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Friday, March 10, 1995
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Most wanted list to include drug lord
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A Mexican drug lord accused of shipping Colombian cocaine into this country by the ton was added to the FBI's "10 Most-Wanted Fugitives" list yesterday — the first international drug trafficker ever listed.
U. S. and Mexican authorities were investigating whether the drug kingpin, Juan Garcia-Abrego, had bribed a former Mexican deputy attorney general to protect his organization. The former government official, Mario Ruiz Massieu, was arrested last week in Newark, N.J., at the request of the Mexican government, which says he has several million dollars in U.S. bank accounts.
Attorney General Janet Reno personally announced the addition of Garcia-Abrego, 50, to the most wanted list at her weekly news conference. Most additions are
announced in brief FBI news releases.
“Placement of Garcia-Abrego’s name on the 10 Most Wanted List demonstrates the importance we place on wiping out these self-proclaimed drug lords who deal in human death and misery,” Reno said. “I was surprised to find that those charged with trafficking have not historically been placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List.”
Garcia-Abrego was indicted in Houston in 1993 on drug trafficking and money launder charges. The Justice Department considers his organization a conduit for tons of cocaine from Colombia's Cali cartel into this country.
Reno also pointedly praised the cooperation from the current Mexican government on drug enforcement.
"The government of Mexico has committed itself to joining with the
United States to bring about the destruction and dismantling of the Garcia-Abrego organization," said Reno, seated next to an oversize Garcia-Abrego wanted poster that she said would be circulated in the United States and Mexico.
Reno denied that the decision to list Garcia-Abrego was linked to the arrest of Ruiz Massieu, who was Mexico's top drug enforcer in the previous administration.
The current Mexican government says Ruiz Muzzainus has at least $6.9 million in a Houston bank and perhaps millions more elsewhere in the United States. News reports attributed to Mexican prosecution sources said the amounts could range from $13 million to $24 million.
There has been no official explanation of where that money came from, but published reports attributed to Mexican prosecution
sources have linked Ruiz Massieu to a drug cartel operating in Mexico's northeastern Tamaulipas state.
The Justice Department said Garcia-Abrego's organization operates on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, centered in Tamaulipas and more recently in Nuevo-Leon state.
U. S. prosecutions of the organization already have convicted more than 70 individuals in Texas, Florida and New York and seized more than 14 tons of Colombian cocaine.
The government said the Garcia-Albrego organization has distribution cells in San Antonio, Houston and New York and is known to have worked in Dallas, Chicago, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Milwaukee and Seattle and in other cities in California, Nevada, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
Garcia-Abrego is 6 feet tall, 200 pounds with brown hair and eyes.
Sailor and his dreams lost at sea
A race that began with high hopes ends in disaster
The Associated Press
In today's high-powered, big bucks world of yacht racing, Harry Mitchell was a throwback. He didn't have a sponsor, much less a media representative.
He put his aging 40-foot boat on the same starting line as the new, 60-foot racehorses, and he faced the same wild storms, monster waves and passing icebergs in a round-the-world race.
His dream was to sail solo past Cape Horn, the thrust of rock on the tip of South America. That may still be his goal — but no one has seen or heard from the 70-year-old Britain in more than a week.
"I cannot just stop believing that he is all right," Diana, his wife, told reporters from her home in Southsea, 55 miles southwest of London. "I have to be optimistic. I do not know where Harry is or whether he will be found. He is in the hands of God now."
Mitchell's emergency radio beacon was activated the night of March 2 and indicated he was about 1,450 miles west of Cape Horn in the Southern Pacific Ocean. It was last heard early Monday morning.
BOC race officials hope that Mitchell is still alive and was the victim of a freak accident that wiped out his electrical system and knocked one of his two emergency beacons overboard.
A merchant ship, the Francisca Schulte, spent several days scouring the area this week before heavy winds and 10-foot waves made it too dangerous to continue.
Yesterday, the ship headed to its original destination, the southern Chilean port of Punta Arenas, following a course that Mitchell might have taken if he was still sailing or drifting.
Another ship, the 800-foot Docriver, was stopped yesterday by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center in Valparaiso, Chile, to help with the search. The Docriver was to begin searching an area today about 1,300 miles west of Cape Horn.
"Everything that can be done is being done," said Mark Schrader, a race director, yesterday from Punta del Este. Urugay. "Harry wouldn't be giving up if he's holding together a disabled yacht, and we're not going to give up either."
Punta del Este is the finish line for the third leg of the 27,000-mile endurance race that began Sept. 17 in Charleston, S.C., and will end there in May. Seven sailors have reached the port, while six others are still at sea.
Mitchell, like all racers, had two emergency distress beacons, a survival suit, a life raft, a medical pack and radio communications equipment on Jan. 29 when the fleet left Sydney, Australia.
A retired businessman who loved to repair old clocks, Mitchell was the old salt of the fleet. The son of a Royal Air Force pilot, he also loved to fly, learning in a single-engine Tiger Moth plane.
His 10-year-old boat — the smallest in the race — had no chance in the world to win against new yachts 20 feet longer with much more sail area.
He knew that. So he had his own goals — to round Cape Horn and become the oldest man on record to sail around the world, which are not easy tasks.
Mitchell, however, has survived calamity before. In fact, his long sailing career is laced with tales of adventure and misfortune.
In 1986, while heading across the Atlantic, he was below deck making tea when his boat rammed a freighter 100 miles west of the Scilly Isles.
"It was luck," he said at the time.
"The boat could have been cut in half and sunk, and I wouldn't have known a thing about it."
A year later, he ran aground on a New Zealand beach.
In this race, he brusSED his ribs and ripped his sail crossing the Atlantic, then ran so low on drinking water that he had to catch rain on his sails a week before reaching Cape Town, South Africa. Heavy winds and seas also knocked down his boat, Henry Hombrowm, several times.
("My goal") is to wear a gold earring in my left ear for rounding the Horn and to stay alive to a ripe old age and keep my marbles," he said prior to the race.
Back at home, Mrs. Mitchell, who last saw her husband in December in Cape Town, continued to hope this was just another temporary setback.
"He does have his moments — I am hoping this is just another one of them," she told the Times newspaper in London.
Teens film destructive acts for fun
The Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A two-hour videotape labeled "Destruction" shows some teen-agers vandalizing houses and a school, microwaving a live fish, and getting a dog high on marijuana.
The teens said they had made the video for their own entertainment. But a prosecutor said yesterday that the video would be evidence when the five teens stand trial in Juvenile Court.
The tape was found in a duffel bag of a teen-ager stopped for questioning after one of the burglaries, said police Sgt D.E. Coffman.
The videotape, made public by police this week, shows the youths in high spirits, kicking in walls, smashing toilets with hammers, cooking a live sea trout in a microwave until it exploded, and putting a paper bag on a dog's head and blowing marijuana smoke into it.
Prosecutor Terrence Martin said he expected damage estimates to total hundreds of thousands of dollars in the burglaries of seven houses and two break-ins" at Terry Parker High School, all in January and February.
If convicted of charges that include criminal mischief, vandalism, burglary and cruelty to animals, the five could be sent to juvenile detention centers or put on probation.
Under state law, the parents are responsible for restitution of the damage. All of the homes vandalized were covered by insurance.
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