Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 7

Page 8 Section A I a Stole Journal POCATELLO, IDAHO, WEDNESDAY JUNE 16 1971 Theft Ring Methods Bared Court SERIES STARTS Children gather Tuesday afternoon as the first of 10 weekly movies in a PTA summer program gets underway at the Chief Theater. The children's films will be held at 10 12 noon and 2 p.m. each Tuesday at the Chief through Aug. 17. A total of 1,600 tickets for the series were sold through the schools with PTA's getting part of the proceeds.

Single admission tickets also will be sold. Police Investigate Series of Thefts Pocatello police noted a variety of items stolen early this week. Mrs. Paul (Marian) Roberts, 208 Rosewood, told police a purse containing $700 in traveler's checks, three credit cards, a checkbook and glasses was taken from the trunk of her car between 4 p.m. and p.m.

Monday while it was parked at the Riverside Golf Course. Margaret Sanchez, 298 Park, told police her house was entered Monday afternoon and a stereo valued at taken. K. F. Harrison, 400 Owners Sought For Recovered Stereo Sets Pocatello police still are trying to find the owners of three stereo tape players recovered last week.

The equipment was among about 15 stereos and a number of stereo tapes and speakers relumed after two 17-year-old boys were taken into custody Friday. The juveniles were apprehended for curfew violation by police after they received a report of two boys looking into parked cars. When police investigated, they reported seeing a suspicious vehicle turn from Alameda south onto Pole Line Road. After the car with the boys was stopped, police noticed small tools. The youths later admitted 13 car burglaries dating back to March, according to police, who recovered 10 stereo players riday.

Washington, reported five rugs, worth about $40, were taken from the railing of her front porch Sunday night or early Monday. The Harrisons also said antennas were broken off both their cars and an outside rear view mirror taken off one automobile. Damage was estimated at $20. A stolen seven-week-old St. Bernard puppy was reported taken Sunday night from the home of Chris Powell, 1036 East Halliday.

Powell said the animal Golf clubs worth about $100 and a golf bag valued at about $25 were taken from the rear seat of a convertible sometime after midnight Sunday, Mrs. Dean (Jackie) Wilkie, 4530South Fifth, Space 2, told police. Harry Blackwell, manager of the used car lot at Hill Brothers Buick, 658 North Main, reported seven 12-volt batteries taken a night. Approximate value was listed at $200. A can containing $60 was reported taken Sunday night from the home of Sylvia M.

Tillotson, Wayne. Copper pipe valued at about $200 was taken from a construction site on South Fifteenth during the weekend, Francis By PAUL SMITH Journal Staff Writer Some ot the methods ot a motor vehicle theft ring, believed to have operated several years in this region, were revealed during guilty plea hearings in U.S. District Court here Tuesday. Centered in Pocalello and fanning out over several states, the operation was uncovered by (he FBI In a year-and-a-half's investigation, with the cooperation ot city police and the Bannock County sheriff's department. Eleven young men now have been convicted, with six of them being imprisoned and five placed on probation.

Most are Poca- tellans or former Pocatellans. The crimes, estimated to cost many thousands of dollars in losses; basically involved stealing ot cars, motorcycles and snow vehicles and transporting them elsewhere. Some of the vehicles were sold. Others were disassembled with parts sold or distributed to various members of the group, Cited by Assistant U.S. Attorney John L.

King, some of the methods were; Lanny Dean Slurgeon was among those who would look at cars during the daytime on Sail Lake City used car lots, slip out the keys and remove the automobiles after the lols closed at night. -John Clinton Leigh HI had the key to a motorcycle mailed to him from Twin Falls and gave the key to others who stole the cycle. Leigh arranged for trans- poralion of cars by others in the ring, King claimed. At least two cars stolen in this area got as far as Tacoma, Wash. Slurgeon, according to King, was involved In four car thefts in four days.

Three of the cars were divested of their parts so only the body shells remained. "The purpose of cutting up (lie cars." the prosecutor said, "apparently was to a the vehicles hard to find and identify." William Clay Roselle. had control of a large barn near the mountain of Monida, Mont. There several vehicles were stored, disassembled or both. Richard Glen Vielrweg, only on the fringes of the gang, op- a m'iles from Utah border.

