European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 24.1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 nyc raids net heroin Worth $70 million new York up a special drug enforcement task Force seized heroin Worth �70 million and an arse Nal of weapons and arrested six people Friday in the third Large is heroin bust in new York history authorities said. Task Force officers raided 14 places including one in he Bronx described As a packaging and cutting Mill for the heroin ring which distributed $450,000 Worth of the drug each week Laid Robert Slutman. Special agent in charge of the drug enforcement administration s new York Field division the arrests and seizures capped a inc month investigation that included undercover purchases and wire taps. Stulman said the bust was the third largest in the state s history. The suspected ringleader Carlos Medina and 2-1 others including Medina s wife iritis and his Mother Panjita Rivera were charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin the ring also sold cocaine and a Small amount was seized authorities said. Sis people were arrested Friday and the others were sought said Assi Siani . Attorney Rhea Brecher chief of the narcotics unit for the Southern District. The bulk of the heroin packaged in scaled plastic was seized from the Home of Medina s Mother. Fifty seven pounds of he powdery drug were concealed in inc false Back of a closet in Rivera s apart ment. Most of the remaining 13 pounds of heroin was seized at the processing Milt authorities said. The heroin which was smuggled into inc country from Belgium and Paris was allegedly processed at the Mill for distribution in new York Connecticut and puerto Rico. Agents also seized drug paraphernalia and weapons including shotguns several pistols an u?.i sub machine gun and boxes of bullets some of them tenon coated capable of piercing a bulletproof Vest. Also confiscated were fur Coats Gold and Diamond jewelry and $75,000 in Cash authorities said. Stulman said inc task Force seized five vehicles including a Model to Ford a custom Mercedes camper and two new Mercedes sedans and a porsche valued at $400,000. Well covered App twin Only the it of 2-Yeir-old Duimel Rosenthal Are visible As he resorts id the Protection of he Mother s umbrella on a Rainy Day in Worcester Selma bewildered gloss reportedly found in general Mills Cereal Chau Krol a. A three supermarket chains in southwestern Penn Sylvania removed Kocky Road breakfast Cereal from their shelves after a Man claimed he Cut his Tonguc on Glass thai was in a Box of the Cereal. But a spokesman for the manufacturer general Mills corp. Of Minneapolis said he believes the contamination was an isolated incident. The Box code number suggests to us that most of inc product made in this production Batch would have already. Been purchased and consumed said Craig Shulstad. He said the Cereal was manufactured in Toledo Ohio. There have been no other reports of Glass contamination of Rocky Road Cere Al. We have checked our production re cords and reviewed All our consumer complaint information. We Are very careful to keep any kind of Glass away from our production facilities Shulstad said. Robert Johnson. 3ft of Charleroi said he was hurl while eating the Cereal thursday morning. Police c hic Edward Hank said. Johnson was treated and re leased at Monona Hahula Valley Hospital. Hank said. Johnson bought the Cereal from a Woodland supermarket in Charleroi Hank said. Thai store and other food land giant Eagle and shop n save supermarkets in southwestern Pennsylva Nia voluntarily removed the Cereal from their shelves after hearing of the incident Friday officials said. Area stores carrying the Cereal have been asked not to return it to their shelves until an investigation is completed Hank said. Dixon staff take drug tests Washington a sen. Alan j. Pixon d-ill., and his top aides have joined the growing list of Capitol Hill officials undergoing tests for illegal drug use inc senator s office said Friday. Duon became the second Illinois con Gressional delegation member to launch such testing. At least five lawmakers including Dixon and Illinois Republican rep. Lynn Martin have instituted voluntary or mandatory drug testing among their staffs and others Are said to be considering it. Wade Nelson Dixon s press Secretary denied that the voluntary testing in Dix on s office which started about two weeks ago was lied to the senator s fall re election Campaign. Nelson said Dixon believed limited tests should be per formed in Light of growing Public con Cern Over drug use. This is a Public office and we re pub Lic people Nelson said. And a lot of people have some concerns about drug use among Public employees As Well As  biblical barrage Selma. Ala. A hundreds of letters from Hope Idaho bearing biblical messages of death and destruction have landed in Selma mailboxes much to inc bewilderment of recipients and postal officials. The Plain White envelopes which began arriving wednesday have become the talk of this Bible Belt town of 27,000. I wonder if someone s mad at me said Pat Hage Mann who owns a downtown restaurant. Bui 1 be been cursed since 1 was a Little  recipients say each envelope contains an onion skin Page from the Bible. The pages vary from letter to letter but each contains a violent passage. Hacmann said her Page came from Deuteronomy and mentioned curses for disobedience. The lord shall smile the Wilt a consumption and a lever it read. Attorney Fred Mccormick dismissed his letter As the work of some kind of religious  he said his Page was from genesis and said something about plunging a Dagger into some King s  Hope postmaster Paul Greenleaf said a nicely dressed Middle aged woman brought the envelopes to his resort Community Post office Early this week. He said the woman mailed about 1,000 envelopes and i estimate Aboul 8io of them a Cal to  she had started dropping them into the mail Slot. But i told her to bring them to the counter and 1 look them Here he said. She insisted that they be Post marked from Hope and that they get to  orc Leaf said he did not know who the woman was. Selma postmaster James Howard said the letters were constitutionally protected free speech. The Only Way these would have violated postal regulations would be if bodily harm was threatened or someone tried to extort Money Howard said. Hagemann said she a Pecos a follow up letter asking for  drinking own liquor on plane passenger held offer attacking stewardess Miami up a passenger who smuggled his own liquor aboard a pan american flight from los Angeles to Miami hit a stewardess and chased her through the plane when she risked him to Stop drink ing inc Fri  Badano 41, was arrested thursday night at Miami International Airport and was charged with assault and interfering with the flight Crew aboard pan am s flight 441, which was carrying 335 passengers. Bond was Sel at $60,000. Badano an Argentine citizen who lives in Rio de Janeiro Brazil was drinking his own liquor aboard the plane and argued violently with the Crew when asked to Slop Fri spokesman Paul Miller said. He struck one flight attendant and at cast one passenger maybe others Miller said. The flight attend enl was not seriously injured he said. The Captain advised Badano they would immediately land the aircraft if he did t sit Dawn Miller said. He sat Down and the flight  if convicted Badano faces up to 20 years in prison and a Fine of up to $ 10,000, . Magistrate William turnoff scheduled a preliminary hearing for sept. 2