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ZippoZ
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DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more
#2751142 - 05/31/04 09:32 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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http://www.starnewspapers.com/star/spnews/news/30-sp2.htm \
____________________________ Drug agent killed in Homer plane crash
Sunday, May 30, 2004
By Steve Schmadeke, Special to The Star Authorities Saturday morning still were not releasing the name of a federal drug agent who was killed Friday when the single-engine plane he was flying crashed in Homer Glen.
An autopsy was scheduled for late in the morning, according to information from the Will County coroner's office.
The 14-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration was piloting a Cessna 206 H to Missouri on a drug mission, federal authorities said.
The pilot, who lives in the Chicago area, had been flying for the DEA for five years, authorities said. He is survived by his wife and three young children.
The plane took off from Midway Airport about 2:20 p.m., and the pilot radioed the control tower eight minutes later to report engine failure.
Minutes later, the six-passenger Cessna crashed into a detached garage near 139th Street and King Road, causing a fiery explosion. No one on the ground was injured.
The plume of smoke from the crash could be seen as far away as Lemont.
"We are shocked and saddened at the loss of one of our DEA family members on the eve of Memorial Day weekend when the nation stops to honor those who have given their life in service of their country," DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy said in a news release.
Will County sheriff's police spokesman Pat Barry said the plane hit a tree and crashed as the pilot attempted to turn the plane and make an emergency landing in a cornfield north of a residential area on 139th Street.
Witnesses reported hearing the pilot attempt to restart the plane's engine several times.
Martin, Thomas and Matthew Lesniak were playing baseball with their friend Nathan Zaragoza when the plane flew just a few hundred feet overhead.
"We saw a plane that was making all these weird noises, and then it made a sharp turn and then we saw all this smoke," said Martin Lesniak, 12.
"We started running ... and I started screaming.
Vicki Brassil was putting away groceries when she heard Martin Lesniak's screams. She grabbed a cordless phone, went out on her patio and called 911.
"We were standing by the willow tree, and I could see a wall of flame through there," she said, pointing toward a chain-link fence east of her home. She and the children crouched behind a row of hedges.
"It was surreal," Brassil said. "It's not every day a plane lands in your back yard."
The white brick ranch home in the 14800 block of 139th Street and one of its detached garages were spared. The homeowner declined to be interviewed.
But a newer garage where a drill press, filing cabinets and sport-utility vehicle were stored was destroyed.
Anthony Grau was doing some restoration work on the foundation of a home next door when he saw the plane drop out of the sky less than a hundred feet away.
"It come straight down out of the sky," Grau said, standing in the backyard with a cup of coffee in his hand. "I grabbed a garden hose and did everything I could to try and prevent (the fire) from spreading."
Mirko Vrsek walked into a Romeoville McDonald's to buy some coffee when an employee told him about the crash. He said he left immediately, worried the plane might have hit his home.
His wife, Bozena, was fine, but shaken. She was watering the flowers in her back yard when she saw the plane pass low overhead.
Three or four seconds later she saw smoke above the trees. ____________________________
this happened about 2 miles from my house, and it was not the only odd ocourance of the day. im trying to tie it all togeather, but the poliece will not tell anyone what is happening.
2 hours after this crash, a SWAT van followed by county sherifs blazes behind my house. where they went, i do not konw.
next a local forest preserve is closed to the public and declaired a crime scene. there are several fire trucks, ambulances, and a scuba diver in the forest preserve lake. at this time there is also a helicopter circling over my house, and the forset preserve.
from what i have heard, they took a body out of the forest preserve.
all of this seems to have happened within a very small time frame, about 3 hours, and being that nothing ever happens in this area, these events are mostlikely realted.
-------------------- PEACE zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: ZippoZ]
#2751193 - 05/31/04 09:44 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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A "drug mission" eh...
Probably lost a shipment of pure cocaine, thats a lot of money for the government when they put it on the streets
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Effed
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: ZippoZ]
#2751832 - 06/01/04 12:17 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Karma is a bitch
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: ZippoZ]
#2752527 - 06/01/04 09:10 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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I can't say that I'm happy he died. But I'm not not happy either...
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: Effed]
#2752715 - 06/01/04 10:42 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Effed said: Karma is a bitch
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ZippoZ
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, ------------update W/pics [Re: grib]
#2753100 - 06/01/04 01:08 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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this is all from our local paper. nothing yet about the forset preservfe incident or the swat van the rest of the article will be posted later, i ran out of upload space
-------------------- PEACE zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: Effed]
#2753230 - 06/01/04 01:39 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Effed said: Karma is a bitch
As the Christians would say: AMEN, brother, AMEN.
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Aneglakya
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: daba]
#2754154 - 06/01/04 05:57 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Justice is Served!!! I wonder how many innocent drug users lives that fucker has ruined ..
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HarveyWalbanger
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: Effed]
#2756111 - 06/02/04 08:26 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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Love thine ENEMY
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Dreamer987
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: ZippoZ]
#2758592 - 06/02/04 09:19 PM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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narly! keep us updated dude.
P.S. I know your in on it Zippos. Or should i say Scarface!
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Re: DEA agent dies in plane crash, and more [Re: ZippoZ]
#2762610 - 06/04/04 08:30 AM (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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bwahahahahah was that story supposed to be funny?? i hope so.... someone who dedicates themselves to ruining the lives of innocent drug users, derserves what he/she get... fuck the dea, they are he worst kind of thought police
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