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Show A-2 The Park Record WedThursFri, December 3-5, 2003 Club slaying suspects in court Hearings scheduled for those accused in Suede shooting; one man pleads guilty to assault By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff A preliminary hearing is scheduled Dec. 16 for the man detectives say shot and killed Kautoke Tangitau, 30, at a Kimball Junction nightclub on Oct. 14. Finau Tukuafu, 25, of Salt Lake County was charged with first-degree felony murder and third-degree felony riot for his alleged role in the melee. Charges against Tukuafu were enhanced because he is suspected suspect-ed of committing the crime with two or more people and a dangerous dan-gerous weapon, according to papers filed by prosecutors in Third District Court in Summit County. Prosecutors also allege that Tukuafu is a habitual violent offender. He denies involvement in the killing. Five other men have also been charged in connection with the shooting that occurred at Suede, but according to court documents, docu-ments, witnesses told investigators investiga-tors that Tukuafu pulled the trigger. trig-ger. Tukuafu's brother, Viliami Tukuafu, 24, is charged with third-degree felony riot and misdemeanor mis-demeanor assault. Some of the suspects were allegedly seen beating Tangitau near the stage inside the club during a Lucky Dube concert. Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said the men were members of rival gangs from Salt Lake. "A witness observed the Tukuafu brothers actively Wforld Cup: HS stands by ruling Continued from A-1 A fistful of nations protested Schoenfelder's result. The jury agreed, saying he should have stopped immediately in the first run and disqualified him. In effect, the jury was ruling on its own decision. In its decision this week, the Appeals Commission, comprised of three member of the FIS Alpine Subcommittee for Rules and Control of the Competition, said the jury didn't have appropriate appro-priate power to judge its own Prosecutors file 19 drug charges Continued from A-1 with arrests made in Park City, Kamas and at Kimball Junction. They seized a small amount of cocaine during the arrests, which capped a six-month operation. "I feel comfortable with the quality of the investigation," Brickey said, particularly noting the work of Darwin Little, a police detective assigned to drug investigations. investi-gations. None of the defendants have admitted to the charges, Brickey said. In the filings, prosecutors describe undercover work stretching stretch-ing from June until just before the arrests were made. They detail a scries of alleged drug deals between the defendants and confidential confi-dential police informants. 'Hie deals occurred in several places in Park City, prosecutors Peace House will provide gifts Continued from A-1 Polly Ivers at 647-9161. Ornaments are available at the following locations: loca-tions: Silver Mountain Sports Club THE BLIND DOG IS PUTTING ON A FEAST FOR YOUR EYES & TASTE BUDS LET OUR CHEF PREPARE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE'S PALETTE FROM CATERED PARTIES, FABULOUS IN HOUSE DINNERS, OR GIFT CERTIFICATES LET US KNOW, WE WOULD LOVE TO HELP! involved in a fight with Kautoke Tangitau," states court papers. "Tangitau separated from Viliami Tukuafu and charged Finau Tukuafu. As Tangitau charged to within an arms reach of Finau Tukuafu, his momentum momen-tum stopped, and he fell to the ground." Viliami Tukuafu has a preliminary prelim-inary hearing scheduled before Third District Court Judge Bruce Lubeck on Dec. 9. On Tuesday, 27-year-old Amanakilel Angilau was in court facing one third-degree felony riot charge for his alleged involvement. A final pretrial was scheduled Tuesday for Rocky Manatau, 22, who faces misdemeanor assault and attempted riot charges. A two-day jury trial is scheduled Jan. 21 and 22 for Manatau, if necessary. "He's at the prison on a parole violation," said Stephanie Ames, Manatau's public defender, adding that the parole violation is indirectly related to the incident inci-dent at Suede. Results from a preliminary hearing scheduled Tuesday afternoon after-noon for Sione Tai, 21, were not available before press time. Tai faces one charge of third-degree felony riot for his alleged role in the incident. Brickey says Telefoni Palu, 20, recently pled guilty to misdemeanor misde-meanor assault and has been released. "Palu pled guilty to an assault and was given credit for I think he served 35 days in jail," judgment. Some higher power should have decided. ..and the commission, indirectly saying it was that higher power, overturned over-turned the disqualification. It was not immediately known if the countries which originally protested would re-protest. For Hunt, it doesn't matter. Case closed, he said. "This was driven by his coaches, coach-es, but it's a dead issue for me," Hunt said. "We won't protest." The decision means American Bode Miller has a little bigger lead in the overall World Cup points