Automobiles stolen in Utah were stored in a shed beside Ihe tavern. Testimony, at Viehweg's recent trial brought out (hat Leigh was seen cutting up a car in the shed. Barry Lee Everett, who pleaded guilty lo involvement in the ring, tended bar last summer in the tavern. The severity of sentencing by Judge Fred M. Taylor has been porportionate to involvement in the vehicle ring and to previous criminal records.

Leigh, 22, who pleaded guilty to two vehicle counts after two counts were dropped, receiveda seven-year sentence. He was the only one of those imprisoned not given a couple of days wind up his affairs, Lee wis on probabtion from a previous conviction of interstate tlon. He had an extensive previous record In juvenile court here. Roselle, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts after four were dismissed. He also got seven years, He had a previous juve.

nile record, a grand larceny conviction and he faces adiarge Sherman, Greene Plumbing and Heating, 1722 North Main, told Burglary LOSS police. Sherman said the pipe i. a had been bought to replace pipe ls 3el ar stolen June 1. The Bannock County Sheriff's Wylie Parker, 150 Fairbanks, office is Investigating the week- reported the theft of two 12-volt eil(1 burglary of Hunsacker Sand batteries, one worth $30, from and Gravel. Park Price oldsmobile, 300 John Spruk, 1002 Samuel, North Fifth.

Parker (old police Space 36, said over $1,000 in four batteries had been stolen tools and power equipment had from the company In the last been laken between 3 p.m. Sal- two months. urday and Monday morning. Frontier Rodeo Queen Contest Applications Due by June 30 of leaving the scene of a recent release. They are Thomas 0.

accident Involving serious In- Tolson, 20, and Everett, 23, both jury, of Pocatello. Sturgeon, 28, received six Robert William Green, 20, years on two counts, three other Pocatello, who essentially turn- counts having been dropped. He had served a Slate Penitentiary term for burglary. Two men less deeply involved and with no serious records previously, received sentences of only six months but will be on probation two years after their ed "government's evidence," got offwithasuspendedlB-month sentence and two years' probation. Those imprisoned will be eligible for parole after serving one-third of Iheir federal prison sentences.

The six sentenced Tuesday were among nine entering guilty pleas. Two others were found 11 I by juries. Charges against two out-of-state men are pending and they may be tried in Boise during the summer. One defendant is still at a Charges against three men were dropped early this year. The FBI says the total of 17 men were connected with 46 stolen vehicles.

Charge Brings Term Willie Dale, 20, Fort Hall, pleaded guilty Monday In Sixth District Court to a charge of depriving llie owner of (lie use of liis vehicle and was sentenced lo three days in jail. The charge had been reduced from grand larceny, auto theft, for which Dale was arrested Saturday by Pocatello police. Dale was arrested alter police investigated a report of a man at Ninth and Sherman honking his horn. The car in which he was sitting belonged to Lonnie Jacobson, police said. Contestants are being sought through June 30 for the title of 1972 Pocatello Frontier Rodeo Queen.

The 1972 queen will be crowned during the final night of the three-day rodeo July 11 by the 1971 queen, Linda Adams, Black- Joot. The new queen will reign over the 1972 rodeo at the Bannock County Fairgrounds and also will represent the Pocatello rodeo at area rodoos. Contestants must be from a 40-miles radius of Pocatello, be between 16 and 24, be single and never married, and have access to her own horse and riding equipment. It is not necessary for the candidate to own her own horse and equipment. The contestants will be judged on personality, appearance and horsemanship each evening of the rodeo before the performances begin.

Horsemanship will count for two-third of the consideration toward selection of the queen. Six judges from the area who are qualified in thevariousqual- itiis soueht in a queen will be Entry Blank Pocafello Frontier Rodeo QUEEN CONTEST Name Age Parents' name Phone Address Do you have horse and equipment? Do you plan to attend clinics? selected to make the selection. Contestants will be instructed in the areas of competition in a series of clinics before the competition opens. Contestants are not required lo participate in the clinics, however, and girls who do participate wilt not be required to actually enter the competition. If too many contestants enter ttie first that contest will be used as an elimination event.

Last year there were 12 contestants. The queen contest will start at 1 p.m. each evening of the rodeo, July 15-17, in front oftlie Bannock County Fairgrounds grandstand. The rodeo performances will start at 8:15 p.m. Girls interested in entering the queen contest may apply by filling out an entry blank and mailing it to Linda Richardson, 109 Hawthorne Pocatello.

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