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Show a TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH year-old Matthew Moya and gunned him down. The slaying was purportedlyover a drug debt. Police have notarrested the shooters. Martinez appears in court next for a scheduling hearing Jan. 3 before 3rd Dis- trict Judge Leslie Lewis. Saturday, November20, 1999 ParkingIrritant Near Schools « Hearing on Mondaywill decide on compromise for $.L.’s Judge Memorial Q A manconvictedofkilling a Laughlin, Nev., man will serve two consecutive life terms in prison. Thursday's sentence in Nevada ensures David Dunkle,27, will be behindbars forat least 50 years for killing John Ungerer Sr. in February. Dunkle, an Ohio native, pleaded guilty in September to firstdegree murderand robbery. Ungererwasshot once in the backof the head andoncein the back. Dunkle was arrested Feb. 14 in Farmington where a Utah Highway Patrol trooper saw him ina car onthesideof the road. The carturned out to be Ungerer's, and Dunkle had Ungerer's wallet. The trooper told a grand jury that he noticed a bullet hole in the side of the car and saw what he believed to be blood and flesh on Dunkle’s shoes, Ungerer’s body was found near Laughlin the next day. Q BANK ROBBER AT LARGE is studying the possibility of including a bus pass in This neighborhood of Victorian homes and bungalowswestofthe University of Utah wasbuilt before tuition bills. es Butthere isn’t much more the schoolcan do.'*We Salt LakeCity police are still searchingfor the man who robbed a Wells Fargo bank at 700 S. 200 West on Monday. The robber waited his turn in the customer line, then handed a teller a bank deposit slip de- FOR THE RECORD manding money. The clerk complied, and the man fled. The suspect is about 5-foot-8 inchestall, average build with blondcurly hair. Q After deliberating seven hours Friday on the case of a formerSalt Lake City police officer charged with assaulting a handcuffed motorist, a 3rd District jury g went homefor the weekend.Jurorswill return to ard misdemeanor assault for allegedly using excessive force when he punched 26-year-old Jorge Torres ie,-Vencesin the face on March14, 1999. Torres had been gstopped by another officer for running three red lights and possibly driving drunk. Heaps claims “Torres kicked him in the knee, causing him to fall on ihe man whoappeared to be trying to slip his handfs off. Heapssaid he punchedTorres onceto regain geetontrol. Torres — who claims memorylossfrom be- Bing struck a could notrecall kicking anyone. Prose- itor Nicholas D'Alesandro claims Heaps struck ~Dorres unnecessarily andinretaliation. Defenseattorney Ronald Yengich said Heapshada legal right to ‘strike Torres to protect himself from what appeared te be a dangerous situation. em = Qa WHEELMANAWAITS TRIAL Based on evidencefrom a preliminary hearing on Friday, a 34-year-old man was orderedto stand trial for his part in the Aug. 3 murderof anothermanina Salt Lake City home. Angel Joseph Martinez is charged with murder and aggravated burglary, both first-degree felonies, for waiting in the getaway car POLICE SEEK VAN THIEF Police were searching for the driver of a stolen mini-van who reportedly ran over andseriously injured a manin Salt Lake City on Friday morning at 430 E. 400 South, about4:55 a.m. Police did not know whatprecipitated the attack and hadlittle information,said Salt Lake City police Lt. Phil Kirk. Thevictim was taken to LDS Hospital where he waslisted in serious but stable condition Friday night. Anyone with information shouldcall the Salt Lake City police at 799-3000. Q ESCAPED PRISONER CAUGHT The search for an escaped prisoner from the Utah State Prison ended in Helper on Thursday afternoon when officers from five agencies captured him at the homeofhis ex-wife. Leo Maestas walked away from the Promontory pre-release facility in Salt Lake County, on Nov. 1, said M. Scott Henrie, supervisorof the Department of Correctionsfield office in Price. Maestaswasnearing the endofhis sentencefor felony theft and narcotics possession, and now faces addi- tional charges related to his escape. Helper Police Chief George Zamantakis said an East Carbon police officer who had arrested Maestas onthe theft charge spotted him in Helper on Nov. 16 but took no action, believing Maestashad beenreleased from prison. Po- lice werealerted to Maestas’ location by a neighbor. Zamantakis said Maestaswasarrested at about3 p.m. after opening the front door of the house, expecting his children were coming homefrom school. aa “It kindofrevitalizes Oxygen Bar Offers Fresh