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POLICE REPORT
Each numbered symbol on the map represents a single crime that
corresponds with the numbered descriptions in the list below it
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□ O CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS
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Tuesday, Oct. 16
O LARCENY OF CREDIT
CARDS, 500 SUMTER ST. The
victim said someone removed
four credit cards from her
unlocked South Quad dorm
room. Missing were two Bank
of America Visa cards, a
Washington Mutual Visa card
and a National Bank credit
card. The victim notified
creditors and had the cards
' canceled. Approximate value:
$1. Reporting officer: J.A.
Plfirkp
Q AUTO BREAK-IN, 915
GREGG ST. The victim said
someone took a Pioneer CD
player and 2 CDs. out of his
truck. The truck was locked,
but the driver’s side window
was broken. A pair of pliers
was found on the ground
near the passenger-side door.
Total estimated value: $180.
Reporting officer: L. Forte.
® LARCENY OF CHECKS, 918
BARNWELL ST. The victim said
Joe Estrich Jr. and Standley A.
Truesdale took three Wacho
via checks from his secured
room in Columbia Hall. Total
value: $1. Reporting officer: G.
Kerwin and N.U. Beza.
Wedensday, Oct. 17
O MALICIOUS INJURY TO
PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1700
BLOSSOM ST. The victim said
someone broke the
passenger-side vent window
of his black Jeep Cherokee.
Nothing was missing. Total
estimated value: $100.
Reporting officer: J.A. Clarke.
Thursday, Oct. 18
® SHOPLIFTING, LARCENY
OF BOOKS, 1400 GREENE
ST. Complainants observed
the suspect attempting to
leave the Russell House
Bookstore with a book he
didn’t pay for. When the
suspect was approached, he
ran out of the store. The
complainants returned and
were notified that the second
suspect was still inside the
store. The complainants saw
the second suspect trying to
leave with a book without
paying for it. The suspect ran
out of store and jumped into
a green Mazda with the first
suspect. Reporting officer: L.
Forte.
® HARASSING PHONE
CALL, 1400 BLOSSOM ST.
The victim said Patrick
Corrin phoned him while at
East Quad and made threats
toward him in reference to a
past business transaction.
Corrin said he knew where
the victim was and would act
on his threat tonight if
payment was not made.
Reporting officer: J.A. Henry.
Friday, Oct. 19
Q MALICIOUS MISCHIEF,
1405 WHALEY ST. The victim
said someone squeezed a tube
of fake blood under the door
of her Bates West room. The
victim said she heard a sound
in the living room and found a
red streak about 15-feet long
across the floor. The security
officer on duty at the front
desk said she had not noticed
anything strange during the
evening. Reporting officer:
J.A. Henry,
o ILLEGAL USE OF
TELEPHONE, 1520 DEVINE ST.
The victim said someone
called her Patterson dorm
room and made unwelcome
remarks. The victim said she
believed the same person had
called her two weeks earlier.
The victim was given a phone
log to keep track of the calls.
Reporting officer: J.A. Henry.
Anthrax
victim
‘doing
great’
BY AMANDA RIDDLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOCA RATON, FLA. - A su
permarket tabloid mailroom
worker infected with inhaled
anthrax is “doing great,” and
his stepdaughter said Saturday
she’s anxious for his release
from the hospital.
Ernesto Blanco, 73, was re
sponding to antibiotics at
Cedars Medical Center in
Miami, and doctors say the an
thrax toxins in his body were
slowly being diminished,
Maria Orth said. He has been
hospitalized 19 days. The hos
pital has declined comment on
Blanco’s case, citing patient
confidentiality.
“He’s doing great,” Orth
said. “He’s kind of depressed
to be there because it’s been so
long.”
Doctors haven’t said when
Blanco could be released, Orth
said. Family members visit
him daily in a private room,
where he was moved Thursday. (~
Earlier this month, photo ed
itor Robert Stevens of The Sun,
an American Media Inc.
tabloid, died of inhaled an
thrax. Blanco is also infected
with the usually lethal form of
the disease; another co-worker
has tested positive for expo
sure.
Postal officials said Friday
that an anthrax-tainted letter
that infected the employees
may have been mailed to an
old address before being
rerouted to the company’s
headquarters.
Trace amounts of anthrax
were found at a postal facility in
Lake Worth that once processed
mail for The National Enquirer
and Weekly World News, which
both now have offices in the
American Media building
Postal officials said a letter
mailed to the tabloids’ old ad
dress could have been
processed at the Lake Worth fa
cility, then rerouted to anoth
er facility in Boca Raton where
anthrax spores were found ear
lier this week. The Boca Raton
office was handling American
Media’s mail at the time the
tainted letter was delivered.