parade - he's 33 points up say, including a breezeway and parking garage at the Resort Center, the Silver Queen Deli on Main Street, in a parking lot at the Parkside Apartments on Kearns Boulevard and at Top Stop on Park Avenue. Alleged deals are detailed in filings fil-ings against each of the defendants. defen-dants. Prosecutors say Gutierrez participated par-ticipated in seven deals, starting on June 28, when they claim Sunquist took $50 from two confidential police informants and bought $50 worth of cocaine from Gutierrez in a breezeway under Baja Cantina, a Mexican restaurant at the Resort Center. Undercover operations followed fol-lowed on July 2, Aug. 14, Aug. 16, Oct. 24, Nov. 6 and Nov. 12, prosecutors prose-cutors say. They typically involved 1.6 grams of cocaine or less. According to the Gutierrez fil and Spa, Bank One, Wells Fargo, Frontier Bank, Mountain West Bank, US Bank, Washington Mutual, Key Bank, Bad Ass Coffee, Wasatch Bagel, 7-Eleven, Soaring Brickey said Monday, adding that Palu must pay a fine and stay away from other gang members mem-bers for 12 months. All of the men arrested are from Salt Lake County. Edmunds said the shooting was the result of a feud between a Tongan Crips gang member and members of the Baby Regulators street gang. Deputies had already responded to the club the night of the shooting on other unrelated unrelat-ed fights. Summit County Chief Deputy Dave Booth said he was about 50 feet away when Tangitau was shot in the chest with a .22 caliber cal-iber handgun. Prosecutors say some of the suspects then dragged Tangitau's body onto the balcony and continued con-tinued beating him. "Once the assault ended, members of the Baby Regulators gang removed sweatshirts, jackets, and shirts that had been stained with blood, and left the area," states court papers. Brickey said Angilau and Tai are free on bail and Manatau and the Tukuafu brothers remain incarcerated. Eric Oldham, owner of Suede says the club was below capacity the night of the shooting. Following the incident, Oldham said club owners intended to purchase metal-detecting wands and security cameras. He was also looking into hosting a seminar semi-nar with gang specialists from Salt Lake County to update Suede employees on gang-recognition techniques. Telephone calls seeking comment, com-ment, were not returned by Suede owners before press time. on Austrians Michael Walchhofer and Hermann Maier. Walchhofer, who received a provisional second sec-ond run as the 31st racer in the first run (he'd be 30th if Schocnfelder eventually were DQ'd, so he was given a provisional provi-sional run) lost 22 points for finishing fin-ishing 12th. "That's a short-term gain," Hunt said, "but it's no big issue. For me, it was more a question of what happened on the hill that day. It's too bad but without being able to interview everyone ; and get a fresh perspective, it's" over." ing, the Aug. 14 deal occurred between a confidential informant and Chacon in a parking garage below Yen-Jing, a Mandarin restaurant at the Resort Center. Prosecutors say that Gutierrez acted as a lookout during the Aug. 14 deal, driving a white Ford truck around the garage while the exchange took place. Police said after the arrests that Gutierrez, Hernandez and Chacon smuggled the narcotics into the U.S. from Mexico and Sheeran and Sunquist helped distribute the drugs. Police said Gutierrez worked at Baja Cantina and Chacon worked at Yen-Jing. Lt. Phil Kirk described the alleged operation a "large cocaine ring." Eight local, state and federal fed-eral agencies were involved in the investigation and Kirk has said that additional arrests are possible. Wings Montessori, Life-Link, Carter outlet. Fossil outlet, Osh Kosh B'Gosh outlet, Maidenform outlet. Great Outdoor Clothing outlet and Temple Har Shalom. WWW s- Partnership raises ' X I -'-llL.50ipq II I I h'nJ"'""FJ,mr,htp ., Iff GRAYSON WESTPARK RECORD Ray Olson, right, a Huntsman Cancer Institute official, presents Park City Rotary Club president presi-dent Russell Wong with a check from a joint fundraising effort between the two organizations. Baby recovering in Continued from A-1 Molineux said he recently met with investigators about the case and was told that some items were removed from the daycare during a search, but the detective didnt elaborate. elabo-rate. Court information filed against Tiscareno by Summit County Chief Prosecuting Attorney David Brickey states that the woman admitted shaking shak-ing the baby in an attempt to save his life. At 10:27 a.m. that day, Tiscareno called for an ambulance. Lori Frasier, a physician at Primary Children's said if Nathan were injured when he was dropped off it would not have taken three hours for Tiscareno to realize it. According to Frasier, along with breathing problems, the child's "skin color would have been poor and his motor coordination would have been absent, and he would have become 'basically comatose,'" states court papers. i" "Frasier stated that1 if Nathan 'was normal at 7:30 a.m. when he