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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Aug. 29, 1985
Officials act against marijuana 3 raids net $14.2 million worth of pot in Florida fields
United Press International
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Authorities said yesterday that $14.2 million worth of marijuana was uprooted and destroyed this month in three raids at Eglin Air Force Base.
Although no arrests were made in any of the raids, authorities are getting closer each time and already know of another field they plan to seize and burn when the time comes, said U.S. Marsh Driscoll Oglesby.
The latest raid occurred Tuesday when about a dozen lawmen with 15 gallons of fuel and a bulldozer went to a remote area some five miles from Field and torched 1,431 marijuana with an estimated value of $2.9 million.
It took marshals and military personnel about two hours to yank the plants — some up to 16 feet tall — bundle them in stacks of 10 and burn them in a trench.
Oglesby said Eglin Air Force Base
security officers were tipped off about the patch by an unnamed source Monday night. He said they decided to destroy the plants right away rather than stake out the area
The latest raid brought to more than $14.2 million the value of the illegal plants that have been seized during August raids at the base near Fort Walton Beach. All the raids were prompted by tips from callers.
The first raid occurred Aug. 14, when authorities found and burned
2,159 pot plants that were 10 to 12 feet tall. The day after, authorities returned to a nearby field and burned an additional 1,574 plants. The plants from the second raid were between seven and 10 feet tall.
Oglesby said all the pot fields found this month were in the same general location and he thinks they are part of the same operation. He said Eglin authorities were getting closer every day to an arrest in the ongoing investigation.
El Salvadorans say Cuba aids fighters
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador—The three men being held in connection with the killings of six Americans told authorities that Cuba, Nicaragua and Vietnam helped train Salvadoran guerrillas, a National Guard commander said yesterday.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte announced Tuesday that security
forces, with the help of the United States, had captured three men thought to be responsible for gunning down four U.S. Marines, two American businessmen and seven Latin Americans at an outdoor cafe in San Salvador on June 19.
Col. Aristides Napoleon Montes said none of the men in custody for the killings had been trained outside the country.
Jamaica tightens security
United Press International
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Authorities have fired 160 airport guards and runway workers in a crackdown urged by U.S. officials after recent seizures of marijuana aboard Jamaican flights to the United States, officials said Tuesday.
Security at Jamaica's two international airports in Kingston and Montego Bay will be handled in the
future by Jamaican police and restrictions on access to off-limits areas of the airports will be tightened, the officials said.
The measures, announced Tuesday, come amid increasing U.S. pressure to stem the estimated $1 billion flow of marijuana from Jamaica, a cornerstone of President Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative and a principal recipient of U.S. aid.
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