The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 55, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 3, 1999 Page: 3 of 24
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TG&Y store reports burglary
POLICE BEAT
The TG&Y store at 2399 North
Alexander Drive reported a bur-
glary sometime late Thursday. 1-1
The thief or thieves made off With household goods valued at $110, jewelry valued dt $510 and elec-
tronic devices valued at $950. J 1 '
Motor of aluminum boat gets stolen on New Yearns Eve
Natural Exploration employees staying at a motel inThe 4900 block of Interstate 10 reported that a
motor to an aluminum boat was stolen sometime Thursday.
Police get information of stolen pickup truck
A pickup truck valued at $8,500 was stolen from the 600 block of Scenic Drive early f hurSday.
Resident reports theft of medications
Someone stole medications from a resident at 1608 Massey Tompkins Ro^d late Wednesday. Value of
the drugs was $600.
Thieves take power tools from truck
Power tools and other equipment valued at more than $1,900 was taken from the open bed of a pickup
truck in the 79 block of Bay way Drive sometime between last Wednesday and Saturday.
Area business reports man's $1,500 theft
Pilot Travel Center at 6110 Interstate 10 reported that a man stole $1,500 in electronic devices Thursday
evening. •
Police Beat is compiled from police reports by Sun staff repprter Jim Webre.
Authorities discover explosives
By KIM CURTIS
Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) • - A
veteran utility worker has been
arrested after authorities discov-
ered a bomb and enough bomb^
making materials to blow up a
house at two Pacific Gas & Elec-
tric Co. warehouses.
lackout in October 1997.
m Blakey said there had been no
may have had been intereste^rtf recent threats against the utility.
making fireworks.
But he said “there’s significant
information, significantmaterial
to show there’s a bonfb-making
operation going on, and so. we’re
being very cautious now.”
______________ „ ^ The operation was discovered
“Ready-to-go- explosives” and after a PG&E employee found the arrest,
raw material, including calcium water in a warehouse basement “It’s scary, you know, because
Madronich, who has no local
criminal record, has served as a
.leak surveyor in PG&E’s gas
construction department, PG&E
spokeswoman Maureen Bogues
said.
She declined to comment on
nitrate and more than 250 pounds
of ammonium nitrate, were found
Thursday at the downtown ware-
houses, said Special Agent Tracy
Hite of the federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Additional evidence was found
at the home of Paul Madronich,
44, who has worked at the utility
for 19 years, Hite said
and followed t|ie trail. ^
Upstairs, the worker found 250
pounds of ammonium nitrate
thawing inside a storage locker.
Police ordered approximately
30 workers out of the building
and evacuated another across the
street orii of fear that the fertilizer
had been mixed with volatile
substances and frozen to keep it
found at the house of bombing
conspirator Terry Nichols.
Madronich is accused of pos-
sessing a destructive device, pos-
sessing a destructive device in a
public place and possession of a
destructive device as a public
nuisance. He Was being held in
San Francisco County Jail on
$55,000 bail and will be formally
charged-Tuesday in municipal
court. . .
Hite said that the bomb did not
contain ammonium nitrate and
that authorities were analyzing it
to determine its contents. Hite
declined to speculate on a ifiotive
and would not say whether others
were involved.
.. t “We have no basis or any infor-
mation to suggest this is related
to domestic terrorism,” said
Ammonium nitrate, commonly from exploding. A 33-gallon
used as fertilizer, was combined drum of chemicals and books on
with fuel oil to make the 4,800- making bombs were found else-
pound bomb that destroyed the where in the building,-as were a
Oklahoma City federal building “small quantity of actual ready-
in 1995, killing 168 people. Cal- to-go explosives,” Ackerson said
cium nitrate, also a fertilizer, was Less than six hours after the
we’re innocent, I guess, ahd don’t
want to-be the victim of this,”
said PG&E employee Zenna
Gotera.
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material was found in the first
warehouse, police, had
Madronich in custody for ques-
tioning. He later led officers to a
second PG&E facility nearly,
where officials found “a whole
bunch more bomb-making stuff,”
Ackerson said.
“It could blow up a house. It *
could probably destroy a regular
residence,” said police Sgt. Mark
Potter.
PG&E spokesman Scott .,
Blakey said there was nq reason
for ammonium nitrate to be in
the warehouses, which are locat-
ed in a mixed residential and
industrial area in the city’s Mis-
sion District. >
The company has been the tar-
get of sabotage in the past,
including vandalism that caused
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Plan your day will the Bulletin Board, each day in The Sun.
THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday. January 3. 1999
THROWING
YOUR MONEY
AWAY ON
CUT-RATE
CAR INSURANCE?
Ken Mitchell
State Farm Insurance
2005 N. Alexander Drive
(Business 146)
281-427-8081
Lifee a
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Wm State Farm
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Stole form Mutuol Automobile Imwonce (ompony (not in NJ)
State Fotm Indemnity (ompony (NJ) • Home Offices: Bloomington, Illinois
Baytown Little League
Sign-Ups
Saturday, January 9th & 16th 10 - 4
Sunday, January 10th & 17th 1-4
BAYTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER
2407 MARKET STREET
Ages 5-12
(must be 5 before August 1,1999)
J50°° per child - ’IS00 each additional child
Bring original birth certificates and proof of address.
(Photo copies will not be accepted)
For more information call:
Central League - 424-5771
East League - 573-1117
North League-424-1814
West League - 424-2370
SAVE MONEY!
Buy A New Mattress At
Regular Price And
Get The foundation Or Box
Springs For A Penny!!!
We now sell Ty Beanie Babies tool
DeBruhl Furniture, Ine.
2 miles (South of I-10 f) Q A QQQ Qf) 0O‘
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Baytown Girls Softball Association
SLOW PITCH
Saturdays, January 9 & 16 |
. 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sundays, January 10 & 17
1:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m, /
BAYTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER -«9LXdEr§
The Pecan Room
2407 Market St.
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•5.00 o(I
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Cost: $35.00 per player
$15.00 for each
additional Family member
For more information
281-424-1859 or 281-421-1013
1999 SPRING REGISTRATION
BAYTOWN CAMPUS, MOLER HALL
January 7,8:00 am-7:00 pm
JANUARY 8, 7:30 AM-12 NOON
JANUARY 9, 9:00 AM-1 2:00 NOON
CLASSES BEGIN JANUARY 11,1999
CALL 281-427-561 1
IF LONG DISTANCE CALL
COUNSELING 800-621-8724
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 55, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 3, 1999, newspaper, January 3, 1999; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020495/m1/3/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.