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Show CampusHews Page 4 s ...and you may win a free T-Shirtand Restaurant Gift Certificates. Keep checking The Statesman for details. 2 people appear in court for 80 missing cars THE WAR Is OVER! WANKING G YKAHS IN IRAQ Marking The Cost Of War Friday, March 20th USU Taggart Student Center Fountains 9:00 AM - 4 PM: Eyes Wide Open and Cost of War Exhibits USU Taggart Student Center Auditorium 11:00 AM • 12:20 PM: Movie: The Ground Truth" 12:20 PM - until gone: FREE Pizza outside the auditorium 12:30 PM -1:20 PM: "The War Is Over! Right?" presentation 1:30 PM • 2:20 PM: "Understanding Afghanistan" presentation 2:30 PM-4:10 PM: Movie "Why We Fight" 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM: Walk from TSC to the Peace Vigil Logan 5:00 PM -6:00 PM: Peace Vigil, SO N Main St. 6:30 PM: Potluck Dinner, followed by "Understanding Afghanistan" presentation, at Cache Valley Unitarian Universal Fellowship, 596 E 900 N.( Logan TOOELE, Utah (AP) - Two people arrested in connection with the disappearance of more than 80 vehicles from a western Nebraska car dealership made their first appearance in a Utah court on Tuesday. Rachel Fait, 37, and Allen Patch, 52, part owner of Legacy Auto Sales, appeared in 3rd District Court but didn't speak at the hearing. They are expected to be extradited to Nebraska. Patch and Fait were arrested separately in Utah after 86 vehicles worth more than $2.5 million were reported missing from the dealership in Scottsbluff, Neb. Arrest warrants for Patch and Fait, along with another top Legacy executive. Rick Covello, 53, were issued last week. All three were arrested on suspicion of theft. The missing cars and trucks have all been located. Sixty-nine were in Utah, mostly at several dealerships; six were at the Scottsbluff airport; a truckload of nine vehicles was in Las Vegas; one was in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Evanston, Wyo.; and Covelio drove one to turn himself into Scottsbluff authorities. After the hearing, Fait's attorney, Douglas F. White, said she told him the Nebraska dealership had been struggling and was in the process of being sold to another dealership in town. Patch and Fait were liquidating stock and had titles to the cars, he said. The deal, planned for months, was legitimate and "standard operating procedure," he said. "They were absolutely and totally shocked to be arrested," White said. Patch's attorney, Robert Hughes of Salt Lake City, has said his client also believed he had a right to sell the vehicles, and he intended to pay Toyota for them once they were all sold. Patch brought most of the cars back to Utah because he used to own several dealerships there and believed he could sell the cars more quickly and at a better price, Hughes has said. Hughes wasn't in court Tuesday. Police got involved on March 10 after a representative for Toyota Financing reported the vehicles stolen, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. The Toyota representative told police the only reason a car dealer would obtain temporary titles and remove vehicles from the lot, as Legacy did, would be "to run and convert them into cash," according to the affidavit. Scotts Bluff County authorities are treating this as a crime because of the way the vehicles were moved and because Toyota Financing reported the cars stolen. "It doesn't look legitimate still," John Childress, chief deputy attorney, said Monday. Childress said investigators are still going through the dealerships records, bank records and the records related to the missing cars. "We're still trying to figure out exactly what they intended to do with the money once the cars were sold," Childress said. He says it looks like Patch and Legacy Auto would have lost a substantial amount of money if they had paid off Toyota after selling the cars because of the costs involved and the amount owed. "I don't know why you do something like this and lose hundreds of thousands of dollars," Childress said. Fait and Patch remain at the Tooele County jail pending extradition. Covello appeared in Scotts Bluff County Court Friday where his bond was set at $4,000. Covello posted bond and has been released from jail. ID of Utah remains could take up to 2 weeks Sponsored by: • • • • • Wednesday, March 18, 2009 USU Journalism and Communication Department Cache Valley Peace Worts Cache Valley Unitarian Universal^ Fellowship Logan Friends Meeting (Quakers) Mormons for Equality and Social Justice - Cache Valley DENVER (AP)-The identification of human remains found last week in eastern Utah with the help of an FBI "cooperating witness" in Colorado could take up to two weeks, the Grand County, Utah, sheriff said Tuesday. For more informaton, please contact info@kiganpeace,org or visit www.toganpeace.org TIER II TUITION PROPOSAL PUBLIC FORU March 23, 2009,1 p.m. Student Cenleir Sunburst Lounge All ooncerned students and citizens are invited to the public hearing, Comments afe welcome -Budget reduction -Student initiatives -Operating budgets -Library support Sheriff Jim Nyland said the remains were found March 11 in a remote canyon about 5 miles west of the Colorado border, north of Interstate 70. Nyland said a search of the area was conducted at the request of the FBI in Denver, the Boulder County, Colo., District Attorney's Office, and other Colorado law enforcement agencies. Nyland said Scott Kimball, a 42-year-old Colorado man serving a 48-year sentence for theft in Boulder County, claimed there were two bodies in the area. The possible victims are Leann Emry, 24, and Jennifer Marcum, 25, of Colorado, Nyland said. Emry, of Centennial, Colo., and Marcum, of Denver, disappeared in 2003. A search of the Utah canyon area for a second victim is pending, Nyland said. In May, the FBI in Denver said it was investigating the disappearances of Emry and Marcum as well as of Kaysi McLeod, 19, and Terry Kimball, 60, who also lived in the Denver area. At the time, the FBI said the victims had known connections to Scott Kimball. The three women disappeared in 2003. Terry Kimball, Scott Kimball s uncle, disappeared in 2004. Nyland said Scott Kimball went to the Utah area in handcuffs with law enforcement last week. Kimball has not been charged in the disappearances. A call to Lynn Anne Pierce, Kimball's attorney in a pending federal weapons case, was not immedi- ately returned Tuesday. Wright said the Utah search was conducted at the FBI's request. She declined to elaborate, saying it is an ongoing investigation. Boulder County District Attorney Stanley Garnett also declined comment. Kimball pleaded guilty in December to felony theft and being a habitual offender, leading to the long prison sentence, according to court documents. In a 2006 affidavit for a search warrant filed in federal court, an FBI agent said Scott Kimball was a cooperating witness with the agency in Marcum's disappearance. The affidavit was filed to seek information into the disappearances of Marcum, McLeod and Terry Kimball. Lawmaker says not to worry about video games bill SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A state lawmaker says people calling for Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to veto a bill on video game sales don't need to worry about the legislation. Rep. Michael Morley, RSpanish Fork, says misleading statements are circulating about House Bill 353. Groups, including one called the Video Game Voters Network, have started an e-mail writing campaign asking for the veto. The group says that if the bill becomes law it will expose Utah video game stores to frivolous lawsuits. But Morley says the bill exposes stores to civil action only if they advertise that they doesn't sell video games rated "Mature" to underaged kids, but then do it anyway. Morley says the bill includes no criminal penalty and that stores could only face civil action after the third violation. Strings: Science and music combine [I continued from page 1 Brian Greene, author of "The Elegant Universe," a best-selling book on string theory, said the songs performed may have nothing to do with science, but the music is more a part of science than people realize. "Everything physical in this universe of ours," Greene said. "Everything we know or are likely ever to know, is part of this cosmic symphony ... is made from the same fundamental music/' Students are encouraged to sign up for EDINBURGH & CmrANDER the songwriting competition, and Pflieger said there are still spots available. The evening's performances are free and open to the public. Artists who wish to register for the event should submit a registration form, including a $5 registration fee to TSC room 326 by 5 p.m. Monday, March 23, Pflieger said. 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