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The council will study fine of not more than $500 and/or 90 spree with a pellet or BB gun, or weather or other technical malfunc A pair of proposed city ordinances them before voting later this month. days In jail. youths will sometimes use the guns tions and alarm tests where police or would help police officers and fire The pellet gun ordinance would to threaten others as they drive by. fire officials have been previously fighters cope with "nuisance" make It illegal to "draw, exhibit or "I DON? think (pellet guns are) a He said passage of the ordinance notified. crimes often committed by youths. brandish" any facsimile firearm in major problem in Westland," said -would "give officers some teeth" to In addition to the possible f500 fine and faces }> The first proposal — labeled ordi "a threatening, rude or hostile man Kenneth Mehl, council president. go after people who use the weapons and Jail sentence, yiolatbrt of the nance 109J — would prohibit the use ner with the intent to frighten, "But this will give us a way to deal recklessly. false alarm ordinance may be re and restrict the possession of pellet harass, vex or annoy another per with these kinds of incidents when The law would also allow the city quired to pay the city $50 for each - WESTLAND'S finest are;, guns and other facsimile firearms. son." Transporting an uncased fac they do come up." to confiscate the weapons and sell false alarm in excess of two record cruising the cjty streets In :i^:. simile firearm in.any motor vehicle Police are seeing an increasing them at an auction. ed over a one-year period. splendor these toys, "':•--,-.; A second ordinance, 5-A-l, defines would also be prohibited. number of authentic looking facsimi The second proposed ordinance We're, talking about those' and regulates false police and fire The ordinance would apply to pel le firearms In the community, said defines false alarms as any occasion Frayer said police officers are re spiffy new decaU on the city's alarms and sets penalties for anyone let guns, BB guns, starter pistols, air Westland police executive Lt. Mi that an alarm system is activated quired to fill out a written, report af police cart. The white patrol cars convicted of turning In a false rifles, slingshots, bows and arrows chael Frayer. "They do tend to scare and those responding find no evl- ter responding to any alarm, includ now sport three nifty blue stripes alarm. and similar weapons. people," he said. dence'of a~f Ire or of Illegal entry. ing false ones. and a smaller, red, white and blue city emblem, identical to the one jfound on the city calendar and other promotional Hems. 'The decals replace the clunky, Co-worker is Indistinguishable city seals which adorn nx>rt«b«rban police^ .•vehicles,-";- ;;-;::';•-.,-. SPEAKING dF new charged with additions at the police department, the Century 21 people may have to open a branch office adjacent to the station to handle the real estate traffic -14 shooting being generated coortesy of the state drug forfeiture law. The department stands to gain By Tedd Schneider A plea of not guilty was entered about $20,000 from the ule of a staff writer for Smith and he was ordered to the house at $6011 Glen. The noose Washtenaw County Jail in lieu of a bad been seiied by the Wayne A Westland man was shot while $250,000 bond. County Sheriff s Department last driving on the M-14 freeway as he A preliminary exam has been, drove home from work Wednesday scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, fall on the grounds that its night, according to police. A co owners Were engaged in a .: Feb. 22, before 14th District Judge worker has been charged in the at Thomas Shea. continuous pattern of illegal drug tack. activityoo the premise?; - THREE BULLETS were fired at Ttewee^laad police ,, Kenneth Locke, 29, was sbotonce the victim's car, a 1989 Pontlac, in the left shoulder, Westland police shortly after 11 p,m. as, it traveled department paid 17,4*0.61 for the ; property at auction before it was said. "V * ' ' eastbound on M-14 at Ford Road in tiiroed over to the federal After driving to the Westland po Superior Township, said Sgt. William government, o lice station, Locke was taken by an Darnell of the Michigan State Police, the US. Marshal's of flee has; EMS crew to Westland Medical Cen Ypsllantlpost. received an offer of 129,500 for . ter where he was treated and re Locke, apparently only grazed by the property. Proceeds from the leased. the bullet, continued to the Westland sale will be split between the U.S.l Steven D. Smith, 21, of Belleville, police station. /and Westland, with the city Locke's co-worker at-Johnson Con "When he came into the station, he receiving 90 percent* : trols Inc., Whltmore Lake, was ar told the officer at the desk that he By law, any profit from the rested by state police Thursday. thought he was shot while driving on sale must be used for the police Smith was arralped Friday after the freeway," said Westland police department's drug enforcement noon by magistrate George Parker, Executive Lt. Michael Frayer. ?/ : 14th District Court, Superior Town ^effort;/ :; ^,;X.••\ -'i- VV ship, on one count of assault with in When the victim took off his jack- tent to commit murder. SURPLUS FOOD Please turn to Page 2 distribution for this month has been scheduled for Thursday, Eeb.nandErtday.Feb.lUtthe Dorsey Community Center, Man f#es shots DorseyeastofVenoy. : Butter, flour and milk will be given; Residents of Norwayne and Olenwood Gardens may pick up at son in home their packages 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, A family reunion nearly became a drank a total of 14 beers between Distribution for other residents tragedy early Thursday when a 45- them. will be 10 a.m.-* p.m. Friday. year-old Westland man fired a The son reported that his father Senior cltlnm living in handgun at his 23-year-old son, home challenged him to an arm wrestling Westgate Towers, Greenwood. from duty with the Marines. match at the kitchen table and the Villa or Taylor Towers should Nobody was Injured in the incident two fought to a draw. The results of ART EMANUEce/»taB photograph** check with building managers for at- the home on the S0800 block of the match apparently upset bis fa day and time of distribution. , Cherry .Hill, police said. ther, the son said. Maureen Wilton gets a congratulatory hug from her mom, Kathy, after winning the annual For further Information, call • The father was arrested, but the The father left the room and re Earte Chorbaglan Spelling Bee. the Dorsey Center hotline, »93* son decided not to file charges In the turned carrying a loaded, .38-caliber matter, said Detective Sgt John semiautomatic handgun, the son told •Wv ."•'•'-' Reddy. "The father has agreed to police. THE HELEN Brown seek counseling," Reddy said. His father kept shouting, "You're Historical Moeeum has joined the Police said they confiscated eight not my son," and he. threatened to video age. weapons, including several shoot him. several times, A 11^200 package of video handguns; from the man's home, The police were told by the son equipment for the mneeuro has Police were called to the home at that the father punched him in the been approved by tfce Weetland 2:40 a.m. by the man's wife, stomach several times. He said his City CoundL The toads will come The son told police he had re father also hit him in the face with Adams eighth grader from prevkMely approved cable turned home Wednesday afternoon the gun. , grant money. after serving 2¼ years with the Ma The father fired one shot with the By Tedd Schneider The ww mm, W\ N Wayne rines overseas. gun, missing his son's head by sever staff writer Road, wUl ose the porUbto al feet, police said. The bullet went equipment to provide visitors POLICE QUOTED the son as say through a kitchen window on the ' Nine letters — forming the word with progremmtag that outlines ing he and his father bad dinner and west side of the house, police said. "numerical" - were all that stood the history of Weatiaad/Naokin between Maureen Wilson and the Townetip and to take the Wayne-Westland school district's mdaeam "on the reed" to local Earte Chorbaglan Spelling Bee civic orgatdaatfeM. championship Wednesday. what's inside .. The Adams Junior High School ST. THEODORE eighth grader rattled them off with Catholic Cftarefa wffl a*a»«nt The the confidence of a winner. And a Mystery of the Heiy Maea," 7.