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C-4 The Kansas City Star Saturday February 5 1994 JO Stop looking for quick fixes for drug problem ABA says Agents take store and its contents BP I By JOE LAMBE Staff Writer Public education is in crisis Detroit mayor tells lawyers Alleged drag sales from and Liquors lead to four indictments By TOM JACKMAN Staff Writer By JEFFREY SPIVAK Staff Writer University of Missouri-Kansas City as part of the midyear meeting He was the keynote speaker at a conference to reflect on 25 years of national urban policy He offered no further ideas about what to do with public education except to challenge his audience of about 60 lawyers to volunteer in their communities and become role models need you mentoring young boys and Archer said need you helping with a teacher We need you as a coach We need Remember the old days? Children answered adults with and The teacher was always right Fast-forward to today Children lack those values and teachers are liable to get shot trying to instill them education is the great crisis point we face in Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer told an American Bar Association urban conference Friday in Kansas City Archer first new mayor in 20 years spoke at the day for conspiracy and sale of cocaine A search of the liquor store turned up about 1 1 ounces of cocaine four guns and $9000 cash Court records allege that the four men sold cocaine in amounts of 4 to 10 ounces on four occasions to an informant and an undercover agent The informant a former store employee told authorities that John and Luis Hernandez sold 22 to 33 pounds of cocaine a week out of the store and that the Hernandez brothers allegedly wanted to buy as much as 44 pounds from an undercover agent Armed with that information federal prosecutors on Thursday asked US District Judge Joseph Stevens to issue a warrant to seize the store and a temporary restraining order to keep the Hernandez brothers from selling or emptying it Stevens issued the warrant and restraining order saying is a substantial probability that (the government) will prevail on the issue of Luis and John Hernandez are being held without bond David Hernandez was released Monday on $30000 unsecured bond Pace was released Monday after posting 1 0 percent of a $50000 bond Brandon Baugh object of search Baby may be dead sheriff says Suspect arrested In Independence is still uncooperative The Associated Press Federal authorities seized an East Side liquor store Friday morning a week after indicting four men for allegedly selling large volumes of cocaine from the store Members of the US Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration took over and Liquors 3500 Indiana Ave at 8 am Friday Later in the morning the authorities began hauling cases of liquor and food out of the store and US Marshal Larry Joiner said the store would be emptied Brothers Luis Hernandez 32 and John Hernandez 34 told undercover DEA agents they were the owners of and Liquors although court documents state that both men have state felony convictions for armed robbery and are ineligible for a liquor license Luis and John Hernandez along with a third brother David Hernandez 28 and a store employee Michael Pace 35 were arrested Jan 27 and indicted that Many studies in the last few years have reached the same conclusion about the war on drugs: Annies of police and acres of high-rise prisons will not fix the problem But academics and many law enforcement professionals say yelling into the wind Politicians are in a frenzy this year to toughen laws and build prisons The latest study calling for an alternative approach was released Friday at the Westin Crown Center hotel by the American Bar Special Committee on the Drug Crisis should drop the whole term on it implies a quick fix and in this for the long said John Driscoll Jr committee chairman and violence have to be considered a public health problem a he said Police prison and federal interdiction efforts have failed and will continue to fail Driscoll said yet the public still longs for quick need prevention education and treatment" he said echoing the report say it over and over William Ide bar association president said at the presentation that it was appropriate to release the report in Kansas City where the Jackson County anti-lrug tax has funded many innovative programs City is a leader in dealing with community problems and starting to set new Ide said Among the conclusions and recommendations: Community coalitions in which residents businesses and authorities work together are having the most success in fighting drugs Driscoll said one such example in Kansas City is Project Neighborhood a community anti-drug effort funded by the anti-drug sales tax and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation About 26 million US citizens used drugs in 1991 the highest rate of illegal drug use in any industrialized country and drugs or alcohol are involved in Cleaver supports liquor control role munity coalitions and $12 million for drug courts Driscoll said In an interview earlier this week Kansas City Police Chief Steven Bishop also said the federal bill was shallow and expensive an attempt to calm fears and win votes for politicians Jackson County Prosecutor Claire McCaskill said Friday that not one US or state politician from Missouri had bothered to ask her about Kansas City crime this year before creating or pushing one tough crime package or another are they talking she asked are they getting their She said politicians mean well in trying to craft laws as a fast response to public concern but got the false ring of the quick hardest thing to do is to start rolling up your sleeves and start figuring out how we can help these kids and change McCaskill said Ide said it is finally time for the American people and government to start basing crime policy on facts instead of fervor over the latest spectacular crime headline going to have to take things that he said combat the emotional call to most crimes Drug offenders have overwhelmed the criminal justice system and more than 1 million additional arrests are being made each year Crime among youths is exploding with a 70 percent increase in the number of juveniles committing murders with guns in a decade The government needs to put much more effort into helping juveniles including drug or alcohol treatment The government should include alcohol and tobacco in its anti-drug efforts Driscoll also said the war against drugs and crime would be won or lost at the local level He said the federal government should be more flexible in its grants and spend more to help fund local drug courts such as one started last year in Jackson County and other innovative local programs got to start listening to people on the streets and in the Driscoll said of politicians A $23 billion anti-crime bill that the US Senate passed last fall is almost entirely the wrong approach Driscoll said The only promising things in it are a scant $60 million for com change in policy means continued police investigations By JAMES FITZPATRICK Staff Writer AUSTIN Texas There is a that an infant allegedly kidnapped by his babysitter is dead Travis County Sheriff Terry Keel said Friday But law officers ruled out the compelling possibility and the that 3i2-month-old Brandon Baugh is alive the sheriff said Cathy Lynn Henderson who has been charged in the kidnapping has remained