Banner Graphic, Volume 19, Number 179, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 April 1989 — Page 3
High court okays use of drug profiles in searches
WASHINGTON (AP) Law enforcement officials are armed with new support from the Supreme Court to fight drug smuggling by air travelers. The justices have made it easier for authorities to stop, question and search airline passengers who fit so-called “profiles” of possible drug couriers. BY A 7-2 VOTE, the court ordered the reinstatement of a drug possession conviction of a man carrying 1,000 grams of cocaine when he was stopped by authorities at the Honolulu airport. “We’re pleased and happy that we’ve been upheld by the Supreme Court,” said Cornelius Dougherty, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. The justices upheld the DEA’s case against Andrew Sokolow, who was stopped because his behavior and dress matched a “profile” the agency uses to identify suspected drug couriers. CHIEF JUSTICE William H.
They knew the jig was up if Hoosier farmers found out about 111 Wind bribes
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) Unaware that the FBI was eavesdropping, a defense consultant in the government’s “111 Wind” investigation of Pentagon procurement fraud joked with a business associate about what would happen if ordinary Americans discovered their bribery scheme. “If the farmers in Indiana knew what you sons of bitches were doing with their money, they would come up there and kill you with their pitchforks,” Fred Lackner told defense consultant William L. Parkin on a tape of their telephone conversation. The tape was played Tuesday by prosecutors at the first trial resulting from the twoyear investigation. LACKNER’S COMMENT, recorded by one of four FBI bugs placed on Parkins’ home and office telephones in 1987 and 1988, was on two hours of tapes played for jurors at the trial of three Teledyne Electronics Inc. executives accused of participating in a bribery scheme to get a $24 million Navy contract. . Lackner’s remark drew hearty laughter from Parkin. Both men pleaded guilty last month to participating in the Scheme to bribe Navy procurement official Stuart E. Berlin to obtain inside information for the California-based company. ASSISTANT U.S. Attorney Joseph Aronica said he expected
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Rehnquist, writing for the court, said there were sufficient factors to lead agents to reasonably suspect Sokolow was engaged in criminal activity. “The fact that these factors may be set forth in a ’profile’ does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance as seen by a trained agent,” Rehnquist said. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall said the ruling likely will lead to questioning and detaining innocent people. “REFLEXIVE RELIANCE on a profile of drug courier characteristics runs a far greater risk than does ordinary, case-by-case police work of subjecting innocent individuals to unwarranted police harassment and detention,” he said. Marshall was joined by Justice William J. Brennan. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh hailed the ruling, saying it “validates an effective practice ... to crack down on drug trafficking.” “Without this tool, our anti-drug
the prosecution would rest its case by Thursday. Parkin was expected to testify today, and prosecutors planned to play another two liOufS of tape recordings. The tapes included numerous conversations between Lackner and Parkin, detailing their efforts to obtain confidential bid information that would help Teledyne in its negotiations with the Pentagon. They also provided evidence of repeated requests for such information by Eugene R. Sullivan, one of the three Teledyne executives on trial in U.S. District Court in this suburb of Washington. DURING A conversation June 19, 1987, Lackner furnished Parkin with details sought by Sullivan about how much the Army, Navy and Air Force were prepared to spend to procure hand-held radar testing devices. “The deal is just a tad over $4.2 million,” Lackner reported. “Always helpful to know when you’re negotiating,” he said with a laugh. After Teledyne negotiated the contract, Parkin pressured company executive George H. Kaub, another defendant, to make good on Teledyne’s promise to pay Parkin a $150,000 consulting fee.
effort could be significantly hampered,” Thornburgh said in a statement. “By upholding the ‘profile’ practice, the Supreme Court has struck a strong blow in support of law enforcement’s war on drugs.” SOKOLOW WAS stopped by DEA agents on July 25,1984, as he returned to Hawaii from a trip to Miami. Authorities said he aroused their suspicions three days earlier when he and a female companion departed from Honolulu airport for Miami. They said Sokolow, who appeared to be in his mid-20s, bought his plane tickets with $2,100 in cash taken from a roll of money that appeared to contain more than $4,000. He was wearing a black jumpsuit and a great deal of gold jewelry, appeared nervous, and he and the woman with him carried four handbags on the plane without checking any luggage. THE AGENTS ALSO suspec-
Daley wins mayoral race, gaining ‘Boss’s’ office
CHICAGO (AP) Richard M. Daley, scion of Chicago’s venerated “Boss,” reclaimed the mayor’s office his father held for 21 years and promised blacks that City Hall’s “doors will remain open.” In ending six years of black control of the nation’s third-largest city, Daley defeated black Aiderman Timothy C. Evans, who ran as an independent and was backed by Jesse Jackson. REPUBLICAN Edward Vrdolyak also ran in Tuesday’s court-ordered special election to complete the final two years of the late Mayor Harold Washington’s second term. Daley, 46, used overwhelming white support, low black turnout and the shoe leather of precinct organizations whose efficiency recalled the political army controlled by his father, the late Richard J. Daley. “We were determined to prove to a doubting world that Chicago has grown beyond the politics of division and name calling,” Daley told cheering supporters. “WE’VE RUN A campaign that will be remembered not for its angry words, but for the hand of friendship we’ve extended throughout Chicago.” His victory made Chicago by far the largest U.S. city to replace a black incumbent with a white. It also left intact a Democratic hold on the city dating back to 1931 including six straight terms captured by the elder Daley before he died in office at age 74.
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ted he was using an alias because the name he gave the ticket agent was not the same as the name listed for the telephone number he gave the agent. Such behavior, dress and demeanor fit the profile of a drug courier, narcotics agents said. “Any one of these factors is not by itself proof of any illegal conduct and is quite consistent with innocent travel,” Rehnquist said. “But we think taken together they amount to reasonable suspicion.” For example, Rehnquist said, traveling from Hawaii to Miami may not be suspicious. But, he said, “Surely few residents of Honolulu travel from that city for 20 hours to spend 48 hours in Miami during the month of July.” In other action, the court; —Ruled in a case from Dallas that there is no “generalized right of social association” and allowed communities to protect young teenagers by banning anyone over 18 from some dance halls.
With 2,895 of 2,911 precincts reporting, or 99 percent, unofficial returns showed the three-term Cook County prosecutor with 575,437 votes, or 56 percent, to Evans’ 417,315 votes, or 40 percent. The 51-year-old Vrdolyak had 36,349 votes, or 4 percent. DALEY OVERCAME his unsuccessful mayoral run in 1983 and Jackson’s formidable opposition. It also left in doubt the future of the black political movement that made Washington the city’s first black mayor in 1983 and four years later, the city’s first mayor since the elder Daley to win re-election.
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