St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 47

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1989 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 5D Paramedic Accused Of Stealing Wallet; Is Suspended From Job Warning: Changing Flat Tire On Highway Is Hazardous profit agency. Motorists should try to avoid stopping on the left side of the road. Nelson and Right said. The left shoulder usually is narrower and is nearest to the fast lane.

Motorists should also carry a warning signal in the trunk to place on the highway if they experience a car breakdown. Most auto-parts stores sell items such as reflective triangles. The triangles are easy to use and as effective as flares, which can be mishandled, Right said. Right estimated that as many as a dozen people each year in the St. Louis area are struck and killed on highways while trying to fix flats or disabled cars.

A son-in-law, Verlyn Phillips, told police he had watched through a partly open door and had seen McKenzie remove Muehlenbrock's billfold and take several bills from it Phillips confronted McKenzie, grabbing him by the arm, police said. Police said that McKenzie had then handed over Muehlenbrock's wallet and surrendered $30 from his pocket. In a statement to police, McKenzie said he had planned to give the wallet to the family. "I've never done before in my life," McKenzie said in the statement. McKenzie was suspended with pay pending the outcome of an lnvestiga- tion, said Rodney Dreifuss, chief of the city's Emergency Medical Service.

McKenzie has been a paramedic with the city for seven years. "It's a tragic situation that og curs with a lot greater frequency than one would think," he said. Nelson and Right offered their advice in the wake of a third death in the greater St Louis area in the past month stemming from a vehicle stopped on a highway. On Sept. 24, a man from south St.

Louis County, Randall Baitinger, 46, was killed while changing a tire when he was struck by a car on eastbound Interstate 44, near Six Flags over Mid-America. On Aug. 24, two teen-age boys from Troy, were killed on Missouri Highway 79 in Lincoln County after being struck by a car. The boys were helping a neighbor fix a dump truck that was stopped by the side of the highway. SB Jit By Joan Little Of the Post-Oispatch Staff A St Louis paramedic has been accused of taking a wallet with 30 from the pocket of a man, 85, who had just died.

The paramedic is Timothy Mc-Kenzie, 31, who lives in the 5000 block of Idaho Avenue in south St. Louis. He was charged Friday with misdemeanor theft and was suspended from his job. Police Capt Ronald Henderson said McKenzie and an emergency medical technician answered a sudden-death call about 5 p.m. Thursday at the home of Albert Muehlenbrock in the 6400 block of Jamieson Avenue.

McKenzie is reported to have asked Muehlenbrock's family to wait in the kitchen while he examined Muehlenbrock in a bedroom. if I-1 I irr I ID2D uts WTTH COLOR DISKS 10, Make weigh the benefits of trying to save a tire that most likely is lost "Of course you'll ruin that tire, but it's better than losing your life," Nelson said. Michael Right, director of public affairs for the Auto Club of Missouri, said some motorists think they can save the tire if they stop and replace it quickly. "Most people are concerned about that $60 tire," Right said. "Forget the tire.

Your No. 1 concern should be your safety and the safety of those around you." If you can't avoid changing a flat on a major highway, pull off as far as possible to the right side of the road, said Nelson, who directs court-related highway safety programs for the Safety Council, a non 3Z2 Save $20 llul IBM Seaman Pins Jhe new, Improved hand-heM uucument. Include PainfCK UU1C settings and wf Egghead Price: GtTBGGSTRA SAVINGS HOW ON IBM VISPLAmRmW Saveaneggstea40 double sideddouble By Joan Little Of the Post-Dispatch Staff You are driving along an interstate and a tire on your auto blows out What should you do? Don't try to change the tire on the interstate or on any major highway, say two local experts in traffic safety. "What you really want to do is to get off the interstate and then change the flat," said Bill Nelson of the Safety Council of Greater St Louis. "Try to get off at the nearest exit instead of jeopardizing yourself and the other people on the road." Some motorists are afraid of ruining a tire by driving on it.

But most flat tires can be driven a short distance, and the risks of stopping out POLICECOURTS The following incidents were among those that were reported to police departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area or that involved action in one of the area's courts: ASSAULTS Pagedale: James Duncan, 30, of the 4100 block of Shenandoah Avenue, was charged Friday with assault, burglary and armed criminal action after police said he held his daughter hostage for more than three hours. Duncan, said to be despondent about the breakup of his marriage, is accused of breaking into a house at 1332 Bellrue Avenue about 2 a.m. Friday. Police said he pointed what looked like a gun at his estranged wife, Yvonne Blair, 29, and their 4-year-old daughter.

Blair called police and ran from the house. Pagedale police evacuated people who lived nearby and called in the 19-member St. Louis County tactical squad. About 5:30 a.m. members of the tactical unit rescued the girl.

Duncan surrender after tear gas was fired into the attic. A bowie knife shaped like a handgun was found in the house, police said. DRUG OFFENSES St. Ann: Undercover police officers fired four to five shots at a drug suspect during an arrest at a hotel in St. Ann, authorities say.

No one was injured in the shooting about 1 p.m. Friday, said St. Ann Police Chief Robert Schrader. Four men three from Jamaica and one from St. Louis were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

No cocaine was found, but thousands of dollars in cash and gold and diamond jewelry valued at thousands of dollars were seized at a room at the Dru-ry Airport Inn at 10800 Pear Tree Lane in St. Ann, Schrader said. He said the shots were fired after one of the suspects "went for something in his waistband." No weapon was recovered. COURT ACTION St. Louis: Adrian Mullen, 40, of East St.

Louis, was sentenced Friday to six months in a work-release program for demanding a ransom in a phony kidnapping. Chief U.S. District Judge John F. Nangle also put Mullen on three years' probation. Mullen had pleaded guilty of extorting money from Harold Segal, an owner of General Welding Equipment 1523 North Broadway.

Mullen and a co-defendant had said they would harm Segal and his family unless he paid for the release of someone Segal knew only as "Big Guy." Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. Rosen said the scheme netted $12,900 over three or four months. Clayton: A man who climbed a ladder in the nude to get into a neighbor's house on Nov. 1, 1987, in Richmond Heights, was sentenced in St.

Louis County Friday to life in prison. Kevin M. Howard, 27, of Richmond Heights, got into the residence of the neighbor, a 31 -year-old woman. But her screams awakened a male roommate who subdued Howard and held him until Richmond Heights police arrived. Howard was sentenced by Judge Kenneth M.

Romines on charges of attempted rape and robbery. Howard's probation on a prior burglary conviction was revoked soon after his arrest, and he is currently serving seven years on that conviction. Clayton: Trinell P. Boyd, 28, of the 12100 block of Criterion Avenue, North County, was charged Friday by a grand jury with kidnapping, rape, sodomy and three counts of armed criminal action. Boyd is accused of accosting a woman, 36, at an automatic teller machine at 8944 St.

Charles Rock Road, St. John. St. Louis: Jermaine Branom, 16, has become the second person charged in the robbery and fatal beating on Aug. 19 of an 83-year-old man.

Branom, of the 1900 block of Warren Street, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, first degree robbery, first degree burglary and armed criminal action. Earlier, the youth had been certified by the St. Louis Juvenile Court to face the charges as an adult. The badly beaten body of Raymond Stevens was found in his home in the 1300 block of St. Louis Avenue.

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