Two teens charged in I-295 shooting

  Paul Leavitt

  11/12/1992

  USA Today

  FINAL

  Page 03A

  (Copyright 1992)

 

  Two teen-age gang members were charged Wednesday with attempted murder in

  one of a string of shooting incidents along Interstate 295 in Jacksonville, Fla.

  The youths, not named publicly, are accused of shooting motorist Debra Lewis,

  38, in the face in July. They may be connected to some of the 37 shooting and

  rock throwing incidents this year that last week prompted a warning from the

  American Automobile Association and forced authorities to deploy National

  Guard patrols along I-295. Authorities are investigating whether the shootings

  are part of a gang initiation. Sheriff Jim McMillan said other suspects were being

  sought and it was ``premature to say we've solved the problem.''

 

  FUND-RAISING REPORT: Archconservative Richard Viguerie had no

  comment on a New York Times report today that says he uses scare tactics to

  raise money from elderly contributors. The donors think they're giving money to

  lobby for benefits, but the Times said millions of dollars are going to support

  Viguerie's private companies. POLICE BEATING: Prosecutors said it will be at

  least next week before they decide whether to charge seven Detroit police

  officers suspended after officers beat a man to death Nov. 5. Prosecutors also

  said the man, Malice Green, 35, had a record of violent confrontations with

  police and drug- related offenses while living in a Chicago suburb. Also, the

  Detroit Free Press quoted a person - not publicly named - who said Green

  struggled while two plainclothes officers tried to seize suspected crack cocaine.

 

  PTL BANKRUPTCY: About 116,000 ``lifetime partners'' who gave $158 million

  to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL for free lodging at the Heritage USA

  Christian theme park got nothing as the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Columbia,

  S.C., closed the books on the case. PTL owed $130 million when it collapsed in

  1987 amid a sex-and-money scandal. More than $49 million went to creditors,

  mostly mortgage holders. Heritage USA, near Fort Mill, was sold in 1990.

 

  WILDFIRE: Evacuations were ordered from a mini-mall and preschool in Santa

  Clarita, Calif., where Santa Ana winds fanned a 125-acre brush fire. The 58

  children at Teddy Bear University Pre-School did well getting out ahead of the

  flames, which owner India Sacks, 24, said came within an arm's length of the

  building. ``We had practiced our fire drills and most of them just thought it was a

  practice run,'' Sacks said.

 

  ABA MEMBERSHIP DROP: The American Bar Association's decision in

  August to oppose restrictive abortion laws caused at least 3,100 members to

  leave the 370,000-member group, president Michael McWilliams said. The

  figure does not include those who let their memberships lapse without giving

  reasons. The ABA had been neutral on abortion. BATMAN BAN: James

  Bateman, 14, sent home from a Colorado City, Ariz., school for violating a dress

  code, said school officials ``kept saying that I was wicked ... but I just think I'm

  normal.'' The offending article of clothing: a T-shirt of actor Danny DeVito as

  The Penguin in Batman. The teen's mother, Trudie Bateman, said principal

  Lawrence Steed told her the shirt was a sign of devil worship. ALSO

  WEDNESDAY ...

 

  - INFANT HOSTAGE: Elverta, Calif., sheriff's deputies fatally shot a

  knife-wielding man who led them on a high-speed chase while dangling his 13-

  month-old daughter from a car. Arturo Buitron, 32, repeatedly had threatened to

  stab the infant unless his wife returned home, officials said. The girl suffered

  only minor scratches.

 

  - FOUNDER TO JAIL: Eliot Wigginton, 49, founder of the Foxfire education

  project, was sentencedto a year in prison after pleading guilty to molesting a

  10-year-old boy.

 

  - CHILD ABUSE: Members of a Grass Lake, Mich., church used candy, soda

  and gifts to entice children onto a church bus where police say they sexually

  assaulted the children. Two members were accused of sexually assaulting eight

  children, including using a tire iron on a boy.

 

  - FAKE BOMB: The 58 people aboard United Airlines Flight 46 from Los

  Angeles to New York safely evacuated the Boeing 767-200 when it landed at

  Kennedy International Airport after a bomb threat. Found: a harmless device.

 

  - IRA BOMBS: The FBI said four men were arrested in New York on charges of

  smuggling explosives obtained in Tucson, Ariz., to the Irish Republican Army.

  Arrested: Gerard Brannigan and Patrick Moley of New York, Denis Leyne of

  Canada and Thomas Maguire, home unknown.

 

  Hearing today on `Ivan' evidence

 

  A federal judge in Nashville today hears from U.S. prosecutors on whether the

  Justice Department deliberately withheld evidence favorable to retired Cleveland

  autoworker John Demjanjuk, deported on charges he was a Nazi death camp

  guard known as ``Ivan the Terrible.''

 

  Demjanjuk, 72, is in Israel appealing a death sentence there. He claims as far

  back as 1978 the U.S. government knew he wasn't Ivan.

 

  Today, George Parker and Martin Mendelsohn from the Office of Special

  Investigations, Justice's Nazi hunting division, will tell what they knew about

  Demjanjuk, and when they knew it. U.S. officials contend even if Demjanjuk

  wasn't Ivan, he was a concentration camp guard and was properly deported.

 

  A federal appeals court reopened the case after new evidence was discovered in

  the files of the former Soviet Union last year, that indicated another man - Ivan

  Marchenko - was really Ivan the Terrible.

 

  Contributing: Jonathan T. Lovitt , Lori Sharn, Bruce Frankel, Carol J.

  Castaneda, Sandra Sanchez, Sean McNamara and Steve Marshall

 

  CUTLINE:McMILLAN: Other suspects sought CUTLINE:WATER DROP:

  Helicopter pours water on brush fire CUTLINE:DEMJANJUK: Appealing

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