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i RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1983 3 Police Smash Drug Ring; Seize $7 Million Heroin Siropiani bail wai set at, $1 million, the Melhems at $500,000,. Georges at $250,000, and. Simons at $100,000, all with with surety. In making the authorities also discovered-that Siropian had rented room in an East Bostog-motel and there they found heroin hidden in a 1-inch- deep false bottom of a tered suitcase, official said. Siropian had only been in -the country a short but the Melhems had lived in the United States a long! time.

The elder Melhemj once owned a Boston restaurant and the two sons were students ly originated in Southwest Asia. I cant go into specifics but generally heroin from Southwest Asia Iran, Pakistan, Syria is shipped to Europe and from there to the United States, mostly through New York City," he said. This is a major seizure for the region and it will obviously have an effect." Defendants Sirop Siro-pian, 48, of Aleppo, Syria, Abdallah Melhem, 52, of Revere and his two sons, Simon, 19, and George, 22, were nabbed Sunday near a Revere deli after they were observed going to a Saugus motel and picking up some heroin, authorities said. By ED LION BOSTON (UPI) FBI and federal drug agents have smashed a major drug ring supplying New England and seized more than $7 million worth of heroin the largest such' haul in the region's history, authorities said Monday. Four men a father and two sons of Lebanese descent and a Syrian were arrested in Revere after negotiating a drug transaction and 9 pounds of heroin were seized, some from a suitcase with a false bottom, officials said.

They were arraigned on various drug charges before a U.S. District Court magistrate Monday, who set bail ranging from $1 million to $100,000. Robert Stutman, New England head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said the arrests Sunday were the culmination of a two-year investigation into the ring, which he called a major heroin trafficking organization in New England." This is the largest single heroin seizure in New England history and the previous one was 4 or 5 pounds, so this is nearly double that," he said. He refused to release details on the source of the heroin, but said it was 90 percent pure and apparent Bob Weinberg, 70, bad bis $100,000 savings bond returned to him Monday.

He had left It in a copying machine. Man Recovers Savings Bond He Left in Copying Machine Gunman Enters ABC Studios i By STEVEN J.DRYDEN 1 WASHINGTON (UPI) A man with a gun who claimed to have a bomb demanded to see the top reporter" at ABC News Monday night minutes before the network's nightly telecast. The hour-long incident ended when he gave himself up, police said. The man's motives were not immediately clear. Police identified the gunman as David John Mullin, 25, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., and said his gun was not loaded and he did not have a bomb.

Officers said he would be charged with kidnapping while armed for taking a security guard hostage. Roy Whitlow, one of two security guards in the lobby when the man entered, said he talked about how he liked rock music and said he had something he wanted to give to ABCs top reporter." Take me to him right now," Whitlow quoted the gunman as saying. I have a bomb along with this 45 (caliber automatic pistol). Ed Fouhy, ABC bureau chief, said the bearded, longhaired man entered the lobby of the building at 6:15 p.m. EDT and said he wanted to see the head newsman.

He pulled a gun out of a bag and demanded to be taken to the studio, which is located two floors below the lobby of the seven-story building. Instead, security guard Greg Dority, 24, took the man to the unoccupied sixth floor and knocked on doors to empty rooms he knew were locked. Dority tried to calm the gunman and took him to the fifth floor, which does not have any ABC offices. There the man gave up his gun and surrendered about 7:30 p.m. Fouhy said the gun, a automatic, was not loaded.

A police SWAT team stood by during the incident, and about 50 people were evacuated from the building across from the posh ayflower Hotel while police closed off the street hi front. Those in the newsroom and studio remain-, ed. Peter Jennings, anchorman of the nightly ABC News telecast, ended his broadcast by telling viewers that if ABC reporters had looked tense during the program, it was because there was an armed gunman in the bureau but he had been apprehended. Employees in the newsroom were alerted but did not immediately know exactly what was going on upstairs. Were in the studio right now just trying to put the show on the air," a reporter on the news desk said during the incident.

Origins of Life On Meteorite On Aug. 17, he returned to the savings association to clip and cash his first $4,000 coupon. When he opened the bond envelope, he found it empty. Thats when he realized he had left it in the copying machine. I was so sick about it because me and my wife needed the income for our remaining years.

And then we had willed the rest to our three children. The money was most of my savings discount for $79,100 because it guarantees an annual income of $8,000. The bond, which is payable to the bearer and pays 8 percent Interest, has coupons attached that can be clipped and cashed for $4,000 every February and August. The bond arrived at his Hollywood condominium via registered mail July 8. After spending a nervous weekend with it at home, he went to the Home Savings Association on Monday, July 11, to copy it and put it in the vault.

After making a copy, he said he went to his safety deposit box, removed some papers he needed and put the U.S. bond envelope in the vault. HOLLYWOOD, (UPI) A 70-year-old retiree who lost his lifes savings when he left his $100,000 U.S. Government Treasury Bearer Bond in a copying machine got it back Monday and he was glad to pay a $25,000 reward. Bob Weinberg said it was a great relief to get back the bond which represented most of his lifes savings and he gladly turned over the reward to the two honest men who helped him.

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