Arrests Still Pending for Party Organizers
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An Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner FRIDAY May 1, 1998 • • Volume 124 THE Number 49 Non-Profit Org. U.S. 'Postage Paid Newark, DE Permit No. 26 250 Student Center• University of Delaware • Newark, DE 19716 Newark cited as heroin haven Police BY BRIAN CALLAWAY a long with major c1t1es s uch as she said. "It's more fashi onable Castle Poli ce Departme nt said Natiot~al!Swu Nt!ws Editor New Y o rk City and Seattle, than cocaine is now." Newark's rise as a heroin mecca is continue WILMINGTON - Most people according to a report compiled by Pope also said she thinks not the only alarming fact about the think heroin is a drug that only the office of the drug czar. students are a significant factor in ri se of heroin abuse in the state. pl agues sprawling urban centers Cunningham said while Newark the city's heroin boom. Between 1993 and 1997, he said, like New York, Philadelphia and is emerg ing as a center of heroin "Newark is a college town with a the number of Delaware residents to study Seattle. activity in New Castle County, that lot of bored kids," s he said. " If in rehabilitation centers for heroi n However. a surge in heroin abuse does not mean the increase is solely [heroin is] a problem in Newark. it addiction increased 300 percent. in Newark and the res t of New attri butable to students. j ust reflects what college kids are The average age of a heroin Castle County has made Delaware a "We' re not trying to drag down doing." abuser has dropped in the ' 90s, Flagg hotbed of drJ.!g-related activi ty , the uni versity," he said. " We 're Lt. Gerald Conway of the Hernandez said, decreasing to its New Castle County Police said in a certai nl y not pointing fingers at the Newark Police Department was current average of 17 years old. BY CHARLES DOUGIELLO AND public information session Monday. campus or the students." a lso unfazed b y heroin 's The number of heroin-related BETSY LOWTHER "We believe heroin has reached However, some students are not resurgence. a rre s ts in the area has a lso News Eduors epidemic proportions in America, shocked to hear about Newark's "I know heroin is on the rise here dramatically increased, he said. The While Donald A. Flagg sits in and now that epidemic has come to drug connection. as it is across the country," he said. New Castle County Police handled isolation in his Gander Hill prison New Castle County ," said John Freshman Emily Pope said she " We have had some incidences of 37 heroin-related incidents in the cell. police are continuing to Cunningham, chief of police for the thinks heroin is a more seductive heroin overdoses in the last few fi rs t three months of 1998. 70 in vestigate whether the 40-year-old county. drug for many people. mo nths, most ly involving hi g h percent of which were heroin Newark Police have seen an Bea r man is linked to several Newark is a projected problem " I ' m not s urpri sed because school kids." overd oses. increase in arrests for heroin un so lved cases in the area. heroin area, Cunningham said, heroin is making a bi g comeback," Sgt. Tony Hernandez of the New Flagg has see NOW NEW ARK page A 7 possession. a dmitted to ..---------. k i I I i n g Anthony 1. Pugli si Jr. on April 20, Arrests still pending kidnapping his wife Debra and holding her : captive in for party organizers h I s PUGLISI Wellington BY VERONICA FRAATZ Woods home for five days. Debra City News Editor was rescued by po lice last Friday The Newark Po lice Department UConn recovers from after she managed to call 91 I while is s till arrest ing i ndividual s Flagg was working at the Chrysler responsible for the chaos which Automotive Plant on South Coll ege erupted as a result of Saturday's its own party riot Avenue. Spring Fling '98 on Elkton Road. Police said they are looking into any similari ti es this case may have Two more people were added to BY LIZ JOHNSON Then, she said. the police to unsolved in cidents in Delaware. the previous list of I 0 arrests, and Student Affairs Editor started spraying pepper spray. "We' re pretty much done as far police said they are still in the Beer bottles, pepper spray and Several students lifted a couch, as the Puglisi case goes," said process of investigating those who police dogs were at the heart of a threw it on top of a car and set the Patrolman Joe Lavelle of New organi