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Show ine B2 UTAH Tuesday, January 14, 2003 rr PUBL AFETY NE PUBLIC ENEMY NAILED Salt Lake City policecap tured the latest Public Enemy No. | following a short foot pursuit Friday Officers were dispatchedon a call of a man with a gun and recognized among celebrations and remembrances Marcus Crocker, 23, as they ut Mond school and neared a Chevronstation at 500 S. West Temple. They ar rested Crocker and found a gun they say he dropped near the gas station. Crocker was wanted on a no-bail felony warrantfor a paroleviolation The Salt Lake area gangunit has named 13 public enemies sinceJuly and has captured 12, with Gordan Gallegos, 20 eading the s ‘Day on’ ofservice taken the third w Martin Luther SIE TROVE King’s work v presented by a “day on” 0 HIFORING t Take Community Col lege hi joined this effort, or beingtheonly exception Gangunitofficers suspect Gallegoshas left the state 4 CAR ACCIDENT DEATH A 2% year old Orem woman died Sunday from injuriessuf feredina three car collision Saturday night in Spanish Fork Canyon Julie George was one of 12 people injured in the accident about 7.45 p.m. Saturday on U.S. 6 near Sol dier Summit. Shedied from headinjuries 15 hours later The accident occurred when a white Chevy Lumina appar ently encountered ice on the road, crossedthe centerline andstruck the car in which George was riding The third vehicle, a pickup truck, rear endedthat car and then was struck by the Lumina. One of the Lumina’s passenyers was ejected and landed between the car and the pickup truck, “day on” where volunt from the (Salt Lakearea 1 high will spend the Jan. 20 volunteering at vari nprofit, organizations. also will host a service BY! project at 8.30 a.m. at the Wilkinson Center. To. learr about ny opportunities to erve on this day, go its did the same with its 24th Street in 1995. Events planned for this ar’s holiday and surround ne days range from luncheons, highlighting community lead ers to speechesand films. Free unless otherwise indicated they include: @ The University of Utah's 19th annual celebration, What Happens to a Dream Deferred?” begins today with past dozen years, man Rights Commission, which is charged with up in advance at KingsburyHall Salt Lake Community College will host speakers Vir- gil A. Wood and Bryan Barrows at 11 a.m. Wednesday in room TB 203 at the college's Redwood Campus, 4600 S. Red: wood Road. Wood is a Baptist minister who worked with King on the 1963 March on Washington, while Barrow isa storyteller whowill perform a one-manplayabout the life of King. @ The Martin Luther King Jr, Human Rights Commission will hold its Drum Major tives,” at noon at the Gould Auditorium, and a student performance, “The Road to from11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Grand Hall in the Union Pa- Brown An Exploration.” Interactive Brown University history “Hu Utah has made other strides to honor King. In 1991, Gov Norm Bangerter created the fartin Lather King Jr. Hu Ticketsarefree, but must be picked 1 panel discussion, “The Im pact of Anti-Diversity Initia will deliver the celebration’s keynote address at noon Wed: mime to honor King peciticall Over the the professor Evelyn Hu DeHart man Rights Day” in 1986, but in 2000. oalition of Utah fovernment agencies, non profit er ind lawmakers persisided the Legislature to change Salt Lake City Coun |] 600 South as ither King Jr. Blvd, Ogden City Council to wwwoinlkday.org. The holiday began as Mar nd performance by Grammy: award-winning jazz singer Diane Reeves. nesday at the Olpin Ballroom. On Thursday at 7 p.m., the Oscar nominated documen. tary “Legacy” will be shown in the Olpin Union Theatre, and on Friday at 9 pm, KUED Channel 7 will air “A Dream Deferred? Utah in’ Hard Times, Concluding the U.'s_ ecle bration on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall will be the presentation of Leadership Awards followed by a Awards Luncheon on Friday cific Depot, 400 W. South Temple. The commission will recog- nize individuals, companies and organizations, as well as eight elementary schools throughout the state, that ex. emplify unity through diversity. Register at www.dced. Associa Utah Jazz will give a $1,000 scholarship to an individual selected by the branch. The branchwill also recognizethe Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest winners from grad: utah.gov or call 538-8801. 7-12. Theevent costs $10 per per son, $25 for those18 and under Call 250-5088, @AIso on Monday. BYI! Monday at noon at the Little Multicultural Student Ser America Hotel, 500 S. Main. The branch will present the vices will lead the “Walk for ®TheSalt Lake Branch of the NAACPwill hold its 20th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Luncheon on Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks Awards, and the Life.” Beginning at 5:30 p.m., the walk will go fromthe Carrillon but did not sustainlife threateninginjuries, troopers. and sermons will take place. OnJan. 