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PageA2 ________________________ QTfye ^lo rt lattò ® b Berner______________________ November 20. 2002 IDEA P olice U S DRUG ÍNFORCfMW’ «JMIttlSTMTlOM Drug Enforcers Open Website Six Men Sentenced in 1969 Race Riot Murder (A P )— Six w hite men w ere handed sentences o f o f Y o rk ’s form er m ayor and tw o other white men. The up to three years in prison last w eek in the shooting m ayor w as acquitted; his co-defendants w ere found death o f a black w om an during a 1969 race riot that has guilty and face a possible 20 years in prison. T he defendants apologized before they w ere sen violence betw een blacks and w hites in York. D uring tenced, but the victim ’s daughter com plained that the riots, a white police officer w as also killed, m ore none of them had expressed any sorrow for the than 60 people w ere injured and 100 w ere arrested. A llen was shot to death at tw ilight after she go t out slaying o f L illie B elle A llen until they w ere in court, w here an apology m ight lessen their punishm ent. A ll six m en pleaded guilty in A ugust, and som e testified for the prosecution in the trial earlier this year Man Shot Dead Domingo Gonzales was shot shortly after 4 a.m. on Sunday. (A P) — A m an is dead after a shooting in northeast Portland that closed L om bard Street for several hours. Shortly a fte r4 a.m . on Sunday police arrived at the scene but found n o victim . They later learned that 25-year-old D om ingo G onzales w as pronounced dead at Em anuel H ospital. He had been transported there by private car. N eighbors say they hear shots fired from the area on a reg u lar basis. O thers say that residents o f the house w here the shooting occurred often host loud parties last until m orning. A uthorities are searching for evidence and speaking w ith w itnesses. The Drug Enforcem ent A dm in is tra tio n has u n v eiled a new w ebsite dedicated to providing inform ation in the fight against drug crim es and traffickers, as well as inform ation on battling ad d ic tion. The newly revised w ebsite pro vides inform ation on everything from drug facts to pictures o f the country ’ s m ost w anted drug fu g i tives. “T he idea w as to m ake it easy for the public to find out w hat’s going on in the fig h t against A llen, 27, o f Aiken, S .C., was killed am id 10 days o f haunted Y ork, Pa., for the past 33 years. www.0£ft.eev o f her fam ily’s car to try to help her panicking sister steer the stalled vehicle away from a m ob o f arm ed w hite gang m em bers. drugs— not ju s t nationally but lo cally,” said D EA A ssistant Special A gent in C harge K enneth M agee. R egional sites provide D EA in form ation on a state-by-state b a sis. From the D EA m ain w ebsite at w w w .d ea.g o v . you can lin k to O reg o n ’s w ebpage by clicking on “L ocal N ew s” icon at the left-hand side o f the page. A m ap will appear, allow ing visitors to select the S e attle Field D ivision region, w hich includes the new s and state Fact Sheets for O regon. Hate Crime Participant Finishes Prison Term Kyle Brewster took part in baseball-bat killing of Ethiopian in 1988 (A P) — Form er racist skinhead Kyle B rew ster, w ho participated in one o f O regon’s m ost infam ous hate crim es, was released from prison T uesday. B rew ster w as co nvicted o f first-de gree m anslaughter in the 1988 baseball- bat killing o f an E thiopian man in S outh east Portland. The death o f the man, M ulugeta Seraw , led civil rights activists to dub Portland “Skinhead C ity.” The crim e prom pted legislators to e n act O regon’s groundbreaking hate crim es law, and sparked a violent street-level fight betw een P o rtlan d ’s skinheads and their opponents. A nd the m urder led to acivil trial that financially crippled one of the n atio n ’s m ost pow erful racists. The O regon B oard o f Parole and Post- Prison Supervision considered Brewster for parole on M ay 23,2000. B utthe board declined to release him then, citing a w orrisom e psychological evaluation. In ste a d , p a ro le o ffic e rs o rd e re d B rew ster’s release on Nov. 19,2002. His parole w ill be revoked if he drinks alco hol, associates w ith gang m em bers or contacts Seraw ’ s fam ily . The 33-year-old inm ate appears to have no ties to racist groups, said Steven Stroud, a form er skinhead w ho leads O regon S potlight, a P ortland-based o r g an iza tio n th at track s hate groups. B rew ster has a strong fam ily support system , has secured w ork and “has a lot m ore going fo r him than the average inm ate upon release,” Stroud said. Airport Screener Fired for False Breach (A P ) — T ra n sp o rta tio n a u th o rities fired a fe d e ra l scre e n e r at P o rtlan d In te rn atio n al A irp o rt F rid ay fo r m ak in g up a sto ry ab o u t a se c u rity b reach at a p assen g er c h e c k p o in t O ct. 31. “T h e in v estig atio n show ed there had b een n o b re a c h ,” said B rian T u rm a il, a sp o k esm an fo r the T ra n sp o rta tio n S e curity A dm inistration. “H e falsified it.” T h e rep o rted breach fo rced the c lo sure o f tw o co n c o u rse s an d rescreen - ing o f m o te th an 5 0 0 p assen g ers. T he federal agency, w hich took over c iv i l a v iatio n secu rity acro ss the n a tio n th is fa ll, d e c lin e d to id en tify the screen er. T u rm ail said th ere is no k n o w n m o tiv e. T he scre e n e r h ad b een w o rk in g fo r the T S A fo r a b o u t six w eeks and w as p lace d on ad m in istrativ e leave the day he re p o rte d the b reach , T u rm ail said. A n in v e s tig a tio n fo u n d th at the sc re e n e r w a lk e d up to a su p e rv iso r a n d r e p o r te d th a t s o m e o n e h a d fa ile d to step asid e fo r a d d itio n a l screen in g w h en ask ed to do so a fter g o in g th ro u g h th e a ir p o rt’s m etal d e tecto r. T he Port o f P ortland police im m ed i ately e v a c u a te d the c o n c o u rs e s and o rd ered p a ss e n g e rs on th ree p lan es to g et off. P o lice and search do g s sco u red th e area. B rew ster w as 19 w hen he got into a traffic fight with Seraw in the early m orn ing hours o f N ov. 13,1988. He leapt from his car, hurled racial slurs and punched the sm aller man. Ken M ieske, w ho w as also in the car, m oved behind Seraw and clubbed him in the head w ith a baseball bat. 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