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THE PALM BEACH POST FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 2000 5B Police photograph hands of suspect in fatal beating Another suspect accused Carlos Sevillano of visiting him after the attack with bloody, swollen hands. By Brian D. Crecente Palm Beach Post Staff Writer BOCA RATON Police took photos of the hands of a man who witnesses say took part in the fatal beating of Adam Jones, according to court records. Boca Raton detectives took 11 photographs of the front and back of Carlos Sevillano's hands at the police station on March 9, according to a search warrant filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court Wednesday. Neither Sevillano nor West Palm Beach attorney Scott Richardson, who is representing him, was available for comment Thursday.

No one has been criminally charged in the case. A reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case rose to $1,500 Thursday. Police said an anonymous person added $500 to the $1,000 reward established by the department Sevillano, 21, of Boca Raton, was questioned by police earlier this month after another suspect, Marine Pvt. Derrick Acklin, told detectives that Sevillano jumped on top of the 20-year-old Jones and beat him as he lay on the ground. Acklin, 19, said Sevillano visited his house after the attack with bloody and swollen hands and bragged about beating Jones.

During a 10-hour interview at Marine Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. on March 3, Acklin told two Boca Raton police detectives and two Naval Investigative Service agents that Jones hit him on the head with an empty beer bottle as he walked from a girl's birthday party at her house on Northeast the beating, said he punched Jones three times to free himself from Jones' grasp and then ran as Sevillano and another man jumped on Jones and began to punch and stomp him. After the interview, detectives confiscated the marine's sneakers, personal phone books and two pictures he drew depicting graphic violence. Police also raided the Boca Raton home of Acklin's mother on March 3, searching for a gold necklace and cross that were missing from Jones' body after the Feb. 26 attack, but did not seize anything, according to court documents.

Boca Raton police would not comment on the specifics of the case Thursday. briancrecentepbpost.com Jones 36th Street. Acklin, who has tattoos similar to those described by witnesses as being on one of the men in p-" -s iJi i Jurors: No proof to blame fertilizer for crossing guards' respiratory ills Bradley spotted in Palm Beach The'former presidential contender and his wife were grocery shopping. By Mary Ellen Flannery Palm Beach Post Staff Writer BEACH Former U.S., Bill Bradley has gone a national cam The product wasn't any more toxic than your table salt at ALICIA TRINLEY Attorney for fertilizer manufacturer It couldn't possibly hang in the air," Frier said. Attorneys for the women suggested the fertilizer could have been contaminated, perhaps with a liquid pesticide, during the blending process at the Orlando plant Brown said the jury rejected all of the scenarios.

They saw through it," Brown said. There was no proof that there was anything wrong with the product." billdouthatpbpost.com 1 -I By Bill Douthat Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Two former school crossing guards who claimed a cloud of fertilizer from a road median caused them chronic illnesses failed to convince a jury Thursday that the fertilizer manufacturer was to blame. After more than three weeks of testimony, the jury found that Howard Fertilizer Inc. of Orlando was not negligent and did not supply a defective product to the highway workers spreading the fertilizer at Palmetto Park Road and Ponderosa Drive in suburban Boca Ralon. "TH product wasn't any more toxic than your table salt at home," said Alicia Trinley, an attorney representing the company.

The fertilizer contains nitrogen, phosphoric acid and soluble potash. But Margaret Hassell, 45, and Mary Dombrowski Maguire, 53, said exposure to the dust in 1989 led to years of suffering from respiratory ailments and immune deficiencies. While Maguire listed her medical expenses and k. NOW OPEN SUNDAY paign tor president to pushing his own cart at the island Publix store. He was shopping with his wif Ernestine, on Wednesday night, picking up V-8 juice, and fixings for 124 Attorneys for the fertilizer company argued that the illness may have been imagined by the women or were the side effects of medications.

Their symptoms also could have been caused by smoke coming from Everglades fires during the same period, said attorney James Brown. No similar claims have been filed against Howard Fertilizer during its 50 years in business and no employees have come down with serious respiratory problems, Brown said. Former plant manager Charles Frier said wind gusts at the intersection would have had to reach 40 mph to create the kind of swirling cloud described by the women. "The particle size is too large. Bradley Sexy Lingerie -Bridal Registry! pink lemonade salad.

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