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28 AmaniiO tituiw l iiut'i cu*i« sua;, uuue 4, iaodUToffWASHINGTON iAPV—Federal officials ha\e charged that gamblers in Columbus. Ohio, have “had almost every member of the citv's vice squad on their payroll.” Asst At tv. lt;«en. Will R, Wilson in testimony Tuesday before the Senate subcommittee on criminal laws and procedures spoke onlv of a ‘“major midwesterncity when he said that “low-level officers were reported receiving $250 per month and their superiors.......as much as $500*’ from localnumbers operators later confirmed Wil- disclosed the plan to city offiBut other federal offi- son had been talking about cialsColumbus. And theHoad Crass Fatal toail Jon Bov• • •j “As a result.” he added, ”po-ville Tennessean quoted ijce pavoffs were made with aWilson as identifying the great deal more care and en-midwestern citv as the Ohio forcement efforts eorrespond-canital mgly made more difficult. Ef-Wilson told the snbcontmMef, £r,s a‘ operation cont.nue tohv c™ t w made sporadic allv but unsue-S n 4rk thft th, cessfulI’ In one of the latestDenartmenf ! i°im raids, the lottery operatorsBv JIM SANDS evirfenr* t n crcd tjle searcbing officers thevStaff Hriter It T,!l lImbprs were expectedSAN JON. N VI _ Larrv mr mh^r t h, -.1 every jn Columbus. Capt. RobertReuben Gonzales. 17, of San on their payroll ’’ * squa Taylor, vic e* . y ' , ’ ^Jon. killed about 1:15 a m. H* aL said “the involvement any connccllon wth cr,me fl*'tSHS - -r-*- r,«trailer at the New Mexico port th* cn,,K/ I f an*v money from anyone. I do of entn at the east edgeo * dlss,dcnt not want to dignify theirtowm * S~ Ltl charges. I cannot speak for anv-# Ernest Shipley, port of entry ££» * fdlow numbers °b«ra ‘ one else. But if an officer is tak-inspector. was cm duty at the nrii^ „ j v. , aL in? he will be prosecuted ” time of the accident. He said appeared before the Mayor Maynard E. Sensen-Gonzales was traveling west on subcommittee on behalf of Pres- brenner called for a full report Interstate 40, and the truck, ident Nixon’s proposal to make from Columbus Safety Directorwb'hSJS'J?^- Ha!!°,d' * “ a fedlt;,ra' to conspire to £d Simon and Police Chief900 Houston in Amarillo, was go- , Robert H. Baus.ing east and was in the process enforcement o. local “£!ve g(rt confidence in my poof making a left turn into the and criminal laws in order lice department and mv safety weigh station. to promote an illegal gambling director,” Sensenbrenner said.Andy Miller, New Mexico business. .*jf j finc| any evidence ofstate policeman, investigated • • • wrongdoing on the part of thethe accident. He said there is a need for police, well get rid of them.”Halford is driver for M L. such a statute on grounds of In Nashville, the Tennessean Transfer and Storage of widespread police corruption in quoted Henry Petersen, head of Amarillo, contract mail carriers several major urban areas. tho organized crime section, for toe \ S Post Office. He said Specifically, he named a “ma- saying Wilson’s testimony re he felt and heard the crash. ”1 jor southern city”—the Nash- ferred to the situation in thlt; locked dowm the brakes and vi 11e Tennessean quoted him as past and did not reflect on cur jumped out of the truck before referring to Nashville—that has rent Nashville officials.it even stopped roding, he said had “an open history of police • • •It required a wrecker to corruption over the past 18 remove the mangled wreckage years ”irT the * Police there were being paid slgQed recently as U.S. attornejtruck trader, witnesses said. 0ff by lottery operators and for the Middle Tennessee disa Mav eraduat#»Cof Ban bookmakers- Wdson charged, trict, told the newspaper thaLS graduate °*.San Jo”H,gh “and in 1964 it was learned thatd«there is no aiiestion that “School are pending with the two city detectives were actual- .. . ..Dunn Mortuary of Tucumcri, }v oporntin^ s lottery. j old N a hv 111c City Police Dc?In addition to his parents, Mr. “ “A plan to infiltrate this oper- partment in the early 1960s wai and Mrs. Boh Gonzales, he is ation was discussed with the lo- corrupt.” survived by three brothers and cat prosecutor, but he declined “But as the result of a num three sisters. to cooperate and immediately her of federal cases acainst do— lice officers—one of whom waia former police chief—and i number of cases against casinc gambling houses, the situatior has been vastly improved,' Merritt said.Gilbert S. Merritt Jr , who refl
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Amarillo Globe Times
Amarillo, Texas, US
Wed, Jun 04, 1969
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