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16 THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1990 Two secure BayBank deposit 4 sentenced in IRA case By Elizabeth Neuffer GLOBE STAFF By Irene Sege GLOBE STAFF "say about the incident. Senior Vice President Elaine Tracey would confirm only that a valise was returned, and that the bag contained no cash. Asked if any cash was missing from the bag, she said, "We don't transport our cash through the bags." Then, the two said, they overheard a telephone conversation between a bank security officer and a courier service. Apparently, the valise had fallen from the trunk of a courier's vehicle when the trunk lock suddenly opened. BayBank officials had little to terday if federal authorities would seek the extradition of another man charged in the plot Peter Eamon Maguire, of Dublin.

Maguire has been a fugitive since indictments were handed down a year ago. Yesterday, in an emotional appeal for clemency, Reid's shoulders shook and she wiped tears from her eyes as she called upon the judge to consider her background and character. "I am a person without malice who hopes for the best in people," she said. All others declined to make a statement except Johnson. He stood up, thanked friends and family in the courtroom, and then said soberly to Mazzone: "God is watching what you do." Defense attorneys unanimously said they would appeal the sentences.

US Attorney Wayne A. Budd hailed the sentences and described them as "fair and appropriate." A federal jury found the three guilty in June of conspiring to export arms and technology to the IRA. They were found guilty of conspiring to to violate the Arms Export Control Act among other charges. Federal prosecutor Richard G. Stearns alleged that Johnson had worked for the IRA since 1978 and had enlisted Reid as a courier.

A federal judge yesterday levied lengthy prison sentences on an American engineer and an Irish national convicted of trying to develop high-tech equipment for the Irish Republican Army to shoot down British helicopters, describing their activities as "terrorism." "This is terrorism flat out," said US District Judge A. David Mazzone as he delivered a 10-year sentence on Richard C. Johnson, 41, of Nashua, N.H., and an eightr year sentence on Martin Quigley, 27, of Dundalk, Ireland. "The threat of death or injury to innocent people may not be tolerated." He departed upward from federal sentencing guidelines in delivering the sentences. But Mazzone gave lighter sentences than expected to two others also convicted in the scheme.

Christina Reid, 25, a computer technician from Sunnyvale, was sentenced to three years and five months in prison. Gerald Hoy, 40, of Easton, was sentenced to two years. He had earlier pleaded guilty to the charges. All will serve terms of supervised release after their prison sentences are finished. It remained unclear yes it -k Joshua Degen and Gary Henne-muth were stopped at a traffic light on the Jamaicaway yesterday afternoon when Degen spotted a valise in the middle of the road.

So Degen hopped from his pick-up truck and retrieved the satchel. If the bag contains money, they said, we'll split it. It did. And they didn't The larceny that may have lurked in their hearts vanished, they said, when they opened the case to find hundreds of endorsed checks, still uncanceled, that had been deposited in BayBank automatic teller machines. According to tally tapes in the bag, the deposits totaled more than $100,000.

"When you really find money in there, and that much, I'm not playing games," said Degen, 29, owner of Earthscape, a Brighton landscape construction firm. So right after Hennemuth had opened all the envelopes, they called BayBank Harvard Trust. For several minutes, they said, the operator did not understand what Hennemuth was trying to tell her. She kept connecting him to someone who would help him open an account "Finally," said Hennemuth, 22, a foreman at Earthscape, "I said, 'Look, I have a big bag of money and if you don't get me somebody I'm going to burn it' The two then drove to Harvard Square and returned the valise. The bank accepted the money without A mother's sorrow, I GLOBE STAFF PHOTO TOM HEROE Joshua Degen, left, and Gary Hennemuth can smile in good conscience after their brush with wealth.

Lung transplant marks a By John Ellement and Tom Coakley GLOBE STAFF FALMOUTH Diane Clifford has lived quietly since December 1988 with the pain of the death of her daughter, Rochelle Dopierala, as a New Bedford serial killing victim. But yesterday, after Kenneth C. Ponte was arraigned on charges he murdered Rochelle on or about April 27, 1988, Clifford opened up publicly for the first time. She spoke of how the indictment against Ponte made her feel, of how drugs ruined her daughter's life, and of how she does not want the memory she has of Dopierala clouded by headlines about her tragic death. "Apparently they had enough evidence to indict Kenneth Ponte," said Clifford, standing on the side porch of her home in a quiet residential neighborhood on Cape Cod.

