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The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, January 27, 1981-P0gE
Halfway house i
suspect in eatery
By DAVID SPAK
Two convicts living in local halfway
house programs were, arraigned
yesterday on armed robbery charges
stemming from the Saturday night
holdup of the China Garden Restaurant.
Police apprehended Lionel Stewart
and Tyrone Reid, both 29, as they tried
to escape from the crowded restaurant
at 3035 Washtenaw Ave. Stewart is
listed in fair condition at University
Hospital, suffering from two gunshot
wounds received during the escape at-
tempt. Both men are being held without
bond.
THE SUSPECTS allegedly entered
the restaurant at about 10 p.m. Satur-
day armed with shotguns. Police said
one man entered through the rear door
and the other suspect went through the
front door.
China Garden Manager Nelson Chen
said the suspects told employees and
customers to lie on the floor while they
took wallets, purses, and jewelry.
Chen said that an employee managed
to call police. Ann Arbor Police Sgt.
Harold Tinsey said a customer also was
able to sneak out and call police from
an Arby's restaurant next door.
The two men attempted to escape,
Chen said, when they heard police
sirens approaching. The men fled
through a back door, but were unable to
get very far because Patrolmen Robert
Lane and William Wise arrived on the
scene just as the men attempted to
escape in a car.
TINSEY SAID THE officers drove
their car almost head-on into the
suspects' vehicle. The suspects then
tried to flee on foot, but Lane and Wise
ordered the men to halt. When they kept
going, the officers fired warning shots
into the air. The suspects refused to
stop and the officers opened fire.
Stewart was hit twice in the back and
fell into a snow embankment. Reid was
then apprehended.
Ann Arbor police Major Raymond
Woodruff said the two patrolmen did "a
hell of a job" in apprehending the
suspects.
residents
hold-up
Stewart was convicted of armed rob-
bery in 1977 and recently was living at
the 506 W. William Street halfway
house. He currently is on furlough from
prison and is living in Ypsilanti. Reid
was convicted of burglary in 1978 and is
currently living at the William Street
address.
Reid was returned to Jackson State
Prison yesterday and Stewart will be
taken there upon release from the
hospital.
None of the approximately 50 people
in the restaurant at the time of the in-
cident was . injured. The pre-trial
hearing was set for February 4.
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'~The secret is a sense
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Daily Photo by JIM KRUZ
CHINA GARDEN, 3035 Washtenaw, is the scene of a robbery yesterday which resulted in the arrest of two men. Police
shot one man twice while he was attempting to escape.
rmes spur city to urge
hal way house controls
ii The secret is a sense
ofjoy."
Sun Times, Chicago
By PAM KRAMER
Expressing horror over recent
crimes charged to inmates in local
alfway houses, City Council last night
'urgently requested" strict
registration, supervision, and restric-
tion of state-supervised prisoner
placement programs in the city.
;Mayor Louis Belcher cited the
December murder of a 19-year-old cab-
driver and the armed robbery of a local
Chinese restaurant Saturday when he
submitted the resolution urging the
state, through the Department of
Corrections, to declare a moratorium
on further prisoner placement in the
city.
"WE WANT TO find out what kind of
people we have running loose in the
city," Belcher said. "The only contact
we've had with them so far is at the
points of a gun and a knife. These are
not people, necessarily, who are on
their way to a fruitful life in society."
Threatening court, action unless the
state cooperates, the strongly-worded
resolution also asks the state to register
with the City Clerk, the location of all
state-affiliated halfway houses in the
city, along with the names of all
residents and the crimes for which they
were imprisoned.
Currently there are three halfway
houses in the city housing 17 pre-parole
prisoners. Three other halfway houses
- operated by Louis Rome and super-
vised by state prison officials - closed
in December when the employees quit,
0shortly after the cab driver was mnr-
dered.
A CONTROVERSIAL program for as ALTHOUGH THE state has the
many as 70 prisoners, proposed for the authority to override City Council
former University Center on Broad- decisions about the establishment of
way, is currently awaiting action by the halfway houses, City Attorney Bruce
city zoning board. Laidlaw questioned its authority in
The resolution also requires any placing prisoners who have not been
future program proposed for a city approved for parole in the local
location be approved first by the city facilities.
council. Technically, the state has the "Communications is the
authority to establish residential problem,"Belcher said. "There were
progams where it deems necessary in three months last year when the city
Charging that the residents of the police department was not notified of
halfway houses - all prisoners prisoners coming into the city.
awaiting parole - are not adequately, "The state has not been notoriously
supervised by state officials, the coun- good about cooperating with Ann Arbor
cil also asks that the names and duties of recent date," said Councilman Ed
of prisoner supervisors be specified in Hood (R-Fourth Ward). He said that
detail.R Especial emphasis should be placed on
MAYOR BELCHER proposed the the section of the resolution authorizing
resolution in response to "the im- the city attorney to sue the state if it
mediate problem of receht crimes by does not cooperate with the guidelines.
residents of these houses," and to help
eliminate what he says is a com-
munication problem between the State
Department of Corrections and the city
about operation of the residential
prison programs.
Belcher said he was disturbed by
talks with corrections department of-
ficials in Lansing Who "haven't the
foggiest idea of what's going on in our
community."
"I am amazed by how poorly this
program is organized and supervised,"
agreed Councilwoman Leslie Morris
(D-Second Ward). "This is a major
kind of state problem ... I think we (the
city) are being asked to do more than
our share."
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