UNITED STATES v. SCHARSTEIN

Crim. No. 81-21.

531 F.Supp. 460 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Victor Forest SCHARSTEIN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Kentucky, Covington Division.

January 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Rawlins, Asst. U. S. Atty., Lexington, Ky., for plaintiff.

Charles Schaffner, Covington, Ky., for Victor Scharstein.

Steven R. Jaeger, Covington, Ky., for William Walters.

Hugh Kranitz, St. Joseph, Mo., and Don W. Ziglar, Covington, Ky., for Robert Miller.

Steven E. Starke, Covington, Ky., for Ellen Orta.

A. J. Jolly, Newport, Ky., for David & Terri Herald.


OPINION and ORDER

BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

This criminal prosecution for illegally manufacturing, storing, and transporting illegal explosives was triggered when a garage in downtown Newport, Kentucky exploded without warning on April 2, 1981. Two young men were killed and some $4,000,000 of property damage occurred over a wide area of the city.

Subsequent investigation by agents of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms led...

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