zed the party. Organizers riot at the University of couch on fire , causing the police won' t be charged fo r another two Connecticut last week which bore t o respond even more rough ly, Castle County Police. '' Now we weeks, if at all, police said. a remarkable resemblance to the Tansley said. need to see if he was involved in anything else.'' Police have released the names riot on Elkton Road last weekend. The police dogs began biting State police said they were also of the 12 people a rrested, a list On Saturday night, students at people, she said. and the police reviewing their unsoived cases to which includes seven university UConn had a party in a parking "were pepper-spraying people see if Flagg students. lot, which about right in their One student, Brock Patterson of 2,000 people faces." cou ld be a suspect. Wilmington , was charged wit h attended , said CAMPUS CLIPBOARD: She said terroristic threatening, possession K aren Garva Connec ti cut State Lavelle A look at other cou ld not of marijuana, possession of drug Willi ams , Police ca me to paraphe rnalia and underage manage r of universities the lot. as well as comment on th e specifics consumption. medi a re lati ons police cruisers Nine of the other defendants for UConn. from most of the surrounding of those also face c h a rges of underage Erin Tan s ley, a junior at towns. c rimes . but cons umpti o n, while o thers face UConn, said the party was going Williams said the police made a a po li ce charges s uch as resis ting arrest, well until "all of a sudden, 30 or deci sion to start di s persing the source said FLAGG the invest: di sorderly co nduct, rec kless 40 cop cars came flying into the crowd after beer bottles were e ndangering, pa rt icipation in the parking lot. It was peaceful unti I thrown at them. She said because i ga t i o n in cluded the murders of Glasgow ri ot, offens ive touching and th en." of the burning couch. they were resident Virginia H. Jillson in criminal mischief. Tansley said the students, who also worri ed about the possibility 1997. Bonita D. Jones in 1994, and Capt. Willi a m Nefosky, who were conf used whe n the po lice of people being injured. headed the police effort Saturday, cars pulled in, were even more ·'The crowd then moved the 1990 fatal shooti ng of Charlotte E. Murphy Soto. voiced hi s displeasure with the worried when the police got out of through the campus. causing According to Flagg's criminal situati on that took place. their cars. vandalism in its wake,'' she said. record. he was c harged with " The students have no bigger ''It looked like I 00 cops came Jenni fer Zeis. an as ociate news second -degree unlawful s upporte r of the s tudents th an o ut in full riot gear," she sai d. editor for UConn'~ student imprisonment in 1989 after holding me," he said. " But in the 20 years "They had the shields, the masks, newspaper, The Daily Campus. Rosetta Shepherd captive for 12 I 've .been [on the po li ce fo rce]. pepper spray and dogs." said s tudent s said the police hours in a n Economy Inn hotel I've never been treated with such T a nsley said the police then started pepper-spraymg people for room on Route 13. THE REVIEW/ John Chabalko disrespect by students." surrounded the party a nd the no reason. while the police said That charge was later dropped Sophomore Scott Hensley protests police actions just hours Nefosky said he had given the students s tarted t o throw beer th ey responded to the beer bottles after Saturday's riot on Elkton Road. bottl es at them. see RIOTERS page AlO sec UCONN page A4 see FLAGG page AIO From Russia, now with love Construction adds $1.5. million BY CHRISTINA MEHRA $500.000. jobs throughout the state, Holl owell Staff Reporter The other funds wi ll be used for said. Because Memorial Hall's Alexander Selimov's life in America links back to his foreign past The university asked the state various renovation around campus. renova tions are compli cated. he legislature Tuesday for an BY MEG HAN BALDrNO carne to the United States unable to he says. "She was 2 weeks old in For example. $500,000 will be used said, construction workers aren' t as Sraff Rt!porter additional $3.75 million to speak a word of it. He picked up this picture." to upgrade mechanical systems in willing to work there. complete Memo ri a l H a ll Looking into the warm brown what he knows, he says, b y Then he points to a snapshot of the Carpenter Sports Building.