, one count of sale of cocaine, held in lieu of $10,000 bond, preliminary hearing March 28.
- Marsh L. Martin, 36, three counts of sale of marijuana, free on $2,000 bond, to appear today. Larry D. Kelley, 33, Lecompton, two counts of sale of marijuana, free on $2,500 bond, pre-sale for sale of marijuana, Showalter, 25, two counts of sale of marijuana, free on $2,500 bond, to appear today.
- Susan D. Matney, 33, Tonganoxie, two counts of sale of marijuana, free on $2,500 bond, to appear today.
Two Eudora men who were not named in the original arrest warrants also were arrested on drug charges last week.
They are Rex A. Potts and Robert D.
Potts, both 29.
Rex Potts was booked on a charge of sale of marijuana. He is free on $1,500 bond and is to appear today.
Robert Potts also was booked on a charge of sale of marijuana and is free from all charges.
Ex-official at the EPA to lecture
A former Environmental Protection Agency administrator who resigned under presidential pressure will speak Thursday at the University of Kansas.
John P. Horton, the administrator for administration — essentially business manager for the EPA in Washington — resigned in February amid allegations that he conducted private business from his agency office.
MELVIN DUBNICK, associate professor of political science who helped organize Horton's visit, said that she had been a teacher at speak at KU before he resigned.
Dubnick also said he did not know whether Horton's resignation would change the scheduled topic of his speech, "Is Nationalwide Environmental Protection Possible in Today's Society?"
"I can't say whether he will be an attacker or a defender of Reagan," Dubnick said. "This was Horton's first government job.
Horton will speak at 8 p.m. in the Party Room of the Frank R. Burge Union.
Families seek damages for Med Center slayings
By United Press International
KANSAS City, KAN. — The families of two people killed in 1981 at the University of Kansas Medical Center are seeking $42.5 million in damages from almost 30 people and agencies who are responsible in part for the deaths.
The two lawsuits, filed by the families of Ruth Rybelt and Marc Beck, name as defendants the Med Center, state agencies, 21 individuals and four corporations. The suits were filed Friday in U.S. District Court.
BRADLEY BOAN, convicted last year of the shotgun slayings of Beck and Rybolt and sentenced to two life terms, should not have been released from prison in 1880, the suit claims. Boan had served $2½ years in the State Penitentiary for a 1977 attack on an employee of the Med Center.
In addition, the lawsuits contend health officials treating Boan did not
take adequate steps to monitor his actions before the first shooting despite previous reports of gunfire.
The suits allege that the individuals and state institutions responsible for Boan were negligent in failing to adequately protect the public from him.
AMONG THOSE named were the state parole board, prison officials, doctors who treated Boam, mental hospital and the Med Center security chief.
Witnesses said Boan entered the hospital March 20, 1981, with a shotgun. He fired several quick blasts, then left without being pursued. Beck was on duty when he was struck in the chest and killed. Rybolt, 54, a hospital visitor, was sitting in a wheelchair when she was shot.
Boan was allowed to enter the medical center "unhampered and unobstructed despite the fact that he carried a garment 12-gauge shotgun," the lawsuits allege.
Telescope may provide universal info
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A University of Virginia astronomer says a new wide-angle telescope that will be launched aboard a space shuttle is expected to answer fundamental questions about the universe and its creation.
By United Press International
THE ASTRONOMER, Robert O'Connell, a member and former chairman of the committee planning the scientific applications of Starlab, a $150 million orbiting observatory, said yesterday the equipment would give scientists new insights into the nature of the universe. He said the insights could not be gained through ground-based equipment.
Mounted on a free-floating space platform, the observatory's 40-inch telescope will offer a wide-field view of the universe. Its capabilities especially useful for studying galaxies.
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