European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes Friday december 2,1988 look out Don Johnson Atlanta s police officers decided id prove they Are the finest in More ways the one and the upshot is a Calendar put out by the Atlanta police Union local 623, that features police officers in mildly suggestive poses with and without weapons. But the chief of police in not amused chief Morris Redding said he approved of the concept but not the result. Doctor who drugged dying wife acquitted of murdering her St. Petersburg Fla. A a jury thursday acquitted a former county medical examiner of murder charges in the death of his terminally ill wife whom he said he tried to kill to end her suffering. Or. 1 Etc Rosier of it. Myers was found inn Occil of i act dog acc murder attempted murder and conspiracy in the Jan. 15, 1986. Death of his cancer stricken wife Pat Ricia. The charges were brought after the pathologist de scribed administering drug overdoses to his wife in a television interview. Prosecutors contended he hoped to profit from her death with a Book about it. The drugs left mrs Rosier comatose and she was smothered by her adoptive father As the father s two sons watched. The three received immunity in return for their testimony. The Pinc lbs county circuit court jury deliberated for slightly More than three hours alter hearing four weeks of testimony in the Case. An alternate j uror who was excused when deliberations began said that while he was opposed to mercy killing he did t think the stale proved premeditated murder. I could t specifically find him guilty of first degree murder myself. Maybe attempted. Maybe conspiracy said Glenn Ford 29, a savings and loan Security guard. The prosecution charged Rosier 47, horrified by his wife s fast spreading cancer obtained 20 seconal sedatives for her to take and administered morphine injections and suppositories when she did l die from her own hand. After she lingered for 12 hours in a comatose slate her father. Vincent Liftman testified he decided enough s enough went into her bedroom and smothered her while his iwo sons watched prosecutors maintained that Rosier used his Midi. Cal expertise to Engineer his wife s death in conspiracy with the selmans and manipulated them into commit Ting the final act. ,. But the defense portrayed Rosier As a Loving Hus band of 22 years who wanted to help his wife fulfil her wish of committing suicide and avoiding a painful end. Neither Side disputed hat mrs. Rosier wanted to Cam Mil suicide when she Learned cancer had spread from her lungs to her brain and adrenal glands. He was a skilled and conscientious pathologist this Man they re trying to paint As killer Doc " defense attorney Stanley Rosenblatt said in closing arguments wednesday it s not killer Doc it s a Good decent Man who made serious mistakes in his life who made self destructive assistant slate attorney Edward Volz told jurors that Rosier by his own admission in the television interview had conspired with her father and Brothers lond Herline. " _. She attempted suicide but failed. She did not die from cancer Volz said. Mrs. Rosier s Dalh was inc result of a conspiracy he said Rosier hoped to profit by writing a Book afterwards about her death which was also the subject of a series on local television. The state launched its investigation of Rosier 47, after the former Lee county Medici Al examiner a pc Rcd on television in fort Myers 11 months Lateran said i administered something to her to help terminate her life \ shortly after deliberations began the jury asked for another look at the to interview and at Rosier s unpublished Book. The stale granted immunity to Detman and his sons Russell and Farrell before learning of their involve ment. Prosecutors said they had no Choice but to give immunity because the body was cremated and there were no other witnesses j / i the state of Florida bought a pig in a poke three times said Rosenblatt who did not Call any witnesses during the trial. The three Delmans who end Pat Ricia s life they walk and a Loving husband of 22 years is put on anal for murder.". A livery room a nurse strut s Miami a an impostor wearing a lab coat surgical gloves and a Stethoscope wandered through hit spinal Halls Tor weeks sat in. On medical school classes and was finally arrested in. The labor delivery room when a nurse noticed his surgical gloves came from an other Hospital police say. Jonathan Ashley Battle 23, who has to medical degree spent at least three weeks at Jackson memorial Hospital arid had acquired 21 keys to doctors offices Melro dad. Police say. " they were keys even Security did t have Access to said Robert no excl Man an officer assigned to the Hospital. This Guy is really something police were investigating whether Bat the arrested nov. 20 arid charged with burglary and theft Ever actually exam ined patients during his Hospital rounds. A nurse became suspicious of Baltic when he entered a labor delivery scrub room wearing gloves from a neighbouring Hospital. Questioned about what he was doing Battle gave the name of a patient he planned to examine. After the patient s name did t show up in Hospital records the nurse called Security. Battle had created his own University of Italy . Net 200 suspects in joint drug sting Washington a . And italian authorities announced thursday they have charged More than 200 people including major figures in the sicilian Malta in a joint undercover operation targeting inter National cocaine and heroin drug trafficking rings in both countries. Arrests were under Way in Baltimore Buffalo . Miami Newark . New York Philadelphia san Francisco and Rock Ford Iii. In Italy arrest were being made in Palermo Bologna and Florence. Among the 75 people charged in the United states and 133 in Italy were some of the top leaders of organized crime Fri director William sessions said. An Fri spokesman William Carter said that by midday 52 people had been arrested id the United slates and 22 in Italy. Sessions said the arrests culminated a Long term undercover operation that he said builds Strong cases against top leaders of organised crime. Tile Fri said it used court authorized wiretaps physical surveillance and heroin and cocaine buys to develop evidence leading to the arrests. The italian news Agency Agi said the two year investigation that led to the raids stemmed from the pizza connection International drug ring that sold is ,6 billion of heroin mostly through pizzerias in the United states. A . Court convicted 18 people in connection with that ring and italian prosecutor indicted 28 people for their alleged involvement. At Fri Headquarters in Washington Carter declined to comment about any tie in be tween the pizza connection and the current probe. In a statement the Fri said the operation developed from what originally were Independent criminal probes in Buffalo new York and Philadelphia. They grew into a coordinated probe when agents found links Between Many of the targets of the separate investigations. the Buffalo Case was initially designed to concen trate on drug trafficking rings in the Western new York area and was code named Busico which stands for Buffalo sicilian it ultimately became lied to a probe in Philadelphia called the Iron Tower Case. Eventually the cooperation of six Fri Field offices three italian police Agen cies other . Govern Muni agencies and overseas sup port of the drug enforcement administration were enlisted in the Case. Undercover Fri agents travelled to Italy to discuss major drug buys. Italian police inspectors worked with Fri agents on the investigate Oil in new York and Phil Adelphia in Italy the news Agency Ansa said police were seeking at least 37 people there who were named in arrest warrants issued by anti mafia magistrate Gio Vanne Falcone. It said All the people named in the warrants were members of the spa Lola Gambino and Inzirillo crime families in Italy and the United slates. The slate run ra1-tv said italian authorities with the help of . Investigators arrested several top mafia figures. It said 300 policemen helped by Heli copters and dogs were reportedly employed in the sweep. " one part of the investigation the Fri said it developed information that cocaine was being sent from South America to a Laboratory 300 Miles North of Madrid Spain. There the cocaine was processed and sent to Italy and exchanged for heroin that was shipped to inc United slates. The Fri told Spanish and italian authorities about the Exchange and arrests were subsequently made in Spain. Agi and Ansa said the probe that Ted to heralds began after the arrests of women drug couriers at air ports in Palermo and new York two years ago it said the women were paid 17,800 for every two pounds of heroin they smuggled from Italy to the United Stales inside Money belts. Irn Postor Miami medical school photo id card identifying him As a doctor acc oilman said. Battle was scheduled to be arraigned dec 12 on charges of burglary a Sec Ond degree felony and pity theft a Misdemeanour. Me can t be charged with impersonating a doctor statute exists said Leslie Rothon Borg assistant state at Torney in the felony screening unit