uncooperative Keel said Henderson had been babysitting Brandon and his 2 year-old sister on Jan 21 the day she disappeared with the boy She left the girl and her own daughter with an daughter Henderson was arrested Tuesday in Independence She was returned to Texas late Wednesday motivation in not cooperating can only come to one conclusion in my mind as a law enforcement officer and as a former prosecutor which is she want us to perform an autopsy on that child if dead because it will be indicative of criminal activity beyond an Keel said at a news conference A lawyer who has represented Henderson Nona By-ington would not comment Friday Keel also released a memorandum he sent Wednesday to law officers in central Texas telling them that it is possible the baby could be buried in a shallow grave in their area He also said he has evidence which he reveal convinces law enforcement agencies that Cathy Lynn Henderson is and has been all along perfectly capable of giving us with precise specificity the location of the responsibility But after Councilman Michael Hernandez objected Cleaver decided to delete the recommendation from the speech he delivered Thursday night told him it (the recommendation) make any sense said Hernandez who has pushed for tighter governmental control of activities in juice bars and striptease bars Despite strong words Cleaver stopped short before speech of expressing outright support for continued city enforcement of the liquor code But he pledged that support Friday during a news conference with the liquor control task force think very said a relieved Barbara Corbin task force chairwoman Some task force members had complained privately that if Cleaver had recommended reassigning the two officers the task force would have been in the position of recommending the modernization of a code that would not be routinely enforced Four school board candidates found ineligible Mayor Emanuel Cleaver completed his capitulation Friday on the issue of funding two undercover police officers who enforce Kansas liquor code Cleaver expressed his support for continued enforcement of the liquor code after members of a special task force presented him with their recommendations on updating the code Some of the task force members were jolted Thursday when they learned that an advance text of State of City speech called for the city to stop enforcing the liquor code The advance text called for reassigning the officers who have been issuing citations for about 18 months Asked about the recommendation Thursday afternoon Cleaver said liquor control was primarily By DONNA McGuire Staff Writer day he decided six months ago not to seek re-election He said his gathering of signatures was part of a plan but he would not elaborate on that plan Ellison said he would endorse Clinton Adams Jr as his successor Adams and Darwin Curls are the only remaining candidates in Subdistrict 4 In the Subdistrict 2 race John Still will challenge incumbent Sue Fulson In Subdistrict 6 departure creates a race between Carol Shank and Linda Mahl disqualification from the four-year at-large race leaves five candidates seeking two seats: incumbents Aasim Baheyadeen and EJ Holland Jr and challengers Ed Newsome Lee A Barnes Jr and Patricia Kurtz must gather 250 signatures of registered voters who live within the subdistrict Candidates for at-large seats must gather 500 valid signatures from people who live in the district Childs was seeking the two-year at-large seat that became available after Mike Vivion resigned last fall John Rios and the Rev John Navarre who was appointed by the board to serve until the election have been certified to seek that seat Coleman had filed for the Subdistrict 6 seat Parker had sought the Subdistrict 2 seat and Donnici had filed for a four-year at-large seat Earlier this week incumbent Alex Ellison was disqualified from the Subdistrict 4 race because he lacked signatures Ellison said Fri Four persons who wanted to run for the Kansas City Board of Education have been disqualified from the April 5 election That leaves 13 candidates campaigning for six positions The board has nine members but elections are staggered The Rev Daniel Childs Jr cannot run because he lives in the Raytown School District election officials said Erma Coleman Catherine Donnici and Constance Parker were eliminated because they did not provide enough valid signatures on their petitions Coleman needed 32 more names Donnici about 20 and Parker 58 Candidates for subdistrict seats Murder victim to be buried as family awaits answers By PAULA BARR Staff Writer another know we have to be said Doris Dutton mother know that (police) are working feverishly on Ault and her children visited Dutton during the Super Bowl on Sunday and visited a friend on the way home Early Monday police found car engine running in a church parking lot on Truman Road about eight-tenths of a mile southeast of the house A handgun thought to be the murder weapon was in the car Police traced the license plate to Ault and went to her house on East Ninth Street They found the front door unlocked body was on the floor and her children were crying beside her Diana relatives and friends will lay her to rest today in Mount Washington Cemetery but their questions about her murder be stilled Ault 26 was killed in her eastern Independence home late Sunday by a gunman Her 4-year-old son and 6-month-old daughter were at home but her husband Tim was at work in Kansas City Kan Independence police are investigating the case No suspects are in custody Two federal agencies have been called into the case but police would not identify them Diana family gathered during the week to comfort one Higher court fees backed to help pay for automation A-Ha! A COMICS POLL SUNDAY cast 0 The Far Side to ft and rom Apartment 3-G to The whlcll ones make of comic characters in The Sta up for your coroc which Have fun filling it out oriZM TO randomly selected entriesl We'evenawrsundayin TOM EITSpacial to The Star The Style Section The Kansas City Star By TOM JACKMAN Staff Writer sources to where they ought to be in order to move our Covington said The proposal would put a computer work station on every desk in every courtroom at the counter in offices and in chambers People would be able to make telephone inquiries about child-support payments court dates fines and jury duty Also people will be able to use automated teller machines to pay traffic tickets and touch-screen computers would be available to file small claims and adult abuse cases Lawyers would have computer access to court records and would be able to file petitions electronically Also Friday Covington said she did not think she was being considered for the vacancy on the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals Some Missouri county courthouses are still practically in the era of quills and inkwells Ann Covington chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court said Friday why the General Assembly should approve a fee increase that would improve court automation statewide she said In an appearance before The Kansas City Star's editorial board Covington said the judiciary and the Missouri Bar were asking legislators to pass a $7 filing fee increase for 10 years The estimated $45 million to $50 million in revenue from the increase would be used to buy new computers and improve technology in Missouri courthouses need tji move our re 0 i A.