Police accused of frame after dorm drug arrests

A charge that marijuana was planted in his car has been made by one of four Cal State Long Beach students arrested on marijuana charges in the dorms last week.

Sidney Lee, an A.S. officer, says someone planted marijuana in his car while he was in the Long Beach city jail awaiting arraignment.

His unlocked car was left on campus at the time of the arrest.

Lee, Deputy Administrator for Cultural Affairs, said the administrators may be out to get rid of him. "They don't like the way I talk to them. I threaten to get students together for a boycott if my price proposal didn't pass," Lee said.

"They want to get me out. I hold the most powerful appointed position in student government."

When Lee discovered, what he says was, marijuana in his car, the car was parked behind the campus police station. Campus Police Chief Jack Brick told Lee his car was brought to the police station to protect if from possible theft or vandalism, after police were unsuccessful in trying to reach his wife to give her the keys following the arrest.

Lee's answer to Brick was, "And thank you, mother fucker, for putting that plant in there." Tracy Bjorklund, campus police investigator, said Lee asked him on the night of his arrest to take the car keys to his wife because she needed the car the next day.

Brick agreed to the request.

Bjorklund said he twice tried to deliver the keys to Lee's home but got no answer.

Lee said that he unlocked the driver's side, glanced in and saw his notebook on the back seat with what looked like marijuana on top of it.

"I picked it up and looked to see if it was. I dropped it on the front seat and ran.

"That's when I started flashing ahead thinking of what would have happened if I had gotten in my car and driven away.

I would have been rebusted ? kicked out of school ? and everything that I've been working for would have been gone ? student government ? all of that."

Lee said he wanted to get people in student government as witnesses while he had the police search his car.

He happened to find a Forty-Niner reporter, Esma Collins, at the Black Studies department.

She called a Forty-Niner photographer and Lee, his friend and A.S.

Senator Jeffery Lakes, and went back to the campus police station where Lee requested that his car be searched and vacuumed.

Police say they had no idea that they might find marijuana, but went ahead with the car search at Lee's insistence.

Bjorklund said, "I started looking around and didn't find anything.

I didn't have the slightest idea about finding any marijuana.

Then behind the back seat I found what looked like a couple of marijuana seeds and a roach.

Then I found a matchbox with two rolled cigarettes in it.

There were also some roaches in the ashtray."

Bjorklund said, "What I found in Lee's car appeared to be marijuana.

It has not been examined by the criminology lab.

When the case is over we will turn it over to the Long Beach Police Department."

Brick said, "Nothing could be gained by any police agency by planting marijuana in his car.

It couldn't be used in evidence because there was no search warrant."

Papers taken from campus newsstands

In 1978, 2,500 issues were taken, which was 25 percent of the total circulation.

In 1979, 5,000 issues disappeared, which made up half of what was printed.

Editors believed the issues were taken because of three articles: one about a rift between Palestinian Liberation Organization Representatives and Jewish Defense League members, another about Louis Farrakhan speaking on campus and a story about candidates in an upcoming Academic Senate election.

No one was caught stealing the papers in both instances.

A.S. officials call on editors for inquiry

Editor in chief Lloyd Herberg and City Editor Sue Pack turned down Strout's invitation because they felt the inquiry would force the newspaper to be on the defensive and "raked over the coals" by A.S.

Strout said she might be forced to lower the newspaperís funding if the editors did not comply.
 

Professor charged with double stab slayings

A part-time Long Beach State University economics lecturer will be arraigned today in Long Beach Municipal Court in connection with the stabbing death of his former fiancée and her male companion.

Dr. Jalal Bayati, 40, was arrested and booked on murder charges after he reported the deaths to police. According to Long Beach Police, Bayati called police and told them, "I've just stabbed two people."

Police say that when they arrived at Bayati's apartment they found Elizabeth Ann Jonson, 28, lying on the floor.

Blood was all over the apartment, and according to the first officers on the scene, Bayati was sitting in a chair screaming over and over again, "I just killed the one I loved."

Another officer went to the Jonson apartment and found Stephen Arena, 30, lying in a pool of blood on a bed in one of the apartment's small bedrooms.

Police theorize that Bayati stabbed Jonson first, then crossed the street to her apartment and stabbed Arena, then returned to his apartment and telephoned police.

Friends of Jonson said the couple met while attending graduate school at USC.

They were engaged until three weeks ago when Jonson broke it off.

Her friends told police that Jonson was afraid of Bayati and had asked Arena to move in with her for protection.

According to Jonson's friends, Bayati had beaten her and threatened her in the past.

Arena was a co-worker of Jonson's at Torrance Hospital where they worked with handicapped children.

According to Sgt. John Hurlbirt of LBPD homicide, Arena was engaged to one of Jonson's best friends.

Jonson told neighbors that he was her brother.

She apparently did to so explain his presence in her apartment.

A butcher knife and a curved ornamental knife were found in the apartment.

Both were covered with blood. Bayati joined the LBSU faculty this year.

Dr. Wallace Atherton, Economics Dept. chairman characterized Bayati as very conscientious.

"We had not received a student evaluation on him but he seemed very friendly and he told his classes seriously," said Atherton.

"Also, he seemed well trained, made no waves and had no problems with any of his colleagues." Bayati obtained his Ph.D. in June and began teaching at LBSU this semester.

Dr. Bruce Carpenter, associate vice president for academic affairs -- academic personnel said that Bayati, "has been replaced for the remainder of the semester," in his three sections of Economics 311.

Bayati could possibly be released on bail following his arraignment, but according to Carpenter, he will not return to teaching this semester.

His appointment is automatically terminated at the end of the semester.

Alternative paper competes with F-N 

The Academic Senate gave $15,500 needed to start the paper.

In the September 12th, 1978 issue, the Union was said to have budget problems that could stop the paper's production.

The senate's business manager said that the satire section of the paper was too violence-oriented.

During the paper's first three semesters, it was only a weekly.

Editors wanted to make the paper a biweekly.

But the move might shut down the Union because advertising would dwindle, said Editor Jim Cox. 

A.S. officials call on editors for inquiry

On Nov. 4, 1971, the Forty-Niner editors were verbally attacked by Academic Senate Vice

President Jan Strout claiming that they were afraid to come before the senate to face an inquiry.

Editor in chief Lloyd Herberg and City Editor Sue Pack turned down Strout's invitation because they felt the inquiry would force the newspaper to be on the defensive and "raked over the coals" by A.S. Strout said she might be forced to lower the newspaper's funding if the editors did not comply.