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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1976
Page
10
Freddie Sales, an English tourist, sent only two dollars for a four dollar parking fine and added a poem lampooning American law. Deputy Director Howard Crow praised the verse but noted the letter lacked a title and the two George Washington teachings Sales promised to enclose.
A hearing to move the Mustang Ranch brothel near the Truckee River was postponed to July 16 after operator Joe Conforte and landowners James and Joseph Peni sought time to pursue a settlement of an eviction notice. Storey County filed the eviction March 5 over disputed land use and a burned addition. A new brothel has since opened adjacent to the original trailer complex.
Deputy public defender Joseph Bonaventure told the court that district attorneys cannot shop for outside prosecutors to handle murder trials. He challenged Lincoln County’s use of Ray Jeffers from Clark County in the Brimmage case, while McGimsey defended the arrangement as under local control. The justices took the matter under submission.
H. W. Polk of Las Vegas was sentenced to one year in prison and fined 14 000 for failing to collect and deposit employment withholding and payroll taxes. U.S. District Judge Bruce Thompson set bail at 14 000 pending appeal after Polk’s May 4 conviction on seven counts. The involved amount was several hundred dollars.
Las Vegas city and Clark County officials edged toward delaying the exodus from the 10th floor of city hall after a letter from County Chairman Tom Wiesner asking to withhold a move until August 1. District Judge ruled county commissioners elected illegally, delaying consolidation plans and leaving space decisions unresolved.
Los Angeles police rescue Laura Johnson, 16, kept in a dark bare room for four years. Randolph Johnson, 48, and Willie B. Johnson are jailed on felony child abuse charges with bonds set at $2,000 each after officers forced entry to a room described as filthy and starved conditions. The witness sister Donna, 19, fled five weeks earlier and reported the abuse.
The third man tied to the Royal Inn extortion plot, Anthony Barker, was arraigned Friday with $250,000 bail. He and two co defendants face four kidnapping counts and one count each of robbery extortion and conspiracy over the June 7 hostage incident involving casino owner Michael Gaughan family.
Victor Trapani among three suspects charged in a $51,000 strongarm extortion at the Royal Inn Casino on June 7. The June 18 Sun misidentified him as awaiting trial for his wife’s murder. Anthony Barker, a former Royal Inn floorman, awaits trial this summer for hiring Jerry Bishop to kill Barker’s wife. Bishop is serving a life term for a 1972 slaying.
Allan Triner was elected president of the newly formed Clark County Men's Democratic Club. Other officers include Joe Cordova as vice president, Ilea Wend as secretary, Al Landman as treasurer, and Felix Valdez as trustee. The club aims to foster patriotism and Democratic participation in Nevada.
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