“It’s plausible that one let
ter could account for all three
locations testing positive,”
U.S. Postal Service spokesman
Joseph Breckenridge said ^
Friday. He said no employees >
were considered to be at risk.
Fort Jackson team trains for war
Teams prepare
for biological
and chemical
attack threats
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The
team ready to respond to chemi
cal, biological and radiological at
tacks should be up and running
next year, officials say.
The 22-member South Carolina
National Guard’s 43rd Weapons
of Mass Destruction Civil Support
Team has been training inten
sively since June 2000 at Fort
Jackson. Training has been ac
celerated since the Sept. 11 ter
rorist attacks.
The idea for a civil support
team began in 1996 after legisla
tion addressing potential bioter
rorist threats was pushed through
Congress.
“They did a study about how
prepared we are, and of course the
results of the study came back and
said, ‘We’re not prepared,”’ said
Lt. Col. Randy Clayton, the team’s
commander.
The team will have the ability to
run lab tests in the field for biolog
ical weapons, said Terry Sullivan,
spokesman for the state Emer
gency Preparedness Division.
A handful of counties and the
state Department of Health and
n
Environmental Control have haz
ardous materials response teams
to handle chemical weapons at
tacks, but have to send their tests
out to labs, which could often take
days.
“In a critical situation, two or
three days can be an awfully long
time,” Clayton said.
And while results from the field
may not immediately identify the
biological agent being used,
Clayton said, “I might be able to
tell you what it’s not.”
In addition to the portable lab
oratory, the team will have a gas
chromatograph and mass spec
trometer that can detect 17 chem
ical warfare agents, 700 toxic in
dustrial compounds and 130,000
organic compounds. They will
also carry equipment to measure
radiation levels.
The team also will have a com
puter capable of designing mod
els to determine the direction of
dangerous airborne materials so
that a commander can order
which streets to block off.
Capt. William Graham, who
runs the State Law Enforcement
Division’s bomb squad, said the
43rd will add a new dimension to
the state’s ability to respond to ter
rorist threats.
“These guys have some of the
best equipment I’ve seen
around,” he said. “They’re seven
days a week, 365 days a year.
“They did a study about
how prepared we are,
and of course the
results of the study
came back and said,
‘We’re not prepared.’”
LT. COL. RANDY CLAYTON
TEAM COMMANDER
We’re going to rely heavily on
them to supply us with intelli
gence information and recon
naissance.”
Because the work is special
ized, all the team’s employees are
full-time rather than reservists
and will be on 24-hour call.
For now, the team isn’t autho
rized to help in a real emergency
because training hasn’t been com
pleted and the unit hasn’t passed
its test. Once that’s done, the unit
will then be certified by the U.S.
Defense Secretary.
Other efforts to extend the
state’s ability to cope with a chem
ical or biological threat are under
way. The state Emergency
Preparedness Division is using a
Justice Department grant to im
prove its ability to respond
throughout the state, and SLED
has its own team in training for
biological weapons.
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Asian leaders poised
to condemn attacks
BY RON FOURNIER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHANGHAI, CHINA - Asian
leaders were poised Sunday to
endorse a statement condemn
ing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
as “murderous deeds” without
mentioning the U.S.-led; retal
iatory strikes on Afghanistan
or prime suspect Osama bin
Laden.
President Bush’s advisers said
they were satisfied with the Asia
Pacific summit statement,
though it fell short of endorsing
his military campaign. A day
earlier, the president urged lead
ers to help “save the civilized
world” by joining his war on ter
rorism and warned them not to
be complacent.
“Those who embrace death...
cannot be ignored, cannot be ap
peased,” Bush told internation
al business leaders. In a sign of
unease, Russia sided with China
and other nations seeking a
quick end to U.S. attacks on
Afghanistan.
Bush was to meet with
Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Sunday morning after
the conclusion of an Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation meeting
that brought 20 leaders to this
port city. The leaders were ex
pected to announce the dates of
their mid-November meetings in
Washington and at
Bush’s Texas
ranch.
No deal was ex
BjM pected on Bush's
plans to build an
anti-missile sys
tem, which is op
Bush posed by Putin.
Bush hopes to
build a “great coalition against
terror” with nations sharing in
telligence, cutting off financing
to terrorists and supporting U.S.
military action - even if their
troops do not fight alongside
Americans.
“Every nation must oppose
this enemy or be, in turn, its tar
get,” Bush said. “There is no iso
lation from evil.”
The traditional goal of the two
day summit, strengthening the
world economy, gave way to
talks about the Sept. 11 attacks
on New York and Washington.
Tying the two themes together,
Bush warned that terrorism
threatens Asia’s hard-won eco
nomic vitality.
Chinese President Jiang
Zemin, the summit’s host, told
the leaders Sunday that the at
tacks on Washington and New
York had undermined the glob
al economy.
“The stock markets, oil mar
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