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The Daily Sentinel Friday, April 4, 1997, 3A Around the Region The Daily Sentinel (USPS 145-900) Published five weekday afternoons and Saturday and Sunday mornings at 734 Seventh St Grand Junction CO 81501 Publication Postage paid at Grand June tion CO Suggested retail price 6 weeks $16 80 8 weeks $22 00 13 weeks $34 45 26 weeks $65 00. 52 weeks $117 00 5-day (Mon -Fn subscription $1 25 per week 6-Day (Mon -Sat $1 56 per week Saturday Sunday and Monday home delivery $1 25 per week Single Copy 35 daily and $1 00 Sun day by mail $4 00 per week $208 00 per year POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Daily Sentinel Box 668 Grand Junction CO 81 502 DNA testing begins in Ramsey case KEVIN McCUUEN and MICHAEL O'KEEFE The Rocky Mountain News Consider these Gifts Mothers Business Thank Yous Birthdays Weddings and House Warmings! Gift Certificates, Wedding Registry New items all the time and sale items, too! BOULDER Testing of DNA evidence in the lOOday-old JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation began this week at a Maryland lab. But authorities cautioned again Thursday that results may not pinpoint the childs killer. An arrest is not imminent, and could be months away, city spokeswoman Leslie Aa-holm said Thursday. Police intend to take the time they need to present a meticulously complete case to the district attorneys office, she said.

Tests are being made on DNA samples taken from the home of John and Patsy Ramsey after JonBenets body was found Dec. 26 in a room in the familys basement. Cellmark Diagnostics of Germantown, on March 4 received the samples, which apparently included blood. But the start of testing was delayed until this week after lawyers for the Ramseys declined an offer from the Boulder District Attorneys Office to send a representative to observe testing. Results of the testing could take up to six weeks, said Mark Stolorow, director of operations for Cellmark.

Stolorow said that while DNA results are important in narrowing a suspect pool by identifying a genetic profile, DNA is "just a piece of the puzzle. Police said that they wanted to see an unedited copy of the Ramseys Jan. 1 interview with CNN because they have been unable to interview the couple about the specific details of how the body was discovered and the events preceding the discovery of the victims body. BOULDER CITY SPOKESWOMAN LESUE AAHOLM told the media on Thursday that an arrest in the JonBenet Ramsey killing may still be months away Last Chance to Check out all of our Top Quality Trees Shrubs at reasonable prices! SAVE 25 on Balled Burlapped Austrian Pines Open Sunday's 10am to 4pm Once the Pines are Potted the Price Goes Up! This offer Good Thru April 13th Garfield County unveils plans for new jail By HEATHER McGREGOR The Daily Sentinel GLENWOOD SPRINGS Borrowing architectural themes from the Hotel Colorado, Garfield County officials on Thursday presented a plan for a five-story, 234-bed jail to the Glenwood Springs City Council It was the first step in a formal development review and zoning change process that will take about three months, said City Planner Mark Donaldson. Thats the fastest track our code allows us to go, he said.

Plans to expedite the process were stymied because city officials failed to publish a notice of a public hearing that was to have been Thursday evening. As a result the hearing on zoning changes will be April 17. Hearings on the jail itself will be in June. Jail architect Bob Johnson of Den- ver showed front and side views of the proposed structure, which is to be built on the present jail site, just north of the courthouse. During the 18 months of construction, the jail and sheriff's department will be located in temporary buildings on county-owned property west of the courthouse.

The new jail will be built of precast concrete forms covered on the outside with the same type of tan brick used fra- the courthouse. The top floor will be a light-colored stucco, and the first floor will be trimmed with reddish brick or sandstone. The jails walls will be stepped forward and back along each side. There will be no barbed-wire fences, and exercise areas will be screened from view. County commissioners say the jail is expected to cost about $10 million, a higher price than the $7 million they were planning to spend on a 192-bed, one-story jail on the UPL property.

Much of the cost increase is due to the larger jail size. Changing sites adds just 3 percent to the overall costs, the commissioners said. They said it will be more cost-effective to build a larger jail now instead of an addition later. The new jail will also house a detox unit, juvenile detention, and mental health holding cells. The Blotter COMPIlEDBtSENllNaSrAff Man misses boulder, flips car over on 1-70 A Grand Junction man suffered minor injuries shortly after 5 a.m.

today when he swerved to avoid a large boulder in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 at the Colorado Highway 65 exit, hit another large rock and rolled his car onto its top, the Colorado State patrol reported. Tetsmt Watanuki, Zk 1030 Teller was taken to St. Marys Hospital for tmqnt of hand and racial abrasions, the patrol said. He wasnt wearing a belt, the patrol said. Man arrested for threatening postal worker A man wanted in Delta in connection with an assault in a domestic violence case was arrested by Grand Junction polioe Wednesday on suspicion of menacing with a deadly weapon for allegedly threatening a U.S.

Postal Service employee with a knife at a Grand Junction restaurant Kenneth Schum, 33, Cedaredge, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of Eastgate Shopping Center after police investigated a report that he threatened the postal worker inside the Grand China Restaurant 509 Road 28Vt Police said Schum had a locking blade knife with him when he was arrested. Fruita man arrested for domestic violence Bryan Chance Reed, 31, 105 Sunset Drive, Fruita, was arrested Wednesday by Fruita police on suspicion of physical harassment in connection with alleged domestic violence and misdemeanor child abuse. Police said the arrest stemmed from a report to police by the Mesa County Department of Social Services about an incident on March 20. Chance is accused of shoving his wife and bruising a child, police said. Others arrested Wednesday in connection with alleged domestic violence include: Alan Heath, 50, 2693 Caribbean, by Grand Junction police on suspicion of assault in connection with an incident on March 22.

Christina Marie Stevenson, 21, 887 Road 20H, Fruita, by a Mesa County deputy cm suspicion of physical harassment 2 arrested after dispute in GJ restaurant Lonnie Dean Ramey, 22, Delta, was arrested Wednesday by Grand Junction police (Hi suspicion of defrauding an innkeeper, driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a suspended license. Danny Wade Ramey, 29, Delta, was also arrested on suspicion of defrauding an innkeeper. According to police, the Rameys ordered and drank $48 wrath of alcohol at the Colorado Catfish Restaurant and refused to pay. Police said Lonnie Ramey then tried to drive away from the restaurant Pair face drinking-driving charges Kimberly Bernice Patient 31, 761 N. 21st St, was arrested Wednesday by Grand Junction police on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after she was stopped at Ninth Street and Ute Avenue for a traffic violation, police said.

Ronald D. Monson, 30, Salt lake City, Utah, was arrested Wednesday afternoon by a Mesa County deputy on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after he was stoppedfor an allied traffic violation. Several thefts reported around town Compact discs valued at $340 were stolen Wednesday from a vehicle at 1421 White Grand Junction police reported. A $10 turn signal handle was stolen Wednesday from a vehicle at 2015 N. Eighth St, Grand Junction police reported.

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