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...month federal investigation that resulted in the arrest of De Lorean and William Morgan Hetrick, 50, who was described by investigators as "one of the largest drug smugglers in Southern California," was cited as an example of the new spirit of cooperation among the often feuding federal agencies involved in stopping the drug traffic. In fact, it was one of the first interagency drug investigations since Attorney General William French Smith announced on Jan. 21 that the FBI would throw its resources fully into the antidrug fight. Before then the smaller Drug Enforcement Administration had carried the main burden...
...aware of possible claims of entrapment, Justice Department officials stoutly insisted that the operation that netted De Lorean was carefully designed to meet all court standards. Moreover, they said De Lorean could not have been entrapped because the operation had not been aimed at him. Declared one FBI agent: "Hetrick was the original target. He was Mr. Big. De Lorean just walked into...
...Suspecting an illegal cash-laundering operation, Ventura detectives tried to trace Morgan. The trail led to Morgan Aviation, an aircraft repair shop in a leased hangar at Mojave Airport on the edge of the Mojave Desert, 90 miles north of Los Angeles. The company was operated by William Morgan Hetrick, who used his middle name as his first. Ventura police notified the U.S. Customs Service of their suspicions...
...beginning of last week, 40 fledgling pursuit pilots from the advanced training school at Kelly Field (Texas) were trying their P-40 wings. At week's end, there were 39: fog-trapped Lieut. Robert E. Hetrick of Dimondale, Mich, tried to nose into a Long Island potato patch, overshot. Apparently his motor failed when he tried to recover, and he died in the crash...
When Lieut. Hetrick and his classmates left Kelly Field, they had an average of 225 flying hours, winding up on relatively safe advanced trainers which cruise at about 180 m.p.h., land at a sane 65-70 m.p.h. Allison-engined, Curtiss-made P-40s do 300 m.p.h. in routine flight, land at a hot 90-100 m.p.h...