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THURSDAY, OCTOPFW 13S UNCOIN, NE. JOURNAL LincoLur Drag jtate, local andfederal authorities began ipaking aisli before dawn. The Drug i Enforcemfcnt Nebraska Task Force, composed of local state and federal offl. The tlinning Team Big Red Football Jk Me Cellar Now running shuttle vans to from all home football games. Or stay at.

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Farley, also known as the "Big is suspected of fleeing the country, Newspaper flies show that Farley had numerous brushes with the law as a tfeen-ager in Lincoln, primarily for such -jffenses as burglary and car theft His- most serious offense occurred when be was 18. On Sept 2, 1965, Farley allegedly was drag racing on Dodge Street in Omaha, pen police arrived, he tried to flee. The resulting chase, which reached speeds of almost 100 mph, ended when Farley stopped after a girl in the auto with him fas accidentally shot by police. The girl survived and later sued Far This house at 1708 West Arlington SL was seized 6y federal authorities Wednesday in connection with a major drug investigation, reduced charge of possession of a con- the cases of those who had attorneys, trolled substance. The reduced sentence set a trial date of Feb.

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WARM BEER gators. Crime Stoppers calls also played a key role, as did a separate State Patrol investigation into the alleged drug dealings of Phillip Colley and Martin Mar-vicka, both of whom also were indicted. Police eventually placed wiretaps on telephones used by Farley's alleged Lincoln connections and, at one point, oh "Aug. 22, 1984, one of his alleged dealers," Mary E. Machado, warned him that his phone was being tapped, according to the indictments.

Farley continued to use the phone, the indictments Indictments also allege that two homes in Lincoln were used as major storage sites for the drugs. One of the homes, owned by Clyde -L' Meyer, was seized by police and Meyer was arrested earlier this year. State charges against him were dismissed in anticipation of indictments. Although the indictments would seem to indicate that Lincoln has major drug $999 pack Old Milwaukee 12 Reg, or light rilYSICUL fTTNTSS CENTER Iniroducton Prfeeroa ExerciM Bike, Roving Macainn A Weigh! Equipment? ley for 125,000, claiming she begged him to stop the chase but he refused. Farley also was fined $25 and -sentenced in Cjiminal court to 30 days in jaiL In 1972, Farley married to Albuquerque, N.M but the couple was divorced two years later in Lincoln.

At some point, Farley; moved to Alaska and took a job working on the Alaskan Railroad during the summers, spending his winters in Florida, said LL Dualne Bui-ttftt, head of the Lancaster County Nar-: cgttcs Unit -Bullock said that as far as he-knows, Farley had no legitimate job According to the federal indictments, Fjey begjui organizing a drug ring on orabout June 1, 1979, bringing in cocaine through Florida and shipping the drugs "Prices good thru 103085 or while quantities last. MVIN I Nil SWMIAM MTConw ol 2m Imca. NE 475-' problems, Bullock cautioned Thursday that the indictments were the result of north. The indictments accuse him of re-- three years of investigation and that the casting, supervising and directing local problem' is probably no more seri-vjtjpals to deal and distribute the co-t ousthahinbther cities. caine and to collect the profits.

Bullock aneged, though, that many of -local drug investigators said their at- those arrested were major drug dealers tefflion was directed to Farley, after they and said the operation could have a began an Investigation three years ago major impact on drug sources in Lincoln into Juan Varga-Manchego, a native of for years to come. Peru working in Lincoln. Varga-. Forty-eight of the indicted individuals Manchego and two University of Ne- appeared before U.S. Magistrate David orasKa-uncoui siiwenis, one oi mem also a Peruvian native, were charged and later convicted of cocaine delivery.

iilMKmaijSfl HD Ma Lancaster County Court records show Varga-Manchego was sentenced in January 1985 to one year in prison on a Piester hi Lincoln Wednesday after their arrests by officers of the multi-agency strike force. Four of them Leslie R. Jatiste, Phillip Dallas, Susan Fillman and Joseph R. Mock were released on their own recognizance, while $1,000 signature bonds or regular $1,000 bonds'(re-quiring a $100 deposit) were set in the other cases, A few of the defendants pleaded Innocent but most stood mute as Piester entered innocent pleas in their behalf. In Snoop i From pag8 Topics- ducfed their affairs in a simple" afldjwrsonallzed fashion." Neither, said the report, has TiUe IH oKhe Crime Control and Safe Streets Art of 1968, which was designed to protect the prjvacy of wire, and oral com-, ntinications.

At the time Congress passed this-act the report said, "electronic surveillance was limited primarily to simple telephone laps and concealed Since then, the basic communications infrastructure in the United. States has been in rapid technological change." According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, federal and state judges approved 801 out of 802 requests lastyear for electronic surveillance, primarily wiretaps and hidden microphones, at an average cost of $45,000. iThe agency said that -while there is some promise in emerging techniques follow-east data encryption or other means to protect communication systems frdm eavesdropping, "there is no immediate technological answer against electronic whether the Legislature can call itself into special session while it is alreatfy in session. One option, he said, would be for the Legislature to then go through the petition procedure come back into special session.

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