The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, October 30, 2009 - 3 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, October 30, 2009 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS ADRIAN, Mich. Robbertrieswoman's clothes, escapes in just boxers and cap Police say a burglar broke into an Adrian home before fleeing in only his boxer shorts and a pink baseball cap. The Daily Telegram reported the 25-year-old Detroit man broke into the home through a front win- dow and removed valuables from the woman's bedroom. Police said he was surprised by the home's residents and fled on foot wearing the woman's baseball cap and his boxer shorts. He was arrested a short distance away and told an officer his clothes were taken by several girls, whom he was chasing. His clothes were found nearby. He was charged with home invasion, larceny in a building and cocaine possession. DULUTH, Minn. La-Z-Boy from drunk driving case to be auctioned A motorized La-Z-Boy used by a man who pleaded guilty to driving it drunk is going up for auction. But police said interested bidders need to keep it off the streets. The chair, pow- ered by a lawnmower engine, comes equipped with a stereo, cup holders and lights. Police inProctor, innorthernMin- nesota, put the seized chair up for auction on eBay yesterday. The pro- ceeds will go to the police, state and the prosecutingattorney. But Chief Walter Wobig cautions that the chair isn't "street legal," so any buyer should stick to the living room- or atmost aparade. The former owner, Dennis LeRoy Anderson, pleaded guilty this month to operating the chair while intoxi- cated. His family is also auctioning on eBay an autographed photo of him riding the La-Z-Boy to help with his fees. GRAND HAVEN TOWNSHIP, Mich. Remains of missing man identified on Lke Michiganbeach t a e M c i a e c.Police say technicians used DNA from a Wisconsin man's twin broth- er to identify him after his remains washed up on a Lake Michigan beach. Mike Scaffidi of Hartland, Wis., had been missing since July 2005, when he and three other men were . thrown from a powerboat that over- Wturned about two miles southwest of Holland. A 20-year-old Rhode Island man died and the other pas- sengers were rescued. The 42-year-old Scaffidi's remains were discovered July 15, 2008 in Ottawa County's Grand Haven Township, about 15 miles north of the crash site. Sheriff's Lt. Mark Bennett says samples of the remains were sent to a forensic laboratory at the Univer- sity of North Texas, where Scaffidi's DNA was matched with that of his identical twin. Family members are arranging for a funeral in Wisconsin. DALLAS Law permitting children to view pornography under fire in Texas court A 1970s-era Texas law that al- lows parents to show "harmful ma- terial" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online pornography. Randall County District Attor- ney James Farren has asked the Texas attorney general's office to review his decision not to pursue charges in the case, which has prompted at least one lawmaker to vow to change the state's public in- decency law. "Our hands are tied. It's not our fault. I have to follow the law," Far- ren said yesterday. "The mother of the victims in this case was less than happy with this decision, which I understand. We were less than happy with the statute." The law apparently was meant to protect the privacy of parents who wanted to teach children about sex education, but it states clearly that parents can't be prosecuted for showing "harmful material" to their children. - Compiled from Daily wire reports Prescription drug bust nets 322 people U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center right, poses for photos beside Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Meh mood Qureshi, center left, and two unidentified people in front of the Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday. Clinton: Pakistan I - 1 alags ina-QaIdahuni . Police officers put stop to multi-state drug trafficking s LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - More than 300 people were arrested and 200 more targeted in a crackdown on a multi-state prescription pill pipeline, a bust that Kentucky offi- cials said yesterday was the largest in the state's history. Police officers fanning out across mostly eastern Kentucky this week AP had arrested 322 people bymidafter- noon inpursuit ofabout 500suspects who face charges related to illegal trafficking of prescription drugs, officials said at a newsconference. Kentucky State Police Com- missioner Rodney Brewer said the roundup, a joint state-federal effort, comes after a three-year investigation and is "striking at the heart of major drug traffick- ing organizations and crippling illegal prescription drug pipelines ive that are running from Florida into tan Kentucky." bal