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...Civil Rights Division's most recent triumph was the conviction last month of four men in federal court in Tampa, Fla., for conspiracy to hold farm workers in involuntary servitude. Willie Warren Sr., an Orlando labor contractor who hired migrant crews for farmers in f Florida and North Carolina, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison. Willie Warren Jr., who worked for his father, was given 15 years. Another son, Richard, and an associate each got five years. A third son, Dennis, got 20 years in a North Carolina slavery case involving a potato-field worker who died...
...areas as Bethesda and Silver Spring. The farmer gets paid, his land is protected from builders, since the development rights have already been sold, and the construction firm gets to build more rentable space in another part of the county. A similar scheme is being used in Dade County, Fla., to halt construction in the eastern Everglades, and rights from the Everglades can be transferred to communities like Key Biscayne, where development causes less environmental damage...
Valerie Strickland Palm Bay, Fla...
...Fort Dix, a major Army base. Though direct evidence linking striking workers to the crimes is scarce, they are naturally the prime suspects. In one case, a striking Southern Bell employee and his grown son were arrested for pulling the wires out of a telephone box in Gainesville, Fla...
...trouble started in May 1981, when Sidney Jaffe, a prominent Toronto land developer, failed to appear for a pretrial hearing in rural Putnam County, Fla.; the charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would...