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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Top drug agent held in Money laundering from wire reports Tampa Fla. A Ait undercover narcotics detective once named officer of the year has been charged with helping launder More than $800,000 for colombian cocaine dealers. Javier Guzman was charged wednesday with laundering Money for smugglers whom he investigated while he was part of a Federal task Force. He also is accused of telling smugglers about investigations and revealing the identities of other undercover agents. 1 Deputy police chief John Cuesta said Guzman would be fired Guzman 34, a nine year Veteran was on a task Force that included agents from the drug enforcement administration and internal Revenue service., j his work with the unit earned him the officer of the year award in 1991. Guzman was jailed pending a Bond hearing today. He faces up to 30 years in prison and $2 million in fines if convicted. Nude Sun tanners taped Buffalo to a scores of women were secretly taped As they Sun tanned nude at a Salon. And even though the sheriffs and prosecutors daughters were among them officials can to find a Way of bringing charges. Quot this is something that has really rocked this Community a said Dallas county prosecutor Wayne Rieschel whose wife and daughter were among the 83 women videotaped. This ozarks town has about 2,400 residents. I Rieschel the police chief and an officer confiscated the camera and four tapes monday from video land a video rental store Ana tanning Salon. The store was closed wednesday and owner David Paro could not be located for comment. Panel opposes euthanasia Albany . A if assisted suicide were Legal patients could be pressured to kill themselves or even become the victims of involuntary euthanasia a panel said wednesday. The new York state task Force on life and the Law unanimously recommended against lifting new York states ban on doctor assisted suicide. Instead the 24 members recommended More aggressive treatment of the pain and depression that often drive patients to seek death and strengthening patients right to refuse treatment. The members included doctors religious leaders and lawyers. Car bus collision kills 5 Camp Pendleton  Young women and two children were killed wednesday when their Small car swerved into the path of a bus on the Marine base at Camp Pendleton. Seven people were Riding in the 1993 Ford escort about 11 . When the Driver apparently lost control on a moisture Slick Road in front of the North county transit District bus Marine. Spokesman Mark Lobdell said. All five fatalities had been Riding in the car Lobdell said. They were three women aged 18,19 and 24, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-od boy. The 19-year-old woman was the wife of a service member at the base Lobdell said. A 4-year-old boy and a 6-month-old boy were injured and listed in Good condition at the naval regional medical Center on the base. The victims names were being withheld until the families could be notified. Killer to be hanged today Olympia Wash a a triple murderer whose crimes inspired new state Laws protecting victims and witnesses lost a bid for mercy wednesday less. Than two Days before his scheduled hanging. Charles Rodman Campbell 39, is scheduled to die today for the revenge killings of two women and a girl 12 years ago. The state clemency and pardons Board voted 4-0, with one abstention against recommending to gov. Mike Lowry that Campbells death sentence be commuted to life in prison. Campbell was sentenced to death for the april 1982 slayings of Renae Wicklund 31 her 8-year-old daughter Shannah and family Friend Barbara Hendrickson 51. Campbell had raped Wicklund in 1974 and her testimony and that of Hendrickson put him behind bars. Campbell was on work release when he bludgeoned and slashed the throats of his victims. 2 California teen agers held in German s death by the associated press authorities at opposite ends of the United states on wednesday booked suspects in attacks on tourists. In Southern California two teen agers were booked for investigation1 of murder attempted murder and Rob cry in the May 16 attack on two German tourists at a Mountain Overlook. In Miami a Man arrested on an unrelated charge confessed to being one of two men who hijacked a hotel Courtesy bus and robbed five norwegians two weeks ago police said. The California suspects were identified As Kham Chan Quot Brett Quot Ket Souvannasane and Xou Yaing both 19. They were each held in Riverside calif., on $250,000 bail pending arraignment said Deputy Mark Lohman. Three other men detained tuesday were released though More arrests were possible said Riverside county sheriff Cois Byrd. Gisela Pfleger 62, was fatally shot near the Overlook in the mountains about 90 Miles from los Angeles. Her 64-year-old husband Klaus was shot in the shoulder and Mouth. He was listed in fair condition wednesday. The couple came from Emmerich near the dutch Border. A