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ANAL i ne Arizona Kepublic Monday, December 15, 1880 Ex-Phoenix student charged in killing of Tucson teen-ager Tom vrZ Fitzpatrick Biker gang shows true colors by terrorizing town There was an argument, and after the party, one of the boys with whom Lujan had come hit Huleatt, Bloom said. Huleatt pulled a pistol, he said, and fired a warning shot, but the three advanced toward him anyway. Bloom said Huleatt apparently then took aim and hit Lujan with a slug from a Ruger. Commissioner Walter Weber set bail at $50,000 and ordered an accelerated hearing after Bloom said it was possible the shot was fired in self-defense. "Huleatt is being held on an interim complaint, so he could go to an initial hearing," Weber said.

The commissioner said the charge is "under advisement" because the investigation is not complete. TUCSON A former student at Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a juvenile Sunday morning after a party. Police said Richard S. Huleatt, 20, was being held after 17-year-old Carlos Lujan was shot during an argument in the street outside the home where the party was held. Huleatt, a student at the University of Arizona, was giving the party at his Tucson residence.

He is the son of Richard Huleatt of 3815 Shangri La, Paradise Valley. According to Stanton Bloom, the younger Huleatt's lawyer, the suspect had hosted a party to which Lujan and two other youths had come uninvited. Body of college student found; fell while climbing near Tucson I am always fascinated by what the news directors of our local television stations try to palm off as hard-hitting journalism. Most recently, one of the local stations spent the better part of a week on a series designed to upgrade the image of the Dirty Dozen motorcycle gang. They are misunderstood, we were told.

They are discriminated against. They are really sensitive young men who want to help the community. You know how these things go. The bikers can't understand why the police harass them. They can't stand it because we don't all love them.

You get the picture. While all of this heavy reporting on the Dirty Dozen was being aired by a local television station that continually pats itself on the back for journalistic excellence, a conclusion of sorts to still another vicious chapter in the very same gang's history was being written in Claypool. About a year ago, the Dirty Dozen gang moved to Claypool, where they rented a place within a hand grenade's throw of the Gila County Sheriffs Department From this vantage point, the Dirty Dozen proceeded to create a reign of terror that the residents of the area stretching from Globe to Miami will never forget The Dirty Dozen used a place called Tom and Gary's Bar as their watering hole. Located in the center of Claypool, it was situated so that the Dirty Dozen could command the town when they gathered in the bar together. Local law-enforcement officials were virtually powerless against the Dirty Dozen.

At times, there were as many as 50 of them, all armed. There was no way the police had enough manpower to force them out or confront them. Motorists were harassed. People were singled out and beaten at random. The Dirty Dozen could get away with almost any random act of violence their sick minds might devise.

Simply put they had the power and the guns. There wasn't an armed force close enough to oppose them. Power in the hands of a group as moronically vicious as the Dirty Dozen quickly gets out of hand. The Dirty Dozen began to believe they could get away with anything, even executions. This proved their undoing.

They began to establish rules of behavior for everyone else living in the area. Two 27-year-old men, David Howell and Laird Kriley, also had motorcycles and wore sleeveless denim jackets similar to those of the Dirty Dozen. Howell and Kriley were set upon and beaten badly. But they persisted in wearing the jackets. This was an affront that had to be dealt with.

At gunpoint, a contingent of Dirty Dozen members forced relatives of Howell to urge him to come to Tom and Gary's Bar for a friendly drink. When Howell and Kriley showed up, both were shot to death. The Dirty Dozen decided to brazen it out, to claim the shooting was self-defense. So they didn't leave town but went to their clubhouse, where they were arrested hours later by a beefed-up contingent of local and state police. Thrown in jail were such colorful Dirty Dozen figures as club president Gary "Greasy" Stacy, 36, and Patrick "Spiffy" Ford, 28, another big wheel in the club.

In all, a dozen members of the Dirty Dozen, all from the Phoenix area, were jailed. They were held under $200,000 bond each for the two killings. Several days later, one of the gang members, Robert Mora, 24, of Mesa, admitted he was the man who had fired the shots that killed Howell and Kriley. There is something that the Dirty Dozen can do that is even better than having a good lawyer. They have the power to intimidate prospective witnesses.

