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Defunct narcotics squad
still facing accusations
By Debbie Howlett
Of the Emerald
Sfeve Makinson, a 31 year-old mechanic, had just
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paper mill. He and a friend decided to stop at the
Marcola Tavern for a few video games and a cold o.j.
Before Makinson could even deposit his quarter in
the video game he heard a commotion near the pool
tables. The next thing he heard was a man shouting.
"Freeze! I mean freeze, motherfuckers, or we'll blow
your heads off, ” came the command.
Makinson froze in tracks, he was bent over in his
chair, reaching for the quarter he'd dropped on the
floor. For better than 60 seconds Makinson tried to
discern who this group of men, armed with
shotguns, were. Makinson cautiously looked up over
the edge of the video machine and promptly felt the
cold steel barrel of a gun sitting just above his left
ear. "I said freeze," barked the man.
"Don’t shoot! Don't shoot!" Makinson begged.
"I thought, 'Oh God!
Please don't let me die like
this," says Makinson recall
ing the early morning hours
of March 23, 1982.
The police raid Makinson
describes netted the Lane
Interagency Narcotics Team
two arrests. Makinson was
neither one of the men
LINT sought, nor was he
one of the men arrested. He
was, in the vernacular, an
innocent bystander.
Bui Makinson claims he was much more than an in
nocent bystander. He says he was a victim, and he
believes that strongly enough to have organized a
group called Citizens Opposed to a Police State,
COPS for short.
Makinson has made allegations that the now
defunct LINT team, and almost all of Lane County's
law enforcement officials, have used more than just
excessive force or police brutality. Makinson says law
enforcement officials, especially LINT, have put
themselves above the law, turning Lane County into
a police state.
"I feared for my life," Makinson says of the Mar
cola Tavern raid. "These guys were getting off on
this. They enjoyed what they were doing."
But not everyone sees Eugene as a police state. Cer
tainly not law enforcement officials.
Makinson is "a paranoid individual in the wrong
place at the right time," counters county sheriff Dave
Burks. "I find nothing wrong with (LINT'S) tactics. If
anyone was hurt it was pyschological." Burks did ad
mit that the narcotics team could have used what
seem to be harsh tactics, but the first thing a cop
thinks of is self-protection.
"I make no apologies for what happened at
Marcola.
"It's unfortunate — it happens all over the U.S.
There's paranoia even among the narcotics agents,"
says Burks. "If we have to move and move in a hurry,
the risks (of making a mistake) increase. But the first
concern of an officer is his safety.
"You probably scare the hell out of an innocent
person. You probably scare the hell out of
7 feared for my life. These
guys were getting off on (the
raid of the Mar cola Tavern).
They enjoyed what they were
doing'
— Steve Makinson
criminals."
Some of Lane County's citizens do agree, to some
extent, with Makinson. Wendy Curry and Kenneth
Willyard filed suit against the City of Eugenp and tjv
Eugene Police Officers, some of whom were LINT
officers.
The suit charges the Eugene officers "surrounded
and forceably entered... with weapons drawn" a
Springfield residence where Curry, her three
children, Willyard and his three children were atten
ding a birthday party. The suit also charges officers
ordered the Willyards and the Currys into the yard
"while yelling obscenities at Plaintiffs and other
guests." Further, the suit alleges all of the people
named in the suit, except Kenneth Willyard, were
"menaced and held at gunpoint" by the officers.
None of the plaintiffs had done anything illegal,
nor had they offered any resistance. None of the
plaintiffs were aware that the officers, dressed in
plainclothes, were in fact police officers, according
to the complaint.
The officers had another
"wrong address" when they
burst into the house of two
elderly women. Dorothy
Merwin and her mother,
Nellie Ryan, at 1:30 a m. in
March of 1980.
LINT officers followed a
suspected cocaine dealer to
Merwin's home, where they
saw the suspect walk onto
the porch and disappear in
to the darkness of the
porch, apparently into the house. I he othcers woke a
judge to get a search warrant and headed back to the
house.
Merwin reported seeing what she thought were a
bunch of hoodlums, who identified themselves as
police officers, on the porch of her house. Before
Merwin opened the door it came crashing in toward
her. The officers entered and searched the house,
allowing Merwin to awaken and explain what was
happening to her 92-year-old mother.
The police found no cocaine and no suspect. The
only thing they discovered was they had made a
mistake.
Apparently the suspect had gotten onto the dark
porch and slipped around the side of the house to
the house next door.
Makinson believes these instances are enough to
warrant a full scale investigation. He hired a Eugene
lawyer who recommended that Makinson drop the
whole matter. Makinson then retained an attorney
from Roseburg and he sa^s they are in the process of
initiating a recall petition against Horton.
The problems with Makinson are not the only ones
the narcotics team have faced. Stanley Meyers, a Spr
ingfield officer assigned to head the LINT unit, was
recently dismissed from his job after apparently per
juring himself before a Grand Jury.
Meyers was questioned by the Grand Jury in con
nection with a pound and a half of cocaine that was
switched with a "neutral substance" earlier this year.
The questions the Grand Jury asked were regar
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