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Public records4 Business5 Weather8 CITY EDITOR JAMES VVYCKOFF 573-45 £0 Tucson Citizen Lotto results for Aug 10 1CC4 BNA Med from merdeir trial After 5 years the trial begins for Christopher John Spreitz accused of Iddnapplng raping end killing a woman In May 1S33 DNA tests were done cm blood samples found in the trunk of car Blood tests had shown that Atherton and Spreitz not going say they've got the wrong guy" Tandy told the jury in his opening statement yesterday guilty of first-degree murder person died during the commission of the crime In his confession Spreitz have the same blood type The DNA test however showed that the blood in the trunk of the car was By MARIA ELENA LOPEZ QezanStf Wnw Atherton 38 on May 18-19 1989 Atherton also went by the name of Ruby Reed Deputy County Attorney Kathy Mayer had said in an earlier hearing that the DNA evidence would help prosecutors establish that Spreitz committed premeditated murder Statements (to the police) are enough to convict him of felony murder" Mayer said Under felony murder rule a person found guilty of certain crimes including kidnapping and sexual assault can be found if a fold investigator that Atherton went voluntarily with him to the desert area where her body was found Mayer said but Spreitz did not tell the detectives be kept Atherton in the trunk of his car how they got to the desert" Mayer said kidnapping" decomposing body found on May 22 1989 by a horse- i DNA continued In an earlier hearing defense attorney Marshall Tandy questioned the need for the DNA evidence because Spreitz had confessed to investigator that he killed Atherton Spreitz was arrested on May 22 1989 after body was found After a number of hearings in June at which lawyers looked into the chain of evidence that DNA samples go through when tests are conducted Judge William Sherrill went against his earlier ruling that DNA evidence could be presented to the jury PowcrbaH results for Aug 101234 Getting ready to roll First baby from frozen embryo born The 6-pound 9-ounce boy who arrived at UMC on Friday was the product of the egg donor program ByGABRIELARICO Citizen Staff Writer The DNA evidence that took five year to untangle in Pima County Superior Court will not be presented after all in the murder trial of Christopher John Spreitz 28 which began yesterday Spreitz of the 1000 block of East 12th Street is accused of kilting raping and kidnapping Ivy Mae Boy held in Side Thotoen 13 suspected In $5000 worth of graffiti damago in the last two months By NORMAN PECKHAM Cozen Staff Writer A 16-year-old boy suspected of or spray painting graffiti on dozens of surfaces including 30 Sun Tran buses was arrested yesterday Police said the teen whose name is being withheld by the Tucson Citizen because he is a juvenile and the alleged crime a misdemeanor did his work along South Sixth Avenue from East Ajo Way to East Michigan Street In addition to the buses he is accused of defacing electrical boxes trash bins and billboards said Sgt Donovan Tatman a police spokesman The boy was charged with 51 misdemeanor counts of criminal damage after an employee on Sixth Avenue noticed him tagging a building police said He is being detained in the Pima County Juvenile Court Center a spokeswoman there said Police say the boy is responsible for a minimum of $5000 damage in the past two months Tatman said police learned of all the damage after the boy bragged about painting the graffiti Patty Lopez who works at Fried Chicken 3802 Sixth Ave said glad police arrested the boy but added that more needs to be done to get rid of graffiti on South Sixth a lot of taggers around Lopez said all over the South Side They got to keep a closer eye on the taggers if they want to get rid of i I i i I i i I I i i I I 1 I i I i i After 15 years of trying a Tucson couple have become parents of a baby boy who developed from an embryo that was frozen for 12 days This is the first time University Medical anonymous egg donor program has produced a baby from a frozen embryo The' 6-pound 9-ounce baby bom Friday at UMC left the hospital earlier this week according to Judy Elam hospital spokeswoman He was delivered by Caesarean section by Dr Karen Lesser after a gestation period of 38 weeks Gestation of 38 to 40 weeks is the average for full-term babies The parents have asked that they remain anonymous to protect the privacy donation one of the newer reproductive techniques is similar to sperm donation that has been used for many years when a man does not have sperm or his sperm does not fertilize said Dr Timothy Gelety head of the Anonymous Oocyte Donor Registry the development of egg donation in the early 1980s women who were unable to provide their own eggs due to absent or resistant ovaries advanced maternal age or premature menopause did not have option for The embryo was frozen for 12 days until the mother reached the appropriate point in her menstrual cycle for implantation Like sperm donation egg donation is mostly anonymous although women usually choose a family member as their donor Although sperm banks are available for storing frozen donor sperm egg banks do not yet exist Research is under way to develop a procedure for freezing unfertilized human eggs The current procedure works by removing the egg from her ovary at the appropriate time in her menstrual cycle and placing it in a special dish with sperm to allow fertilization The resulting embryos are transferred to the uterus or if not the right time during her menstrual cycle the embryo is frozen When the time is right the embryo is thawed and transferred to the uterus VAL CANEZTucson Citizen ACTIONI Director Jim Wynorski Studios and other Arizona locations (second from left) watches during the Among the stars is Matt McCoy (far set-up of a scene in Bounty" a left) who played the father in Western being filmed at Old Tucson Hand That Rocks the Cradle" Parents appeal Crash victim tried to help Tucson lottery office 6284434 877 Alvomon Wy DUI suspect held in crusader's death PHOENIX A Scottsdale woman has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol in a traffic collision that killed a former crusader against drunken driving Gloria Schulze 31 was taken into custody Monday She was released on her own recognizance pending formal charges by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office Police said Schulze was the driver of a van that collided? with four cars at a Scottsdale intersection on July 29 killing Angela Maher 21 of Scottsdale Maher founded a chapter of Students Against Driving Drunk when she attended Xavier prep school in Phoenix CAP costs force bankruptcy action ELOY The Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District