RE: Radioactive Assault Case

[Joel Baumbaugh <baumbaug@nosc.mil>]

         I sent it both "standard" and "styled" last time - did it STILL 
look bad?  Please let me know and I'll try something else.  Sorry for the 
mess ...jb

At 07:40 AM 02/10/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Joel:
>
>Could you possibly re-send your message in standard text.  All I get through
>MS Outlook is gibberish.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gerald Feldman
>RSO
>UCI Medical Center
>gfeldman@uci.edu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joel Baumbaugh
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Sent: 2/10/00 6:23 AM
>Subject: Radioactive Assault Case
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>         RADSAFERS l
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>         A FYI...
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>         Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil)
>         SSC-SD
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>p;    Lab technician pleads guilty to radioactive
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>p;    February 9, 2000
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>p;    SANTA ANA -- A former lab technician plead guilty Wednesday to
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>p;    misdemeanor assault and felony unlawful disposal of radioactive 
>material for
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>p;    smearing a compound on a co-worker's chair at the University of 
>California,
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>p;    Irvine.
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>p;    Andrew Andris Blakis, 32, of Newport Beach was sentenced to 120 days in
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>p;    jail and three years probation, Orange County Deputy District Attorney
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>p;    Lance Jensen said.
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>p;    Blakis also was ordered to stay away from the victim, a=20 postdoctoral
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>p;    researcher, and pay any future medical costs she may incur as a 
>result of the
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>p;    assault.
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>p;    Jensen said the July 1, 1999, incident occurred because Blakis 
>believed the
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>p;    researcher, Jingtong Zuo, had tried to poison him with a=20 radioactive
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>p;    The incident began when Blakis was conducting tests at the university's
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>p;    Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility. He was working with P32 
>isotope,
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>p;    a waxy, colorless chemical used in DNA testing.
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>p;    During his tests, Blakis' lips began to tingle. A Geiger counter, which
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>p;    measures radiation levels, revealed some of the substance had 
>escaped the
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>p;    workstation, officials said.
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>p;    Believing Zuo was responsible, Blakis put the compound on her chair, 
>Jensen
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>p;    Zuo sat on the chair for about six hours before she discovered the
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>p;    contamination, officials said.
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>p;    Investigators estimate Zuo was exposed to an average yearlong dose of
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>p;    radiation during the time. To date, Zuo has not experienced any 
>side-effects
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>p;    of radiation poisoning, Jensen said.
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