Authorities have not identi- fied a leader in the drug traffick- m," ing but did pinpoint one suspect an- who allegedly headed a group of13 nd other accused traffickers. n." Thatgroup,whichoperatedfrom the 2005 to 2008, traveled to Pennsyl- trt- vania, Ohio and Florida to obtain ght methadone and oxycodone pills to put sell in eastern Kentucky, authori- rhy ties said. The group's alleged leader re. faces at least 20 years and possibly has life in prison if convicted. sia, Kentucky uses an electronic her prescription monitoring program to try to prevent abuses. est Shelley Johnson,aspokeswoman ing for the state attorney general, said er- after the state started the system, ate. many residents migrated to other in states, particularly South Florida, to obtain multiple prescriptions bad from pain clinics. and sold the pills, iki- she said. "We are well aware that due to other states not having similar systems, we have pipelines that are emerging to bring too many of these addictive substances into our Commonwealth," Kentucky Attor- ney General Jack Conway said. Because Florida was the largest of just a handful of states without such tracking, it had become the nation's leading supplier of pre- scription drugs obtained for illicit purposes. A bill signed this year by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist would set up such a system, designed to crack down on so-called "doctor shop- ping" by addicts and drug dealers who flock to Florida from through- out the Southeast. Federal Drug Enfotcement Administration officials say South Florida's Broward County, where doctors wrote prescriptions for more than 6.5 million oxycodone pills from June to December 2008, is the nation's top supplier of the narcotic. In Kentucky, Brewer said that the number of illegal pills pur- chased or confiscated as part of the state police investigation num- bered "in the tens of thousands." He said authorities had not yet determined a street value for the seized pills. Last year, 877 deaths.in Ken- tucky were caused by prescription drug overdoses, Brewer said. Bob McBridewiththe U.S.Attor- ney's Office said he is unaware of charges against any doctors in the investigation. Brewer said the majority of the state-level charges were for traf- ficking in controlled substances, offenses that could land people in prison for up to 20 years-if con- victed. McBride said the federal charges includeconspiracytodistributecon- trolled substances and distribution of controlled substances - mostly methadone and OxyContin- as well as money laundering. In blunt statements, Clinton pressures Pakistan to uncover terrorist hideouts ISLAMABAD (AP) - U.S. Sec- retary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided Pakistani officials yesterday for failing to press the hunt for al-Qaida inside their bor- ders, suggesting they know where the terror leaders are hiding. American officials have long said that al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden and senior lieu- tenants of the network accused in the Sept. 11 attacks operate out of the rugged terrain along the bor- der with Afghanistan. But Clinton's unusually blunt comments went further in assert- ing that Pakistan's government has done too little about it. "I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to," Clinton said in an interview with Pakistani journalists in Lahore. "Maybe that's the case. Maybe they're not gettable. I don't know." There was no immediate reac- tion from Pakistani officials, but the thrust of Clinton's comments were startling, coming after months of lavish public comments from her and other American offi- cials portraying Pakistan's lead- ers as finally receptive to the war against militants inside their own country. As a political spouse, career public official and recently as a diplomat, Clinton has long showed a tendency toward blunt- ness, sometimes followed by a softening of her comments. But her remarks about Pakistan's lack of action against al-Qaida comes at a particularly sensitive moment - amid a major Pakistani offen- sive against militants and a deadly spate of insurgent violence. With Pakistan reeling from Wednesday's devastating bomb- ing that killed more than 100 people in Peshawar, Clinton also engaged in an intense give- and-take with students at the Government College of Lahore. She insisted that inaction by the government would have ceded ground to terrorists. "If you want to see your terri- tory shrink, that's your choice," she said, adding that she believed it would be a bad choice. Richard Holbrooke, the special U.S. representative on Afghani- stan and Pakistan, told reporters that Clinton planned to meet late yesterday with the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, to get an update on the offens that began Oct. 17 against Talib forces in a portion