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iff Ml i I PSiro of ws ifelStt Maretplace section insid wnu lVj LawiiiiLK in'i-ir inlili i-n i mwl Wiiffifrfa nuwir-'-ritnmmmmtn'ir, ifrrfan y'n -r'-ii'lj inneapolis Star and Tribune Friday June 251982 Judge frees man who 'looked' liEve drug cas rier Jim Fuller I Writes for I Jim Klobuchar Thejr suspicions were raised not only, because he arrived from Florida a major source of drugs that reai Minnesota but because he traveled alone and appeared nervous He left the plane with a group of people, like drug carriers who try to fade in the background, and he had on tight clothing, another trait agents ascribe to carriers. From the airplane, agents trailed Segebarth as he moved to the baggage claim area. They reported: "As defendant approached baggage claim, he looked over his shoulder V. While waiting for the arrival of his baggage, he looked around agents said appeared too lightweight for its "size, Segebarth was stopped' and questioned. Their suspicions increased when the name on qi ticket t- Ronald Lee did not rrtatiph the name on his driver's license Ronald Lee Segebarth.

Agents asked if he was carrying drugs and, according to the charges against him, Segebarth said he had some marijuana. They asked to look inside his suitcase and found two ounces of marijuana and an ounce of cocaine worth about $2,100. Segebarth was arrested and charged in Hennepin County District Court with possession of By David Phelps Staff Writer When Ronald Lee Segebarth arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from Fort earlier this year, he caught the attention of state and federal drug agents. Segebarth's traits and actions fit their profile of drug traffickers, so the agents stopped Segebarth, found drugs in his luggage and arrested him.

Questions have long been raised about that method of identifying suspects. This week, a Hennepin County District Court judge ruled that it was improper and dismissed charges of cocaine possession against Sege The charges were dismissed after Judge Chester Durda ruled that the drugs were illegally seized and could not be used as evidence in a trial. Durda ruled that the drug carrier profile used by the state and federal agents in the case was overly broad and did not justify their questioning of Segebarth and subsequent search of his belongings. "This type of factual scenerio describes the actions of a very large category of presumably innocent travelers, including this district court judge, and is of a kind that could be reasonably expected of anyone at an airport," Durda said in declaring Search continued on page 4C lllilllll If 4l d' till For past year, drug pgents in this area haVe concentrated 'on interstate shipments of drugs, particularly cocaine. They have made the airptrfa i site for regular stakeouts in their attempts to break what they say are drug pipelines.

In February, for, ex- ample, federal and state agents arrested a man at the airport attempt- ing to smuggle $1 million worth, of cocaine into the state. 1 To the agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), Segebarth, a 40-year-old former Twin Cities beauty salon owner, looked like a lot of suspected drug I i I HIS and an attempted rape that occurred between Jan. 18 and June lOthat police say were probably committed by the same man, dubbed the "bib-overalls rapist." In six cases, the women told police that their attacker wore bib overalls. Wilson, also known as Muntaqim Luqmari Musaddiq, was arrested June 10 in connection with the rape of a woman in her apartment near 34th St. and Dupont Av.

S. Four days later he was charged with burglary and first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He is being held in the Hennepin County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond. i Police searched his apartment and found property that had been reported missing by five of the victims, the complaints said. The state's sentencing guidelines recommend a 43-month prison sentence for a first offender convicted of first-degree criminal sexual con- The man who tipped over "Scherzo," the landmark bronze sculpture in front of Charlie's Cafe Exceptional, one noon hour last week ought to be ashamed.

While police seek the vandal, may I point out "Scherzo's" importance. The work by Harriet Frishmuth was commissioned in 1928 by Wilbur Foshay for the Foshay Tower lobby. The probable model for it was a Ziegfeld Follies beauty named Florence O'Denishawn. Foshay, the story goes, had a crush on her and asked Frishmuth to hire her. O'Denishawn also for "Papilion" (butter' another Frishmuth sculpture that originally (Jim Klobuchar is on special assignment.) I see by the newspapers that the politicians are trading on the troubles of the Iron Range again.

It happens every time the Range gets smacked in the kisser with the wet fish of economic reality: The people whose broad bottoms have become accustomed to the seats of power, and those who would unseat them, jump at the stack of woes like cats after a wounded bird. And with somber faces and voices adrip with piety, they offer public gifts that, in the long run, can only rip wider the wounds they promise to heal. Unfortunately, it's not easy for someone who is worried about tomorrow's dinner or the mortgage payment due next week to see the joy buzzer hidden in the outstretched hand of the candidate. Fear clouds -the eyes. Rudy Perpich wants to be governor again, so he proposes to take $5 million from the Iron Range 2002 Economic Recovery Fund set up a few years ago to finance a search for long-term alternatives to the Range's dependence on iron mining to develop peat-burning power generators and thus, supposedly, create jobs.

