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Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 25

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Melville, New York
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A Search for a Fugitive or a Victim was unable to produce a street address Fullam says the search for Janice has been like "looking into a black Two weeks after Janice vanished he took a call from someone responding to one of the 2000 flyers he had distributed offering a reward for information "ft was a male Fullam recalled "Hie asked How much is the I told him $500 He said not and hung up" Fullam once traveled to southern Florida and waited outside the dormitory of one of old boyfriends with whom he thought she might be living He waited fin four hours out-: he would be convince her the boyfriend eventually emerged from his room he was alone He bad not beard from Janice Sometimes when Fullam is out on an errand or strolling at a park or a beach he sees a girl in a crowd who looks like his missing daughter Recently he chased a gin he mistook for Janice "She must have thought I was some kind of a he said so horrible to wake up and find one of your children Mrs Fullam said "We all have to go through something in life but this in limbo I even mourn James hands were folded on a thick black notebook containing the names and telephone numbers of the people he has talked to in his search for Janice "I even had one detective tell me 'Give up Why are you looking for he said believe he said that look for her until the day I die my Schmidlin a 10-year veteran in the business of tracking fugitives acknowledges that the circumstances of disappearance are "very Hie said the feet that she told no one of her plans to run away is contrary to what most teenagers do before leaving home "Usually an overt act They borrow money on a pretext from family or friends She just disappeared into thin Mrs Fullam and others said the most compelling evidence that indicates Janice did not simply run away is the total lack of contact with her immediate family since her disappearance During the last two years they said she at least would have telephoned her mother or older sister a fitness instructor in York Pa to let them know she was all right "She was family said Marilyn Harris guidance counselor at Smithtown West "I cant envision her dot in contact with her "If anything was wrong always call my mother or says Joanne Fullam If one of her boyfriends didn't call or if she didn't have any money or if she wanted new shoes call-1 think she ran away She was too dependent She was still a Hie FuUanuf efforts to find their daughter have been an odyssey into frustration: visits to 12 different detectives in Suffolk and New York City hours on the phone tracking down and interviewing more than 50 of friends calls to experts at seven different agencies around the country that try to find runaways Once they hired a psychic who told them Janice was alive and living in a tan-colored building in a warm climate But the psychic fears Janice may have been the victim of an attacker ''A girl alone on Friday on the street anything could have She says Janice never stayed out late without calling her And she adds police have not done enough to find her "If Janice was a senator's daughter we would have found her long ago dead or said Mrs Fullam sitting acrom from her husband at the kitchen table of their split-level home "The Suffolk police did nothing for us My husband did everything on his James Fullam said he knew police have other cases to worry about but that they "expend more time and energy looking for used cars then they do looking for kids They all tell you they have the time or manpower" Bruce Plesser an assistant district attorney who handled cam said police have followed every lead the family provided He said his office is considering convening a grand jury to question Janice's friends TTie police are treating Janice as a fugitive from justice not as a missing person runaway or possible crime victim A warrant is out for her arrest on the drug charge and for failing to show up for near sentencing Her name and description have been entered into the National Crime Information Computer to which every police agency in the country has accews- possible she met with foul play but the greater poesiblity is someone transported her out of state with her said Leo fichmid-lin the Suffolk County detective assigned to the case Janice Fullam is one of 60 criminals he is seeking The warrant issued for her arrest is one of 9555 for Suffolk residents who have fled the county Continued From Pago 6 was arranged before the case ever came to trial Police said Janice agreed to act aa an informant but proved ineffective because the word was out that aha had been arrested and she was not able to mate any buys Streppone said Janice waa worried about her sentencing but that on the morning of Oct 30 she appeared happy She waa looking fowara to Halloween and the two teenagers attended dames that Friday dressed in costume Janice went as a down Her mnthar said Janice also seemed excited about plans she had to go to a New York City nightdub the next evening with her brother Jimmy then 19 Oct SO was a Friday She left her home at about 9:30 PM and walked around the corner to the home of Iii Salome" another rinse friend Ida said she was staying home So Janice walked a few blocks to one of her hangouts the King Kullen shopping center at the corner of Mt Pleasant Road and the Smithtown Bypass She stayed there a short time