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Tuesday 29 augusT 2017

Former boyfriend pleads not guilty in Vermont woman’s death

perior Court in Barre, while Matthew Hayes, said it was
relatives and friends of vic- a relief that Gebo was in jail
tim Cindy Cook looked on. and facing charges.
Superior Court Jude John Court documents said
Pacht ordered the 61-year- Gebo was known to have
old Gebo held without bail a temper, but the docu-
pending another hearing ments did not describe
that will be scheduled in how detectives believe
the coming weeks. Cook was killed. Cook last
Gebo’s attorney, Maggie had contact with friends on
Vincent, didn’t comment July 4, and Gebo started
after the hearing. Gebo is using her credit cards and
charged in the death of driving her car on July 5.
Cook, 59, whose body was After Cook’s body was
found over an embank- found, police traced
ment in Middlesex on July Gebo as he crisscrossed
12 by a woman walking the country in Cook’s car.
her dog. An autopsy deter- He was arrested July 19 in
mined she had been stran- Downers Grove, Illinois, just
gled. Both Cook and Gebo west of Chicago. Gebo is
lived in Barre. Cook’s eldest also charged with credit
child, Christina Searles, said card fraud, aggravated
after Gebo’s court hearing operation of a vehicle with-
she was trying to piece to- out the owner’s consent
Randal Gibo bends over and pulls his pants down in front of news crews while being escorted into gether what happened. and other offenses, includ-
the courtroom Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Barre, Vt., for his arraignment on a murder charge for the
death of his late girlfriend, Cindy Cook, 59 of Barre, whose bound body was found July 12 near a “It’s just really hard to swal- ing animal cruelty. Cook’s
brook in Middlesex. Gibo pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges. low, to think that another dog, a dachshund named
(Stefan Hard/The Times Argus via AP, Pool) human being could do Honey Bee, was appar-
By WILSON RING embankment last month Gebo, who bent over and something so heinous to ently freed at a Middlesex
Associated Press pleaded not guilty Monday pulled his pants down in another human being, I picnic area about 5 miles
BARRE, Vt. (AP) — The for- to first-degree murder and front of news crews as he think, and it just happens to from where Cook’s body
mer boyfriend of a woman other charges in her death. was led into the courtroom, be our mom,” Searles said. was found. The dog has not
found dead on a roadside The shackled Randal appeared in Vermont Su- Searles’ younger brother, been found.q

Chinese migrants lead US agents to San Diego border tunnel

By JULIE WATSON Patrol agent Eduardo Ol- and a wooden ladder led ego have had lighting, ven- it, but officials said it may
Associated Press mos said. Agents detained down to an underground tilation and even railroad- have been built as an ex-
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dozens 23 Chinese nationals and passageway to Mexico. type tracks so the drug car- tension of a previously dis-
of migrants fleeing from seven Mexicans. Olmos said he did not know tels could efficiently move covered incomplete tunnel
Border Patrol agents led “To say the least, this is defi- the tunnel’s length or di- their loads into California. found by Mexican authori-
authorities to a surprising nitely a significant event mensions. Agents captured In Arizona, smugglers used ties. Most human smugglers
discovery over the week- because of the amount of 30 migrants, he said, but he to move migrants through have avoided building
end: A tunnel under the people,” Olmos said. did not know how many storm drainage pipes that elaborate tunnels to move
US-Mexico border in San Di- Agents first spotted a large of those detained were lie under the U.S.-Mexico people because the trade
ego used to bring Chinese group of men and women grabbed while getting into border. was not as lucrative as
nationals illegally into the on a San Diego street near the hole or whether any Smugglers in San Diego oc- smuggling drugs, said Mike
United States. the Otay Mesa border of them made it back into casionally moved a few Unzueta, the former head
Drug cartels have built hun- crossing at about 1 a.m. on the tunnel and returned to people through narrow, of investigations at U.S. Im-
dreds of tunnels to move Saturday. Mexico. Cartels have been quickly excavated tunnels migration and Customs En-
drugs into California. When agents headed to- sneaking drugs under the that authorities call “go- forcement in San Diego.
But it’s unusual to find such ward them, the migrants border for decades, es- pher holes.” Smugglers also wanted to
a large group of foreigners, ran toward a hole in the pecially after security was It was unclear how long the avoid having their cargo —
especially from as far away ground near a border increased following the newest tunnel found had the people they were mov-
as China, come out of an il- fence. The hole was cov- 9/11 attacks. Many tunnels been there and how many ing — expose their routes,
legal border tunnel, Border ered with a few branches found by agents in San Di- may people have used like they did on Saturday.q