of the tri areas near the Afghan border. . "We want to encourage thet Holbrooke said of the Pakist, is. "She wants to get a firstha account of the military situatio During her exchange witht Pakistani journalists, one repo er asked Clinton why the fi against terrorism seemed to Pakistan at the center and w other countries couldn't do mo Clinton noted that al-Qaida I launched attacks on Indone the Philippines and many otl countries over the years. "So the world has an inter in seeing the capture and kill of the people who are the mast minds of this terrorist syndica As far as we know, they are Pakistan." On Clinton's flight to Islamal after the interview with Pa stani journalists, U.S. Ambas dor Anne Patterson said Clinto remarks approximate what Obama administration has t Pakistani officials in private. "We often say, 'Yes, there ne to be more focus on finding th( leaders,"' Patterson said. "I other thing is, they lost toni of much of this territory in rec years, and that's why they're South Waziristan right now." sa- )n's the old eds rhe trl ent in Al Day Fish Fry Platter for $6.99 SI- a 7 6 10-CL Domestic Bottles Start At $1 310 Maynard St.-Food To Go 734.995.0100-Next to the Maynard Parkin Structure H,.-,0i Detroit ex-mayor pleads for lower payments on restitution Kilpatrick lays finances bare, claims bills are mounting DETROIT (AP) - The personal finances of Kwame and Carlita Kilpatrick - and relationships the disgraced ex-Detroit mayor had with five of the city's most promi- nent businessmen - were laid wide open as he tried to persuade a judge tolower monthly payments on a $1 million restitution. Outside of $914,000 still owed the city as part of pleas in two criminal cases, Kilpatrick testified yesterday in Wayne County Cir- cuit Court that he still owes attor- neys $650,000 and eventually has to repay personal loans totaling $240,000. The loans from Roger Penske, Jim Nicholson, Dan Gilbert and Peter Karmanos were given in installments beginning Feb. 4 - the day after Kilpatrick's release from jail. It also was disclosed yester- day that billionaire Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel Moroun gave the former mayor's wife and three sons a $50,000 gift. Prosecutors are trying to prove that Kilpatrick has not reported all of his income and finances as ordered by Judge David Groner. He is accused of trying to circum- vent the order by putting money into various accounts bearing his wife's name. During questioning, Kilpatrick said he signed over $150,000 in checks from the four businessmen to Carlita Kilpatrick, and testified to having no knowledge of her finances. He also testified that he doesn't know if she has a job. Kilpatrick said he was not sure who is paying the rent on the cou- ple's mansion in an affluent Dallas suburb. "I guess it's a leased home and DAVID GURALNICK/E Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick listens during court proceedings Thurs day at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit. I'm not party to that lease," he said. "I assume my wife is paying the rentbecause I'm not." Kilpatrick is a salesman for Covisint, a Texas-based subsid- iary of Compuware Corp., which is headquartered in downtown Detroit. Karmanos is Compu- ware's chairman and CEO. Penske is CEO of Penske Auto- motive Group. Nicholson is presi- dent and CEO of PVS Chemicals Inc. Gilbert, founder and chair- man of Quicken Loans Inc., owns the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. Each had done business with the city or weredeeply involved in activities there during Kilpatrick's six years as mayor. Compuware's headquarters is in the city's downtown, and Gilbert announced during Kilpatrick's tenure that he would move Quick- en Loans' headquarters from Livo- nia to downtown Detroit. Kilpatrick was charged with perjury following the January 2008 release of sexually explicit text messages he shared with his former chief of staff. Those mes- sages contradicted testimony Kilpatrick had given in an earlier police whistleblowers' lawsuit. He resigned as mayor in Sep- tember 2008 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and plead- ing no contest to assault. He spent 99 days injail.' Gilbert admitted yesterday in a statement that he and other busi- ness leaders made personal loans to Kilpatrick. "In our view it was important for the City, and the entire region, that the Mayor leave office as soon as was practical," Gilbert said in the statement. "The belief was that the Mayor would make the decision to leave office sooner knowing that a loan would be made available to him for the welfare of his family at some time in the near future." ElN FORMATICS An itrdScilnaymao a h Still undecided about a major? Starting to think about what to take in the winter term? 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