European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 27, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Fla. Drug sweep nets 1,400 arrests Miami a Florida s second sweep or drug users and dealers netted More than 1.400 arrests by Friday eve Ning As authorities combined reverse sting and Trojan horse operations with search warrants and Highway surveillance. A think the idea is to just get As much crack off the Street As we can and to once again Send a message to people that arc buying and Selling crack that it s not going to be tolerated said Jim Liljedal. Spokesman for the Broward county sheriffs office. By 11 . Friday the Roundup produced 6,683 crack cocaine rocks 2.6 pounds of cocaine powder 10.44 pounds of marijuana 52 firearms 209 vehicles and 154,667 in Cash. A total of 1,465 arrests had been made by Friday evening in the operation staffed by an estimated 1,200 officers in All of the slate s 67 counties. The 48-hour crackdown dubbed operation Rock pile ii was launched at 12 01 . Thursday and was coordinated by the Florida sheriffs Assoc a  first operation Rock pile begun june 31. Resulted in 2.076 arrests. It netted 3.510 crack cocaine rocks. 10 pounds of cocaine powder. .1 pounds of marijuana 327 vehicles. 50 firearms and $55,107 Cash. Crack a derivative of cocaine is sold in Small chunks called rocks. The Only thing that surprised us in tally was what seemed to be an unusually High amount of  Liljedal said at the operation s command Post in fort Laud Crdal. In reverse stings officers pose As drug Sellers and bust customers. In Trojan horse operations several deputies ride hidden in the Back of a truck and jump out to make arrests when the Driver is offered crack for Sale by Street Corner dealers. Nothing seems to deter these people when they re looking for crack or looking to sell it said Liljedal. Court rules 5 schools in Boston can be closed Boston a a stale appeals court ruled Friday five Boston Public schools at the heart of a fierce dispute Over budget culling can be closed. Schools  Laval Wilson said the five schools will be closed As planned and affected parents will receive new school assignments for their children. On july 25, the City s school committee voted to close inc schools to meet mayor Raymond Flynn s $362 million Largel Bud gel and to Case a projected $2.6 million a Cicil going into the school year the three judge appeals court panel ruled inc school committee s vote was valid even though it erred when a require Public hearing was delayed until aug. 7. Parents who had fought the closings said they did not expect to Appeal Friday s Deci Sion which overturned a Suffolk Superior judge David m. Rosman s decision tues Day to Block the closing plan. School committee member Rob Cap Pucci said he preferred saving Money by closing the schools rather than putting Spe Cial programs like athletics on inc chop Ping Block. I would rather close buildings than programs said Cappucci. Wilson said inc committee has made $3 million in administrative staff cuts. Lifelike scarecrows Edith Hale poses Between lifelike scarecrows Dolly and Kenny mimed after singers Dolly parian and Kenny Roger sin a Field near Char Lotte Mich. Hale said her scarecrows often fool pm scr by and even her neighbors who mistake them for real people. Guardian Angel killed playing russian Roulette Forestville. My. A a guardian Angel killed himself playing russian Roulette with iwo Mem Bers one of Ihm 14 near Midnight aug. 19. Authorities in this Dis Ricl of Columbia suburb said Friday. The guardian Angels earlier tried to pin inc blame on drug dealers. Angels founder Cunis Sliwa after learning of inc results of the police invest Galion said he would meet with members of the civilian group to emphasize its policy against weapons. Prince George s county police it. Col. Robert Phil lips said Dorian Brown. 19, had apparently initiated the game and was the first one to pull the trigger on the .357-caliber magnum when he was killed. One of the other two was 14 years old and the other was 22, Phillips said. He said Brown had been drink ing and Wilh a blood alcohol level of 0.07 percent was close to the 0.08 percent conceal ration that Maryland uses to define As under the influence of alcohol. The Szalc defines intoxicated As 0.10 percent. It s just a terrible tragedy for inc group for Dorian and inc Community at Large Sliwa said. Russian Roulette is played by loading Only one round into a revolver and spinning the Cylinder. The player Ihnn Potnis the gun at his own head and pulls the trigger hoping the Hammer strikes an empty chamber. The shooting happened in the organization s office in a drug Ridden apartment Complex where the group has patrolled since april. The group immediately claimed the recruit was killed by drug dealers and organized several  this week to pro isl Brown s death. Phillips said inc tragedy began when Brown found the door to the office ajar Sliwa said Brown called in two recruits that he knew  because one of them assumed there was a break in one took his father s revolver Sliwa said. They went to the Headquarters and were silting around. Apparently Dorian had booze and he and one other recruit were drinking and the other one took inc weapon out. Sliwa said he would reinforce the anti weapons policy in inc face of this prevailing notion that you solve problems with a  earlier in inc Day Bounly Hunt cars captured a Mem Ber of the guardian Angels unit. Michael Marshall 19, who they said had failed to appear in Baltimore coun by circuit court on a robbery charge. Rapist on bail charged with banker s murder Hartford Conn. A a con Vic cd rapist freed on bail while awaiting trial in another rape Case has been charged Wilh murdering a Bank executive who apparently was kidnapped on her lunch hour and shot in a City Park. Daniel j. Webb 27, was ordered held on $1.6 million Bond Friday in the death of Diane Gellenbeck 37, of Newington a Vic president at Connecticut National Bank. Gellenbeck was last seen alive when she left for her lunch break thursday. At about i ., police checking reports of gunshots found her Bullet riddled body fully clothed except for shoes near the Golf course in Keney Park. Police were awaiting test results to see if she had been raped. A spokesman for the Bank said Gellen Beck was single and had worked for inc Bank 16 years. Webb turned himself in to Hartford police about four hours later after police surrounded his Bloomfield Home. The attack in the Park was similar to the 1984 Kidnap and rape Hal landed Webb in prison. He was convicted of abducting a woman from the Hartford civic Center parking garage taking her to Mcney Park and raping her. Police have not confirmed that gel in Buck was kidnapped thursday but two Legal sources said she was kidnapped at the civic Center garage before she was taken to the Park. Based on her appointments Calendar there was no reason for her to be in the Park at that time said Hartford police it Frederick Lewis. Asked if Webb was known to Hartford police Lewis sighed and said  Hartford slate s attorney John Bailey said Webb has been arcs cd several limes on charges of sexual assault or robbery since his release from prison believed to be in 1986. But prosecutors have been unable to keep him behind bars As he awaits  being freed from prison and put on probation for his 1984 conviction Webb was arrested and jailed again in june 1988on charges he forced a woman s car off a Highway in new Britain then kidnapped her and raped her. But in june of this year. Webb still awaiting trial was released when he put up his father s storefront Church As a $200,000 property Bond. Webb was arrested again july 29 on charges of robbery and larceny in East Hartford but again he made Bond. Pros Ccu lors went to court As recently As Mon Day seeking to have the Bond increased but a judge put off a ruling because Webb s lawyer was Oul of town