He'd also put $10 million from some other public source into creating generators that would burn aspen, willows and cattails. Perpich is backed by several northeastern Minnesota legislators who also have a passing interest in this fall's elections. Warren Spannaus figures he's due to be governor he's waited a long time so he also wants to take $5 million from the 2002 Fund (which was not to be tapped until the year 2002) and proposes to add another $5 million from the state treasury, it such money is available. He, too, is talking about development of alternative energy sources and raises his bid with the proposed construction of two small steel plants. Gov.

Al Quie, Sen. Douglas Johnson, DFL-Cook, and others are pushing a whole bundle of patchwork plans to be financed from the 2002 Fund. The governor and pals would spend $2.5 million to hire 4,500 people on junk jobs for a month, another $5 million for other such jobs "if needed" and $2.5 million for unspecified "long-term" projects. Quie also wants to spend various other sums all too small to have Fuller continued on page 4C larities, including reports of "some people being caught in the act of casting more ballots than there were registered delegates" in a particular precinct or ward. She refused to give the names of anyone who was "caught in the act" or the names of those who did the catching.

"They aren't willing to come forward at this time," she said. Andrew, a 31 -year-old who is making his second try at elective office, said yesterday that he was "deeply disappointed" that Olkon was not "honoring the endorsement process, especially since she promised to do so." He said neither he nor his campaign workers tried to disrupt or delay the convention or to rig the voting. "To the contrary," he said, "I was told that the Olkon people were causing Olkon continued on page 4C Charlie's original Harry's Bars frequented by Hemingway in Venice, Italy or Paris? "I guess it's because the contest sponsors don't own those Harry's Bars," he said. It makes sense. Good news only: Buy a bag of nuts from 18-year-old Howard Stillman at his Nuts 'n Stuff outdoor cart at 8th St.

and Marquette and he'll serenade you with any song you request. Today, the Flying Flanagan continued on page 4C After he picked up a suitcase that iiiiii Crawford Wilson duct. The maximum penalty for each charge is 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. was in Foshay's office. No one knows what happened to it.

Fortunately, "Scherzo" can be repaired. Look for it at Charlie's again next month. I read that Curt Carlson's Carlson Companies recently bought the building at 1000 Nicollet Mall from the Schaffer family, retailers of bridal finery, for $360,000. Since the firm owns other property on the block, could it lead to the development of more individual shops there? Downtown 10th between Harmon ft-: Staff Photo by Darlene Pfister A storm front moved into Minneapolis at about 7 a.m. Thursday.

Man held for rape accused of 5 more Olkon to run for reelection despite endorsement loss A 34-year-old man, charged last week with raping a south Minneapolis woman after breaking into her apartment, was accused Thursday of raping five women in similar incidents from January to March. Crawford Wilson, 325 E. 18th appeared yesterday in Hennepin County District Court on five counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The rapes occurred at four addresses in south Minneapolis. In one instance, Wilson allegedly raped two women who were roommates.

A complaint filed in district court alleges that he used a knife to threaten one woman in the hall of her apartment building, forced his way into her apartment and confronted her roommate. He tied them up on a bed, searched the apartment for valuables, raped the women and fled with some of their property, the complaint says. The incidents are among 10 rapes ened with the loss of party positions at the precinct and ward levels by the "machine politicians" who opposed her. She refused to give any details to back up her charges, including the names of people who were allegedly intimidated. Chairman Fred Amram has acknowledged that the convention was disorganized.

He also said that there was a seven-vote discrepancy in the balloting but that it wouldn't have affected the outcome. (Andrew won with 63 percent of the vote on the first ballot). At a press conference yesterday, Olkon cited Amram's comments about the disorder and discrepancy, but she did not mention his statement that the outcome would have been the same. She said she has had many calls from delegates about voting irregu All you have to do to win the Imitation Hemingway Award is write "bad Ernest Hemingway," Walter N. Trenerry said.

So he did and he won. His Hemingway parody, "Arriba Abajo," was selected from among 1,300 entries from around the world. Trenerry, a St. Paul lawyer who has written several books, including the fascinating "Murder in Minnesota," will collect his prize next fall. It's dinner for two at Harry's Bar in Florence, Italy, plus round-trip plane fare.

I asked Trenerry why not one of the By Jim Parsons Staff Writer Nancy Olkon announced Thursday that she would run for reelection to the Hennepin County Board despite losing her party's endorsement three days ago. Before the balloting at the DFL Seventh District convention, Olkon promised to support her opponent, Mark Andrew, if he won. But yesterday she said the "chaos, disorder and highly irregular if not outright illegal activities at the convention" changed her mind. "As far as I am concerned, it wasn't a valid convention," she said, claiming that there were voting discrepancies and that delegates were "intimidated" when they objected to the "irregular procedures." She said party members were threat PI. and Marquette should become a thoroughfare of small and special retail stores similar, perhaps, to the famous Stroget shopping street in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It's just a thought, but I hope that Bob Mecay and Gary Benson revive "Nicollet House," the original name of the former Nicollet Hotel (also known as the Pick-Nicollet for a time and most recently named Soul's Harbor), when they rehabilitate it as a hotelcondominium. A Nicollet House has stood at the corner of Nicollet and Washington since 1855. Vandal tumbles sculpted bronze beauty from pedestal at vi Barbara FSanaasn.