"I don't think the grand jury would have done so if they didn't have the evidence. I guess I feel relieved that they do have that. "I don't know whether or not he committed the murders. But he certainly knew the women and probably would have some information that would be pertinent" Clifford said she had doubts about Ponte as the killer of her daughter prior to meeting with Pina yesterday. She said she was reassured that investigators "may be on the right track" after she and relatives of other victims talked with the district atr torney following the Superior Court arraignment at which Ponte pleaded not guilty yesterday.

After the meeting with Pina, the other relatives expressed similar optimism. Most said they thought Ponte was not the only person involved in the killings and that all the murders were connected. Diane Clifford said Dopierala started with marijuana as a teenager and gradually descended into Following is a chronology of key dales of the serial killing case and Kenneth C. Ponte's involvement in the investigation. 1988 AprO i Kenneth C.

Ponte, allegedly using a gun, confronts a New Bedford man who Surgeons at Brigham and Women's Hospital yesterday performed the first adult lung transplant in Massachusetts, marking a medical milestone that eliminates the need for Massachusetts residents to go out of state for the procedure. Yesterday's four-hour, single-lung transplant surgery was performed on a woman who had been waiting for the donation of a lung for more than two years. The surgery "went as expected" and with-' out the need for a blood transfusion, Dr. David J. Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's, who headed the surgical team, said in a telephone interview.

He said the woman, whose medical problem, identity, and age were not revealed, would be hospi-, talized for three or four weeks and that "the first 10 days will be critical." The transplant was only the second lung transplant on an adult in New England. The first was performed in March at Yale-New relief Dopierala and her son, Jason. 4 "I don't think Rochelle had any idea what was going to happen to her. "I think she would have called me or come home. I felt she was somewhere, just somewhere, but not.

that anything like that had happened to her." She called New Bedford police aiiu 1 up Dopierala for violating the court order that sent her to the Quincy. center. But that was not to be. By June, she had not returned home. By Oct 31 her son's 10th birthday she was still missing.

Not until Dec. 10 was she found. Her body was identified after family members knowing of her disappearance provided authorities with her dental records. Diane Clifford stood yesterday on her porch with a picture frame that has 19 photos of her late daughter from the time she was an infant until the time she was a mother. "I don't want my daughter's name slandered anymore," she said.

"I guess in my mind I can't imagine her being on the street That's it It's that simple." March 7 Ponte appears before grand jury' for about 10 minutes and apparently in- vokes Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. March 28 Seventh victim, Robbin Rhodes, found off Route 140, about 14 mile north of Chaee Road exit in Freetown. March 31 Body of Mary Rose Santos 1 fniinH nn snuthhniinrl side of Route 88 in Westport. April 5 Ex-roomates of Ponte testify be- fore grand jury. April 24 Body of ninth victim, Sandra A.

Botelho, foundon 1-195 in Marion. 1990 Feb. IS Pina says grand jury is focusing on one susnect and one of the murders. April 14 Ponte arraigned on narcotics conspiracy charge from April 1988; tells re- L. Knim.iJ" k.r Dina June It Ponte arrested in Florida for allegedly assaulting Diane Doherty, a Lynn woman who went to visit him at her re- quest InnA 1ft Tlnna anthntntios glnncr urith a Massachusetts state trooper search Ponte's Port Richey home, seizing 50 videotapes and other July 13 Ponte is freed from Florida jafl after authorities there decide not to pro- ceed with criminal charges based on Do-herty's claims.

July 24 Doherty testifies before the grand jury for two hours. July A single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court releases head hair and saliva Mmnlfl Avutn Dnntn fr I'nvooti'rrafnM Mato rial later sent to FBI for analysis. Aug. 3 Ponte begins a series of television appearances to proclaim his innocence. Ponte also tells the Globe he only knew four of the victims, with Dopierala the only one he knew on personal, rather than professional, basis.

Aug. 17 Doherty testifies again for two hours in the afternoon. Grand jury later hands up indictment; Pina gets judge to seal papers. Source tells the Globe Ponte indicted for killing Dopierala. Aug.

