Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Michael G. Thevis was imprisoned in 1974 for interstate transportation of obscene material, lawmen figured they had put the flamboyant peep-show operator out of sight for some time. Not only was he sent to jail for 8½ years, but further investigations into his alleged Mob connections raised the possibility of new indictments. It now seems clear that Thevis, 46, was not turned on by his legal prospects. And so last week, while a federal grand jury dutifully continued its probe into his racketeering, two more juries were investigating how on April 28 the paunchy, balding Thevis managed...
...escape was easier to bring off than most porn fantasies. The defendant in a civil damage trial in Louisville, just across the Ohio River from New Albany, Thevis had been transferred to the jail earlier last month from the federal prisoners medical facility in Springfield, Mo. Even before his arrival, say police investigators, Thevis had greased the jailers' keys. Two deputies received $100 each from Sheriff Alex Watkins, who told them the money came from someone connected with Thevis. Watkins, who says Thevis came "highly recommended" by his attorneys as an "honor roll prisoner," claimed that the money...
...Thevis' second visit, the jailers were just as nice. Thevis was accorded free telephone privileges and had steak dinners with wine. The visits of his girlfriend, Patricia McLean, 28, were largely unsupervised. Apparently the only time the jail staff kept an eye on Thevis and McLean was when the two were allowed to have sex in a deputy's office. According to investigators, three deputies and three New Albany policemen gave the porno king appropriate treatment by watching through a one-way mirror. The night before Thevis was to be returned to Springfield-he had lost the case...
Asked what he will do on his return next month to The Post, Qoboza--who has received several threats on his life since his release from jail--looked a little weary...
However, Brutus was optimistic about the current effots to organize resistance in South Africa. The Black Consciousness movement has mobilized a great deal of unified support, and even if the South African government continues to jail and kill black leaders, others will emerge, he said...