Air, you.” Relaxation Trista Richards Oxygenbar patron ee @ Continued from D-1 Although oxygen bars are States. In the past three years about 50 of them have openedin Los Angeles, NewYork City, Den- ver andothercities. Jessica Spangler, who manages Aria Fresca Latin for “Fresh gaining popularity, it is not just a trend, said Matt Sinnett, who foot rub. “You can really top off your oxygen experience with someone rubbing your feet at the same time,” Sinnett said. Not surprisingly, when Trolley Square is busy, the Aria Fresca does well, said Spangler. But Utahns are somewhatreluctant to try it. She estimated half the people who stopbythe bar are tourists strolling through the mall. manages 02, a Los Angeles-area oxygen bar and organic ve; Besides Trolley Square, Greer operates an oxygen bar at Club ian restaurant owned by WoodyHarrelson. Axis in Salt Lake City. The oxygen bar opens on busy nights at the Air” — carefully avoids making medical claims about breathing the 95 percent oxygen mixture. Theoxygen bar does not serve alcohol 1 andoffers an alternative to the “smoky, nasty ” of the L.A. social scene, he . The bar club,shesaid. practice sayit increases stamina, helps the heart, detoxifies blood and helps improve memory, among other benefits. serves at least 100 customers a day, with that numberrising to a session ends, they take the tube But, she said, advocates of the Trista Richards, who worksin Trolley Square, stops by the bar a few times a week. On Friday, she played a computer gamewhilein: haling oxygen. “It kind of revital izes you,” shesaid. heady300or more on a Saturday night, Sinnett said. Los Angeles might be consid ered somewhat more cosmopoli tan than Salt Lake City, he ob: served. Some 02 customers prac: tice yoga while they imbibethe rarefied air. Others might go for a Those who belly up to the oxygen bar receive a tube through which they breathe. When the the automobile. Thelack of driveways, two-car garages and parking space at nearby high schools is obvious any weekday morning. As residents drive away from curbside parking to head for work, a student from Judge Memorial or East High or Rowland Hall-St. Mark's wedgesin a car. More often than not, it’s a Judge student whois jockeying for position — that schooldoesn't havea studentparkinglot. Andneighborsaretired of fighting with teen-agers for street parking. “I'm willing to share the parkingin the neighborhood,” said Lynell Gardner. “But I fee! like we've had to surrender.” 493-3062 Robert Holt, a father of four Judge students, "sug- bors’ request will push the students into another “Curb space is the property of Salt Lake City,” idents could park oneitherside any day. City Transportation Director Tim Harpstwill decide after a City Hall public hearing Mondayat noon whetherto stari switchingsides. For nearly 80 years, neighbors and the private Catholic high school have coexisted. The diocese started the schoolin an old neighborhood hospital in the 1920s. A new schoolwasbuilt in the 1960s on the samesite. Through the years, the few parking spaces available for students have given way to an auditorium andfootballfield. At the same time, more Judge students have started driving to school. Meantime, other neighborhoods have pushed out students, asking Sait Lake City for resident-only parking zones. Only a few streets east of the school remain available for student parking. Now those neighbors also wantlimits. “Judgeis the only school along the Wasatch Front that doesn’t provide parkingfor its students,” said Julia Robertson. “They're bringing over 400 cars a day into our neighborhood. We're glad to provide overflow parking for the students. But we're the parkinglot.” The Rev. John Norman, Judge president, ac- knowledgesthe problem is getting worse. The school has 940 studentsfrom ninth through 12th grade. More than a third drive to school from homesas far away as Davis, Summit, Tooele and Weber counties. Assistant City Attorney Larry Spendlove wro' er reviewing the proposal. “Generally, a nearby .sidenthas no more‘right’ to park at the curb in of his/her residence than any other member he public.” e So the neighborhoodis stuck. : Someresidents believe Judge isn’t trying hprd enough. “| They complain the students don’t use the @dewalks, instead walking through flowerbedsor ifi the middle ofthe street. Some students speed and dump garbagefrom theircars, neighborssay, while others block residents’ driveways when they park. “You'd expect someof these things to happef in a high school parking lot,” Robertson said. “They're kids. They’re goofingoff. But this just