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Page 16-B?THE BRUNSWICK BEACON One 'C BY TERRY POPE ? ? The only defendant charged in the B March "Operation Brass" undercover drug investigation to carry his t? arguments before a jury last week 1 was acquitted of felonious drug B charges. 1! Steven Albert Babson. of Long Beach Road, was found not guilty of I felonious possession with intent to ? sale and deliver marijuana and two d counts of felonious sale and delivery h of marijuana following close to 40 n minutes of deliberations last Thurs- U day. d Of the 22 suspects charged on w various drug violations during the in- y vestigation in March, nine men pleaded guilty in Brunswick County p Superior Court last week. Babson a was the only defendant among those w who had earlier pleaded not guilty a who carried his case to court last week. a Defense attorney Shelia McLamb ti of Shallotte argued that at no time h during the testimony did the state 01 identify Steve Babson as the "defendant who allegedly sold marijuana" n, to undercover officers. Her motion to s| dismiss the charges following testimony was denied by Judge ti Preston Cornelius. id "Operation Brass" is the code b name for an undercover drug probe tl involving the Brunswick County Sheriff's Department drug squad and a officers from both Shallotte and p, Southport police departments. In w March, the Brunswick County Grand tl Jury returned indictments against 22 suspects on 66 charges. n Babson was indicted for selling marijuana to Southport undercover rr officer T.M. Klomparens on two oc- <j casions last December, once on the u Jurv Rules f Was Not In BY TERRY POPE ? A Brunswick County jury last Wednesday ruled there was no reason to believe that a Hope Mills 1 woman who shot a girl in the head at {*" Seaside last year did sc intentionally. Teena Elaine Ferguson, 20, of Hope ri Mills, was found innocent of assault c' with a deadly weapon with intent to ^ kill inflicting serious bodily injury following two days of testimony in court. She had been charged by the j" Brunswick County Sheriff's Department on Deo. 27,1984 in the shooting of Renee Tanner, 18, of Whiteville. ,r Ms. Tanner was shot once in the head with a .22 caliber pistol during a domestic dispute at a Seaside jjj residence around 11:05 p.m. on Dec. 26, 1984. Both women were visiting a home in Seaside between Ocean Isle and Sunset Beach when the accident occurred. jj Prior to the shooting, an argument tc broke out at Ms. Ferguson's car out- tl side the Seaside residence and the d defendant pulled a gun, testified Angie Strickland, who was a witness a to the shooting. A Ms. Strickland said the gun fired a W single shot while Ms. Tanner was ti arguing and trying to get Ms. si Ferguson's friend out of the car. Ms. si Ferguson was sitting on the o passenger side of her Thunderbird h while Ms. Tanner was standing in the doorway of the driver's side, pulling tl on the friend, when the gun went off, b Ms. Strickland said. e Det. l-indsey Walton, of the F Brunswick County Sheriff's Depart- d ment. testified that Ms. Ferguson f] gave officers a written statement in a the presence of her attorney. Rex p HAROLI SALES & SI is now the factory authorized Wilson j Sales & Service Center of TwoWay Radios for wi? the South Brunswick 1 REPEATEI I A ! | MYOl ')gm Portable & Base igSj Financir, BP Mulberry St. I, Thursday, August 1, 1985 peration Bi waterfront at Southport and again at e iabson's home on Long Beach Road, t According to Klomparens' I :stimony, the officer purchased a uarter ounce of marijuana from E .abson at the waterfront on Dec. 11, S 384. V "He handed me the marijuana and ti handed him the $2?," Klomparens t1 aid. The officer also stated that he n iscussed buying a half-ounce of fc ashish from the suspect and set a n leeting time at the waterfront for te following night, but the suspect d id not show. li On Dec. 13, Klomparens said he e as traveling to Oak Island around 1:10 p.m. and saw Babson heading I l the opposite direction. Klom- I arens said he turned his vehicle I round and met Babson at his home, I here he went inside and purchased I n ounce of marijuana. Klomparens said Babson removed half to three-quarters pound conliner of marijuana from the mobile ome furnace in order to cut him an unce. "He told me he cc\dd sell me a ound for $800 to *9! i," the officer iated. In answering Ms. McLamb's quesons, Klomparens said he could not lentify another person who was with abson on the waterfront the night of le alleged marijuana deal. Ms. IcLamb then asked someone in the udience to stand and asked Klomarens if the person standing was ith Babson on the waterfront when le purchase was made. "I can't be sure," Klomparens splied. Klomparens also stated he kept the larijuana purchased from the efendant in a locked box at his home ntil Dec. 14, when he turned the Shooting tentional ore of Shallotte, around 2:30 a.m. flowing the shooting. After the dispute began, Ms. erguson stated she ran to the issenger side of her car and locked :r door. After the gun fired, she ished to a nearby residence and died tlie sheriff's department while hers drove Ms. Tanner to the runswick Hospital in Supply. "I only pulled the gun to try to :are them, because I was scared," ?r statement to officers said. Det. 'alton read Ms. Ferguson's statelent in court Wednesday. "She (Ms. Ferguson's friend) pull1 back and hit my arm and made le gun go off," the statement read. I did not mean to shoot anyone. I on wanted to scare them." Following testimony Wednesday, ore asked Judge Preston Cornelius > dismiss the charges against Ms. pronenn "cinr>o tKnro u-oc nn it mpl to kill at all," Gore stated. "All le evidence points to an accidental ischarge of the weapon." Gore also said that the state's rguments, led by Assistant District .ttorney Thomas Hicks of I'hiteville, did not prove that the vicm suffered "serious bodily injury " ince the only witness to testify to uch was Ms. Tanner's mother, "who nly stated that she was in the ospital for some time," Gore said. Judge Cornelius refused to dismiss ie charges based on Gore's motion, ut did instruct the jury that they ould return a verdict against Ms. erguson for either 1) assault with a eadly weapon with intent to kill inicting serious bodiiy injury" 21 ssault with a deadly weapon with in;nt to kill; or 3) not guilty. 9'STV I ERV,CE _ Islands R SERVICE IB B B liable I Stations Available ig Available Shallotte 754-4651 BACON ass' Drug I vidence over to Det. Dick Burgess of he Brunswick County Sheriff's )epartment. Assistant District Attorney Wanda tryant also called on agent J.D. parks of the State Bureau of Inestigation crime lab in Raleigh, who ested the evidence Klomparens urned over to the sheriff's department and determined the bags to conain 5.6 grams and 24.2 grams of marijuana. Two ether "Operation Brass" efendants pleaded guilty to charges ast Thursday and received suspendd sentences. 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