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Volume 71, No. 108
Friday, March 5, 1993
Baytown, Texas 77520
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SWAT team called
out after robbery
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Police find suspect, 16, hiding under bed
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crash and heard the gunfire.
Moments later,
off traffic around
then called in the SWAT team.
Police called for everyone to come out of the
house and four people did. None of them was
the suspect, however, so the SWAT team
moved in and found the suspect, a 16-year-old
under a bed.
referred to juvenile authorities on
charges of attempted murder, aggravated rob-
bery and possibly auto theft, police said.
Police obtained a search warrant and found
the money concealed in the house.
After subsequent investigation, police
charged three of the adults with theft by
receiving on the grounds that they knowingly
hid the boy and the money. The fourth adult, a
woman, was held on local warrants, police
By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun
police arrived. They blocked
the house, set up a perimeter,
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Baytown’s SWAT team surrounded a house
on Illinois Street Thursday morning after a
pharmacy owner chased a robbery suspect to
that location, police said.
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, 50, was robbed at
returned from the
boy, hiding
He will be
tint at 9:20 a.m. as
with cash for Scarborough Drug Store’s
check-cashing service. The pharmacy is located
at 3507 Market
The suspect fled in a white car but Scarbor-
ough and a store customer jumped in their own
vehicles and gave chase. Scarborough told
police he rammed the suspect’s car with his
own vehicle during the pursuit and the victim
shot at him at least once before leaping out of
the car and running into a house in the 3400
block of Illinois. Several witnesses saw the
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Photo by Jana Howard
Officer Ken Terry takes inventory of the 249 young marijuana plants seized by Baytown
narcotics officers during a search warrant raid.
Construction crews to clear
Massey-Tompkins Rd. brush
249 marijuana plants seized
phase of the project stretches from the Southern
Pacific railroad tracks near Chaparral Drive
east to Highway 146.
Laza said that once the trees have been
along’ Mas- cleared, utility companies will move their lines,
y next week, according This process is expected to take until early
, head of engineering and inspec- May, he said. Once it is complete, the city will
dons. start installing new water and sewer lines.
This is the first step of the $7.2 million To install the new lines, Massey-Tompkins
project to widen Massey-Tompkins to five will be closed to through traffic. Access will
lanes. The first phase of that project involves remain open to people who live in the area,
actual construction from Trailwood Drive to Laza reiterated that construction near Ste-
Highway 146. phen F. Austin Elementary will not begin until
However, the area to be cleared in the first school lets out for summer break.
By Elizabeth Froehlich
of Hie Baytown Sun
own container of potting soil, as well as other
essentials for the care of the plants in and
around the greenhouse.
Two occupants of the house were taken into
custody for questioning. Charges are pending
and the investigation is continuing, police said.
One narcotics officer speculated that the
plants, which would have soon grown too large
By Jane Howard
of Hie Baytown Sun
Baytown narcotics officers executed a search
warrant that netted a haul of 249 marijuana
plants.
At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers exe-
cuted a narcotics search warrant in the 1900
block of North Seventh Street after receiving a ......
Crimestoppers tip that residents were growing f°r die greenhouse, were probably destined to
marijuana in a greenhouse. be transplanted to a more sophisticated grove at
Officers found each of the 249 plants in its another location.
Construction crews will begin clearing trees
and brush from the ri:
Road
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sey-Tompkins
to Kent Laza.
Rain — bane of bay’s existence
Three seek
re-election
Teens win state honors
Runoff pushes many polluted materials into estuaries
By Jane Howard
of Hie Baytown Sun
Teen Court program, took
part in a mock trial.
By Bruce Guynn
of Hie Baytown Sun
Three East Hams County the prosecution and defense,”
teens earned awards of said Shanna, a 10th grader at
excellence in the state Channelview High School.
YMCA Youth and Govern- “It was a case about a conspi-
ment Competition in Austin, racy to sell drugs,” sne
They are Nicole Slankard added,
of Deer Park, Shanna Harper “It was great I thought it
of Channelview and Shelley was a wonderful experience.
