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POLICE REPORT pS 4pji ZLp Stji 11ET1 T&XLORST. | I oTAVIORST. u> \ _I.__* -j fo CO £ !5 ^ J a These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department. Compiled by Wendy Jeffcoat Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS H Violent © Nonviolent Saturday, March 1 ® AUTO TAMPERING, S-23 LOT, 300 BULL ST. The victim said someone broke out the driver’s-side window of his vehicle. Nothing appeared to be missing. Reporting officer: N. DeHaai. Q AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF STEREO, 1700 BLOCK OF COLLEGE STREET. The victim said someone broke out the driver’s-side window of his vehicle and took a pair of Oakley sunglasses and a car stereo. Estimated value: $370. Reporting officer: L. Davis. ® MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, LABORDE RESIDENCE HALL, 615 SUMTER ST. The complaint said someone broke mirrors, lights and bulbs and damaged the area. Estimated damage: $100. Reporting officer: D. Hare © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, S-6 LOT, 1423 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone broke out the driver’s-side window of his vehicle and took a CD player. Estimated value: $220. Reporting officer: D. Hare. © ILLEGAL USE OF A TELEPHONE (THREATENING), 327 SOUTH HARDEN ST. The victim said Brad Theriot called her and made threatening remarks. Reporting officer: N. Beza. G DISORDERLY CONDUCT, INTERSECTION OF GREENE AND ASSEMBLY STREETS.While on patrol, reporting officer J.M. Simmons and patrolman Davis saw Edward Hay running down Greene Street. The officers approached Hay and found he was unsteady on his feet, smelled strongly of alcohol, had slurred speech and had bloodshot eyes. He was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and taken to Richland County Detention Center. Sunday, March 2 © UNLAWFUL USE OF A TELEPHONE (HARASSING), CLIFF APARTMENTS, 1321 WHALEY ST. The victims said someone by the name of Ramarao has been called numerous times and harassed them. Reporting officer: N. BGZcI (s) TRESPASSING AFTER NOTICE, CAROLINA CENTER, LINCOLN AND GREENE STREETS. Reporting officers D. Pardue and N. DeHaai saw Henry Cheesboro and Herbert Hudson at the fountain in front of the Carolina Center, and discovered that both had received notice for trespassing before. Both men were arrested and taken to Richland County Detention Center. O AUTO TAMPERING, INFORMATION, S-21 LOT, 100 MARION ST. Reporting officer J.M. Simmons responded to a complaint of a suspicious person looking into vehicles and pulling on vehicle door handles. Simmons approached Stefano Harford, and Harford said he was not a student at USC but that he met a female who lived in the Roost and was unsure of her last name or room number. The complainant saw Harford and said she thinks he was the one tampering with vehicles, but was not sure. Monday, March 3 © ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE, BULL STREET GARAGE, 600 BULL ST. The victim said that as she was driving under the gate in Bull Street Garage, the arm fell on her vehicle, causing minimal damage to the driver’s-side T-top and windshield. Reporting officer: T. Means. ® LARCENY OF CALCULATOR, BLAH P.E. CENTER, 1328 WHEAT ST. The victim said someone took her book bag, which contained a TI-85 calculator, a textbook and $40 in cash. Estimated value: $265. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. ® LARCENY OF BOOK BAG, BLATT P.E. CENTER, 1328 WHEAT ST. The victim said someone stole his book bag, which contained his wallet, a portable CD player, a Samsung company cell phone, a pair of jeans and $50 in cash. Estimated value: $245. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. Saving bases might involve state-funded lobbying, research BY JIM DAVENPORT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA -Efforts to shield the state’s military bases from the next round of closings could mean asking the Commerce Depart ment to put up to $400,000 into re search and lobbying efforts. The House Ad-Hoc Committee on Base Closures met Monday to hear from communities con cerned about base closings that the Pentagon is working on. A list of bases will be developed by May 2005 and finalized by November 2005, said Retired Maj. Gen. Thomas Olsen, the execu tive director of the Sumter Base Defense Committee. Olsen says the Pentagon al ready is deciding what criteria will be used to decide which bases need to close and which ones will gain or lose operations. The Charleston and Sumter Air Force Bases and the Marine Corps’ Beaufort Air Station could be at greatest risk, Olsen £ said. It’s easy to mfeve planes to other facilities. There’s a smaller risk of losing operations at Fort _.lacksnn and Parris Island kev training points for the Army and Marines. In 1993, the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base closed at a cost of 3,900 military and civilian jobs. Three years later, Charleston Naval Base was shut down, affecting 30,000 military and civilian jobs. Past losses are one of the rea sons leaders in Beaufort, Charleston and Columbia are working to keep the remaining facilities open. That’s why the communities want state and local money to go to research and lobbying efforts. Rep. Jim Harrison, R Columbia, is the panel’s chair man. He said the committee would consider asking the Commerce Department for be tween $200,000 and $400,000 for those efforts. Tapping state money for re search and lobbying raises ques tions since Gov. Mark Sanford says state money shouldn’t be spent on lobbyists. Efforts to keep bases and their federal payrolls wouldn’t conflict with his recent ban on cabinet agencies spending taxpayer mon ev on contract lohhvists STATE Bill seeks to limit civil lawsuits in S.C. COLUMBIA (AP) - A group of doctors, insurers and other busi nessmen say limits need to be set on most civil lawsuits in South Carolina. The group, called South Carolina First, backs a bill being introduced in the Legislature that would cap some damage awards, set a six-year limit on suits stem ming from defective products and allow people who are sued to hold plaintiffs and their lawyers liable for frivolous lawsuits. “This bill does not shut the doors of the courthouse, as some might charge,” said Sen. Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence, who is one of the bill’s sponsors. “This bill does not keep any one from suing an individual, a business or a health profession al. It simply makes those law suits fair to both parities,” Leatherman said Tuesday. Billy Nicholson, president of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, said the legal system in the state has set tled disputes fairly for centuries. Changes sought in lending to schools COLUMBIA (AP) - Gov. Mark Sanford suggested Tuesday that a long-standing state lending program for private schools was essentially a backdoor voucher program. The program, run by the state Jobs-Economic Development Authority, lends money to pri vate schools and other nonprofit organizations at below-market interest rates. The State Budget and Control Board was considering one of the loans at a meeting Tuesday when Sanford suggested it es sentially was a public subsidy for a private school. “Is there anything JEDA doesn’t do?” Sanford asked as the board considered a $3.3 mil lion economic development loan to Shannon Forest, a Christian school in Greenville. “In essence, this is a voucher for a private school.”, During his campaign for gov ernor, Sanford said he supports school vouchers, which allow parents to take money that a public school would have used to educate their child and spend it on private school tuition. NATION Armored force will head to Persian Gulf WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army’s oldest armored division, “Old Ironsides,” got orders Tuesday to head for the Persian Gulf as the total of U.S. land, sea and air forces arrayed against Iraq or preparing to go near 300,000. The commander who would lead the war, Gen. Tommy R. Franks, met at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and was to consult with President Bush at the White House on Wednesday. Last week, Franks reviewed his war plan with commanders at his Gulf command post. The pace of troop movements and high-level consultations sug gested the military was close to ready for the opening of what would be a multidirectional as sault to disarm and depose Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. " In addition to the U.S. troops based in Kuwait and other coun tries on the Arabian Peninsula except Yemen, there are five air craft carrier battle groups near by, each with about 50-strike air craft aboard and including 30 to 40 vessels armed with Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles. HI_I! A__I_ ividiui uidd icvcicia brush off concerns NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Thousands of revelers shook off the fear of war and the strug gling economy Tuesday as they celebrated Mardi Gras with a vast and raucous street party under a bone-chilling fog rolling off the Mississippi River. The problems with Iraq and North Korea were drowned out by the music and good cheer of Fat Tuesday. The only evidence was in costumes of duct tape and plastic, along with “Bomb Iraq” bull’s eyes. “It’s cold, the world is going to hell, but how can you stay home?” asked Michael Patrick of Baton Rouge, who was decked out in Elvis Presley splendor. “It’s not the best day, but it’s bet ter than the rest of the world where it’s just Tuesday.” The annual festival is held be fore the fasting and penitence of Lent, the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter. It ends at midnight Tuesday. WORLD - Israeli soldiers kill 3 Palestinians in raid JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians on Tuesday as a se nior Israeli security official said a raid on the home of a founder of Hamas did not signal that Israel is targeting leaders of the group for arrest. When Israeli forces stormed the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza early Monday^ and arrested Mohammed Taha, 65, a co founder of the violent Islamic Hamas movement, it was taken to mean that, in a break from past practice, Israel was going after top Hamas political figures in addition to militants who plan and carry out attacks. However, a security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Taha was not the target of the operation. Instead, he said, Israel was aim ing for his son Ayman, linked to the top Hamas bomb maker. Mohammed Taha was wound ed by gunfire and captured while his five sons were arrested and his house was blown up. The Israeli military said Taha was implicated in terror attacks. Bomb injures 147 in Philippines airport MANILA, PHILIPPINES (AP) - A bomb planted inside a back pack ripped through an airport terminal in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people — including an American missionary — and in juring 147 in the nation’s worst terrorist attack in three years. The blast comes at a time of heightened debate over the role of U.S. troops in the war on ter ror in the Philippines, where Muslim insurgents have battled the government for decades. Three Americans were among the wounded. Many of the injured were in serious con dition, and officials feared the death toll could rise. The dead included a boy, a girl, 10 men and seven women. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who invited U.S. troops to help train Filipino soldiers in counterterrorism later this year, said the bombing at Davao air port on Mindanao island was “a brazen act of terrorism which shall not go unpunished.” BRIEFLY Sorensen to eat with students USC President Andrew Sorensen will eat lunch to day at Pandini’s at noon. - Students are invited to stop by and talk with him. Carolina Card office relocates Because' of renovations, the Carolina Card office (for merly the ID Station) has temporarily relocated to what was the Sub City eatery in the Carolina Under ground. Korea CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 The United States be lieves the North already has one or two nuclear bombs. North Korean complaints about reconnaissance flights by U.S. planes had grown more frequent before the in cident Sunday. On Saturday, the North said a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane intruded into its airspace off the east coast daily for a week. 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