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Show c2 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Friday, June 4, 1999 _ CLOSE TO HOME | ana Oe Wererace OF vee clesetohome con wa Meee KEFFLER _ INDUSTRIES Utah Prepares to Arm Police Officers With College Diplomas requests for 15 graduates. has asked for the most. New program provides scholarships to students entering law enforcement BY GREG BURTON THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE Five years after President Clinton and Congress offered local agencies millions of dollars to better train and educatetheir police officers. cepted Utah has ac- Utah becomes the 23rd state to organize Police Corps. a federally funded programthat promises would-be police officers up to $30,000 in college scholarships in return for a four-year commitment to a law-enforcement career. Local agencies who ac- police forces by 16 percent and. the president prom- salaries Its intention is to increase the number of community-oriented patrol officers with advanced educa Justice. U has received funding to graduate 60 officers a year for the next eight years. You don't haveto havea college degree to be a goodcop. but. inthis day andageof high technology it can only help.” a Thursday pres Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said during conference. “Such public-private partnerships can only enhance law enforcement’s ability to respondto local needs. FOR THE RECORD Police Corps was a small but integral part of Clin GUILTY IN BASE JUMPING CASE A California man was found guilty of a misdemean: or Thursday in US. District Court for his role in the BY MARK HAVNES. a Lake Powell cliff in 1994. After a twotrial. Magistrate Samuel Alba ruled Dennis McGlynn and his THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Writings fromthe Jing Dynasty. which ruled Chi na A.D, 256-317, tell of the discovery of “dragon Davis. Calif. was killed Sept. 15, 1994, when his airfoil hooked slamming him into theside of a 600-foot cliff on the Utah side of Lake Powell, McGlynn, 36. of Truckee, Calif. faces up to 6 months in jail and a $5.000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 27 McGlynn was acquitted of a charge of sponsoring the chff jumping trip without a commercial permit) He says he plans to appeal thecase in hopes of rever: the National Park Service s ban on so-called jumping (parachuting from Buildings, Spans and arth forms) “BA‘ Antennae Thomas Jared Pearl, a former Kennedy family staff- er. pleaded innocent Thursday to seven felony counts of distributing child pornography on the Internet and attempting bones” that paleontologists today werereally dinosaur fossils are convinced Some of those bones will be on displayas part of the Dinosaurs of China” exhibit opening Saturd and running through Labor Day at the Ogden City Mall The exhibit, sponsored by Ogden'’s Eccles Dino- saurPark, will include eight dinosaur skeletons, di- nosaur eggs and one of the uldest fossil birds ever discovered. An array of other fossils will also be on display, ‘The including many from Utah Chineseexhibit was assembledin Beijing with bones unearthed fromseveral Chinese provinces and inner Mongolia. some of them from a 1986 expedi TRIAL FOR KENNEDY EX-STAFFER to arrange a sexual encounterwith a juve tion involving Canadian and lS. paleontologists Brooks Britt. director of the Eccles Dinosaur Park, says the exhibit contains a mixture of original bones and ones cast fr wwered in a dry was arrested last monthafter arriving in Utah, suppos- He says the fossilized luke bed. represent an inter primitive and modernbirds Internet chat room. Investigators say the 12-year-old In the samearea. paleontologists also discovered evidence of dinosaurs with feathers. “Someof the nile fhe 39 year-old man from Potomac. Md.. is being held without bail in the Salt Lake County Jail. Pearl edly to have sex with a Logangirl he had met in an girl was a decoy oO MAN ACCUSED OF SEX ASSAULT A mansingled out froma police lineup wasjailed Friday and accusedof groping a womananddropping his pants in broad daylight in a Logan mall parking lot. Jason Werner, 25, of Logan, was charged with aggra vated sexualassault, afirst-degreefelony, for alleged- ly accosting 19-year-old womanat the CacheVailey Mall on May 18. Werner, who hasa criminal record groped the womanin front of witnesses before she brokefree, Loganpolice Lt. Kevin Christensen said } CHILDREN TRAPPED IN CAR Two Ogden children were foundunconscious but not seriously harmed after locking themselves inside a family car and playing with anaerosol can of engine starting fluid, said Odgenpolice Lt. Clark Combe. The mother of the 2- and 3-year-oldsiblings, who policedid not immediately identify, called police after finding the children outside their home, 1625 S. 24th Street, at 0 p m. The womanapparently tried to findthetwo or 15 minutes. at one point enlisting neighbors to help, beforeseeing them inside the locked family car The children were taken to McKay-Dee Hospital in stable condition Jiate stage between A 31-year-old Sal was charged with second-degree attempted homicide on Thursday in 3rd District Court A $500,000 arrest warrant also was issued for lupita “Peke” apparently fled after the May 29 shooting. to court documents, Pea, his sister and his band. Darrell Beaman. Pea, who According sister's hus were drinking together at home and at several bars when Peadisplayed a silver colored 45-cahber handgun) While dnving between parties. Beaman