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• OOv / / «tv 'yTT^/ h 7,11mation concerning illegal narcotics activity in and around the Omaha area that officers ... have checked andfound to be true____“Also this informant has given ... information which resulted in several felony arrests and the confiscation of a large quantity of contraband.His storyBugs told the vice officers he had been on the Jichiffbauer and Tegcder properties and had seen the marijuana operation.According to Green, Bugs’ story was that marijuana was routinely movingBrown said the officers scrambled aboard the swimming team bus until “It was packed. Others took private cars.The shots that were fired went-inta4 the deer stand 75 feel up in an old cottonwood tree at the Teg^cr place “The officers yelled up there for someone to come down, and when no one did. they fired to see if they could draw any fire,” Green explains.The Tegedera, Gary Schiffbauer and three other people who were at the Tegedcr residence were all placed under arrest.At the Schiffbauer residence, officers at first found only Terri Schiffbauer, her son and the four daughters of Jack Fitzpatrick.Midway through the raid. Fitzpatrick came driving on to the Schiffbauer properly in a pickup. I saw the spotlight and heard some guy screamFreeze!' and my only thought wasThat f - Bugs!” he saysrs____Terri Schiffbauer and Jack Fitzpatrick were arrested, while Fitzpatrick's 10-year old daughter screamed I heard her yelling 'Gaddy, Daddy. Daddy,' ' he says “It really freaked‘‘The only reason 1 consented to plead my clients guilty to anything. says Smith, is that they were rlpoff artists.“They went out and picked alt this worthless s—. knowing that somewhere along the line, someone would end up selling it as good marijuana.1 told them that they damned well should have to pay a |S00 line. JThey agreed. They’re up-front people.”Smith says he told Green he was acting like an unfeeling, unthinking, close-minded turkey “Who got hurt because these people were picking hemp and were going to sell it''' says Smith, “No one Green kept saying 'What if they sell it to high school kids*^’“I told him if they did, and if the kids smoked every bit of it. they might just end up with sore throats. 1 smoked a whole bushel of that s--- one summer in college and never did get stoned Smith says the marijuana laws “are wrong from the 'git-go.' and they will be changed, and soon. The foundation of the theory that the Mills County marijuana factory was
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Dec 12, 1976
Page 93
Full Page
Clipped by
Council B.
IA, USA 09 Jul 2018
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