a a a a.,-. Investigators said that the gunmen did no to target the couple because they were tourists and that the motive appeared to be robbery. Quot it could have happened to anyone a Byrd said. In Florida Cedric Thompson 33, who was arrested sunday on a carjacking charge unrelated to the May 13 bus hijacking confessed to the tourist crime police said. Investigators Are looking for a second suspect. Thompson was being held at the Dade county jail Ket Souvannasane Yang without Bond on numerous charges of armed robbery armed kidnapping and carjacking. Thompson has been arrested 17 times for crimes committed in South Florida and California and convicted 10 times said John Farrell chief of investigations with metro Dade police. But he has served Only four years in prison Farrell said. Police estimate that $9,000 in Cash jewelry and cameras was taken from the five norwegian tourists on the Airport shuttle bus. One of the tourists was struck in the face when she did no to respond quickly enough. Four germans were among 10 foreigners slain in Florida in a 13-month period ending in october 1993. In March two students from Japan were killed during a carjacking in the san Pedro District of los Angeles. Tuberculosis declines the number of new tuberculosis cases dropped by 5 percent in 1993, the first significant decrease since 1985. 20 15 / 25,313 1985 �?T87 89 �?T81 �?T93 new to cases in 93 source cd aps amps Boston apr the number of new tuberculosis cases has fallen significantly for the first time since 1985 Federal officials said thursday. The . Centers for disease control and prevention released figures showing that 25,313 to cases were reported nationwide last year Down 5 percent from 1992. In California the state with the most to cases the total fell 3 percent. Tuberculosis began to return in the mid-1980s, in part because of increasing numbers of people with aids who Are especially susceptible to the infection. Or. Kenneth g. Castro said at a news conference that the decline could be caused by better control of tuberculosis including More treatment of people with the disease and identification of those they have infected. Castro presented the figures at the annual meeting of the american lung association. He cautioned that a one year decline does not mean that the disease is under control or that it will continue to go Down. Overall the number of to cases has increased 14 percent since 1985. Burglar alarm Dri Randallstown my. A make it Stop make it Stop that a what the people in this neighbourhood of modest townhouses have been thinking for five Days As a vacationing neighbors malfunctioning burglar alarm has emitted a continuous pulsing screech. Quot this really affects you., i can to sleep a said Joan Sheppard her face betraying the Strain of living next door. She and other neighbors May have to suffer a few More Days. Police say there a no violation of any noise ordinance so there a nothing they can do to Stop the Racket in this suburb 10 Miles Northwest of Baltimore the was the talk of the  a the neighbor described As polite and reserved did no to leave anyone his House keys before departing for a trip to Europe a itinerary unknown. Sheppard said she a tried everything to live with the noise she tries to sleep in a Back room farthest from the noise. The Man living on the other Side of the alarm from Sheppard looked like his Sandman had been sandbagged too he appeared bleary eyed in his pyjamas at a front room window to answer a reporter s Knock on the door about 11 . Quot i done to want to talk about it a the Man said grimacing. Quot i would like to break in the door and pull that alarm out myself a said Sheppard whose Security system includes a Small decal on her front door that reads a this property is protected by Jesus  a right now i done to think in a going to say anything to him a she said. A if i said something it might not be  the alarm was triggered after a Power outage Quot saturday. Another Power outage shut off the alarm. But that Relief to the eardrums ended when electricity was restored about two hours later. A it was like a vacation a said Frank Wilson who lives across the Street. Quot neighbors gathered outside and it Baltimore county police spokesman Steve Doam Berger who is out of the noises Way explained the police s Side of the Story. Quot in order to Cut off the alarm you a have to be inside. It would be breaking and entering a Doarnberger said. Baltimore Gas amp electric spokeswoman Nancy Hooper Caplan worried about liability questions involved in shutting off the Power Quot if the Guy has a refrigerator full of food it would be ruined or he could have an aquarium full of fish and the fish could  besides the talk of How irritated neighbors Are Many say he should have left his House keys with someone a i know the Guy has a right to take his vacation. But i think he should Nave left a key at the police station if he did no to Trust his neighbors a Wilson said  
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