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...idyllic place for a siege. Nevertheless, as acres of corn and soybean have been undulating in the fall breeze, and as birch, maple and oak have been turning their autumnal colors, Shirley Allen, 51, has been facing down the law for the past month. On Sept. 22, Christian County sheriff's deputies knocked on the door of her two-bedroom farmhouse to serve her with a court order for psychiatric evaluation. She met them with a 12-gauge bolt-action shotgun. They backed off and set up the siege...
...this attention has alarmed people like Lieutenant Bill Queen, who works narcotics in the Pinellas County sheriff's office, near Tampa Bay. He had never heard of K before December. Now, his undercover officers can buy it every week. "These kids don't know what they're getting into," says Queen. "But I can tell you, this is another drug that's going to be abused and cause harm." What really steams officer Queen is that he can't do much about it. Snorting K may be foolish, but it's not a felony. If someone without a medical...
...side note: Don't be surprised if Henry Hyde winds up with label-of-the-year honors for his Remus-esque mention of "Blind Tom O'Brien," apparently a Cook County sheriff of yore who was less than vigilant in his enforcement duties. Of course, Hyde assured Reno, he meant absolutely nothing by the reference...
...aircraft was about 500 feet in the air, and about 100 yards off the coast itself, when the engine quit and it went straight down into the water," said Sheriff Norman Hicks. "It just sort of dove head first, straight down into the water...
From the very first day of the trial, on Sept. 22, the scene outside the courthouse was way past strange. The new sandstone building was besieged by reporters and cameramen and satellite trucks. The sheriff, who had distributed just 68 press passes, kept repeating, "I've done all I can. I've done all I can." Occasionally the members of the media were crudely serenaded by occupants of the building across the courtyard--the Arlington County Detention Center. An entrepreneur who specializes in wacky dentures offered a set of chops he called "the Marv...