Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aggravating the conflict was the arrest Friday of AIM Firebrand Russell Means in Los Angeles. Means faces eleven counts on various charges in connection with the takeover. When a Deadwood, S. Dak. court caught Means in a technicality relating to the filing of his $25,000 bond, Judge Andrew W. Bogue revoked the bond, and a warrant was issued for Means' arrest...
...honor the cease-fire as long as the Indians do the same. Whether they would was unpredictable. Means was not to be counted on for compromise. As FBI agents picked him up, he warned: "Wounded Knee cannot be resolved in a peaceful manner in the event of my arrest...
...suspected that Richard Russell of Whidbey Island, Wash., was manufacturing methamphetamine pep pills (or speed), so Shapiro offered to do business with him. As part of the deal, Shapiro supplied a hard-to-get chemical ingredient. After Russell produced the speed and sold him some, Shapiro eventually made the arrest. Was that entrapment or a necessary and lawful use of deceit...
...busy greening a different kind of grass. By the overwhelming vote of 28,116 to 18,032, the young, liberal voters of that campus town passed the Berkeley Marijuana Initiative, ordering police to give marijuana laws "their lowest priority" and requiring authorization of the Berkeley city council for every "arrest for possession, use or cultivation" of the weed. Appalled police officials quickly pointed out that the initiative conflicts with California state laws and threatened that if the council did not give them a free hand in enforcing those laws, they might have to call in state authorities. But Berkeley citizens...
Tonis said that because the students decided not to file a complaint against the suspect with the Cambridge police, the University police could not detain the alleged thief. He added that if the students had filed a complaint, they could have been sued for false arrest...