The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 324, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 29, 2005 Page: 1 of 20
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Man charged in flu shot scam
INSIDE TODA!
More than 1,000 Exxon Mobil workers injected with water
SEE SHOTS* PAGE 6A
RED RIBBON WEEK - GANDER STYLE
NATION 3A
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A day of festivals & fiin
SEE SCARITAGE • PAGE 6A
SEE JAMBOREE • PAGE 6A
SEE INVASIONS • PAGE 6A
Vandals reduce building to eyesore
City unable to contact elusive owners
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SEE VANDALS • PAGE 6A
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vaccinations at company health fairs.
His company, Comfort & Caring
Home Health, provided approxi-
mately 1,000 Exxon Mobil employ-
ees and 80 private contractors with
shots full of what the FDA said was
“some form of purified water”
instead of the flu vaccine.
More home invasions
cause for concern in
Meadowlake Village
many people.”
Authorities said El Hawa’s plan
was to administer fake vaccines and
bill Medicare for the service of real
vaccines. Investigators uncovered
records showing that El Hawa also
Contributed photo
Broken windows, trash and debris have caused residents to
complain about this abandoned property on 4308 Garth Road
BY RYAN CULVER
ryan.culver@baytownsun.com
The owner of a Houston health
care company remains behind bars
today after his company issued more
than 1,000 fake flu shots to local
Exxon Mobil workers during a safe-
ty fair last week.
Iyad Abu El Hawa, 35, was arrest-
ed Thursday for his role in a scam to
defraud Medicare by providing flu
SATURDAY
October 29, 2005
STATE 5A
Supply & demand
Oil industry not likely to
expand production.
BUSINESS 6B
High
alert
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49th annual
Highlands Jamboree
Heritage Society’s
Heritage Scaritage
the sidewalk is an unneces-
sary danger to patients and
their children.
“People at the rehabilitation
center have their knees
“This is a callous and disturbing
crime which put at risk patients -
particularly the elderly - who
thought they had been inoculated
against the flu and were not,” U.S.
Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said at a
press conference in Houston Friday.
“He purposefully put at risk many,
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BY MARIA NARCISO
maria.rareiso@baytownsun.com
Jo Ellen Coker of Baytown
did not think more damage
could be done to the aban-
doned property on 4308 Garth
Road. But this week, the last
front window was broken out.
“I thought, ‘My gosh,
there’s nothing left anymore,
she said.
Spurred by complaints from at wjjOse par|<jng ]ot
several Baytown residents, the jg adjacent tQ the property
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THE RAYTOWN SUN
The 49th Annual Highlands Jamboree began
with a Jamboree Street Jam Friday night at the
Highlands Heritage Park, with live musical enter-
tainment by country-western singer Troy
McManus.
Today schedule includes a fun run, bike ride,
parade and children’s pageant. The fun run, sepa-
rated into a 5k,run for adults and a IK run for
children 12 years old and under, will begin at 7:30
a.m. at the Highlands Community Building, 604
Highlands Wood Drive.
The 11.4-mile bike ride will begin at Dr. Dallal
W. Abdelsayed’s office, 607 E. Wallisville Road.
The parade will begin at 10 a m. at BP Hopper
Primary School, 405 E. Houston, and continue
down Main Street until it ends at the intersection
of St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, 800 S.
Main St., and Jones Road.
city of Baytown hopes to Besides being an eye sore,
board up the vandalized prop- Coker said she worries that
erty after a public hearing at the broken glass surrounding
City Hall on Nov. 7. J-----------
Coker said she sees the
property about three times a
week on her way to the
Rehabilitation Center next
door, and whenever she dines
CIA leak investigation
Vice President Dick Cheney 's
chief of staff charged with
obstructing the probe and lying to
investigators, resigns from .office.
> U.S. occupation of Iraq
Iraq death toll since U.S.-led
invasion many times higher than
United States death toll.
Friday night lights
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Galena Park
Wall Street report
. Dow Jones surges 172 points
on upbeat GDP growth.
SPORTS 7A
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REL loses shootout
Lee High School stayed winless
with a 45-35 loss at Spring
Friday night in District 22-5A
action.
DEATHS I0A
Mary Jane Taylor, Jessie Ella
Bender, Hubert E. Beard Jr,
Willis Al Cramer, Sheila Sylvester
and Dorothy Mae I lollan.
THE BAYTOWN SUH
The Bay Area Heritage Society of Baytown will
hold its annual Heritage Scaritage Festival today
at the Republic of Texas Plaza Park, 5117 North
Main in Baytown, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There
will be delicious food, fun and entertainment for
everyone! All of your favorite festival foods will
sausage on a stick, turkey legs, nachos, snow
cones and roasted corn. For arts and crafts lovers,
vendors will be displaying and selling their wares
of childrens clothing; bags; handmade soaps and
lotions; jewelry; plants and hanging baskets;
western collectibles; crochet and knit items; bird
feeders; wood and stone crafts; ponchos; blan-
kets; kitchen items; note cards, calendars and
magnets made from digital pictures enhanced to
look like watercolor paintings; and more.
Talented students from Goose Creek will be
RYAUSTIH KIHGHURH
austin.kinghorn@baytownsun.com
Two more reports of home inva-
sions following a Monday break-in
that left an elderly man hospitalized
have residents of the Meadowlake
Village subdivision on edge,
The two latest incidents both
occurred Thursday, when a man
reportedly tried to kick in the front
door of a home on Breda Drive
before he was scared away by the
homeowner. In a separate incident on
Pawnee Street, a woman came home
to find her front door wide opjjn.
The first incident occurred
between 3:15 and 3:45 p.m., when a
man reported someone began ringing
his doorbell. As he approached the
door, he heard the person on the
other side tampering with the screen
door and kicking the front door. The
homeowner reportedly shouted at the
suspect through the door and threat-
ened to shoot him if he entered,
prompting the suspect to flee. The
homeowner told pol ice the suspect
was a black male in his early 20s.
Details on the second incident,
which occurred around 5:20 p.m.
were scant, with a full police report
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home to find her front door open and
called police to check and see if the
house was safe to enter, It was unde-
termined whether anything was taken
from the home.
Lt. John Martin with the Harris
County Sheriff’s Office asked for
residents to be particularly alert
because information from witnesses
can make the difference in generating
viable leads to track down a suspect.
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Goose Creek photo
Robert E. Lee High School cheerleaders perform for Lamar Elementary students during a Drug-Free
Pep rally ending Red Ribbon Week on Friday. The rally included REL Celebrities and football players.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 324, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 29, 2005, newspaper, October 29, 2005; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191577/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.