European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes suspect in night stalker killings arrested by los Angeles police news update los Angeles a a Man identified by police As inc prime suspect in the 16 night stalker slayings throughout Cali fornia was arrested saturday police said. Police it. Dan Cooke it. Vic Walls announced that a Man apprehended shortly after 9 . As Richard Ramirez 25, whom police had identified Friday night As inc suspect. They said the fingerprints of the arrested Man matched those of Rami rez. At a news conference Friday night los Angeles county sheriff Sherman Block had said Ramirez was armed and should be considered extremely  according to Knic to the Man arrested saturday had pulled a woman out of her car at mid Orang As she was getting into it in the Hollenbeck area of los an Geles East of the downtown area.  news director Tom Capra said the woman husband attacked the Man with a Fence Post then a crowd gathered and began beating him rather  he Laid bit camera Crews arrived shortly after the incident began. At police arrived to arrest the Man. He shouted to the crowd it s me it s me it s me Capra said. The Man was taken to the Hollenbeck police station. Orange county sheriff Brad Gates said Friday that a fingerprint found in a stolen car believed used m the night stalker s most recent attack had helped authorities make the original identification of Ramirez. Ramirez has lived in los Angeles for several years and also frequented sin fran Cisco but he was believed to have come to California from Elpaso. Texas authorities Richard Ramirez Laid. There was nothing in Ramirez s criminal record to suggest the ferocity attributed to the killer who has attacked people in their Homes As they sleep Block said. Ramirez s record included gambling Vio lations traffic offences and drug Possession Block Laid. He was arrested by lot Angeles police As recently Ai dec. 12,1984, but the nature of the offence was not immediately Tai own. Ramirez has used aliases including Noah Jimenez Richard Moreno Richard Munoz Nicholas Adamic and Richard Mena Block said. The night stalker Bat entered through unlocked doors and win Down at night bludgeoning raping and victims ranging in age from 16 to a most attacks have been in lol Angeles county but other victims have red u far away u san franc fico abour 400 mile North. We developed kids with information from los Angeles and everything came to Gether. We broke this thing Frank fal Zon san Francisco homicide inspector said. San Francisco police chief Cornelius p. Murphy said police believe Ramirez b responsible for All the night stalker killings. There is no indication of any copycat involved he said. Four kidnappings and molestations involving children As Young As 6, May also be linked to the killer police said a Reward for information leading to the capture has swelled to More than $70,000. We nude his identification on a combi nation of bits and pieces of information fingerprints Mug shots and arrest records were a part of that pattern of information Block said. William cams 29, who was shot and critically wounded and hit Fiancee who was raped were believed to be the latest victims of the night stalker. They were at tacked sunday in Mission Viejo so Miles Southeast of los Angeles. Sex official sentenced Jackson miss. Up for. Mer state sen. Tommy Brooks has been sentenced if him Julu ill Pris on for trying to extort $52,000 in Exchange for Posage of a horse bet Ting Bill. 7 once the third most powerful elected offy i in Mississippi Brooks sat sum try As . District judge Tom s. Lee lectured him on the importance of his oath of office and the Public Trust. Lee ordered Brooks 60, of car Thage to begin serving his sentence within 90 Days. His attorney Boyce Holleman said he would Appeal the sentence. Bond in Gosch fraud Buffalo. . A Bond was set at $50,000 for a Man who waived extradition from Canada Tad agreed to return to Iowa to face charges of defrauding the parents of missing newspaper Carrier Johnny Gosch. Robert Herman Meier ii 19, who surrendered to Fri agents Here aug. Is after fleeing to Canada signed waiver in an appearance before us magistrate Edmund Maxwell. Meier indicted in Iowa on charges of wire fraud is accused of Contact ing John and Noreen Gosch of Weet pcs Moikis and asking Money to arrange the return of their son Job nay. Who disappeared at the age of 14 while delivering newspapers sept. A 1982. The couches paid him $11,000, but Meier later told them that res Cue attempt was  2 suspects say they had roles in Marine murders san Salvador Al Salvador a two jailed suspects told reporters Friday they were involved in the cafe massacre in which four . Marines were slain but the third Man in custody denied any part in the killings. The third suspect Jose Abraham Dimas Aguilar 26, also said he was not a member of the leftist Central Amer ican revolutionary workers party. That group had claimed responsibility for the july 19 attack on two Side walk cafes in which nine civilians also were killed including two american businessmen. All three prisoners were presented at a news conference at National guard Headquarters. Later the revolutionary workers party in a statement delivered to radio stations said none of the three was involved in the