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Show ‘TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH Wednesday,December2,1998 Cornered by Baldwin customers of precautions they should take.” Thinking Poisoned Meat Kills Dog, Sickens 2 Others the letters had beenstolen, the service had issued a warning against using free-standing mail boxes. That unscheduled pickup occurred in West Valley City, but the service recommended mailboxes be avoidedin all BY JON URE apologize for overly concerning anyone about their mail,” Hamilton said. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE areaswith ZIP codes beginning with 841. “We wantto entlight since Sunday:one eye on JAIL-RAPE CASE BOUND OVER their children and pets, the other scanning for suspects in the poisoning death of one of their dogs. “You worry about everything all of a sudden,” Scott Keller said Three Salt Lake County Jail inmates who allegedly beat and sexuallyassaulted a fellow inmate have been orderedto standtrial. Darryl Lee Fox, 30, is charged with two counts of first-degree felony forcible sodomy forallegedly twice forcingthe victim to perform oral Tuesday after describing the sex, Mulifusi Samuel Pule, 19, is charged with one count of forcible sodomy. And Fox, Pule and Mika Nelson Latu, 19, are all charged with third-degreefelony assault by a prisoner. According to preliminary hearing testimony, the attacks occurred Sept. 26 after death of Robin, a mixed-breed hound he adopted three years ago. “It felt like a personal at- tack.” Latu learned thevictimwasin jail awaiting sentencing for a sex crime. The victim was forced to perform sex acts inside his cell and a shower. But Fox also forced FOR THE RECORD GRINCH STEALS KETTLE A grinch stole a Salvation Army Christmaskettle last week andis using it to fraudulently solicit spare change in northern Utah. Thethief stole the kettle Friday at a Layton Sam’s Club store and collected donations all day, then took the kettle and the money home. Capt. Sherryle Morasky at the Ogden Salvation Armysaid having a fakekettle collector ruins thein- tegrity of her primary fund-raising method for the Army’s Sub for Santa program. Thedrive raises more than $100,000 annuallyandis a key elementin provid- ing Christmas for more than 800 families. Morasky hires people to watch the kettles if she doesn’t have enough volunteers. Friday, the person supposed to be watching the kettle didn’t show up, so someone else retrieved the kettle from the store's security office and set up shopoutfront. Realcollectors have identifica- tion anda Salvation Armybib prominently displayed Q FIRE DURING LUNCH A fire in Salt Lake City caused 200 West and 300 South streets to be closed for an hour just after lunch Tuesday. “It caused quite a commotion downtown,” said Capt. Devin Villa, spokesman for the Salt Lake City Fire Department. A former bistro at 168 W. 300 South caught firewhile workers were cutting through metal bow tresses with a torch. The buildingis being demolished. Villa said workers thought they had put out the fire before they went to lunch, but when they returned, theydiscovered smoke. Firefighters extin- guishedthe fire in 15 minutes. “Fires like that are bad more for environmental reasons than for costs,” Villa said a NO SIGN OF BOY Murray policestill have not been able to find the body of5-year-old Marshall Webb, whofell in the Jordan River on Noy. 23. Lt. Alex Huggard said he hopes to continue the search by boat Saturday. Webb's moth- The Postal Service is red-faced about a report of mailboxthefts over the Thanksgiving weekend, but the missing mail turned out to have been picked up by a postal employee.“We're embarrassed,” said Salt Lake City Postmaster Ralph Hamilton. “But the security of the mail is so importantto us, that when it appeared somehad beenstolen, we wanted to quickly notify our previously reported. “I watched as his little foot slipped,” she said. Rice has beguna trust fund at Mountain America Credit Union, 1298 E. Murray-Hol- laday Road, in her boy's nameto payfor funeral expenses when heis found, and to take the remains to said well today,” Keller said. y “[Teague] is really doing pretty lay soned Sunday morning, the Kellers discovered. Martin said Animal Services has found noother similar inci- But their year-old Rottweiler, Teague, evidently dined on the poisoned meat with Robin. Robin died and was crematedat Central Valley Veterinary Hospital by the time Keller returned hometo find Teague in convulsions. “My Rottweiler was walking dents in the area. Apparently, she said, the poisoners targeted spe- cific animals since the pets: next door suffered noillness and no contaminated meat was found stiff-legged,” said Keller. “He Temma Martin, spokeswomanfor ‘I'm not going to watch this dog Salt Lake County Animal Services. Not only do pets get sick and die, small children could suffer the same fate. The Kellers’ two children, Jamie, 10, and Alec, 8, are old die,’ ” Keller said. The vet sedated Teague against the effects of the poison and credits the animal’s recovery with its body weight, about 100 pounds. Robin, on the other hand, weighed only there. She said the Kellers and their raced down[totheclinic]. neighbor are ‘model pet owners” with no complaints lodged against them regarding their pets, : “There are certainly better ways to go about dealing with a barking problem, but this could have been a totally random, act,” she said. “Still, poisoning an ani. “I told him [the veterinarian], malis a horrible, horrible death.” Funeral Thursday for Utah Actor David Jensen, 50 Funeral services for actor David LamontJensenwill be Thursdayat noon at the Wasatch Lawn Mortuary Chapel, 3401 Drive, Salt Lake City S. Highland Jensen becamea familiar face in Utah, appearing on television, in films and s stage. Most re- cently, he acted in Pioneer The- cue from the director and’ move sity in his work. It’s a greatloss to the acting community.” Jensen died in an apparent suicide, according to the Salt Lake this way or that to make surethat anotheractor or someofthe extras appearedin the shot.” County Sheriff's Office. In 1969, he married Carole L. He was born Dec. 30, 1947, in Logan, son of Keith and Pearl Jensen. He was a graduate of Utah State University and received a master’s degree in theater arts from the University of California Taylor. The couple later divorced. They are the parents of two children, Jesse Taylor Jensén and Anna Maren Jensen. In 1997, he married fellow actress Jam L: An- derson. They have one son, Ryker in San Diego. During the Vietnam 1998 season opener production of “1776” and was featured in numer- ous episodes of “Touched by an David Jensen Angel.” “He was an agent's dream,” says Susie McCarty, who represented Jensen for the past 15 years. “He War, he served as a communica- Jensen. Heis survived by his wife and tions specialist in the United States Navy. He was a memberofthe Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity ents, brother Rick Jensen,sister Terrie Bryant and numerows ex- Association. Among his colleagues, Jensen was known for his generosity. “I remember being on set with him and how he always knew wherethe camera was,” says Susan Dolan, whoco-starred with him in the film “Invasion of Privacy” and severalothertelevision and movie productions. “He would take his children, of Salt LakeCity, his par- tended family members in Logan. Friends maycall tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Wasatch Lawn Mortuary and Thursday from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Hewill be buried in the Utah Veterans Memorial Park in Bluffdale. The family suggests, in lieu of flowers, donations be madetoa trust fundfor his 18month old son, Ryker, at Zions Bank in Sandy. ui were discovered at A-1 Disposal, UDOT recommended $10,000 in fines against the company. Safety inspectorsfiled a litany of safety hazards including two counts of operating a vehicle “in such a con- dition as to likely cause an acci- dent or breakdown,” 22 counts of failure to “certify that repairs @ Continued from D-1 were made or were not neces- sary,” and multiple counts of not not indicate whetherthe fines werepaidorif the company completed corrective measures. 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