No one wants to go into court, get up in a witness chair, give a name and address and say anything damaging against them. It didn't help the tranquillity of the area's residents when the police had to set up roadblocks to turn back contingents of bikers from all over the West who were boasting they planned to storm the jail So nobody would come forward to testify against any of the Dirty Dozen members or even against Mora, who admitted that he had committed the shootings. One by one, the Dirty Dozen members were released from the Gila County JaiL True, several were arrested again in Phoenix and charged with trying to peddle $250,000 worth of counterfeit money so they could raise $40,000 for a defense fund for their still-jailed comrades inClaypooL Convicted of the charge, they were given six-month sentences and three years' probation. And just last week, Mora was allowed to plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter. He was sentenced to a five-year term by Judge E.D.

McBryde of Florence, who had been brought in to hear the case. No one in Claypool can understand why there never was any trial. They also would like to know more about the mysterious death of the barmaid who most certainly witnessed the shootings. Relatives of the two dead men wonder. But they are afraid to speak for publication.

They tell you they fear for their lives and beg you not to use their names. "How come they held this 'Dirty Dozen' fella on $2 million bond when they first got him?" one relative of one of the dead men asks, mentioning the bond originally set on Mora. "How come there was never any trial?" The Dirty Dozen's Tucson-based attorney, Charles Weninger, looks upon it as a triumph of justice. "Mr. Mora pleaded guilty to a non-dangerous offense," Weninger said.

"With credit for the six months he already has served, he can be back on the street in two years." McHugh said Carlson was climbing ahead of Schweitzer on a steep slope about 5,000 feet high when he fell 40 to 60 feet, coming to rest at the base of a vertical rock. Schweitzer assisted approximately 40 rescue personnel in finding the site of the fall. The body was removed by an Air Force helicopter because the rugged terrain is extremely dangerous for ground evacuation, McHugh said. Associated Press TUCSON The body of a San Diego college student who fell while hiking on Pusch Ridge in the Santa Catahna Mountains north of here was discovered early Sunday by searchers, Pima County sheriffs deputies said. Mark Carlson, 20, suffered multiple injuries and died shortly after falling Saturday afternoon, said Chuck McHugh, search-and-rescue coordinator for the Pima County Sheriffs Office.

Carlson had been visiting here while on Christmas vacation, McHugh said. The student was hiking on a high-angle cliff about a quarter-mile southwest of Pusch Peak when he either lost his footing or fell after unstable rocks broke loose, McHugh said. Carlson's hiking partner, David Schweitzer, 21, of Tucson, telephoned sheriffs deputies about two hours later from a residence. Israel completes changeover to new currency with shekel TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) A 100-shekel note has gone into circulation, marking the completion of a changeover from pounds to the new Israeli currency, begun Oct 1. The new note, currently worth $14, carries the portrait of the founder of the Revisionist movement, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Prime Minister Mena-chem Begin's mentor.

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$24.00 mate-informers by prison authorities. The Arizona Republic reported two weeks ago that several key government informers, some of whom are being hidden from mob assassins, had been compromised by prison officials who allowed confidential records to fall into the hands of inmates at a California prison. The subcommittee hearing, Nunn said, also will deal with a companion project a witness-security program operated by the U.S. Marshals Service. The program is offered to protect witnesses who are not in custody in exchange for information that may lead to various convictions.

Nunn said he is concerned about a lack of centralized authority in the witness-security program and a "tremendous" turnover by officials who administer it some "rather strong recommendations" will be made to correct problems in the program. "I think they ought to be more selective about whom they promise protection to, and then when they give it, they ought to give it in a professional way," he said. More than 200 government witnesses currently are housed by the Bureau of Prisons at several federal facilities. They have testified against Mafia bosses, crooked union officials and organized-crime leaders. Their testimony has led to hundreds of convictions.

Subcommittee investigators reportedly have been concerned about the potential compromising of in 17, a customer, hospitalized in critical condition; Evelyn Jackson, 23, a restaurant employee, in 'critical condition; Cesario Luna, 45, in critical condition; Diane Irvin, 20, an employee, stable 'condition; and night manager Michael Malloy, 23, also in stable condition. Derwin Logan, 19, another employee, was treated for minor wounds and released, police said. Rhonda Robinson, 19, and Ismael Luna, 20, son lof dishwasher Cesario Luna, were in the group of victims when the gunfire erupted, but neither was Both are employees of the restaurant. Cmdr. Bill Booth, top information officer for 'the Los Angeles Police Department, said the two gunmen apparently entered the restaurant a rear door as people were being let out.

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