FIFTEEN New York City
police officers have been
indicted and ay inany as 700
other city employees are
under investigation for not
paying federal taxes.

The cops had bought take
legal-pibberish documents
(for $900 to $2,000 each)
from scam artists who had
convinced them that, despite
the fact that they were police
officers, they could legally
daim nor to be subject to
government jurisdiction.

In the document, the offi-
cers were “non-immigrant
non-residents” who are “alien
to the United States,

In cach case, the city pay-
roll office unquestioningly
accepted the form and did net
withhold federal tax, in some
cases for up to four years.

Federal inmate Arthur
Morrison, who had served 46
months of fis 51 -month sen-
tence for threatening former
girlfriends, finally got his wish
to withdraw his guilty plea to
those charges, to go to trial,
and to be his own liwyer.

New York City proseeu-
tors said their evidence
{including audiotapes) is still
overwhelming and that they
would seek a sentence of at
least 15 years.

Morrison acknowledged
thar his chances of prevailing
at trial were slim.

Last year, at a reception
for the  African/African-
American Summit Inc. con-
ference in Senegal (a conter-
ence attended by — Jesse
Jackson and the late Ron
Brown), the Club Med
Senegal resort staged a skit in
which two white staff mem-
bers appeared in blackface,
with white lips, garish clothes
and white gloves to perform a
musical number, and a riot
nearly ensued. ;

In May of this year offend-
ed organizations and individ-
uals filed a $5 million lawsuit
against Club Med in New
York City.

North Adams,
Massachusetts — During a
recent public-access cable TV
program about papier-mache
masks, Royce Patton, 28,
abruptly changed the subject
and accused a former neigh-
bor of allowing two of her
kids to have sex.

Patton named the family,
ran a video of all of the
woman's seven children, and
used obscenities in describing
them. ‘The former neighbor
said the dispute with Patton
was really over loans of money
and a bottle of suntan lotion.

Kids Lacking “Quality
Time”: Brian Smith, 42, was
charged in Missouri with
locking his three kids in 55-
gallon drums during the day
while he was at work.

And Jeffrey Hoveland, 50,
pleaded guilty in Minnesota
to using. an electrified dog
collar to punish his two sons,
ages 9 and 11.

And, Jan and Joyce
Duplantis were arrested in
New Orleans in June and
charged with forcing their

nwo fenrle wards, ages 8 and
9, to dive outside in a crude
plivhouse so as not to mess
up their apartment.

The Houston Health and
Human Services Department
recently warned the public of
a local diarrhea outbreak
caused by cyclospora.

The department said two
ciusters of cases had been
reported, the first among a
group of executives of the
natural gas industry meeting,
at 4 local club,

ese

The — Arkansas State
Medical Board has ordered
Waldo family physician Jewel
Byron Grimmett Jr. to: start
keeping written records.

At a hearing, Grimmett
cold board members that he
has kept all patient histories,
including rescription
records, only in his head for
the 35 years he has been prac-
ticing medicine.

Grimmett avoided license
revocation because he is

Waldo’s only doctor and

because, according to him, he
treats about half his patients
for free.

ee es

After the parents of Huang
Pin-jen, 27, and Chang Shu-
mei, 26, of Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, refused to bless their
wedding, the couple opted
for suicide.

. They drove a car off a cliff
(but survived), tried to hang
themselves (but survived),
and leaped from atop a 12-
story building (but survived,
landing on an adjacent roof,
suffering multiple fractures).
In April, the parents reconsid-
ered.

oe 8

The bodies of two
Dominican Republic nation-
als were discovered, one near
JFK Airport in New York, and
the other about 10 miles from
Miami International Airport.

Both bodies had grease
marks, and after investiga-
tions, police in both places
said they believed the men
had fallen from the wheel
wells of airliners, where they
had stowed away hoping, for
illegal entry into the United
States,

0eooe

Oslo, Norway — Police
inspector Leif Ole Topnes has
admitted that “our body-
search techniques aren’t good
enough.”

He was commenting on a
male prisoner’s having been
locked up for two weeks in
the women’s jail despite hav-
ing been “body-searched” at

the Sola Airport and) then
“strip-searched” at the jail.
The man was wearing female
makeup and bad) hormone-
treatment breasts, but Topnes
admitted that otherwise he
was obviously a oman and
should have been detected as
such,

Jeffrey J. Pyreively, 19, and
an alleged accomplice were
arrested in’ Indiana recently
on thett and fraud charges.

Pyreioch allegedly cashed
checks that he had) written
with disappearing ink, appar-
ently believing the checks
would be blank Sy the time
they were presented to the
bank for collection.

However, traces of ink
remained, and police said
Pyreioch would have a better
chance of getting away swith it
ifhe had not used checks pre-
printed with his name and
decount number on them.

eee

Edward Lopez, 19. and
Eric Harb, 18, were arrested
in Ulinois after petice were
called toa Summit depart:
ment store,

According ta a clerk, the
two men had approached him
and asked politely if he would
permit them to pay for
clothes with a. stolen credit
card,

Columbus, Ohio -— Police
arrested ‘Timothy E, Lebo,
39, and Charles J. Kinser, 32,
around 5 a.m, on June 5 and
charged them with ripping an
ATM out of a bank's wall and
attempting to carry it away in
the crunk of their car.

When questioned — by
police, the pair tried to con-
vince officers that the ATM
was a washing machine.

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