European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 9, 1987 the stars and stripes Paga 7 dentist claims he stole to make a Point Portage Mich. A a Small Lawn Demist wild no criminal record created a phony identity and wrote thousands of dollars in bad checks All. He says 10 prove How ineffective police arc in lighting crime. Instead or. Victor Bigford wound up with a felony record and perhaps a stint in jail. I guess i Haven t proved As much As i thought said Bigford 55, who practices dentistry in the Rural Southwest Michigan town of Berrian Springs. I guess they can prosecute and punish people when they want  Portage police say Bigford wrote s9.000 in bad checks last year while using a phony identity oven fashioning a Bridge of false Teeth to alter his appearance. Bigford estimates his bad Check total at $5,000, and said he paid it All Back. I was arrested sept. 16 on a charge of writing a bad Check for $267 at a scars store. He eventually pleaded no contest and faces up to 13 months in jail and a $500fine when sentenced feb. 17, a charge of perjury for having a false Driver s License was dropped. After he got caught Bigford told police he was researching a Book on crime called the Crook Book said Mark Courtade Kal Astwoo county assistant prosecutor. He brought a manuscript Down Courtade  explained How to change a birth Date get a differ ent social Security number things like  Cour lady described the manuscript As elaborate and said it seemed to have been worked on for a Long time. Bui Courtade said whatever Bigford s motives the crime Binge was t a harmless Lark. Bigford did t reimburse store owners for the bad checks until the Day after police told him that he was a suspect he added. But Bigford said he had planned to pay off the checks All along. The whole plot he said stemmed from i frustration from being victimized Over the years by bad checks burglaries and failed business deals that he says were fraudulent. No arrests were Ever made he said. A few years ago he said he began writing various scenarios for White Collar crime o be included in a Hoot he planned. Somebody had ripped me off. I just sat Down As a Lark thinking let s Sec. How Many White Collar crimes could i do " he said. I did t want to show people How to commit crime but combat  he said he began by blotting out the name on his birth certificate and replacing it with the fictitious Richard  with it he slowly accumulated new credit cards a Driver s License and a phony address. I was looking for information that s All he said. The Issue is not me trying to get away with som goods. The idea was to try and answer the question of what recourse docs a citizen have when the police Aren t upholding the  Don f isolate us aids patients Tell conference Indianapolis a aids patients and their families called saturday during a conference on aids for under standing and Contact with victims of the fatal disease. Whatever you do please Don t isolates Ryan White 19, said to applause from the crowd of nearly 900 As a two Day aids in the heartland conference Drew to a close saturday. He attracted National publicity when officials barred him from Western mid dle school in Kokomo after learning of. His illness. He won the right to return after 9 protracted court Battle. Marge Miller of fort Wayne whose son Stephen died of aids in october1985, spoke of seeing Hospital workers cover another aids patient with a Sheet from head to toe As the patient was taken for a rays. His Mother. ,. Thought thai he had died Miller said. The two Day conference sponsored by the Indiana Board of health brought to Gether medical professionals and laymen from at least seven Stales. Friday s ses Sions dealt largely with medical and Legal aspects of the disease. Indiana health commissioner Wood Row a Myers or. Worked at san Francis co general Hospital from 1982 to 1984. Many of the aids patients were not California natives at Alt Myers  d take their histories and you d find out that they were natives of Sagi naw Mich. Columbus Ohio or Peru and. Many of them Are coming Back now a Philo aids victim Ryan White right and his Mother Jeanne appear at the conference. To Indiana to Ohio to Michigan to the heartland or. Constance Wolsy co Dirac for of aids activities at san Francisco general Hospital said physicians everywhere could expect to treat Many More people with aids in the next few years. She applauded the recent appearance of condom ads in women s magazines and on to. She said she Hopes ads will appear in men s publications As Well. Aids is spread by the Exchange of body fluids researchers say and the use of condoms is considered an effective Way to reduce the risk of infection. Most of the victims have been Homo sexual men and one of them torn bran Nan of fort Wayne said even his doctor was squeamish about raising the subject. Brennan 39, told of being asked not to come to his family s Home in Bowling Green ky., for Christmas and of being told of his sister s death from cancer three weeks after she was buried. Ryan while a Haemophilia a who contracted aids from infected blood products and his Mother Jeanne also spoke of the reactions they encounter. You get people who Back away who stare a lot Ryan said. A lot of people cough in Church. But when Ryan White coughs in Church everybody starts looking around and mov ing away his Mother said. Although Ryan has received More publicity than the thousands of male homosexuals who have died of aids bran Nan said he is not upset and noted the disease is spreading beyond the Homo sexual Community. His Story is joing to be More Typ ical Brennan said. My Story is going to become progressively less typical. Whatever can gel the word out is most important and i Don t really care who or what that  As of feb. 2, aids had been diag nosed in 30,396 people in the United Stales with 17,338 deaths according to the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. 572 pounds Liberace s aids tests inconclusive of cocaine seized at Border Douglas Ariz. A two mexi can nationals were arrested when 572 pounds of cocaine Worth up to s3 75 million were found in their truck it this Border crossing authorities said. Roberto Castillo Lopez 32, and Hec Tor Acosta 30, both of Sonora Mexico were taken into custody late Friday night said Charles Conroy a spokesman for the . Customs service. The two men were stopped at the Bor Der and when their truck was routinely searched customs officials found 235 packages of White powder wrapped in Brome paper Conroy said. An on site test proved the 572 pounds of powder Cru cocaine and Worth be tween si50 million and $375 million on the Street Conroy said. The two men tried to Speed off in their vehicle after the inspection but were overtaken aids apprehended a Short Lime later according to Conroy. Indio Calif. A liberate was exposed to the aids virus but tests of tissue samples were inconclusive sat urday on whether the flamboyant pianist died of the disease officials said. The body of the 67-year-old entertainer who died wednesday was entombed saturday in private services at Forest Lawn memorial Park in los Angeles. The tests which involve microscopic tis sue studies and which will reveal whether Liberace had aids will be completed monday said the Riverside county Coro Ner Raymond Carrizo. Results were to be released monday afternoon he said. Medical records obtained under subpoena from Eisenhower medical Cente showed Liberace tested positive in Jan uary for exposure to the aids virus said supervising Coroner s investigator Sabas Rosas. But it was not known whether he actually had the disease Rosas said. An autopsy conducted Friday however did not reveal any sign of the aids virus which is Why Coroner s officials Are await ing the Mexico logical studies Carrizo said. They will determine whether he had aids or just had the virus. That s Why we re hesitant to bring this whole thing up Carrizo said. Carrizo said results were delayed be cause the tests were being conducted by a private Laboratory in Colton in neigh Boring san Bernardino county. River Side county has no facilities for the tests he said. The presence of the antibodies Indi Cates that Liberace had been exposed to the virus. It does not necessarily mean that he had the disease. However 20 per cent to 30 percent of those who test Posi Tive for the antibodies eventually develop aids scientists say. The autopsy was performed after car Rillo rejected a. Doctor s certificate that attributed the death to congestive heart failure stemming from an inflammation of the brain. Robertson favors and Ferrari of of Rice Force Dearborn Mich