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ORANGE COUNTY Eos Angeles Sftmes Local News Letters Religion Saturday, January 19, 1985 CCttPart II Jail Inmate Still at Large as House Search Proves Futile sn iff ''V I Los Angeles Times Embattled Dean Loses Post at UCI Medical School By STEVE TRIPOLI, Times Staff Writer Dr. Stanley van den Noort, the UC Irvine College of Medicine dean who made friends and enemies by the score in more than a decade of stubbornly advocating his dream of an on -campus teaching hospital, was informed Friday by UCI Chancellor Jack W. Peltason that he will not be returned to his post when his term expires June 30. The decision, a UCI spokeswoman said, came after completion of van den Noort's standard five-year performance review, a 5V-month process overseen by the campus Academic Senate that leaves the ultimate decision up to the chancellor. Peltason, citing university regulations on personnel matters, said he could not reveal why he decided t6 remove van den Noort as dean.

He said the decision was made "in the best interests of the institution," adding, "I appreciate what he's done for the university." A national search will be launched for a replacement, Peltason said. Will Return to Professor's Post Van den Noort, who took the reins of the once -undistinguished medical school in 1973 and helped turn it into a national leader, will return to his former post as a professor of neurology July 1. His salary will not be affected, he said. He will leave his post with prospects for the on-campus hospital barely alive. His rivals in what had been dubbed the Irvine hospital war, a coalition of Irvine residents backed by the Irvine Co.

and a $5 million foundation grant, have broken ground for the Irvine Medical Center on Sand Canyon Road, several miles from campus. Interviewed Friday, van den Noort said he believes his drive to build the on-campus hospital, and the highly political fracas stirred up by the battle, played a role in Peltason's decision. Asked how much of a role, he responded: "I didn't make the decision, so I can't say." Van den Noort said the letter he received Friday informing him of the decision did not state why he was being removed. He said he had spoken with Peltason and was aware the letter was coming, but he would not elaborate on what had been discussed. Reaction Was Mostly Cautious Asked if he was unhappy with the decision, van den Noort said: "I'd have to qualify that.

I don't agree with the decision but I accept it. For me personally it's OK this is a very hard job, and being a professor of neurology is easier than being a dean." Reaction on and off the campus was mostly cautious Friday, though many of those interviewed expressed support for van den Noort. Ed Buster, chairman of the medical school's board of trustees, said he was "personally in strong support of the dean" when his comments were solicited during the recent performance evaluation. By NANCY WRIDE and STEVEN R. CHURM, Times Staff Writers An escaped Orange County Jail inmate considered "extremely dangerous" was still at large Friday night after heavily armed officers stormed a Cudahy home where they believed he was hiding and fired six canisters of tear gas inside, authorities said.

Investigators from the Orange County Sheriff's Department scoured the home after the early-morning raid but found "no evidence" to prove that fugitive Michael Wayde Mohon, 38, had been there, according to Lt. Dick Olson, a sheriff's spokesman. Olson said sheriff's investigators, working with "several other agencies" in Southern California, had mounted an intense search and were seeking a federal fugitive's arrest warrant for Mohon, who on Thursday disarmed a sheriff's deputy at UCI Medical Center in Orange and escaped with the officer's revolver. Considered 'Escape Risk' Mohon tried in 1976 to escape from a Los Angeles County jail by beating a corrections officer with a broom, and he did escape a California Youth Authority facility in 1964. He had been classified as "an escape risk," Olson confirmed Friday.

Mohon, who has a criminal record dating from 1961, was awaiting trial on charges that he tried to kill a Fountain Valley police officer following an alleged burglary and lengthy chase Dec. 31, 1983. Olson said Mohon was taken by an Orange County sheriff's deputy in a "locked and secured van" from the jail in Santa Ana to the medical center in Orange, where Mohon was undergoing regular physical therapy sessions for wounds he suffered in the Fountain Valley shoot -out. Olson said investigators believe Mohon also is armed with Photos by CARY AMBROSE Roberta Lombardo: "There were cops everywhere. They told us to come out with our hands up.

