European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday november 26,19bs 5 in theft ring facing jail for Selling Jet parts to Iran san Diego a five members of a ring authorities say stole at least $10 million Worth of Jet fighter parts from the Navy and sold them to Ira received prison terms monday ranging from a year to six  sentencing by . District court judge Leland Nielsen came in what Federal prosecutors said waste largest Case of Navy theft in the nation s history. Assistant . Attorney Phil Haltem said the prime motivation of the defendants was greed. These people were not spies in that they were doing this for political reasons. They were doing it for Money he said adding that the thefts Hurt National Security. President Reagan s recent disclosure that he had authorized the shipment of some military parts to Iran had no bearing on the Case Haltem . Cayabyab a former Navy Man aboard the Carrier Kitty Hawk received six years for stealing a estimated 1500,000 Worth of parts. In a plea for leniency Cayabyab said he stole Only damaged parts Des tined for destruction Haltem called that claim Mere Poppycock. No tone of those parts was damaged or in uncorking  he said Cayabyab stole navigational Assem Blies for f-14 jets that were valued at More than $94,000  sentenced was Julie Agustin a travel agent and the wife of one of two men identified As ringleaders inthe Case Franklin Agustin who faces sentencing dec. 22. Edgardo Agustin described As the other ringleader was to he sentenced tuesday. Mrs Agustin was ordered to serve five years in Pris on for her role a recruiting others to steal parts and for packing the goods for shipment mrs. Agustin Cayabyab and three other All had pleaded guilty in Exchange for having some charge dropped. Another Navy Man Antonio Rodriguez was sentenced nov. 11 to five years in prison. Two men a iranian National and a third Agustin brother Are Fugi  Manasala Quito was sentenced to a year and a Day in Federal prison five Yean probation and a $10,000  had worked at the naval air rework facility on North Island in san Diego and stole betweens2so.ooo and $500,000 Worth of parts Halpern said. Daniel and Virginia Wheeler who had worked at naval air rework facility in Norfolk each received two years in prison for the theft of an estimated $500,000 Worth of  said the $10 million figure was conserva Tive because the government investigation into the thefts began Only in late 1983 and traced parts ship ments for Only six months. The ring had operated since at least 1981, be said. River divers to begin new search for . Cooper s Scy a dog loot Portland Ore. Up the nation s Only unsolved sky jacking passed its 15th anniversary monday with plans for yet another search for the rest of the$200,000 loot that disappeared with Hijacker . Cooper. Richard t. Tosaw a private investigator from Ceres calif., said he plans another search this week for the missing Money in the Columbia River with Volunteer scuba divers. He said he is certain that Cooper alter jumping from a Northwest airlines night on thanksgiving eve 1971, landed in the Columbia River with the Canvas Money bag he lied to his body and the 28-foot Nylon Parachute strapped to Hii  believes Cooper was pulled under the current and the Chute is still snagged on the River Bottom in the Portland Vancouver Wash area. You re not looking for a Needle in a Haystack he said. It s a goodly sized hunk of stuff you re going to come across. If these scuba divers come fairly close tit they la be Able to see  Tosaw s search was spurred by the discovery of some of the $200,000 nine Yean after the hijacking. His previous Hunts have been  1980, Brian Ingram. 8. Found 15,800 in decaying $20 Bills on a Beach along the Columbia River near Vancouver. Authorities said it was part of Cooper s tool. The rest of the Money has not been , wearing sunglasses and a lightweight rain coat earned his Black attache Case aboard Northwest flight 305 from Portland to senile on nov. 21, 1971, got into teat 18-c in the rear of the plane and handed stewardess Florence Schaftner a note. When she assumed it was a come on like others Shehad received she put the slip of paper into her purse. But Cooper leaned toward her and whispered miss you d better look at that note. I have a  when the plane arrived in Seattle Cooper demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 Bills in Exchange for the release of the passengers and part of the Crew. He said he wanted logo to mexi co  the plane left Seattle with Cooper the Money and the parachutes he bailed out somewhere North or the Oregon bolder. On the night it happened i thought it was a 50-50 Chance that he would make it recalled Ralph p. Himmelsbach the Fri agent who was in charge of the  More i Learned about it the More 1thought the chances that he made it were less and Les my Money found Beo con Vinced that he never made it out  both him Melsbach and Tosaw a Clieve Cooper was a copycat criminal. Two weeks