massacre. It said the suspects Are no More than poor victims and have served to justify the interventionist step of the United states in Central  president Jose Napoleon Duarte and leaders of his Secu Rity forces announced the arrests tuesday. They said the three were members of the party and had confessed roles in the raid in the wealthy Pink zone Section of the capital. Guillermo Ungo president of the democratic revolutionary front mid in Panama the Case shows that the government moves More quickly against leftists than against members of rightist death squads. His group is the political  of the rebels fighting the government in a civil War that is nearly 6 years old. It really seems strange to me that in Al Salvador the jails Are full of political prisoners labourers and Union members in most cases without any proof or judicial process that i am aware of but this does t happen in the cases of the rightists suspected of being members of death squads Ungo said in an interview with radio Sonora from Panama City Panama where he lives in exile. Rightist death squads with links to the Security forces Are blamed for most of the estimated 53,000 civilian deaths during the civil War. Dimas Aguilar told the news conference he knew Noth ing of the cafe attack until five Days after it happened. The government has accused him of providing cover for the rebels and named his brother Ismail one of seven suspects still at Large As Leader of the squad that attacked with automatic weapons. Juan Miguel Garcia Melendez 20, told reporters he helped plan the attack but did not go to the scene. He said he was a member of the revolutionary workers party. He fled to the United states Afler the shooting was arrested by immigration authorities who did not know of his role and was captured at the san Salvador Airport when he returned to the country aug. 18. Willian Celio rival Bolanos 17, admitted Bong one of the gunmen. He was captured aug. 12 at his Job in u upholstery shop owned by Garcia Melendez. Rivas Bolanos said he was told that Garcia Melendez had identified him although his employer had not re turned from the United states or been questioned when Riv a Bolanos was arrested. Authorities woul. Not permit questions about whether a suspect who was fatally wounded during the attack Jon Roberto Salazar Mendoza had identified members of the gang. Salazar Mendoza apparently was hit by gunfire from other guerrillas during the raid. He was reported taken by his comrades to the Salvado ran red Cross and then to a Hospital where he died. Col Aristides Napoleon monies head of the National guard has said he was not in custody when he died. The workers party is the smallest of five groups in the Faramundo Marti National liberation front guerrilla volition. Puerto Picans arrests called warning to terrorists san Juan puerto Rico a . Federal authorities say their arrest of 13 members of a puerto rican group allegedly linked to a $7 million robbery and attacks on . Military targets sends a warning to All terrorists to give up violence. However leaders of the Independence movement on this Caribbean Island charged that Friday s arrests and raids were Politi Cal harassment. This indictment is a signal to terrorists and their supporter that our response to their cowardly acts of violence will be Deci Sive is. Attorney general Edwin Mcnese Iii said Friday in Washington. Thirteen of 17 people named in an indict ment stemming from the sept. 12, 1933, armed robbery of a Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford conn., were arrested Fri Day. Fri director William Webster said in Washington the suspected ringleader of the robbery. Victor m. Gerena has been Given Sanctuary in Cuba by Fidel Castro s communist government. Mcnese said the indictment alleged that on june 29, 1984, one defendant was advised by a representative of the cuban government whom he knew As coma that a portion of the stolen Wells Fargo Money remained in the custody and care of the cuban government the new York born Gerena 27, one of the Fri s "10 most wanted fugitives was among those indicted. He is still being sought. He was a former Security Gua Iii at Wells Fargo earning less than $5 an hour. He was on the armoured truck that was robbed of $7,017,153. Authorities arrested 11 suspected Mem Bers of the puerto rican group called the Machete is. Since 1978, the group has claimed responsibility for the slayings of two . Sailors and a puerto rican police Man several bombings two rocket attacks and the destruction of seven puerto rican National guard planes. The Mac heteros which Means Machete will dvrs. Claimed it helped Gurrena commit the robbery and said he was a member of the group. Fri agents also arrested a woman in Cambridge mass., and a Man in transit it Dilia fort Worth International Airport in co inc Tom with the robbery. The Fri said a nth person. Iris Blanca Ojida was arrested when she allegedly assaulted a Federal agent sent to arrest her husband Filiberto Inocencio Ojida Rios local musician. About 200 Fri agents moved in on the suspects before Dawn assisted by puerto rican policemen witnesses said. One Fri agent was reportedly slightly wounded in the face while making an arrest but no other injuries were reported. Those arrested included lawyers an journalists