Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 20

Pensacola News Journal Thursday, July 11, 1991 ri 8B Woman faces charges in tamperings By Melanie Hiett News Journal Retha Sue Whitfield was back in court Wednesday to face charges that she tampered with a witness and evidence in her May trial. I I 1 MM II llffllff'klllll I I I I I I II r- Whitfield, 58, was sentenced last week to 50 years in prison on charges in the drugging and theft of about $300,000 from an elderly Pensacola woman. Whitfield was Whitfield placed in ad ministrative confinement after her July 3 sentencing because she returned to the jail wearing and hiding makeup, said Maj. Gerald jail administrator. Jail employees noticed that "Whitfield was wearing makeup, which is forbidden in jail, Russo "said.

Employees searched her and found that she had several items, "including an emery board and an 'eyebrow pencil, Russo said. While in confinement, she was Tallowed to leave her cell only to see visitors or exercise. She was re- turned to the general jail population after a verbal warning Wednesday, Russo said. Whitfield refused to tell jail ad- ministrators where she got the makeup, Russo said. Whitfield, a former gospel musi- cian, plays the piano for church services at the jail, Russo said.

Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar filed the new charges before Circuit Judge Frank Bell sentenced Whitfield on July 3. She is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 1. The new charges allege that Whitfield concealed financial records in a warehouse before the trial, that she altered a letter used as evidence in the trial and that she tried to influence a witness to change his testimony. Suspect in fraud to go to Arkansas By Melanie Hiett News Journal An elderly man charged with stealing nearly $4 million from senior citizens will be returned to Arkansas for trial.

Nils Eugene Flannes, who was arrested Monday by FBI agents at his apartment on Okaloosa Island, waived extradition to Arkansas in federal court in Pensacola on Wednesday. U.S. Marshals will transport Flannes to Arkansas within 10 days. A November 1988 indictment charges Flannes with mail and wire fraud and states he bilked 116 people out of their life savings in schemes dating back to 1976. Flannes, 69, was twice featured on the television show "Unsolved Mysteries." Flannes disappeared from the Hot Springs, area in April 1988, seven months before he was indicted.

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