European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 3, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7sheriff s drug lab leads to Legal morass fort Lauderdale Fla. Up a two months after a state appellate court ordered Broward county sheriff Nick Navarro to Stop cooking his own crack cocaine for sting operations no one knows How Many people Are still wrongly jailed for buying it. A it could be several Hundred people a assistant Public defender Steve Michaelson said. A we did no to keep track a sheriffs chemist Randy Hilliard said. On some nights homemade crack cocaine cooked in the sheriffs lab was so popular that undercover deputies Selling the drugs herded buyers to jail in Paddy wagons. A it was like cattle going to Slaugh Ter a said Paul Petillo an assistant Public defender. Michaelson and the Public defender s office have asked the Florida department of corrections to pull the files of everyone jailed on a Broward county drug charge to see if they were convicted of buying drugs made by the sheriffs office. The 4th District court of appeals in West Palm Beach ruled earlier this year that the sheriff operated drug lab was so outrageous that even inmates who failed to protest their convictions had to be released from prison. Officials Are trying to organize a meeting Between prosecutors and defense lawyers to Deal with the coming crush of cases. People convicted of buying crack have been calling judges lawyers and assistant Public defenders to see whether they can get out of prison. A a in be gotten More than a dozen Calls and letters a said assistant Public defender Cherry Grant. A most of the people Are in jail. Its really  the confusion is the result of a program begun by the sheriffs office in 1989 to manufacture crack cocaine. The cocaine rocks were used in sting operations in which deputies sold the drugs to buyers. Chemists made the rocks by boiling water and baking soda with cocaine powder that had been seized in drug raids. Undercover deputies lured buyers into school zones where they could arrest defendants on a charge carrying a mandatory three year prison term. The appellate court in january ordered the sheriff to Stop the process and a month later said All those convicted of using the sheriff made rocks should be released. Sheriffs officials said the office did not count the number of people arrested in the stings but Hilliard estimated a thousands. A Hilliard cooked nearly 13,000 crack rocks Over a three year period. Some of those arrested in the stings Are serving prison sentences some Are in drug rehabilitation houses some have served their time and still others Are awaiting prosecution. Investigators look at the body of a Man killed in a fight with police at the end of the los Angeles Marathon. At right Lorin Johnson and Peter Elkin kiss alter saying their vows. Slaying wedding add drama to la. Marathon by the los Angeles times los Angeles a police shot and killed a Man who grabbed for an officers gun sunday just a few Hundred Yards from the finish line of the los Angeles Marathon Only moments after the first of More than 19,000 runners completed the 26.2-mile race authorities said. The gunfire which marred what had been a picture perfect Day and the wedding Day for two of the contestants erupted in a crowded a family reunion area a where hundreds were waiting for friends and relatives competing in the race. It was the first violent death in the history of the event. A for the last seven years in . We be run this race through every neighbourhood there is without incident said Bill Burke president of the los Angeles Marathon. A obviously its a tragedy that something like this  los Angeles police and witnesses said the shooting victim attacked officer Floro Pinzon 36, by jumping on his Back. Another officer Rafael Acosta 27, entered the struggle and tried to subdue the attacker with a Billy witnesses said. Both officers were knocked to the ground and the Man tried to grab one officers gun. One officer broke free turned and fired witnesses said. Police said each officer fired once striking the Inglewood Man in the Chest. Police it. William Hall said that he did not know Why the Man attacked. A it was after the race in an open exhibit area with about 70 people within Range a Hall said. The officers had to take care in firing because a not Only were they in their own line of fire but everyone  two hours earlier the race had begun As a Cele bration of physical fitness and commercial endorsements with a team of Elvis Presley impersonators running in White Bell Bottoms and even a wedding party joining some of the worlds Best Lon distance runners for a brisk jog through a Host of ethnically varied neighbourhoods. Happily featured in the Marathon were Peter Elkin and Lorin Johnson who ran 13 Miles to be married at the races Halfway Point by a minister in jogging shoes. The couple had met while running in the 1990 Marathon. Under a temporary canopy on a Hollywood Street Corner they vowed to love each other a in times of health and times of sports injury in Uphill and  minutes later the couple stepped Back into the race. The last 13 Miles they said would be the beginning of their honeymoon. Paper feuding with exiles gets death threats by Mike Clary los Angeles times Miami a Long simmering differ Ces Between a powerful cuban exile 3up and the Miami Herald newspaper be bubbled Over into a bout of name lying in the Media that has apparently negated an outbreak of Anonymous reats directed at newspaper executives. David Lawrence jr., publisher of the Rald told the Fri and Miami police that e in january he and two top cuban born tors of the Herald had received in Ned death threats written in Spanish. Herald vending machines have been vandalized with fees and glue and some newspaper distributors have been intimidated and called a communists a Lawrence said. The threats follow a series of vitriolic Public exchanges Between Lawrence and Jorge Mas Canosa chairman of the cuban american National foundation. Mas went on Spanish language radio stations in january to denounce the Herald for its coverage of cuban affairs. He suggested according to the Herald that the newspaper was a tool of cubans Fidel Castro regime. Mas has accused the Herald of slanting coverage to favor Castro pointing in particular to a Herald editorial critical of a Cuba Trade Bill sponsored by rep. Robert g. Torricelli d-n.j., and to a column by the City editor of the Spanish language Al Nuevo Herald that castigated cuban exile leaders who encouraged violence against the Castro government. In a statement read Over two Spanish language radio stations Mas called on the newspapers senior cuban born executives a Roberto Suarez president of the Miami Herald publishing co., and Carlos verdecia editor of Al Nuevo Herald a to resign As an expression of Solidarity. They refused. Since then Lawrence has used his sunday newspaper column to make personal appeals to Mas to a be  a you Are a powerful person Here and in Washington and you would like to Hurt us destroy us if you could a he wrote. Heightening the tension has been the formation of a cuban committee against defamation which vowed to investigate the complaints against the Herald