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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, Anjmst 23, 'Throat Movie Grand Jury Indicts 12 After Nets Big Fine SYRACUSE, N Y. (AP) - A theater operator, convicted of obscenity for showing the sex film Deep Throat, drew a $26,878 fine in city court Friday Herman Hausman, ALTON, ILL. A federal grand jury investigating a series of mistaken-identitdrug raids Friday indicted eight y 52. was fined by Judge William J. Burke under a section of the obscpmty statute that permits a penalty equal to double the profits gained selling a prod-- ' uct deemed pornographic. ipi By Laszlo K. Domjan United Press International i! federal and four local narcotics agents on charges of depriving 11 persons of their constitutional nghts The the agents indictment said without acted probable cause or search warrants" when thy broke into six homes m Collinsville, East St. Louis and Edwardsvdle, 111, dunng a five-da- y period last April. Two occupants of the homes were assaulted while they were handcuffed and a thud man was jailed for three days without being charged with a crime, the indictment charged. Mistaken-Identit- y Three of the agents later sought to cover up the incidents by trying to "tone down reports to investigators. it said. Three of the agents also were charged with lying to the federal grand jury. The agents were attached to the St. Louis office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement Six were from the Bureau of Nar cotics and Dangerous Drugs and two from the Treasury Department The local agents three from the St Louis police department and one from the East St Louis police dewere on loan to partment the drug abuse office during the raids John R Bartels Jr., acting administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, P173 T BLACK A DCCKfR 1 ) SINGLE. EDGE Drug Raids announced immediately after the indictments were returned that the six drug office agents were suspended without pay Some of the raid victims filed damage suits have against the federal go'em-men- t The six indicted narcotics bureau agents are William C. Dwyer, Kenneth R. Bloomker, Dennis R. Monaniy, Dennis Marker, Michael and Leon Phillips llillchrand The Treasury agents are Tom Tevssier of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Rureau and Calvin Culp of the Internal Revenue Service The St Louis policemen are Ronald J. Olive, Donald W. Spicer and Daniel J. Dutfy. The East St. Louis policeman is Lester An- derson. SHRUB & HEDGE TRIMMER $12.88 for Side r if fit or left h md use, coniotu grip feat handle. De cast aluminum housing is well balanced lightweight durable. Affordable low pru? modtl. AfUNVLACETOSHOP KETCHUMS SAIT LAME OGOfN |