was dropped off (even if he was a little bit IOC may LONDON (AP) U.S. officials have failed to explain why Jerome Young was cleared to compete at the 2000 Olympics after failing a drug test a year before, IOC president presi-dent Jacques Rogge said Monday. The International Olympic Committee is investigating whether Young and the rest of the U.S. 1,600-meter relay team should be stripped of the gold medal because of his positive test for steroids. "I'm disappointed," Rogge said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We do not have the full information and data. This is a sad story." The U.S. Olympic Committee notified the IOC executive board in September that Young tested positive for nandrolone in 1999 but was cleared on appeal in a secret process by USA Track & Field. Young went on to win a gold medal in Sydney as part of the relay team, which was anchored by Michael Johnson in the final. He has said he never committed a doping dop-ing offense. Under international rules, a confirmed steroid offense is punishable pun-ishable by a minimum two-year r u W sleepy) this would not be consistent with a severe head injury before or at the time that he was left with the babysitter,'" states court documents. According to court information, scratch marks found on Nathans chest near his nipple appear to have been caused by "an adult wearing jewelry (rings)." "I want Tiscareno to pay for what she's done. I don want her to just walk away with probation or something. That's like a slap on the hand ... I want her to do the maximum maxi-mum time," Molineux said. Earl Xaiz, a Salt Lake City attorney representing Tiscareno, did not comment about the case on Tuesday and said he was still awaiting await-ing discovery documents from prosecutors. "We do have a very good physical physi-cal case with the doctors that have been willing to come forward to this point," Brickey said this week. "Barring something coming up I feel like the officers have done a very good job of getting that information infor-mation right away," he added. No new information has been strip American medal ban. Such a penalty would have ruled Young out of the Sydney Games. USATF spokeswoman Jill Geer declined comment, referring queries to the USOC. Messages left for USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel were immediately returned Monday. The IOC opened disciplinary proceedings on Sept. 30 to try to find out the reasons for Young's exoneration and consider "all possible pos-sible consequences," including removal of the medals. USATF has repeatedly declined to provide the requested information, informa-tion, citing confidentiality rules in place at the time. USATF also says it is bound by an arbitration court ruling upholding its decision to maintain secrecy on doping acquittals. acquit-tals. "What we do not know is whether the exoneration was valid, that is the whole key." Rogge said. "We don't have any document on that. 'Iliey are saying he's been exonerated. We are saying, "Prove it and tell us why he was exonerated.' exonerat-ed.' "If there is a gcxid reason to money hospital acquired since the initial investigation investiga-tion but Brickey said that's ongoing. ongo-ing. "If there are other parents that have had problems with this woman it would be nice to know," he said. "Tiscareno has been a daycare provider for some time in our community." A second-degree felony conviction convic-tion could carry a sentence of between one and 15 years in the Utah State Prison and a $10,000 fine. "There is a very good possibility of a jail sentence of some type," Brickey said. Molineux said response from the community is still mixed. "Where my mom works, a lot of people go into her store just to ask about my baby," he said, adding that others aren't as friendly and have accused him of harming Nathan. "It's hurtful. I wouldn't do this to my child." For those wishing to help his son, he said a trust fund has been set up at Zions Bank for Nathan Molineux. exonerate him, that's the end of the case. We say. fine, no problem.' " Thomas Bach and Dennis Oswald, two senior IOC members and lawyers investigating the Young case, will present an interim report at IOC executive board meetings Thursday and Friday in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rogge said the board will consider con-sider what action to take if USATF doesn't cooperate. The board will also review the report submitted in September by the USOC detailing its drug-testing program from 1985-2000 in a bid to dispel long-standing international suspicions of U.S. doping cover-ups. cover-ups. On another doping issue, Rogge said the executive board is likely to authorize the re testing of hundreds of samples from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to check for THG. a previously undetectable unde-tectable steroid. Rogge said the IOC was considering consid-ering the legal issues, as well as the state of the frozen samples. "I expect that to be OK," he said. "If that's the case, we'll retest." SUSHI |
