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Tainted
Heroin
Warning
(A P) — H eroin users
should avoid the drug be
cause some supplies have
been tainted with a powerful
painkiller blamed for hun
dreds of deaths nationwide
since mid-April, law enforce
ment officials urged on Tues-
day.
Heroin shipments in ma
jo r U.S. cities have been
found to contain fentanyl, a
prescription narcotic 40 to
100 times more powerful
than morphine. Fentanyl is
prescribed by physicians for
anesthesia and pain con
trol.
Authorities have been re
porting fentanyl/heroin-re-
lated deaths for some months,
but officials said there was a
spike in overdoses in recent
weeks, sparking the latest
warnings.
Drug users are attracted
to fentanyl-laced heroin or
cocaine because of the extra
high that it promises them,
said Lynne Abraham, Phila
delphia District Attorney, at
a news conference. “This is
just an extra jolt for people
who have become accus
tomed to heroin,” she said.
Abraham said officials
had co n sid ered w hether
holding the news confer
ence to draw attention to
the danger of fentanyl risked
encouraging drug users to
try tainted heroin, but they
decided that the danger to
the public justified it.
lune 21. 2006
Youth Confronted Outside Bowling Alley
Summer
vacation starts
with near riot
Police officials are consider
ing a curfew crackdown in or
der to keep large crowds of
youths from forming over the
summer vacation after a near
riot Monday night outside of
Hollywood Bowl.
The first weeknight of the
summer break saw dozens of
police officers, some in riot gear,
confronting teens outside the
landmark at Northeast 41s* and
Halsey Street.
A 17-year-old determined to
be the ringleader has been
PHOTo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
charged with rioting, according The streets outside of the Hollywood Bowl at Northeast 41s’ and Halsey Street was the location o f a
to Det. Paul Dolbey of the Port- disturbance Monday night.
land Police Bureau. Another
person was charged for dis
charging a pellet gun within
city limits.
Nineteen youths were ar
rested for curfew violations.
No one was seriously injured.
Authorities said the inci
dent started when about 20
people refused to leave the
Hollywood Bowl and a small
fight broke out. An estimated
150 to 300young people, both
white and black, ended up
filtering onto the street.
Police think a discount night
at the bowling alley attracted
the large number of young
people. Tuesday, bowling al
ley management was consid
ering a change in policies to
prevent such disturbances in
the future.
Missing Soldiers Found Tortured and Killed
One of the dead
was from Oregon
(A P) — U.S. forces on Tuesday
recovered the bodies o f tw o A m eri
can soldiers reported captured by
insurgents near Baghdad, Iraq last
week. O ne o f those killed was an
Oregon servicem an.
An Iraqi defense m inistry offi
cial said the men w ere tortured and
“killed in a barbaric way.” Al-Qaida
in Iraq claim ed responsibility for
killing the soldiers, and said the
successo r to te rro r leader Abu
M usab al-Zarqaw i had “slaugh
tered" them.
T he claim was m ade in a W eb
statem ent that could not be au
thenticated. The language in the
statem ent suggested the men were
beheaded.
U.S. Maj. Gen. W illiam Caldwell
Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker
said the rem ains were believed to
be those o f Pfc. Kristian M enchaca,
23, o f Houston, and Pfc. T hom as L.
Tucker, 25, o f M adras, Ore.
He said U.S. troops - part o f a
search involving some 8,(XX) Ameri
can and Iraqi forces - found the
b o d ie s
la te
M onday
neai
Y oussifiyah, w here they d isa p
peared Friday.
Troops did not recover the bod
ies until T uesday because they hat
to wait until daylight to cordon ofl
the area for an ordnance team foi
fear it was booby-trapped, Caldwel
said.
The checkpoint attacked Friday
was in the Sunni Arab region knowr
as the “Triangle o f D eath" because
o f frequent am bushes there o f U.S
soldiers and Iraqi troops.
The two bodies will be taker
back to the United States for DNA
tests to co n firm the id en tities
Caldwell said.
The tw o soldiers disappearec
after an insurgent attack Friday at £
checkpoint by a Euphrates Rivet
canal, 12 miles south o f Baghdad
Spc.DavidJ. Babineau, 25, of Spring
field. M ass., was killed.
New Orleans
Mayor Ray
Nagin holds
Monalisa
Hunter's hand
during a news
conference
Monday.
Hunter lost two
sons, Arsenio,
16, and
Marquis, 19,
in a shooting
over the
weekend. (AP
photo)
put
National Guard to
Patrol New Orleans
been used for law enforcem ent in
the U.S. since the im m ediate after-
math o f H urricane Katrina late last
summer.
New O rleans Police Superinten
dent W arren J. Riley said M onday
(A P) — A convoy o f National he had asked in M arch to have the
G uard troops rolled into the city troops sent in this sum m er, when
Tuesday in 75 H um vees and other the population is expected to ju m p
m ilitary vehicles to begin patrol at because FEM A assistance to dis
placed h urricane refugees ends
the m ayor’s request.
The presence of about I (X)Guard June 30.
N o d ea d lin e has been set for
m em bers patrolling th e city 's hurri
the
N atio n al G u a rd ’s m issio n ,
cane-devastated and largely d e
w
hich
d id not req u ire a special
serted neighborhoods will free as
o
rd
e
r
b
ecau se L o u isian a is still
many as 300 police officers to co n
u
n
d
er
a
state o f em erg en cy 10
centrate on crim e in more heavily
m
onths
after
K atrina. B lanco said
populated areas, officials said.
rein
fo
rcem
en
ts w ould cy cle in-
M ayor Ray Nagin called for the
an
d
-o
u
t
o
f
the
city .
N ational G uard and state police on
Frustration
over
a rise in crim e
M o n d a y , s a y in g “ w e ’ve h ad
enough" after five teenagers were reached a tipping point on Satur
gunned down together Saturday day when five teenagers in an SUV
and another man was stabbed to were shot and killed in the city 's
deadliest attack in at least 11 years.
death Sunday.
“The situation is urgent,” Gov. Police said the attack was appar
Kathleen Blanco said in respond ently m otivated by drugs or re
ing to the request. "Things like this venge. Also, a man was stabbed to
should never happen, and I am death Sunday night in an argum ent
over beer.
going to do all I can to stop it."
The killings brought this y ea r's
In addition to the 100 National
G uard m em bers with law enforce m urder toll to 53, raising fears that
ment experience. 60 state police violence was back on the rise in a
officers are expected to be sent to city that was plagued by violent
the city, Blanco’s office said. It crim e before Katrina drove out half
marked the first tim e soldiers had the city ’s population o f 465,(XX).
Mayor gets help
after 6 killed
over weekend
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