before the Cooper hijacking Aman in Canada tried to use a gun to Hijack a Jet he too demanded parachutes and Money but an airline Mechanic was Able to sneak up behind the Man and club him in the head with a wrench before Takeoff. Station gets hot Calls Over film mix up Shrewsbury mass. Api the wrong version of movie wat shipped to a television station prompting irate Calls when children tuning in for family entertainment swathe a rated film the station s general manager says. Never on sunday Herb Rossin will to Genera manager said monday after things segued Down Fod owing the sunday afternoon showing of my  room said the station had received a news release de scribing the film As an above average account of an Otter woman Youngerman  he Saidu appears whoever wrote the release omitted the word  since it was rated a or restricted to viewing by those Over 17, Rosin said he ordered a sanitized version for showing on sunday afternoon a time Slot ordinarily de Voled to grated or Genera audience movies. Rossio said monday that based on the release Bethought the movie would be harmless enough. But the canister that arrived contained an uncut version of the movie Rossin said the movie normally would have been previewed before broadcast but it arrived Loo late and was shown in its full unedited for viewers were especially struck by the bordello scene Rossin reported. When my Tutor taught More than the station had bargained for the employee running the film began adding the message parental discretion advised after every commercial break Rossin  the station phones started ringing. In addition to numerous Calls sunday Rosam said he received eight Calls monday four critical and four  congratulatory Calls included one from four Uxbridge men who wanted to know when we planned on showing it  right now i d like to forget the whole movie Rossin said. Firefighters face penalties for Selling to shirts at fire Detroit a four firefighters accused of Selling Devil s night to Whir to Ouide a Burn ing warehouse face departmental charges of bringing discredit to the fire department authorities say. One of the four an officer is also Charf Edwith filing a false report for allegedly denying that shirts were being sold Richard Stein administrative assistant to the fire commit Toner said monday. The City is trying to combat arson and bad publicity on the nights before halloween and they re out promoting Devil s night to shirts Laid fire commissioner Melvin Jef Ferson. I Don t expect them to be involved i anything except fighting  the four who were not identified face penalties ranging from a written reprimand to loss of three Days pay about $750, he said. Police probe $25,000 loss from Teller machine Braintree mass. A authorities Are investigating How an automatic Teller machine at a convenience store lost More than 525,000. The Money was discovered missing from the Safe Back of the Money Supply Cash dispenser nov. 18 by a Bank technician who came to serv ice the machine. Police said they found no sign of forced entry. Neither the lock nor he combination dial had been tampered with police Cape. Theo Dore Buker said monday. We have to Check everything including Bank  Ann Humphrey a spokeswoman for Bay Banks inc., a partner with the Bank of Boston in Combine which owns the Money Supply machines said officials do not know if the machine was malfunctioning and declined further com ment. Cheetah recuperating after kidney transplant Winston Ore. A Khayam a 10-year-old female cheetah that has become the Symbol of wildlife safari is recovering from a kidney transplant performed by a surgery professor in a human Hospital officials say. Right now she s doing remarkably Well rethink fur what she s gone through Chriss Ferraro an educational assistant said Mon Day. Khayam s kidneys had been failing for several months before sunday s surgery at Douglas Community Hospital in Roseburg. Said handle Laurie Marker who raised the cheetah from a cub. I decided to do it on a  said or. Joh Barry director of the kidney transplant program and professor of surgery at Oregon health sciences University in Portland. It fascinated me and i thought Why not?1" crime Boss charged in plot to elect Presser new York not Anthony fat Tony Salerno the convicted Boss of the ceo Ovete crime group am three associates were charge monday with carrying out a fraudulent scheme to select Jackie Presser As head of the teamster Union. The indictment which was unsealed inner York also charged the four with seeking to influence Presser i decisions concerning the Union and its pension and welfare fund at part of a pattern of racketeering  Presser who has been president of the International brotherhood of teamsters since 1983, was not named As a defendant the charge was added to a racketeering indict ment against Salerno and is other defendants scheduled for trial Jan. 20 in . District Courtin Manhattan. The main racketeering chattel each carry a Niimi sentence of 20 Yean m prison