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B3 THI PRESS DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1980 Mother and child reunion 4t -7X7: InJt '(Ah! I( i Girl, 13, brought back after 8 years By RICK ORLOV Los Angelei Daily New, LOS ANGELES Eight years of prayers were answered for Rosemary Bonlllas Levi this weekend when she was reunited with the daughter taken from her suburban Burbank home to Washington by Levi's former husband. "This is a miracle; God has sent back my daughter," a tearful Levi said at a news conference Monday in the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, where she hugged her 13-year-old daughter, Monica. "I looked for her frantically and it paid off. I never stopped believing that I would find her that she would come home." The reunion between Levi, who remarried after her divorce from Guillermo Bonlllas and now lives in Los Angeles, and Monica came about because of a case of mistaken identity. District Attorney Investigator John Pereida said his office had been investigating the case since Monica was taken on Sept 22, 1982, and had little evidence Bonilla had even left California.

The television program, "America's Most Wanted," broadcast a show recently about a missing child from another state. A composite Error delays unemployment payments McClatchy New Service SACRAMENTO Workers with the state Employment Develop- ment Department have been put-, ting in overtime to correct computer error that delayed unenv ployment insurance payments to, about 1 3,000 Callfornians. Checks, ranging from $40 to. $190, should be in the mail by next Monday. "We're sorry that this happened during the holiday season," said: Lois McNally, a department; spokeswoman.

"We've done best to correct it. We've been, putting in all our efforts, being; aware that it's a hardship to get; checks late any time of the year. The delay is the result of computer malfunction during the-evenings of Dec. 4 and 6. The system went down, losing certain; data, McNally said.

"This is the first time this particu-, lar problem has occurred with the; system," McNally said. "We have; taken safeguards to make sure that, it doesn't happen again." Many of the department's em-t ployees in Sacramento and in some of the 200 field offices statewide; worked through the weekend to; process claims manually. It probably won't be necessary; for department employees to work; today, McNally said. Unemployment insurance claims are paid every other week. Most of; the delayed checks will be re-, ceived a week to 10 days from the scheduled date of receipt.

In November, 404,569 people, received regular unemployment in-surance benefits totaling more than; $196 million. word that they had found Monica, he (would) help anywhere in the world. "I don't know how he did it, but we got tickets up to Washington." Davis, when he was a California assemblyman, started a vigorous campaign to find missing children and was able to persuade milk companies to put the pictures of the children on the side of their cartons. "When we got the call on Friday, I told my staff to do whatever was appropriate," Davis said. "Monica was one of the first, if not the first, child we featured on the milk cartons." Bonilla is being held in Belling-ham, and Pereida said local authorities plan to extradite him to Los Angeles to face charges of violating a court order.

After she was told her daughter had been found, Levi said, "I was stunned. I never lost faith, but I never thought it would happen now." Asked what- she wanted for Christmas, Monica hesitated, "Well, I'd like lots of things. An M.C. Hammer tape. I've already got my family." Levi said being reunited with her daughter is wonderful, but will require some adjusting, so she is planning to make arrangements for counseling.

"It's going to take a lot of adjusting," Levi said. "We all have a lot of adjusting to do." "I can finally celebrate Christmas. I can finally celebrate Mother's Day. I haven't had a Christmas or a Mother's Day since Monica was taken, although my son is wonderful. "It's like having two eyes and then losing one eye.

It's not the same. No.w I have two eyes again." What a ride! ASSOCIATED PRESS A Sausalito man is co-inventor of Sea a car-carrying catamaran tested on the Bay. The vessel is powered and steered by the vehicle, can range from four to six knots, the designers say. too annoyed by cold weather and busy with family affairs to come to a lottery office and claim it Benton already had won $215,000 in June 1989 by picking five of six numbers, plus the bonus number. His lucky six of six Wednesday will pay him $172,000 a year for 20 years, Truck driver claims $4.3 million lotto prize picture of that missing child, also a girl, showed how she might look today.

The FBI was notified that a girl, matching that description was living in Point Roberts, near the U.S.-Canadian border in Washington, Pereida said. Federal authorities were suspicious of the answers given them by Bonlllas and tracked down the Los Angeles case. Pereida said Bonilla and Monica had been living in Point Roberts for the past six years. "He deceived the girl," Pereida said. "He told her that her mother was dead and that her name was Mary Ann Kelly." Officials would not allow direct questioning of the girl, but she did say she was pleased to be with her mother.

"I love my family," Monica said. "I have a little brother I didn't know about. I have a whole family." Levi, a Spanish-English translator for the Superior Court, said she learned only last Friday that there was a lead in her daughter's disappearance. "We were frantic because we didn't have the finances to fly up Levi said, estimating she had spent more than $20,000 for private Investigators. "Then I called the state controller's office.

(Controller) Gray Davis told me once that if there was ever any ordered held without bail. "There will be more discussion of (bail), but I have a feeling it's going to be academic," said Errol Stam-bler, an attorney who represented Roca-Suarez on Monday. "With these kinds of charges, it would be unlikely even if there wasn't so much publicity." Federal officials said Roca-Suarez once worked for Gomez-Suarez, but now heads a drug ring with operations in Bolivia, Panama, Mexico and the United States. Gomez-Suarez is a fugitive on U.S. drug charges and also is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Bolivia, officials said.

The indictments charge Roca-Suarez with heading a group of "lieutenants" who supervised the purchase of Bolivian coca paste, importation of cocaine to the United States and money laundering. Roca-Suarez' wife, Cirila, 38, is charged in the Los Angeles indictment with conspiring to help Roca-Suarez evade income taxes. Also charged are two of his sisters. Bolivian drug suspect, others plead innocent Associated Press SACRAMENTO A Torrance truck driver Monday claimed the $4.3 million he won in the Dec. 19 lotto game, state lottery officials reported.

They quoted John Benton, 52, as saying he had learned while watching the Wednesday night draw on television that he won, but he was i-T LsLru tmi neuron ac Los Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES A suburban San Marino man reputed to be the head of a Bolivian drug-trafficking ring has pleaded innocent to conspiracy and tax evasion charges. Jose Roca-Suarez, 38, denied charges Monday he evaded more than $1 million in federal income taxes since 1985 and conspired td smuggle millions of dollars in drug profits back to South America. Five other defendants in the case, including Roca-Suarez' wife and two of his sisters, also entered innocent pleas. Roca-Suarez, the nephew of imprisoned Bolivian drug kingpin Roberto Gomez-Suarez, known as the "Cocaine King of Bolivia," also is named in an 18-count federal indictment in San Diego that accuses him of heading a narcotics ring that manufactured and distributed more than 50 tons of cocaine. He is scheduled to enter a plea to those charges Jan.

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