and then decided to connect with Jimmy who was supposed to be meeting friends at another shopping center a little farther north on the Bypass Unable to find him she returned at about 10:45 PM to Lif house Again Us said she feel like going out Janice said she was going back to the shopping center to try to find her brother No one reposted seeing her after that Joan Fullam is convinced that fnurmthing terrible happened to her daughter Sometimes she feels her dmightar may have been killed or kidnaped because of her involvement with drug suppliers Other times she Aging of Police Force Affects Performance from Page 7 greater motivation to get said Nassau Commissioner Rmn1 Rom "But the positive aspect is that dealing with experienced police officers out there able to handle many kind of situations of a serious nature that could be explosive in nature handling them more In Suffolk hasp Henry Grattan said "With age your judgment improves more careful as a police officer You tend to jumped from 5 in 1978 to 31 so far this year an increase Rossi said is at least partly due to having older less agile officers still on patrol A job-related disability pension entitles an officer to an average of about $5000 a year more than he would receive under an ordinary pension an added cost ultimately borne by taxpayers Job-related injuries in Nassau have stayed relatively stable in the last five years about 800 a year even though the farce has dropped by about 400 officers In Suffolk injuries and disability retirements have not fluctuated in a pattern attributable to age As police in the Northeast and Midwest age along with their communities police unions and nffiriala are beginning to tackle the issue Robert Kliesmet president of the International Union of Police Associations AFL-CIO said his group is pushing for earlier retirement plans for those departments that still require offi cers to reach a certain age before retirement On Long Island police may retire after 20 years of service regardless of their age Kliesmet said the union is also pushing for the establishment of police aahhaticala aimed at temporarily relieving stress for older officers In Nassau in-service training for experienced officers now includes six hours of physical fitness training and the department is developing a fitness program that may become mandatory for all officers But police officials said the best answer to an aging police force is to infuse it with new blood Said George Kelling a Harvard professor and nationally recognized expert on policing: "Hie ideal mix ig the department that can provide wisdom guidance and direction from older officers and younger officers who when necessary can do some of the more physically demanding things the older officers Police experts say there is no generally accepted optimum age for a patrol officer although a group of seven experienced Nassau officers interviewed by Newsday agreed that officers probably peak in their late 20s and early 30s And in many ways the of a police force is a result of hiring practices which in turn are shaped by budget constraints and other factors For example the average age of a Boston patrol officer is 42 the oldest in the nation Officials there trace the age to the 1919 police strike during which almost the entire force was fired The result was Finder Probably Will Get $17000 claim the money before it is returned to the man who found it He said however that the money was probably obtained through illegal activity most likely in the drug trade and it is unlikely the owner will step forward "If that kind of money was just laying out there then whoever it belongs to is going to be a little slow in claiming Edwards said Police said they are not going to identify the man who found the money because this real owners might come looking for him if the ah ii ultimately turned over to him that a whole new group of officers was hired served together and retired together They in turn were replaced by another group that passed through the same cycle So for more than 60 years the Boston force has experienced what some call a effect It is either very young at the point when recruits are hired or old when the group approaches retirement In Nassau and Suffolk the police forces aged when rapid growth of the 1960s and early 1970s stopped and fewer new recruits were added each year In Suffolk only 50 new recruits were hired this year compared with classes of 200 to 300 at the height of the growth In Nassau the aging was hastened by a hiring freeze imposed during a discrimination suit that ended last year The-effort of thq forces' age are just beginning to be felt In Nassau job-related disability retirements have United Press International New York The man who turned in a shoebox stuffed with $17000 on Halloween night probably will be able to keep the money because the owners are likely to be drug dealers unwilling to claim it police said yesterday The man who was not identified found the money about 11:30 FM Monday as he walked in front of a housing prqject between Pike and Rutgers Streets detectives of the 7th Precinct said The finder peered into the box and after seeing it was filled with $10 $20 and $50 bills turned it in to police The loot totaled $17000 "This Halloween all good Sgt said JThip Sgt Sam Edwards said the owner has 90 days to Edwards said that if the money did come from drug trade in the area it will probably be quickly forgotten TThaf just so small a part of the money involved in this he' said.

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