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Show WASATCH “hee tie COUNTY APRIL 11, 2001 COURIER eee - Games a Problem? ‘t think our extreme laws with respect to guns are unfortunate, espe- cially when we’re putting on an event of this scope,” Anderson told The _ Associated Press. Dinse said security planners have already taken armed account. “There IL citizens into | are areas where people are not going to get access to if they LU want to exercise their right to carry a i ! weapon, ’ Dinse said. “We’re encour- aging people to leave thém at home.” The Utah Legislature passed a EG law in 1999 banning weapons from designated Olympic venues. Metal detectors and police conducting bag searches will attempt to stop anyone who tries to bring a weapon into a venue, Dinse said. However, criminals will find a way around gun control measures, said Sara Thompson of the Utah Gun Owners Alliance. “People have nothing to fear from - ordinary people with guns,” she said. “With law abiding people, it doesn’t ata matter how many guns or what kind.” ‘The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Salt _ Lake City is trying to keep guns away _ from those who should not have them. A federal program aims to track down felons who illegally own weapons. | The program has resulted in more than 200 indictments in Utah during the past year, U.S. Attorney Paul M. Warner said. “It’s not an antigun initiative; it’s with a pistol in his bag. Because the clip was out of the gun, security officers had no choice but to escort the man to the mayor’s office to conduct his business. “It's unsettling. I don’t think any employee should be subjected to that,” the mayor said. Thompson said banning guns at city hall would simply disarm the law-_ abiding while doing nothing to stop those who ignore the law anyway. Utah has a reputation as a gun-toting place, but one Olympic security | official said the threat of gun violence is not unique to the state. “That’s not just a Utah issue; that’s a United States issue,” said — David Tubbs, a former FBI agent who now is coordinator for the public safety command, a state agency. “Japan and Australia don’t have weapons the way the United States does,” Tubbs said, referring to the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney and the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano. A study commissioned by the gun control group Utahns Against homes in Utah have one or more gun: b . isk eae a ae a he i Be . i eu WIiaunw Ss Put your classified in the newspaper with the # | LARGEST CIRCULATION IN WASATCH COUNTY! ( , Gun Violence found that 55 percent of the WASATCH COUNTY Wasatch County's Source for News to the restaurant 03.21.01 Hit anit Run ‘Ati 04.01.01 0100hr Wasatch County deputies were attempting to stop a vehicle in Midway for excessive speeding. The driver of the vehicle refused to stop and began a multi-agency high-speed pursuit. As the suspect vehicle entered Heber City on SR189, the driver lost control oS cea at y Se NS ET " ‘ SSE | *,Se , “ aNETTIE si e sia a Ti i | “ road. The vehicle received extensive damages to the side door and mirror. A copper colored paint transfer took - place from what is believed:to be the suspect’s vehicle. Anyone: having information. that may help this: case, ~ please call the HCPD. and ask for pect vehicle turned east onto Hwy 40. — Officer Dawn Richardson. Wasatch County Deputies, UHP troop- ers and Heber City units were in pur- 04.04.01 Burglary, Criminal Mischief and Vandalism At the Royal Coachman Trailer Park, a trailer house and shed were broken into. The suspects vandalized the structures and. stole a propane torch and propane canisters. Two bicy- — cles were damages along with other property. A blue car with California plates was seen in the area the day prior to the burglary being discov- ered. Anyone with any further infor- local law enforcement agencies have | - mation, please call the HCPD. Detective Clegg or Sgt Bradley. — | Once The eS are three cases that have not been solved. If anyone has information on these, please call the CUP | CONTINUED FROM A1 21 in front of the hit in the passenger side. The Chevy . was parked on the shoulder of the times, causing damage to it. The sus- injured. on March LES p.m. Timber Mills Apartments, located at 675 S 100 W, a Chevy pickup truck was side of the road. The driver then resumed driving with only two tires. The driver struck a patrol car several had to contend with in a month. In all three situations, no one has been ie Sometime between 7 pal m. and 7:20 of his vehicle and spun off onto the suit of the suspect as he continued on Hwy 40 towards the Daniel area. The suspect went through Daniels Canyon after losing the third tire and finally came to a stop at mile marker 31.5. Todd M Veno, 41, of Heber was taken safely into custody and arrested for Felony Fleeing, DUI, Open Container, Speeding and Unsafe Lane Change. No one was injured in this pursuit. This is the latest of three pursuits ON BRON ane NOE | 1 medical assistance 1 assault 1 fraud 3 While downtown Olympic