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Police detective testifies in Reed trialLITTLE ROCK (AP) - A police detective testifying in the murder trial of Altnzo Claz Reed says more than two kilograms of marijuana were found near the bodies of the couple Reed is accused ofslaying.Reed, 29, of Little Rock is charged with two counts of capital murder in the shooting deaths of Ernest Dene “Lan-ny” Landrum, 21, and Carmen Sue Margrave, 18, both of Pine Bluff. Their bodies were found Feb. 12,1974, in the trunk of a car in Reservoir Park.The prosecution was to continue presenting its case today.Detective Jerry Best testified Wednesday that two kilos of marijuana wrapped inSome records are publicLITTLE ROCK (AP) -Some arrest records considered confidential by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration are open to the public under Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act, Attorney General Steve Clark said Wednesday.The LEAA adopted regulations three years ago that saidbrown paper and part of another in a plastic trash bag were also found in the car trunk.Best was one of four detectives that testified Wednesday about their roles in the investigation of the slayings.The officers testified that Miss Margrave was shot in the back with a 9mm bullet. They said two more shots were fired into the trunk after the victims were placed inside.In opening statements, Deputy Prosecutor David H. Williams said he would present testimony from two convicted felons who allegedly accompanied Reed the night of the snooting.Williams said that Reed, Emmanuel Thomas, Randolph Wallace and Phillip Herndon went to the park to buy marijuana from Landrum.Williams said Thomas would testify that he was serving as a lookout during the drug purchase when he heard the shots. Wallace would testify that he saw Reed shoot Landrum in the back of the head with a 45-caliber pistol, Williams said.The other accomplice, Herndon, 28, of Little Rock also hasbeen charged with two counts of capital murder. His trial is set for July.Williams also said two other men would testify that Reed told them he shot the couple.Defense attorney R. Wayne Lee told the jury that the prosecution witnesses should not be believed. He said Thomas and Wallace “have a habit of lying” and have given about 15LITTLE ROCK (AP) -Debate was to continue today over a proposal to reroute a segment of an 87-mile Arkansas Power and Light Co. transmission line to avoid a historic farm in Lonoke County.State Public Service Commission John C. Pickett questioned the public benefit of the proposal Wednesday Pickett asked how the state could justify the $803,000 cost of the rerouting to utility customers when the 975acre Dortch Plantation was privately owned.The plantation is on the National Register of Historic Places.different versions of the crime to the police.Lee also said that a person who lives near the park rove through it the morning of Feb. 12 after wiping heavy dew from his windshield. Lee said the witness would testify that the car in which the bodies were found had no dew on it, showing that the couple had not been left there overnight inAnne Bartley, former director of the state Natural and Cultural Heritage Department, said the plantation was “a historic resource representing part of everybody in Arkansas’heritage.Owners of property that will be crossed by the 500,000-volt transmission line if it is rerouted have objected to the change.John M. McHaney Jr., an attorney for four of the property owners, said the federal government rejected the first attempt by the state Historic Preservation office last October to add the land and the outbuildings to the registerthe car.Armed sheriffs deputies continued to scan persons entering the courtroom with a hand held metal detectorWednesday. Circuit Judge Lowber C. Hendricks Jr., whois presiding over the trial, said the precautions were takenbecause of rumors of possibletrouble.The house was already listed.Miss Bartley said the first application was returned on a technicality. The property has since been listed.McHaney also questioned the value of the farm as a historic site.The rerouting was the result of comments by the state Historic Preservation office on an AP and L environmental impact statement for thz Independence Steam Electric Station near Newark.Help!Pick Up ArkansasReroute talks continue
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Benton Courier
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Thu, Mar 29, 1979
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