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Show National Thursday, November 30, 1989 The Daily llerakJ, Provo, Utah A.--, Navajo chairman pleads not guilty Crane operator reportedly unstable - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The operator of a crane that plummeted 16 floors, killing five people, twice tried to commit suicide during the last nine months and was a chronic alcoholic, according to published reports today. Lonnie Boggess, the crane operator who was among those killed, also had been hospitalized for psychiatric observation twice since March, according to court documents obtained by Newspapers. The Sacramento Bee and The Morning News Tribune of Wash., where Boggess lived, said his daughter, Christine, testified in January that he "drank to the point of drunkenness on a regular basis." The San Francisco coroner's office said Wednesday an autopsy would attempt to determine Boglevel at the gess' time of death. It is to be made public within two weeks, the newspapers reported. Boggess' employer, the Erection Co. of Kirkland, Wash., refused to comment. Swinerton & Walberg Co., the general contractor for the high-ris- e project, also refused to com- f r't III- - - , f , J1 :M Ariz. (AP) -SPeter Chairman Navajo uspended MacDonald has pleaded innocent to 107 criminal counts, but his son, also facing tribal charges, failed to appear for his arraignment. Judge Robert Yazzie of the tribe's Window Rock District Court rejected the prosecution's motion for a $400,000 bond and released the elder MacDonald on his own recognizance Wednesday. A prosecution request that MacDonald be required to surrender his passport also was r T 4 a, blood-alcoh- denied. Yazzie did not set a trial date, but tentatively scheduled a pretrial hearing for Jan. 29. Meanwhile, special prosecutor Mark Donatelli said he would apply today for an arrest warrant to have MacDonald's son, Peter MacDonald Jr., brought to the reservation. The elder MacDonald, the leader of the nation's biggest Indian tribe, was charged Oct. 11 by special prosecutors hired by the tribe with 107 offenses, including conspiracy, bribery, fraud, extortion and election-law violations. The MacDonald. who was suspended by the Tribal Council in February, also is the target of a federal grand jury investigation in Phoenix and a defendant in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by tribe in a state the court. ol AP Laserphoto Workers Wednesday clean up parts of a crane after it fell ment about Boggess' personal problems, the newspapers said. When told of Boggess', past, including his two recent suicide attempts, Fire Chief Fred Postel said: "Oh, no! You've got to be kidding!" Gordy Howins, business agent of Ixcal C12 of the International Union of Operating Engineers in Tacoma, defended Boggess as "just a pure professional in every sense of the word." He said Boggess was in demand by "every employer that he worked for." The newspapers, citing a sheriff's report, said Boggess barricaded himself in his home with a gun in March. "I have a gun," Boggess yelled to officers outside. "Go ahead and shoot me." Boggess also attempted suicide April 3 when he locked himself in a garage and turned on the ignition of his pickup truck, sheriff's deputies said. Officers found Boggess unconscious, and transferred him to a mental hospital, according to records. Court records stemming from a y bitter divorce and dispute also reveal a history of Boggess' domestic violence, the newspapers said. The crane collapse, which also injured 21 people, is under investigation by city, state and federal officials as well as Swinerton & Walberg. child-custod- The contractor 16 stories to the street, killing said the acci- 5. ner's report to find out whether there may have been a heart attack or something like that, because we have heard they that are unconfirmed reports someone saw him slumped over," said District Attorney Arlo Smith. "We're trying to find that individual, if there is somebody, who reported seeing that." The accident occurred as workers were jacking up the crane from the 16th to the 20th floor. Raising a crane is "historically dent apparently was triggered when the crane head rotated 180 degrees, causing the counterweight to crash into a section being inserted into the crane. It said the rotation occurred "for unknown reasons," causing n crane to tumble onto a the in the heart of the street busy 240-to- city's financial district during Tuesday morning's rush hour. Besides Boggess, three ironworkers and a bus driver we;e killed. Boggess reportedly was seen slumped over the controls as the crane began its plunge, authorities said. "We're waiting for the coro 225,000-memb- drug-relate- d. "We're losing more leather and suede coats and jackets than anything else," said Lewis W. Shealy, vice president for loss prevention for Marshall Field's, the Chicago-base- d department store chain. "And those items are being stolen in quantities throughout the city not for shoplifters' personal use, but on order for shipment across the country and out of the coun- try." Gerald Smith, head of the retail group for the accounting firm Ernst & Young, said the upswing in professional shoplifting ties in with results of the nationwide survey. It found a growing percentage of theft by customers and store workers appears to be In the past, Smith said, most drug-relate- d. shoplifters did it because they got a "psychological high" from stealing d or because they wanted items they could not afford. "Now it's become clearer that the' real emphasis is to raise money to pay for drugs," he said. "Unless we can get the whole drug problem under control, it will probably get worse before it gets better. "If you're going to maximize the money you get, it makes a lot of sense to shoplift something you have an order for," Smith added Wednesday. In its annual survey, called "An Ounce of Prevention," Ernst & Young looked at data from 130 retail companies nationwide for the period they considered their fiscal high-price- 1 BUY NOW FOR CHRISTMAS Great Selection tration. Various Colors & Size? Poinsettia Hanging Plants 1988. The companies operated more than 42,500 stores with total sales of about $146 billion. The survey found these retailers lost $1.5 billion to theft in fiscal 1988 a 12 percent increase over the previous year. They spent roughly the customers arrested for shoplifting admitted using drugs, more than double the number from the previous year. Thirteen percent of those arrested said they did not use drugs. But Smith said the actual percould be centage of drug-user- s much higher because 46 percent of those arrested did not respond when asked about drug use. Among employees, the survey found that 40 percent of those apprehended for theft admitted to drug use, while the figure was below 10 percent in previous years. While the best defense against shoplifting is still training employees to be alert, Smith said retailers gadge-tralso are turning to high-tec- h y. At Marshall Field's, for example, Shealy said some cash registers have built-i- n closed circuit TV cam New eras that record sales. 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MacDonald scoffed at the prosecution's contention. "I'm a good citizen of the Navajo nation." he said. "I have no plans to take a flight anywhere." The Tribal Council placed MacDonald on administrative leave in February, following the Senate hearings. chief with the California Occupational Safety and Health Adminis- point-of-sa- of POINSETTIAS a very safe operation," said Hamilton Fairburn, a deputy $190 million on security measures in 1988, compared with $172 million in 1987. The survey found 41 percent of and most criminal charges focus on the Professional shoplifters out in force - CHICAGO (AP) Tis the season for professional shoplifters who are stealing merchandise on order rather than for themselves, experts say. A survey has found that much of the shoplifting appears to be lawsuit The WINDOW ROCK, 'o ' w '' 'free era s'xce ou'o ' :v 'ed ee c"r's 0 AND THE UNITED :i STATES, " |