happens to be a neighborhood.” ‘ dudge students, parents and administrators feel unfairly singled out. : Kathleen McDermott drives her teen-age daughter to school every day. “She would loveto drive,” Mc- Dermott said. “And it would be a great convenience for me. But there are kids who desperately have to drive and need that space. af “Everybody has the same needs,” McDermott said. “Let's just say Judge is part of the neighborhood. Let's find something that works.” Chief Defending Pleasant Grove Police. BY RAY RIVERA ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Pleasant Grove Police Chief Tom Paul says his departmenthas beenunfairly implicated in a case of missing evidence, including cash andlarge quantities ofpills. Utah’s legislative auditor general outlined the problems dating back to 1990 in a report released earlier this week. The audit prompted the Legislature’s Audit Subcommittee to call for an in- vestigation. Both Paul and the audit say that the evidence room belonged to the now defunct Utah County Narcotics Enforcement Team, known as NET.But a discrepancy arises in just whatrole Paul says, his department played on the team. “It needs to be very clear that [NET’s] evidence room was not our evidence room, they were completely separate,” Paul said. “NET just rented space in our building. The Pleasant Grove Police Department is not missing anything fromits evidence room.” That may be,said Legislative force was run bya board ofdirectors from about a dozen police agencies in Utah County,itfclud- but the Pleasant Grove department was the lead agency in NET and provided bookkeeping and other administrative support. Paul acknowledged. “I know:for a fact there were five keys outthere, but myconcern isit has no’ ig to Auditor General Wayne Welch, Former Pleasant Grove Lt. Mike Blackhurstalso directed the task ing Provo, Orem and the“Utah CountySheriff's Department. “T believe there’s no quéstion the narcotic enforcement.team was sloppy with its evidéhce,” do with the Pleasant Grove Police Department.” Paul said media reports gener- force at a time when many of the items are believed to have disappeared. And among those who had a key to the evidence room were ated from the audit have madehis Blackhurst and Paul. residents. ; NET, meanwhile, has begn re- “They had certain oversight responsibilities to ensure [the evidence room] was run properly,” placed by the Utah Major Crimes ‘Task Force. Orem Police Lt. Steve Clark, who headsthe task force, Welchsaid. Paul, however, says the task department unfairly suspect in the eyes of some Pleasant Grove said any ofits past problemsthave been corrected. NEWS TIP HOTLINE See or know of something we need to be covering? 257-8742 '7Order NOW..... for the holidays patrons could breathe oxygen through masks. But both the club and the oxygenbar have closed. Salt Lake City M-F 10am-5pm lenged the approval process. Someare fighting again. residential area. 4 A student subcommittee made this suggestion: Allow residents to sell their parking passes to.students for $24 a year. City transportationofficials,and attorneys rejected thatidea. 32 Now Bt 1 Top Down Botiom wp feature 5 1 Widche apre ah | os present compo ene perchane ! 1 ' coaeee see ont 1850 South State Street dential parking permits when Judge parents ehal- mise. ‘The club included an area where On Sale November 22nd - 24th neighborhood, aroundSalt Lake Community College andin City Creek Canyon. iS Fouryears ago, Salt Lake City transportation officials denied the neighborhood its petition for resi- After five weeks of meetings, city transportation officials have suggested a truce,of sorts. Rather than eliminate street parking for students, they propose alternating street parking: On odd days, students could park on the odd-numbered side ofthe street; on even days, students could park on the even side. Res- Greer's is not the first oxygen barin Salt Lake City. CRYSTAL SILVER AND PEWTER SILVERWARE CUTLERY Salt Lake City has seven residential permit parking areas, including one by LDS Hospital, another around the University of Utah, others in the Avertues gested in a Sept. 14 letter that the neighbors’petition be scrapped. He said the restricted parking areas around Judge are different from the others. The seven otherresident-only parking areas have adequate street parking nearby. Granting Judge ng@jgh- A group opened a Salt Lake City nightclub called the Vortex. 0% OFF have limited resources. We're not a brand-new school. We don’t have access to other pieces of property. 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