Word: arrington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lorean's trial should begin by the end of the year. Guilty verdicts could mean a prison sentence of 15 years or longer. His alleged coconspirators, Aviation Businessman William Morgan Hetrick and Stephen Arrington, remain on Terminal Island, unable to raise bail of $20 million and $250,000 respectively...
...Hetrick enthusiasm: scuba diving. The two often flew off to Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean and took trips to the Bahamas on Hetrick's 46-ft. trawler, the Highland Fling, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hetrick also owned five airplanes and a 53-ft. yacht, the Ivory. Arrington, said a former Morgan employee, was "a kind of super gofer" for Hetrick...
...tricky part of any drug deal: the exchange. Hetrick said the cocaine was secreted in a car. Arrington, Hetrick's gofer, drove the C.I. and Scotti to the Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley. Arrington parked the car and went off to get the drug-loaded auto. He soon arrived in a Chevrolet Caprice. He reached under the dashboard, flipped a switch?and the back of the rear seat flipped forward. "Go ahead, take a look," Arrington told Scotti. The agent found a number of large brown packages wrapped in masking tape. He pierced one with...
...Cage aux Folles, an expensive French restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard, where transvestites impersonate famous female singers. Tipped by radio that Arrington and the coke had been seized, the agents waited until Hetrick finished his late-night meal, then arrested him outside the restaurant...
Birmingham, which has worked hard to change its image as a onetime citadel of Southern segregation, does not like the publicity. Notes Mayor Richard Arrington: "A story indicating a shutdown of buses in an area of over 700,000 people cannot be viewed in any vein except a negative one." Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar seems to be taking note: last week he urged the city council to hike bus fares from...