Acts of Faith

Douglas

He had clipped the newspapers, the Arizona Republic, the Tucson Daily Star, others, and pasted them in a scrapbook. He wanted to keep the bad memories fresh; he never wanted to forget them.

RANCH FAMILY SUES TUCSON DEVELOPER FOR $16 MILLION


Attorneys for Edith Brady, owner of the Baboquivari ranch, yesterday filed suit in civil court alleging that the purchase of 10,000 acres of the 25,000-acre property was obtained under fraudulent circumstances by WebMar Associates, one of the state’s largest housing developers.

STATE TO INVESTIGATE TUCSON DEVELOPER


Arizona Attorney General Laura Altobuono announced today that her office has opened a criminal investigation into the purchase of a ranch property by Web-Mar Associates, builders of Rancho Vista, Tucson’s largest retirement community. A civil suit has already been filed against the firm, owned by Weldon E. Braithwaite and Martin Templeton, both of Tucson. The allegations are that the two developers in effect bilked Edith Brady, 86, heir to the Baboquivari ranch, in the $16 million sale of . . .

INQUIRY INTO WEB-MAR WIDENS


Web-Mar Associates, already beset by a civil suit and a state investigation into its purchase of a Spanish land grant ranch, has attracted the attention of federal investigators. . . . Web-Mar is alleged to have signed a contract agreeing to restrict development of the property to ten-acre parcels, but then drawn up another contract allowing high-density housing to be built and hoodwinked the ranch’s 86-year-old owner into signing it in a complex shuffle of documents. According to informed sources, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Phoenix is looking into evidence of financial links between Web-Mar and Enrique Cabrera, boss of Mexico’s biggest drug cartel . . .

COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF PLAINTIFFS IN BABOQUIVARI SUIT

FEDERAL PROBE LAUNCHED INTO DRUG LORD’S

TIES TO TUCSON DEVELOPMENT FIRM

WEB-MAR DECLARES BANKRUPTCY

WEB-MAR CEO FACES CHARGES OF MONEY

LAUNDERING—PARTNER CLAIMS NO KNOWLEDGE

OF DEALINGS WITH MEXICAN KINGPIN

BRAITHWAITE TRIAL OPENS TODAY—

DEFENDANT PLEADS NOT GUILTY

WEB-MAR CEO WILL TAKE THE STAND

TUCSON DEVELOPER KILLED IN CAR BOMB BLAST—

COCAINE CARTEL THOUGHT RESPONSIBLE


Weldon E. Braithwaite, 59, defendant in a federal trial on alleged money-laundering between his firm and the boss of a Mexican drug ring, was killed early this morning when a powerful bomb exploded in his car as he was leaving his home for a second day of testimony.