asked Pea to put the weapon away and an argument ensued At 1392S 900 West, Pea ered his sister to stop the vehicle and he and Bea ma continued arguing. Then Pea allegedly shot Bea man twice As Beamanwas rolling on the ground, Pea allegedly said. “You don't ever test me.” and ther ordered his sister to drive away Beaman ts tn critical will direct Utah's Police Corps. ter Seventeen agencies “But wecan do bet- have requested graduates from Utah’s first Police Corps class. scheduled for July. The Salt Lake City Police Department. with greebut becauseof the time or the moneyit hasn't been possible. This makesit possible.” Utah’s first Corpsclass will likelyconsist of soon- to-be college graduates who will be reimbursed for their college expenses. As the program develops. Betterton said recruitment will be targeted to college freshmen and sophomores who can earn up to 00 a year for expenses while in college. Currently veteran officers who wantto go back to college aren't eligible for the program, although Ortega and other law-enforcement leaders hope to changethat. public fascination with dinosaurs will bring in shop pers to the mall. Other exhibits sharing space in malls around the country have been successful Francis says Britt says the Ogden exhibit will not have the stodgy feeling of many museums, where dinos exhibits are cordoned off from the public. Instead, the Ogdenshowwill allow the public to handle the fossils Howcan a 30-poundkid hurt a femur bone from a sauropod?” Britt says. Thegrand openingis planned Saturday beginning at nvonand lasting until 8 p.m. with special children’s activilies, tours and lectures. In addition Britt will discuss dinosaurs at 1 p.m.. 3 p.m. and 5 pm After Saturday, the exhibit can be seen from noon Ryan Galbraith’ The Salt Lake Tribune Sage Wingetpieces together a Sichuanosaurus skeleton as part of an exhibit of dinosaurs from China opening Saturday at Ogden City Mall. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturdayand on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $4.50 for adults and $3.50 for those under 17. The admission price also includes entrance to the Eccles Dinosaur Park 1544 E. Park Bivd Arval P. Gordon's kids want to make sure that everyone knows that Dad is GOLDEN“ ANNIVERSARY WILFORD AND JACQUELINE WALKENHORST Thechen ofWild ine NUS CONGRATULATIONS ON 50 YEARS Britt iteday at an ice cream social from 4-6 exhibit because it had the room. Eccles Park officials hopeto havean exhibit hall downtheroad, but they didnot want to let the opportunity to show the China exhibitslip by Debra Francis, a spokeswoman for the mall says S.L. County Commissioner Focuses on Reducing Crime Salt Lake County has spent $130 million to build its Shurtleff asked the county's 14 mayors for help in keeping inmatesout of it Shurtleff announced a new effort at reducing crime through cooperation betweencity and county law-enforcement agencies, courts, government officials and the public, culminating in a “Crime Reduction Confer- ence” in September to develop concreteplans to ac- complishit While the rest of the country 6 Hill Cli the Sun 400 W.. seAtmeric s Fobrhous: No xifis please an JACK and FRANCELIA PALUSO JUNE 4, 1949-1999 Love, ne your children Marsha, he PROS NATURAL GAS SYSTEMS sparkling new jail’ On Thursday, Commissioner Mark ‘The answer isn't {0 just say, ‘© County man who allegedly after arguing over a handgun Graduates mustbe assigned to thestreet ‘This is by no means meant to indict the current training practices — I'm a product of the current training practices.” said Cmdr. KenBetterton. who Britt says the Ogden City Mall was pickedfor the $ crimerateis going said Shurtleff, who supervises the county's human services bureaucracies RELATIVE CHARGED IN SHOOTING tions. Corpsclass, estimates only 15 percent of his 96-person squad hasa college degree. “One of the challenges for the law-enforcement profession right nowis to do exactly that — make ita profession.” he said. ‘This is a tremendous opportunity. There are a lot of cops that want a college de- boneswerenext to well preserved imprints of hairlike feathers coming off a dinosaur’s arm.” said down, crime is going up ini Utah.” shot his brother-in-law ised. help reduce crime quested two graduates from Utah's first Police Dinosaurs of China Exhibit Makes Wayto Ogden death of a fellow parachutist during anillegal leapoff company. Gravity Sports Ltd., illegally “delivered Paul G, Thompsonwithinthe park. Thompson, 52. of ton’s promiseto put 100,000 newpoliceofficers on Americanstreets by 2000, a goal that would boost cept Corps graduates receive $40.000tohelpoffset Theprogramis fully funded by the Department of AtterroshG caught fifth time making personal phonecalls. Bruce wasordered to movehis desk up next to Mr. Keffler's. RyanGalbraith The Salt Lake Tribune Sen. Orrin Hatch speaksat the press conference wherethe Utah Police Corps was announced. ‘This job has become much more complex, and the scrutiny of what we do has increased dramatically.” said Salt Lake City Police Chief Ruben Ortega. “It really takes moreskills, especially better communication skills, to be a police officer today. In response, we need to better educate our forces.” Ortega estimates 20 percent of his officers have had at least two years of college. Provo Police Chief Gregory Cooper, who has re- ‘Lock ‘emall up’ The answer is to help people attack their problems at a local level. 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