Word: viper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somebody is going to have to mind Kelsey Grammer's five dogs, two birds, turtle and frog, because the Frasier star, who beat a cocaine addiction in the '80s, checked into the Betty Ford Center after an accident in his Dodge Viper sports car. He has one DUI conviction from his Cheers days and may face another...
Stengel wrote, "many associations--gated suburbs and business-improvement districts, known as BIDS (which have their own police forces)--are driven in some respects by self-concerned fear." Then he goes on to include the Viper militia in the same paragraph! As former chairman of New York City's Bryant Park Restoration Corporation, I spent 10 years retrieving that seven-acre park from drug dealers. Today it gives pleasure to thousands who previously avoided it. Without a bid this would not have been possible. The major BIDS in the New York area have vastly improved the quality of life here...
Last week, after an 8 1/2-month undercover probe, federal prosecutors announced who they thought that someone was: a little-known Phoenix-based paramilitary group by the name of the Viper Militia. Last Monday ATF agents arrested 10 men and two women alleged to be members of the group. In a series of simultaneous raids, agents found an arsenal that included two machine guns, six rifles and 56 boxes stuffed with 11,463 rounds of ammunition, as well as hundreds of pounds of chemicals similar to those used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Agents also discovered...
...Vipers, who face charges including illegal-weapons possession and conspiracy, are seemingly unobtrusive, working-class folk. Randy Lynne Nelson, 32, the alleged Viper leader, is a house painter; Dean Carl Pleasant, 27, another suspect, is a former doughnut maker; Henry Alfred Overturf, 37, is a bouncer for a local strip club; Ellen Adella Belliveau, 27, worked for AT&T. It was Belliveau who allegedly suggested during one meeting that the militia retaliate against the families of federal agents in case Vipers were arrested. None of the others apparently agreed with...
Soon the operative was accepted as a Viper member, taking a "militiaman's oath" in which he promised to kill anyone attempting to infiltrate the militia and seek retribution if any member was arrested. Even as he took the oath, he was wearing a body wire. Over the next few months he reported that Viper Gary Bauer allegedly boasted about a rocket he built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after...