21, the Utah State Historical Society will present 1 discussion by U. sociology professor ‘Theresa Martinez, Slavery, Indentured Servitude and Corsets: Have We Really Shaken Off the Legacy of the Past?” The event begins at 5:20 p.m. at the Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. 450 West Tim Sullivan INS System CHAIN GANG said. The driverof the Lumina wascited for unsafe driving. ‘Theaccident caused a three hour shutdown of U.S. 6. Bell Tower to the Wilkinson Center Terrace, where a celebration of songs, poems and excerpts from King's speeches Trouble for a DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS Higher Ed Salt Lake City police are in: vestigating two separate drive-by shootings Friday night. Thefirst occurred near 1170S. Emeryat about 6.20 Only two Utah schools have federal clearance p.m., when a passenger ina white Luminafired several rounds at two people walking northbound. One person was struck in the thigh and taken to LDS Hospital in serious BY KIRSTEN ond shooting occurred about 11:10 p.m. near 1100 North and Utah colleges and universities say they are ready and willing to 700 West. Twopeople were deploy the new automated foreign. driving westbound on North student tracking system mandated byCongress. he only trouble is, the Immi- Temple when a dark compact sedan droveupbehind them and flashed its lights. The vic. tim turnedright and pulled fon and Naturalization Service, which designed the system, has givenjust a few schools clearanceto use it and the Jan. 30 implementation deadline is fast over. Thevehicle pulled in behindthecar, andthe passen ger got out and shot out the rear tires, then beganfiring rounds into the car. A passen: ger wasstruckonceinthe leg andwastakento Salt Lake Re gional Hospital in serious con dition STEWART ‘THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE condition, police said. The sec approaching. “My fearis the feds have put the brakes on approvals so they can slow the flow of international students into the country,” said Boyd Bauer, international studies direc- DannyLa/The Salt Lake Tribune Debbie Elmer, a licensed child-care provider, helpschildren in her care to stretch a paper chain out in her front yard in Sandy. The chain, made upof1,422 colored pieces of paper, took about 6 weeks to make while the children were on short breaks from year-round school. tor at Utah Valley State College. “If Two Tied to Racist Faction Get Prison for Killing Victim was bound, beaten and had head crushed by heavy rock BY STEPHEN HUNT THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Two menwith ties to a white su premacist prison gang were sent to prison Monday for their part in a gruesomeslaying that stemmed from stolen drugs The victim, Don M. Dorton, was beaten, gagged, wrapped in a sheet and boundwith duct tape, then taken to a remote location in Salt Lake County, where his head was crushed with an 83-poundrock child, according to prosecutors. Grueber, convicted by a jury of Kenneth Paul Hunter,32, was sen: tenced to 15 years to life for beating and helping to bind the victim. Hunter was convicted by a 3rd District Court jury of first-degree felony murder and aggravated kidnapping. day ofthe slaying, and that he raninto Two other defendants Larry Robert Rasmussen, and Calvin him to the WestValleyCity apartment pleaded guilty to third-degreefelony counts of homicide by assault and at tempted kidnapping for holding the victim while others taped him up. Judge Robin Reese ordered Graves next month. Prosecutorssaidall the defendants except Grueber are members of the Silent Aryan Warriors (SAW), who met while serving time at the Utah Last week, David Woodson Camp State Prison Grueberhadnot beento prison and was not a member, but wastrying to prison for up to 30 years, Campbell said. Dorton was not a memberofthe had pleaded guilty to second-degree gang but associated with members, prosecutors said. Defense attorney Scott Williams argued in favor of probation for felony count of manslaughter and kidnapping. A groupof at least six men some of whom had been smoking metharr phetamine attacked 36-year-old Dorton on Oct. 10, 2001, believing he he man who committed the mur: der by dropping the heavy rock onto had stolen an ounce of meth, which sentenced Mondaybut refused to be was found hidden beneatha sleeping transported from jail, attorneys said Dorton’s head, 19-year-old Darren Neil Grueber Jr., was scheduled to be “happen- was rescheduled for sentencing Jan. 28 before Judge Reese. Wesley Jensen, 44 are expected to resolve their cases with plea deals by bell Jr., 81, who drove the victim to where he was killed, was sentenced to it was stance” that Graves was in Utahthe Gordon Pattan Graves, 27, had two OtoSyear prison terms to run concurrently. Williams said murder and aggravated kidnapping, join so he could earn thetattoo that identifies SAW members, prosecutors Graves, who he said wasthe least culpable of the six defendants. He said Graves had been living and working in Idaho and was trying to disassociate himself fromthe gang. we miss the deadline we won't be | able to enroll as manyas 150 foreign | | students next summer.” As of Monday,at least two other schools