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...jury did not believe Bonura, 34, or Sergeant John E. McKenzie, 40, or Detective Stephen Farrar, 30. They will now appeal their convictions, which could lead to eleven-year sentences. Said Government Prosecutor Michael Johnson: "This civil rights case sent a message to New Orleans that they have a problem, or that they had one in November of 1980." Others would just as soon forget the Algiers tragedy. Said Joe Giarrusso, president of the city council: "This case ought to be put to rest and not be a thorn in the community's side...
...were grandmothers, banked more than $2 million a month; in the trial of the head grandma now under way in Los Angeles, there have been at least four plausible allegations of corruption against DEA and IRS agents. Last December a federal indictment in Georgia said that a state police sergeant and a local deputy sheriff were confederates in a 25-person smuggling ring. In one week in February, a Los Angeles deputy sheriff, a California-based DEA agent and a San Jose policeman were charged with selling coke. Says Prosecutor Walsh: "I'm surprised, frankly, that there isn't more...
...cocaine will amount in the end to a token fight. "All we can hope to do," says Sergeant Rene LaPrevotte of San Francisco's drug squad, "is prevent someone from setting up a cocaine stand in Union Square." One federal official, who has been with the DEA since it began in 1973, has no heroic notions of putting an end to cocaine runs. "We feel like we're part of a spectator sport," he says. "We're not the answer. The answers are going to be found in your wallets and your conscience...
...going bananas all through town," says Denver Police Sergeant Don De Novellis, who directs the department's major coke cases. "It's everywhere. It's like cigarette machines in a bar." That seems a bit hyperbolic. But in North Beach, a funky neighborhood in San Francisco, the banks' "electronic teller" machines, which will dispense no more than $200 daily to each customer, attract long lines just before midnight every Saturday. "I'll bet you," says Haight-Ash-bury's Dr. Smith, "that 90% of them are taking out their next day's money to buy some coke...
...April 1981, suspicious investigators from the internal-affairs division devised a plan to catch Sergeant Tarver with his hand in the cocaine jar. They planted 236 grams of coke in an unclaimed suitcase turned over to Tarver at the Houston airport. Police followed him, stopped his car and found that he had siphoned off an ounce from the stash. He was fired and charged with possession of cocaine. Tarver took the crash calmly: "I just wonder what took them so long to figure it out." At his trial, he was convicted, placed on ten years' probation and fined...