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Abbie Hoffman — Part 25

187 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Oct 10, 1968 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 184 pages OCR'd
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0-19 (Rev. 7-17-88) -% af | Yippie IE ee pore geet. reader | Raps 2A rrest BENES and LESTER ABELMAN By ED . ~ Yippie leader Abbi the Democratic Natio nvention in Chicago las terday on a gun charge after a police raid on an office he rents on the lower East Side, only five doors from the E. Fifth St, station. Hoffman charged that his ar- Fest stemmed from “police setup.” “It is totally inconceivable that & nerton in my position would hide an arsenal of guna and dope a couple of houses away from & police station,” he told newsmen. Five Others Arrested Five other men were arrested in the raid on the combined office-apartment on the ground floor of 5 five-story tenement at 333 th St. A sign outside the flat read: “Real World Hallucinations, Inc.” Polisa gaid that at 2: 30 a.m, an unidentified man came into the police station and tipped them Ot about the guns and nar- cotics. Detectives Barry Levine, Vincent Maresca and Sam Pulley walked to the fiat, where they found Stephen Mullen, 20, Jacubosky, 22, and Clyde Pitts, 19. They sald Pitts was handling a loaded 45-caliber Colt revolver. Guns Confiscated © Police said they confiscated a $-mm. German Luger, a 22 vap- anese automatic and two glassine Wi envelopes allegedly containing heroin. Maller employed musician, said he lived on the floor above. In his flat, detectives found Isaac Lipkowitz, 21, and Charles Anthony, 17, They said they also found two syringes and & sma)! quantity of mari- juans. The five were taken to the po- lice station. One of them called Hoffman, who was asleep in his apartiverese-Tid E. 13th St. and] b ALL INFORMATION CO" nest |=D HEGEL IS UntLe DATE Je ang BY nv EERIE F TAINED " Asthur Turco, a he burried over to find out what of the defendants, Pee Me ee eee er ee ~ Callahan Conrad Feity Gal Bre { aves = sulli@epe ZZ]s $2, under indictment for conspiracy to riot during Tavel t summer, was arrested early yes- Trotter Tele. Room for one Holmes said he would Gandy the district attorney's office it was all about. at. .9ee __ reaponsivie for ne office-apart- ment, he was arrested. “What, again?” he asked. Calls It Harassment At the arraignment before} Judge Murray Koenig in Criminal Court, Hoffman’s lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, called the arrest an; “legal harassment.” - “Tf the prisoner were not Abbie {' Hoffman, no arrest would have [- been made, b he said. Hoffman was released tn $100 cash bond for a hearing April 7. Hearing Set for May & Pitts was released in $100 cash bond for a hearing May § on @ weapons violation charge. A nar- eotics charge was dismissed, Mul- len was paroled for a hearing May § on a narcotics charge Nazcotics char anges against Lipk witz, of 200 Tfth h St, bosky, of 80-15 Ave., foodhaven, neat and Anthony, of 26 Guilford Rd. rt Wash- ington, L.1. were dicrcineed Pitts said he lived in Mullen’s pee who said he was an un- | ret. A dozen vipples were ‘ore Koenig on arraigned conduct and harassment Sete stemming from midtown dem- onstrations Saturday night. es against three were Six men were paroled and three | thers were held in $50 cash bond, | | OLS oniay adh for shgarloe : [26.34 ane is SAPRI 1 1969 When he admitted he was pres cha one of police bre Rel / /7 NOT RECORDED 184 apr g 1959 mae =e The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Siar (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World Examiner (Washington) MAR 4 + 1969 Date
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