venues such as the medals plaza and Delta Center will be under tight security, Anderson laments that the City County Building and Utah Capitol were not afforded similar protection. When it passed the measure prohibiting guns in Olympic venues, the Legislature didn’t include the state’s civic facilities.. A sticker on the door of the City ‘County Building currently says “No Loaded Weapons.” Anderson relates the story of a man who walked into the building iepsenniattal an anti-criminal initiative,” Warner - said. “We’re going to do everything in _ our power to clean up gun problems, ments will be responsible for security threats outside the venues. access Sm him, he said. Olympic venues. Local police depart- gained through the broken doors. The suspect/s stole cash and. paychecks. If anyone has information concerning _ this case, please call the HCPD.ere - Bradley or Officer —— , Mark Camillo, Secret Service coordinator for the games. “My concern would be if it wasn’t being addressed.” » The Secret Service is the lead federal agency in Olympic security planning, but Camillo’s efforts focus on 02. 07. 01 Rueslary In the morning hours on February 7, someone threw rocks at the front door of Don Pedro’s. The suspects a . areas with the idea of keeping everybody safe.” While Andee praises the job the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command has done in planning for security threats, the gun issue worries 2 burglaries HCPD 604 J > BO ye formed officers throughout the venue pursue. this angnymous amt _ to Police Department. You SS _in a state where about 30,000 people hold concealed \‘weapon permits. “It is a concern,” said Salt Lake “City Police Chief Rick Dinse. “There is the potential:to be a lot more weapons out there, but there are going to be a lot of police out there. We are going to have a lot of uni- going may remain 3040. 2 apt _ of gun-toting spectators at the games “We're aggressively through the Olympics,” Warner said. Another federal law ene eed official said state agencies are doing a good job of anticipating the threat posed by abundant guns. “Utah should not be underestimated in (its) sophistication,” said _ Heber City The following is a small list of some of the calls Heber City officers have responded to in the last week. © 6 lockouts 5 accidents 5 thefts 4 alarms : 4911 hangups 2 criminal mischiefs . again, if you think you may have information in helping the victims of these cases, you may remain. anonymous. sonable thing to do. If that’s the case, then I go away quietly into the sunset.” Heber Light & Power and the CUWCD were awarded the hydropowsion in federal law called a “categorical er plant last August. Completion of exclusion,” which drops the requirethe $12 million plant is expected late ment for public involvement if there next year. The plant is expected to are no environmental impacts. produce a maximum of 12 megawatts The plant has a “run-of-the-river” of power, which is most of the Heber design that will not change flow levels _ Valley’s power needs. on the river, says Shawcroft. But how much, if any, of that enerThat doesn’t gy will actually end Dremann. comfort “We're not knee-jerk UP in the Heber The addition of the Valley has yet to be plant adds a mechaniopposed to it, we just decided: «37. ine cal system to the Western Area Power river flow, he says, want to know what the Administration and raises more quesadministers power - tions than it answers. use throughout the impacts are.” Like what happens if Western states and the mechanical syshas first right of purZACH FRANKEL tem breaks down? chase. Executive director of the Utah Will the rate of flow Rivers Council _ Shawcroft told Will be controlled? the Courier last the amount of dissolved oxygen, disweek in a phone interview that anyone solved nitrogen and the water temperwith concerns about the project can ature be controlled? contact his office at 801-521-5346. “I was always told, ‘Paul don’t Frankel. says that’s not good worry about it, it’s run-of-the-river,” enough and calls CUWCD’s decision he says. “I’ve tried to get close, but the not to gather public input “distressing.” powers that be have made no effort to “Its disappointing that they are involve the public.” avoiding public input and involvement Dremann says he will go to the on a blue ribbon trout fishery,” says national chapter of his organization for Frankel. direction on what to do next. “[The categorical exclusion] may be a reaEmail: tim@wasatchcountycourier.com 8a, . “extreme” _gun laws could embarrass the state during the 2002 Winter Gamies, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson fears. But Olympic security officials appear ready to deal with the prospect courtesy Heber City Police Department Y ated. LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s particularly in Salt Lake City, prior to the Olympics.” Warner has four prosectitors assigned to the gun program. He has asked the U.S. Department of Justice for two more before the games. ~ rE _ RICH VOSEPKA ASSOCIATED: PRESS WRITER rin earee Sper oa : ne |