werein a holding pattern — | | Westminster College and the Unive ‘ity of Utah. | teve Branch, Utah INSdirector, couldn't say whetherthere are more schools awaiting approval, nor how another SAW member and went with long schools should expect to wait. Thenew mules apply to any postsec- where Dorton was beaten and bound. But prosecutor Vincent Meister said Graves knew there had been a ondary institution that enrolls foreign students, from cosmetology problem involving drugs and that “nothing good could happen”bygoing schools to research universities. Delays could stem simply from to the home. Meister said Graves also knew he this being such “a huge undertak- ing,” said Bauer, who is nevertheless frustrated by the lack of infor- could have done somethingto help the victim, “but didn't wantto look weak” in front of other SAW members. mation coming from Washington. It's kindoflike the blind leading Defense attorney Clayton Simms said Hunter also was “at the wrong place at the wrong time,”andstill in: the blind. We did our part. We had oursitevisit in early November. We hadourselvesin really good order.” sists he is innocent. Meister countered that Hunter Under development for more than a decade, the Internet-based Student and Exchange Visitor In- “knew why he was going” when he was summoned to the apartment where Dorton was attacked. While in jail, Meister said, Hunter attempted to persuade co-defendants to share in | formation formation so they could “get their stories straight.” | 68,000 schools keep records on the nation's 550,000 foreign students. The project took on renewed urgency last year with the discovery that three of the Sept. 11, 2001, hi- 900 South Derailment Could Have Been Prevented, Officials Say System (SEVIS) com- pletely changes the way around jackers werein the United States on studentvisas. Now, bylaw, colleges must up- date the database anytime a foreign student drops or adds a class, and moves or changes majors within 30 BY HEATHER MAY ‘THESALT LAKETRIBUNE ‘The train derailment on 900 South last month was caused by a mechani cal problem that probably should have been spotted by Union Pacific inspec tors, railroad officials said Monday. Seven cars derailed Dec. 7, east of 700 West. The problem car had been inspected days before the accident for unrelated troubles. Inspectors did not notice the wear in parts between the wheels that prevented the car from negotiating curves in the track, said Mike Quihuiz, UP mechanical man ager for two Utah rail yards. ‘The problem should have been spotted when the car got a new wheel earlier in Oregon. “It was a mechanical problem that should have been found.” About 120 residents wholive near the 900 South line were told the cause of the derailment Monday as they gathered with Mayor Rocky Anderson and UP officials to discuss ways to mitigate the impact ofthe 900 South trains. A tentative agreement with the railroad includes quiet zones, fencing the track, a 30 mph speedlimit, cross. ing guards and a pledge by UP to avoid using 900 South to carry high-level nuclear waste unless ordered to by the Because UPpreviously pledged to abandon theline, residents wondered vhy they should trust the company msorry, I don't trust you [UP] said MaryLee Anderton. Later s she grudgingly supported the agreement. “The whole situation sucks. It bites the big one.” Salt Lake City will spendup to $2.5 million to add the crossing gates nec: essary to create quiet zones and to maintain the fencing along the track. earthquake,” the mayor said. But he also seemed incredulous that some were rejecting the idea. “If you want us to walk away from these negoti tions, you're making a big mistake. Michael Clara, an Anderson foil maintenance of the gates. It also will ling 900 South issues, was unusually conciliatory and did not criti cize the mitigation plan. work with the city to get the Federal ‘ailroad Administration to approve quiet zones. The mayor, who said he slept in a sometimes hostile. home about 15 feet from the track Sunday night, admitted thetentative * tracks that will not be included in the quiet zones. And the vibrations will not stop. “It felt like we were living through an UP will payfor the fence and ongoing federal government. Anderson now will decide whether to finalize the agreement The audience was skeptical and it will not mitigate all the problems. He was awakened by whis: tles coming from trains on other inderson said he also will work with UPto get the company to either abandon the track or reduce the num: berof trains. , days of the change. Southern Utah University and Brigham Young University, the state's largest importers of foreign students, are among those with Clearanceto use the system. Annette Murray, SUU’s international student adviser, has been us ing SEVIS since August. “It probably helped that | applied early and we don't have an aviation program.” But Murray speculates clearances arejust the beginning of glitches and hold-ups with the new program. “I've called the help desk a million and one times. They're helpful, but even they don't have answers,” ——oe |