I don't know why they'd think Michael was here. I haven't seen him for five years." Dr. Stanley van den Noort: 'I don't agree with the decision but I accept it. For me personally it's OK this is a very hard job, and being a professor of neurology is easier than being a "I'm sorry for him, because I think he's been a very outstanding dean. in the process of doing his job he's made himself unacceptable, I'm sorry about that," Buster said.

Larry Stein, chairman of the medical school's Department of Pharmacology and head of the medical school departmental chairmen's group, said he and the head of the medical school Academic Senate will meet with Peltason early next week to discuss the move. Interested in Chancellor's Plans "I've always been a supporter of the dean. I think he's been a very good dean. I'm looking forward to that meeting I'll be interested to hear what the chancellor has to say and what his plans are," Stein said. Longtime campus hospital supporter and former Irvine Mayor Gabrielle Pryor said van den Noort's removal is an even larger blow to the poor and their efforts to secure adequate medical care.

"I think it's a shame, not just because the medical school is losing the person who made that school what it is today, but I'm even more disappointed because of what Dean van den Noort has been able to do for medical care for the poor in Orange County. There isn't a minority group in the county or a group that is supporting and trying to help poor people in Orange County that doesn't know Dean van den Noort and what he's done for Orange County. "Quite frankly, I consider this the result of lengthy agitation by the selfish and status -seeking people in Please see VAN DEN NOORT, Page 5 was unrestrained. As both men stood in the entrance area, Mohon reached down, stood back up and turned around. Vining was looking into the barrel of a gun.

The court records said that Mohon, before taking Vining's weapon, told the deputy, "Don't reach for your gun! That would be stupid!" Mohon ordered Vining to handcuff himself, then took another set of handcuffs from the deputy and used them to lock Vining to a corridor water pipe, the records showed. Vining then warned Mohon, "You shouldn't do this. You're going to get caught." Mohon reportedly replied, "They were bum-beefing me," in an apparent reference to the charges currently Please see SEARCH, Page 8 iber handgun that was concealed by someone else in the physical therapy building. Court documents filed by sheriff's deputies Friday indicate that Mohon told the disarmed deputy that the gun had come from the sheriff's van he rode from the jail, a claim Olson discounted. In court documents filed Friday supporting the search of the truck Mohon allegedly escaped in, Deputies Stanley Interrante and Dennis J.

Sulka stated the following from an interview with the disarmed deputy and a witness: Deputy William H. Vining 53, escorted Mohon to the UCI Medical Center's physical therapy building, where Mohon entered with his left wrist handcuffed to a chain around his waist. His other hand, splinted for a finger that was to be treated, Two Held in Slaying of Shopkeeper Tip Leads to Corona Suspects in Shooting, Robbery Try By DAVID HOLLEY, Times Staff Writer An anonymous tip and four months of investigation led to the arrest of a man and woman from Corona in connection with the murder and attempted robbery last year of a Garden Grove doughnut shop owner, police said Friday. Lloyd Raynor Green, 23, and Stella Silva Reyes, 27, were arrested by Garden Grove police officers about 4 p.m. Thursday at their home in Corona, said Sgt.

Bruce Beauchamp of the Garden Grove Police Department. Green and Reyes were booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of murder and attempted robbery in the Aug. 15 shooting death of Chhing Sou Yong, 33, of Gardena during an early-morning incident in the Winkles Donuts shop his family owned in Garden Grove, Beauchamp said. Yong was shot after he resisted two people disguised in hoods, believed to be male, who entered the shop and demanded money, Beauchamp said. The assailants immediately fled, and a shop employee telephoned police from a neighboring supermarket.

