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Senate inquirer won’t be comingPROVIDENCE lUPlr- a U.S. Senate committee has no ; current plans to send an investigator to the state io study documents seized with seven tons of marijuana last week, its counsel ■ said today.Warwick Police Chief John F. Coutcher earlier said he was expecting a visit from an investigator who warded to look at ledgers which contained the names “Lansky and “Vesco. e followed by figures in [he millions of dollars.-That’s news to me. We have no plans to send anybody up there.'‘ Owen Malone, chief counsel of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in a telephone interviewfrom Washington.State officials are investigating the possible connection of r-[itianciers Meyer Lansky and Robert Vesco to the operation.Twenty-three suspects have been arraigned so far in cornice- ■* lion with the alleged international smuggling ring. Police netted marijuana valued at about §10 million and nearly $100 000 cash in five related haids last week.1 A Kent County District Court hearing is slated tomorrow nn West Warwick businessman Clarence J. Coutu's temporary restraining order to block Warwick from using at least $10 OX) of • the money seized in the raids. Coutu said be is owed that amount by susped Joel W. Jcnison. 31. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.A stale paper reported thal Jcnison owned a contracting ar.J sprinkling business, located in a building he rented from Coutu. before moving to Florida in 1973.A Jamestown couple Saturday became the Iasi two people charged. They pleaded innocent in Providence District Court to possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to sell and conspiracy to traffic in narcotics. •Judge Orist D. Chaharyn set bail at SloO.WO each for Charles Phillips, 28, and his wife Paula, 28. They posted the necessary 1C per cent, as have 19 other suspects, ar.d were freed.The two were arrested Friday after one and a half tons oi marijuana were found in the overgrown lot behind their house. Police said the “Colombian Gold was from the same shipment as the five and a half tons discovered in a series of drug raids Monday and Wednesday.Warwick detectives were making plans this weekend In burn the five and u half tons as early as today, dependi:ig on when they coutd finish checking the MTpuund bales for rocahio or heroin.The Coast Guard, mean while, said it was searching the watersoff Rhode Island and Massachusetts lor two cabin cruisers believed to have shuttled Ihe marijuana from llic fishing ship Dorchester to the storefront homes where it was found.The Dorchester is a rusty Jamaican boat that cruised into Narragansett Hay two weeks ago without a captain or any equip meat.U.S. customs officials checked and later released Hie boat because by the lime they boarded the vessel, it was empty and freshly painted. The ship reportedly was spoiled Thursday in FreepOTl. Bahamas.Records found during Ihe raids reportedly detailed PH operation that involves 200 dealers. 20 trucks, sis airplanes 3P.d four boats working in Ihree foreign countries and 18 Fast Coast slates.
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Newport Daily News
Newport, Rhode Island, US
Mon, Aug 22, 1977
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