Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 17, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free 2001 jury acquits puffy of gun rap also found not guilty of bribery attempt protege Barrow convicted in shooting new York rap impresario Sean puffy Combs was acquitted yesterday of taking an illegal handgun into a crowded new York City hiphop club where three people were later he was also cleared of trying to bribe his Way out of trouble with a Dia mond ring Given to him by a girl Friend Jennifer moments after he walked out of the Combs called his children on a cell phone with the Good Combs body Anthony Wolf was acquitted of the same charges faced by his both men faced up to 15 years in rapper Jamaal Shyne a Combs protege who had been charged with attempted was convicted of two counts of assault and Reck less endangerment for the shooting inside the club in the Early morning hours of while Combs walked away a free Barrow was jailed pending his april 16 the whose glum reaction stood in Stark contrast to Combs faces up to 25 years in its Combs said of the my heart goes out to everybody who was Hurt by Combs was clutching a Bible when its bitter my heart goes out to every body who was Hurt by this Combs reaction to verdict the verdict was the grammy winning multimillionaire quickly embraced his Legal with lawyers Benjamin Brafman and Johnnie Cochran burying their Heads against Combs i told him youve got your life Cochran do the Best with presides Over a lion us Empire bad boy entertain ment that encompasses clothing and he was sued for his role in organizing a 1991 Charity basketball where a Stampede killed nine people trying to go he partied with rapper the notorious minutes before he was killed in 1997 and two years Combs pleaded guilty to harass ment for beating another rap exec he was ordered to attend an anger management the High profile new York trial stretched nearly seven with jurors hearing from 59 witnesses and examining More than 130 pieces of Evi Combs dressed in a conserva Tive suit each Day and his Mother was in the gallery behind Combs was the key defence spending a full Day testifying he never carried a weapon on the night of his arrest and instead thought he was the i thought i was being shot Combs told the he denied offering his Driver a bribe if the Man would take the gun Possession rap for prosecutors said the collateral Combs offered was a Diamond Pinkie Beth Reiser associated press Combs makes his Way through a crowd of supporters after ring Given to him by the to sell Bullet fragments in her head and Jones ing Singer actress whose breakup Combs was announced during the the Wardel Testi fied Combs tucked a Black handgun into his Waistband before heading with Lopez to the times Square Hotshot club new Lopez and their entourage arrived at the club a Little past mid night after a limousine trip from Tony East trouble began As Combs tried to leave shortly after someone bumped into Matthew scar there was an Exchange of insults and another Man tossed a fistful of Dollar Bills at three to six shots then rang sending panicked club goers diving to the floor or charging towards the three were wounded Natania Reuben was shot in the face and Robert Thompson and Julius Jones were hit in their Reuben still has seven has a Bullet lodged near his nine witnesses said they saw Barrow with a two of the shooting victims testified they also saw Combs with a something the rapper Barrow was accused of shooting the victims but he was charged with a sin Gle attempted murder count because he allegedly targeted just one prosecutors said Barrow missed his intended Combs fled the club with Jones and Driver Fenderson in his Lincoln they were stopped 11 blocks after Fenderson steered the Sun on to a sidewalk to evade a police car and then ran several red a 9mm handgun police found in the Sun and a similar weapon that was allegedly hurled out of the window Dur ing the Chase led to the gun Possession charges against Combs and press a13 Manitoba trucker stabbed Calgary a Manitoba mans Deci Sion to return to truck driving after Tak ing a year off nearly Cost him his life when he was stabbed at a Calgary truck Rick Blancher is recovering in a Cal Gary Hospital after being stabbed 11 times in the Back and arms thurs Day in an attack that has left police Puz police said the 36yearold Hamiota trucker was asleep in the bed Section of his Rig when he awoke to find a Man Stab Bing originally from new called Calgary police on his cellphone just after 10 police and paramedics found him lying inside the Southeast Calgary truck Stop in critical still conscious when Crews Blancher said he had been stabbed by a Hitchhiker he had picked up in wisc on police set up roadblocks on streets around the track Stop and arrested a suspect a Short distance away about an hour after the John Szczupak the stabbing comes just a month after Blancher was hired by a Moose trucking company after taking time off to be closer to his Girlfriend and their he was working construction but decided to get Back into trucking because the Money was said his son Troy he was just getting Back into it and now this Timothy Michael of red has been charged with assault with a weapon and aggravated Canadian press hostages continued from Page a12 the russian inter fax news Agency identified the flight attendant As Yulia turkeys Anatolia news Agency said the dead passenger was a 27yearold Gursel a chechen representative in Jordan told the associated press that two Broth ers hijacked the one of whom was a former chechen Security she said their demands included a halt to the russian genocide in the breakaway russian chechen separatists violent Campaign often has spilled Over the republics Bor Ders in hijackings and with Turkey a frequent in a chechen gunman seized a russian Airliner with 58 people aboard and diverted it to where he in footage of yesterdays Rescue oper saudi state television showed More than a dozen commandos sur rounding the plane As others ran up lad kicked in the cockpit and broke through the windows and the television showed passengers run Ning Down the staircase As gun wielding commandos in bulletproof vests shouted for them to the commandos restrained two Young men on the tar one wearing Black jeans and a t shirt and another with dark jeans and White they were pushed to the ground and the former hostages were taken to a saudi intelligence agents pre vented journalists from approaching hours before the As Many As 46 people were freed or escaped from the Avnukova airlines when it left the flight carried 162 Passen Gers and 12 Crew hostage Monika Turkan told russian Ort government television that the Pas sengers suffered after the air circulation and water were turned she said the hijackers freed her when she began to feel they said they had a but no one saw no one knew what they want she the saudis said they decided to storm the in consultation with the Russ Ian after reaching a dead end in associated press red Alert re 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