near Elay one of tne state's largest irrigation districts has filed for bankruptcy protection because of Central Arizona Project costs District officials sought protection from creditors yesterday to restructure about $91 million in debts from construction of canals that carry water from the main CAP aqueduct to fields The debt includes $60 million to $70 million owed to the US Bureau of Reclamation on interest-free cohstruction loans said Ralph Seefeldt a bankruptcy attorney for the district The district owes another $24 million to $26 million to 560 private bondholders who financed the remaining 20 percent of the construction according to Seefeldt who said the bonds ate not in default Compiled by Mike Truelsen from Associated Press reports 01 THIS DAY In 1931 75 of Mammoth were forced to leave their homes and retreat to the hills as floods swept the San Pedro Valley leaving four people dead FRIDAY Gulf War veterans meet to form group Persian Gulf War veterans affected by mysterious illnesses are meeting tonight to form a support group Read more in tomorrow's Tucson Citizen Expo '94 shows off advances in crime-fighting 3C What's happening at the University of Arizona 3C Oldest Arizonan dies In Nogales 4C Oro Valley mining consultant settling in 5C 4 4 4 i i i i i 4 i expulsion 43 -t 1 4 1 i 0 1 3 5 f1 i 1 I 0 5 7 7 I 5 I'T 0 0 16 41 58 3 23 43 70 82 Tucson Citizen quail hunting with a friend after school On Feb 1 a hearing was held to determine whether the Thompkins boy should be punished with a long-term or 60-day suspension He and his adult sister were at the hearing The following day his parents received a notice that Thompkins Jr was suspended for 60 days and was required to go to gun safety school and that the assistant principal was recommending his expulsion according to the petition According to George Martinez TUSD spokesman students required to attend gun safety classes typically go through a Tucson Police Department program on gun awareness where teens learn about the seriousness of owning guns Unfortunately there were no gun safety classes for minors available until Sept 7 and the classes will take a month the pe-- tition stated They say they were not Informed about a hearing to expel him for taking BB guns to school By MARIA ELENA LOPEZ Citizen Staff Writer The parents of a Palo Verde High School student who was expelled for bringing three BB-guns to school are asking a judge to let their son back in school this fall Thomas and Suk Cha Tompkins parents of Palo Verde High ninth-grader Thomas Tompkins Jr alleged in their court petition that they were not informed of their March 10 expulsion hearing After the hearing all five Tucson Unified School District board members voted that the 16-year-old boy be allowed to apply for readmission in the spring semester which begins in January According to the petition Arizona law allows a expulsion only after disobedience and criminal conduct The younger Tompkins had not been reprimanded for weapons before the Jan 24 BB guns incident and of BB guns is not a the petition stated TUSD senior legal counsel Larry Klose however said students can be expelled from school for "a serious single violation" The district has rules that prohibit certain actions including bringing weapons to school Klose said He added that the 1 1 1 it1 fcH 0 I Arson Assault-relatedL---a Bomb threat andor setting off alarm Drug-related Vandalism 1 cr I Weapon-related Total A 3 of June 24 Source: Tucson Unified School District case with Tompkins Jr is not an isolated incident students have been expelled for bringing BB guns to he said Any student found with a weapon on school premises is referred to the TUSD board and considered for expulsion Klose said Gaila Davis the lawyer said the punishment is too severe for such a crime understand panicked about guns but these are just BB guns and one year is just a long Davis said Tompkins Jr was first suspended for 10 days from Jan 24 to Feb 4 1994 for bringing three BB guns to school He was removing books from his backpack in his sixth-period class that day when another student saw guns in his bag According to the petition Tompkins Jr told the other student he brought the guns to school because he was going By NORMAN PECKHAM Citizen Staff Writer Friends and family of Amphitheater High School student Jennifer Reeves 18 who was killed in a car collision Monday are remembering her for her friendliness and personality had a heart of said her mother Sue Reeves had many friends and she was always trying to help people" Jennifer Reeves died' Monday afternoon after the pickup truck she was driving was struck by a car driven by Ron Asta a former Pima County supervisor and 1983 candidate for mayor An investigation into the collision is continuing and no citations have been issued Sue Reeves said her daughter leaned over to her friend a passenger in her truck to shield her from the oncoming car was trying to shield her friend when the accident Sue Reeves said The friend 15-year-old Rebecca Thropp was taken to University Medical Center after the collision and treated and released Marisue McQuarry a close friend of and her family said she has only the fondest memories of Jennifer was a very independent young lady" McQuarry said was kindhearted and very into animals and When McQuarry first met Jen nifer 10 years ago she said Jennifer brought her a gift "She was 8 when I first met her and she brought me a homed McQuarry said was the type of child who would pick up a snake Her main hobby was animals" In fact a couple of years back Jennifer persuaded her father to let her and her two sisters have a pet snake Sue Reeves said "Jennifer was a crazy her mother said liked exotic animals She got her father to convince me to let them have an 11-foot Jennifer who would have been a senior at Amphi this fall belonged to an animal sciences program at the school McQuarry said Jennifer also liked to help people as much as she could her mother said was very protective of her sisters and her Sue Reeves said tried to take care of people as much as she could why she was always on the go It was in her heart to help people" Besides her mother Jennifer is survived by her father Sam and two younger sisters Jessica and Jacqueline all of Tucson Visitation for Jennifer Reeves will be held from 5 to 8 pm tomorrow at Adair Funeral Home 1050 Dodge Blvd Memorial services will be held at 10 am Saturday at St James United Methodist-Church 3255 Campbell Ave Burial will follow at East Lawn Palms Mortuary and Cemetery 5801 Grant Road Instead of flowers the family requests that donations in name be made aj the St James United Methodist Church to furnish a new youth center there I i- 1.