21 Ponte is arraigned in Bristol County Superior Court, charged with kill- ing Dopierala. Ponk pleads innocent Mass. first ing with Massachusetts General Hospital to jointly develop Boston's first adult transplant program. Surgeons and staffs at both hospitals have also been working with Children's Hospital, the pediatric lung transplant site in Massachusetts. Sugarbaker said his patient chose not to seek lung transplant possibilities elsewhere "in order to keep her family in the Massachusetts area, and waited for the Brigham program to be approved." Late Sunday night a donor was identified and a medical team dispatched to determine suitability, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

The spokeswoman said yesterday that Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General will eventually perform a combined total of more than 12 adult procedures a year. Both hospitals have patients listed with the New England Organ Bank waiting for suitable donors, she said. 14. IMPORTED OCCASIONAL CHAIR: ROSE BlEIGE multi Damask. $249.

Price rr Haven Hospital on a 42-year-old Tolland woman. She received the lung of a 16-year-old girl. The first isolated lung transplant in the US was performed in 1986. Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital recently received the approval of the state Public Health Council, the regulatory agency within the DPH, to perform adult lung transplantations. "It is exciting that Boston can now play a role in the development and perfecting of the lung transplant The most important thing is that we now have an active lung transplant program in New England and that this was a team effort by Brigham and Women's and the Massachusetts Center for Lung Transplantation," Sugar-baker said.

The center is a consortium of several major medical facilities and state health agencies in Massachusetts. Over the past year Brigham' and Women's has been cooperat the Myopia Lounge chair, green and white STRIPE. Paine'S In Paine FURNITURE A 1985 family photo shows Rochelle harder and harder drugs. "She was addicted to drugs and because of it could not take care of herself," said Clifford, who is raising Dopierala's 12-year-old son, Jason. "She was not strong enough to say no to drugs." The mother said that reports by authorities that her daughter gave her Ponte's New Bedford telephone number as a way to reach her were not true.

She said her daughter did not live with Ponte but with another New Bedford man. "She never mentioned Ken Ponte's name to me," said Clifford. The Falmouth woman said the last time she talked to her daughter was in early April 1988, when Dopierala called her from a Quincy detoxification center to say she was leaving despite the court order Clifford had obtained to send her there. Clifford said she never filed a missing person's report on her daughter. "I just felt she got caught up with someone and felt helpless.

I thought she gave into the drugs," said Clifford. Rochelle Clifford Dopierala had claimed raped her. April Dopierala, 28, of Falmouth, disappears. July 3 Body of Debra Medeiros of Fall River, first victim in what is later discovered to be a serial killing case, found on Route 140 northbound in Freetown. Jury 30 Body of Nancy Lee Paiva, 36, of New Bedford, found on Interstate 195 westbound near Reed Road exit in Dartmouth.

Paiva, authorities said, briefly shared quarters with Dopierala. November Ponte moves Id Port Richey, from New Bedford. Nov. 8 Third body, that of Debra Perry Greenlaw DeMello found on 1-195 east-bound near Reed Road exit in Dartmouth. Clothing of Paiva found near DeMello.

Authorities now know investigation is no longer routine murder case. Nov. 29 Dawn Mendes' body found along Reed Road eastbound ramp in Dartmouth. Bristol County District Attorney Ronald A. Pina first links four murders.

Dee. 1 Fifth victim, Deborah L. McCon-nell, found dead on Route 140 northbound near Braley Road exit in Freetown. Dee. Dopierala's body found near a gravel pit about 14 mfle off Reed Road in Dartmouth.

She is sixth found. December Ponte's home in New Bedford and former law office in Dartmouth searched by State Police with body-sniffing dogs. Ponte, who had contacted authorities on his own, breaks off relationship when asked in late December by investigator Robert St Jean, "Kenny, did you kill those women?" 1989 January Ponte linked in news accounts to investigation. Ponte refuses to cooperate with investigators. Jan.

Pina says Ponte had "personal relationships" with several of victims, not professional ties. Jan. 18 Pina asks Ponte for physical samples; Ponte balks at being photographed in the nude. Superior Court judge on Jan. 27 backs Ponte and impounds head hair and saliva samples.

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