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Chicaoo Tribune Fndav January 21 1983 Secl'on 2 Citysuburbs 5 charged with helping Stateville pair get away! in prison in 1982 for an armed rob! County. County. bery in Du Page The fifth suspect, Leslie Thomas, identified as a friend of Cecconi, was arrested Wednesday at her home iu By John O'Brien FIVE PERSONS WERE in custody Thursday on charges of obstructing a nationwide manhunt for two convicts who escaped from the Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet on New Year's Eve. Four of the suspects were arrested at dawn Thursday by Cook County Sheriff's police. They were charged with giving aid to the escapees, who have not been found.

The arrests followed an investigation by the state's attorney's office and members of the Apprehension Squad, a special team from the Illinois Department of Corrections that pursues escapees and parole violators. Of the four, three were identified as friends of escapee Randy Velleff, 27, of Skokie, who was serving a term of 7 to 20 years for armed robbery. The three were identified as Michelle O'Brien and Susan Smith, both 26, of 6934 N. Lakewood and Linda Kristovich, 27, 6306 N. Talman Ave.

ALSO IN CUSTODY was Brandon Page, 29, 917 North Villa Park, described as a friend of the other escapee, Patrick Cecconi, 31, of Northlake. Cecconi was sentenced to 40 years Moline. Velleff and Cecconi were dis CHICAGO covered missing during a routine bed, check at about 9 p.m. Dec. 31.

OffU cials said they escaped by climbini I over a 33-1 oot wall with the use braided bed sheets. A 1 ,) L-' it 1 IS Vuii 1 fit Tribune photo by Val Mazzenga Protest for freedom of Soviet dissident Demonstrators carry signs in the North Loop Thursday in honor of jailed Soviet dissident Anotoly Shcharansky, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly four months. Members of the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry sponsored the rally, which was joined by mayoral candidate Richard M. Daley. Shcharansky was sentenced by Soviet authorities in 1 978 to 1 3 years at hard labor on charges of spying for the United States.

2 held in drug lab raid old Baker, 25, of 7827 S. Peoria St. Both were charged with illegal possession of a controlled substance. FORBERG SAID police learned the location of the apartment several weeks ago, and, after further investigation, procured enough evidence to get a search warrant. Forberg said police knocked on the front door at 7 p.m., but Thomas mother refused to open it; so they kicked it in.

Asked where her son was, she pointed down the street where Thomas and Baker were getting into a car. Federal agents curbed the car. Forberg said the amount seized Wednesday, if broken into small portions and sold to users directly, could bring in more than $10 million. Thursday, Narcotics Court Judge Arthur Zelezinski set bond for Thomas and Baker at $500,000 each. By Phillip Wattley AUTHORITIES have uncovered what they said was the largest PCP factory in Chicago in a raid on a two-flat at 7133 S.

Eberhart Ave. Police narcotics investigators and agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration kicked in the front door of the first floor apartment Wednesday night and found 90 pounds of liquid PCP, an animal tranquilizer used by humans as an mind-bending drug, cooking on a stove in a rear bedroom. "When we pulled up, you could smell the pungent odor of PCP cooking all over the neighborhood," said Lt. Larry Forberg, commander of the police narcotics division, Two men were arrested who police said operated the factory: Robert Lee Thomas, 24, who lived in the apartment with his mother, and Har-. Ei -r mm "CCD vvi T' i rj JP 3 1 mMtit: mmm mm mmm ma 1 Ml ll mmmmk ft lumwjmm i iT-TA VW" xx Ml 'Vl JPi nT "mium.

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