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I- 1 'I Sec. 1 Tyler Conrler-TImes MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1992 Children Say They Asked For 'Kidnapping' FORT WORTH tiv tu We told him if he didn't it ourselves, because we our life." "We forced him to do it. do it, we were going to do had too many problems in FRIED SHRIMP Evening Buffet Mon. thru Sat. Six Entrees Including Fried Catfish, Hot V-P' Vegetables.

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North Las Vegas officers found the children Friday morning asleep in a car with the suspect on the side of a highway. Mrs. Ramon and her ex-husband, Daniel Ramon, flew to Nevada to pick up their children. "They just wanted me and their real father to get back together," Mrs. Ramon said-" -Ramon would not comment on the children's statements, but said they probably did not understand what was happening.

"We forced nim to do it," Samuel said. "We told him if he didn't do it, we were going to do it ourselves, because we had too many problems in our ft SWEET SUE'S Family Restaurant I ot 5:00 PM 3350 S. SW Loop 323 Aarosi from Lowe's 581-5464 era they asked Sammy Ray Hernandez to help them run away from home. "From everything we've received the kids say they talked him into Samuel Ramon kidnapped child mmmmmmzmmmmmmmmmm taking them to Las Vegas for a vacation," said CM. Vallejo, a supervisor at the Fort Worth Police Department it's still against the law to transport a child across state lines without parent's consent." Fort Worth police spokesman Lt.

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"It was a festering crime problem that just sort of raised a red flag to anybody driving into the neighborhood," said Ron Willis, vice chairman of the Avondale Civic Association. "Now it just looks like a regular neighborhood house." Pete Henry and his sister, Rosie Henry, bought the place last month. A lengthy eviction process and truck loads of trash later, the traffic in and around the house has come to a halt. And Henry's neighbors can sleep at night. "They did the neighborhood a big favor," says one man.

He asked that his name not be printed because he fears the former tenant, who still lives in the neighborhood. It was those fears and countless headaches that finally prompted the Henrys to buy the house. The Montrose area of Houston has never been short of prostitutes, Henry says. But to have a house that attracted that activity and in a residential area was more than neighbors could bear. "It got to where you couldn't walk out your front door without finding restitutes and hustlers in front," he said.

Until a month ago, he lived only two ouses down from the home. "Somebody was always calling the police," Henry says. "But they were so used to being harassed by police tney were not scared." After Pete and Rosie made an offer on the single-story, beige wood frame last summer, the tenant was evicted and Pete Henry movea in. Piles of garbage lined the walls and food and debris more than a foot deep littered the floors, he says. Waste from four pit bulls the tenant had kept indoors for months at a time had soaked the carpets and rotted the floorboards.

Henry has stripped out all the carpets and replaced the subflooring in the kitchen. Holes remain in hallway floors where the wood rotted out and wallpaper made up of magazine pages from 1949 still covers the bathroom. The house has been converted into two apartments and a friend has moved into i the rear unit while Henry concentrates on the front apartment. "I didn't care what it looked like," Henry says. "I knew I could fix it." Missing Children Found In Mexico The World Health Organization (WHO) of the United States903)592-3562j i i.

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The award was the first in Texas under a then-new state domestic kidnapping law. The children, Charles William Smith III, now 13, and Christopher Jason Smith, 11, are "in good health and OK," Randy Donato. the attorney for the children's mother, said. Donato said the children would be delivered to the American embassy at 10 a.m. CST today.

He declined to answer questions about when the children might be reunited with their mother. The last time Carolyn Smith saw her children was on a Friday in September 1984 when Chuck Smith and his father picked them up on a visitation, Donato said. The. attorney said he discovered later that "the following Saturday, Chuck fled to Florida with the chil- Talk to PaineWebber. Well help you develop a strategy for retirement savings.

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