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On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:50:56 GMT, "GrlIntrpted"
wrote in Message-Id: : A repost of a link that was posted to Orchid Spring Discussion Board. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...al/8118304.htm] I found this information interesting: Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:21:34 -1000 From: "Bill Bergstrom" To: "Orchid" Subject: [OGD] Arias Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Some of what you have been told about the arrest of Manuel Arias Silva in Miami, some not quite true. George arrive at the show and so did all the plants (quite legal) No Manuel..After extensive phoning Manuel was found to be incarcerated. George went there and was denied any info or visit (typical now days..same as Pepe) The idea was to keep him there in jail indefinitely..No bail, no phone calls no hearing (I guess) George and his wife (in the legal business) turned that all around. They eventually set it up for Manuel (one of the dearest people you would ever want to know..frail,,in terrible health) to be released to Georges custody..In Texas...The prosecution screamed..but bail was set..HOWEVER..he is still cooped up until Monday..Weekend and all that..even though the procedure was finished early Fri. (or so I am told) No charges were totally defined but plenty discovered. NO Kovachii involved..merely Phrags in general and the whole thing going back as long as ten years ago. I had previously heard that it had to do with mislabeling a plant (according to F &W) and maybe because plants of Phrag caudatum Sanderae were labeled falsely as caudatum...If so..F&W is way off base..They are one and the same and, in fact, no one is even calling the plant Sanderae at all anymore..(I guess like the plants I used to sell as Peruviana and Amazonica...names just dissolved away) Point being that much is to be known if, in fact, there are 80 counts against him as I heard..Further..rumor has it that plants were shipped with a Maxillaria designation...The Miami local paper has a longer account..very much filled with damning evidence...It looks bad for both George and Manuel if true..Story has it that George is also to be indicted when he goes home..hopefully with Manuel, who that had evidently hoped to keep in jail to provide info against George..You know...Get him to squeal..or never see the light of day or another Peruvian sunset...What was the name of that book George Orwell put out.??? Hell Cant remember..that time has passed..Or has it? Lastly..from what I hear..A knight in armor has appeared and a lawyer showed up at the show and offered to help Manuel..A lawyer who loves and is quite familiar with Orchids...A definite plus for the situation...We will be hearing about this for a long time to come I fear...I can tell you this for certain. I have known Manuel for 25 years and a finer, more respectable man you will never meet..George and I have had our differences through the years..but I have never heard a breath of his attempting to sell illegal stuff (though the news article says there is evidence that he did) You can take things out of context when you read between the lines on that article...Were they illegal (by someone's standard) Phrags he was discussing in his messages (somehow obtained..hundreds of them) to Manuel..or simply instructions on how to get every day Orchids easily and quickly through the paper work..Only time will tell...My fears are that it is not the actual situation we should be shuddering about..but the process that has brought it about and what that means to our rights and to our privacy. Bill ------------------------------ |
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