Yong died from an abdominal wound shortly after being transported to a hospital, Beauchamp said. About a month later, Garden Grove police received an anonymous tip that Green was one of the two hooded individuals, Beauchamp said. Police launched an intensive investigation that included surveillance of Green's residence, he said, adding that police believe Reyes was driving the getaway vehicle, so she is charged with being an accomplice. Beauchamp said "the investigation is still in progress to try to determine the exact identity" of the second male involved in the killing. Garden Grove officers went to Green's Corona residence about 4 p.m.

Thursday after receiving an arrest warrant for Green and a search warrant, Beauchamp said. Reyes answered the door and allowed officers to enter the house after they presented the search warrant, Beauchamp said. After searching the main part of the house for Green, officers decided they also wanted to look in the attic, but "the attic door wouldn't open," Beauchamp said. After some hard pushing and "hollering," the weight on the attic door moved off, he said. "It was Green, hiding from us in the attic," he said.

Roberta Lombardo sits on the porch of her house, which was raided in a search for Orange County Jail inmate Michael Wayde Mohon. The parrots at left survived the tear gas assault. Prisoner Was Handcuffed, Guarded Planted Gun Blamed in Escape By JOSH GETLIN, Times Staff Writer A Orange County Sheriff's Department officials believe the escape this week of a County Jail inmate from UCI Medical Center was an "aberration" and would have been difficult to prevent. Lt. Dick Olson, a sheriff's spokesman, said Friday that such incidents are rare.

He added that the prisoner was able to escape Thursday because he had a gun that had been planted by an accomplice. Michael Wayde Mohon, 38, who was awaiting trial for the attempted murder of a Fountain Valley policeman, disarmed the deputy who had taken him to an afternoon appointment at the medical center and got away in a pickup truck, Olson said. Mohon is still at large. The prisoner was handcuffed and had his right arm in a cast when he grabbed the gun that had been hidden in the hospital parking lot, forced the deputy to give up his revolver and fled, Assistant Sheriff Dennis LaDucer said Friday. "This is an unusual case.

There's always a possibility that someone could come and rescue a prisoner," he added. "It's difficult GARY AMBROSE A surfer and his board go their separate waves in Friday morning action at Seal Beach Pier. Surf Keeps Everyone on Toes LaDucer said, adding: "We don't want people to escape, and we will look at what happened to see if there are ways we can beef up our procedures. But right now, our initial assessment is that it was an aberration in the system that caused it to happen." Olson said deputies were following routine security procedures when they took Mohon from the County Jail to a regular physical therapy session at UCI. Typically, prisoners with medical appointments are handcuffed to chains at the waist and driven in locked vans to the hospital.

Each prisoner is accompanied by an armed deputy. Prisoners taken to court appearances are kept under similar security, LaDucer said. Mohon's right hand was in a cast as a result of a shoot-out with a Fountain Valley police officer in 1983, so only his left hand could be handcuffed to the chain around his waist, LaDucer said. The prisoner would have been able to grab a hidden gun and escape, even if both hands had been restrained, LaDucer said. Please see ESCAPE, Page 8 A storm in the Pacific north of Hawaii churned up the surf on Southern California beaches Friday, causing a small-craft advisory for the day and luring surfers to the shores.

Six-foot waves were reported at Bolsa Chica and waves of five to seven feet were reported at San Clemente city beaches. Bolsa Chica crews brought out heavy equipment to create "sand banks" to keep the water off the parking lot and bike trail. "Two years ago the entire park was inundated with sand and water," said Bolsa Chica lifeguard Terry Murphy. "Anything that does wash up to the parking lot will damage it because it's in bad shape from two years ago. The drainage isn't correct and the seawall is deteriorating quite rapidly." Surfing activity was high for a weekday, according to Steve Lashbrook, the marine safety officer at San Clemente.

"The surf generally doesn't get much bigger than this," he said. The weekend forecast calls for night and early morning low cloudiness near the beaches, with clear days and highs 64 to 68; the surf will be three to five feet from Huntington Beach to San Diego. Michael Wayde Mohon to foresee all of the possible things that could happen." Will Mohon's escape prompt any changes in security methods? "Any incident like this causes us to look again at our procedures,".