Noel of North Shore. The We learned how to work
three were among 15 area under pressure,” said Nicole,
teens who participated in the a sophomore at Deer Park
competition in Austin last High School,
eekend. Nicole and Shanna were
Shanna and Nicole earned partners in the competition,
their awards in the judicial They also earned certificates
division while Shelley earned as exemplary participants in
her award in the witness the competition.
y. Shelley, a 15-year-old
three teen-agers, parti- home school student, portray-
cipants in Baytown Justice of ed a 60-year-old and a 22-
the Peace Tony Polumbo’s year-old witness.
much pollution into Galveston lawn chemicals to fast-food
Bay as was dumped into containers to dead animals.
Prince William Sound by the The Galveston Bay Nation-
The greatest challenge for Exxon Valdez. Add to that al Estuary Program is one of
environmentalists concerned vast amounts of polluting 17 such programs created
about the welfare of Galveston material cminating from storm nationwide by Congress to
Bay is not oil spills, sewage or drains and the non-industrial identify problems in the man-
six-pack rings, but learning pollution problem is immense, agement of major bay systems
how to deal with and eliminate he said. and come up with comprehen-
non-point source pollution Shipley, speaking at the sive plans designed to protect
more effectively, the director weekly meeting of Baytown and enhance these systems,
of the Galveston Bay National Kiwanis Club, called that Shipley was appointed '*
Estuary Program said Thurs- washoff “the last frontier of director of the Galveston Bay
unmanaged pollution. project in 1989.
“Just look any place the rain One new program that will
controls have reduced pollu- is washing off streets and address non-point source pol-
tion from industrial sources, roads into the bays or bayous lution is a simple one. Shipley
people’s everyday bad habits and you’ll see an oil sheen,” said stencils will be used to
continue to affect Galveston said Shipley. While oil and paint a simple message on
Bay, Dr. Frank Shipley added, gas are a major part of the signs above storm drains that
Shipley said that in 2'A problem, he said rains wash says “Do Not Dump — Drains
years, rainwaters wash as everything into the bay from to Bays.
We presented a case for
Only incumbents have
filed for the three positions
open in the Beach City
Council election.
The terms of Aldermen
Robert Barrow, Elbert
Horn and B.J. McCoy ex-
pire in May. McCoy was
appointed to her position in
September 1992 to com-
plete the unexpired term of
Jim Standridge, who be-
came mayor. Barrow and
Horn were elected to their
positions in May 1991.
Each has filed for re-
electioa
March 17 is the deadline
to file for the positions on
the Beach City Council.
Filing is under way at the
Beach City Community
Building on Tri-City
Beach Road.
day.
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While stricter governmental
cate
Anahuac trustees to be elected
Good
Afternoon
Four school board positions will be filled May 1
ANAHUAC — Four positions on the Ana- Forrest, Position 5, and E.J. Manuel, Position 6.
huac school board will be filled in the May 1 The terms for both of those positions still have
electioa one year left on them. Mark Schultz, Wheeler
Two of those positions are full terms, and Trant and Herbert Lewis Sr. have all filed as
two are unexpired terms that will be filled for candidates for the vacant Position 5 seat Sam
one year because the trustees holding them Hill has filed for Position 6, which is also
resigned before their terms expired.
Jackie Fontenot, Position 3 trustee, and Tom
Burris, Position 4 trustee, have filed for re-
election to their full-term positions. David ballots can be cast at the Anahuac school
Kitkham has filed to challenge Fontenot for district’s business office.
Position 3. On May 1, voters will cast ballots in the high
The unexpired seats were held by Jean school lobby.
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Two Dayton school trustee positions on ballot
The Dayton school board has board are Mary Ellen Conner, Lynn Gigout,
called an election for May 1 to fill two trustee Glynn Paul Revere and Buddy Janacek.
positions. Candidates have until March 17 to file with
Two positions will be contested in this school officials,
electioa Position 3 is currently held by Thomas
yne, who will be challenged by Robert Ager. Central Administration Building, 209 Highway
Virgil “Buddy" Holbrook, Position 4 trustee, 90 West in Dayton,
has indicated to school officials that he will not Voting for the general election will be at the
seek re-election. Seeking his position on the Woodrow Wilson Junior High School Library.
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A sign in front of a
church said:
“After 2,000 years still
under the same
management.”
Early voting will be held April 12-27 at the
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Photo by Carrto Pryor
Justice of the Peace Tony Polumbo congratulates state
YMCA Youth and Government winners Nicole Slankhard,
Shanna Harper and Shelley Noel, from left.
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