Wednesday, May 26, 1999 | 11:46 a.m.
Duo to remain behind bars
U.S. District Judge Philip Pro on Tuesday refused to free two reputed mob soldiers Tuesday following their convictions Friday of conspiring to extort Chicago underworld figure Herbie Blitzstein before his murder.
Both Robert Panaro, 57, an alleged soldier in the Buffalo mob, and Stephen Cino, 62, a suspected member of the Los Angeles mob, were acquitted by a jury Friday of all charges related to Blitzstein's Jan. 6, 1997, slaying.
But the two men were found guilty in an extortion scheme to take over Blitzstein's loan-sharking and insurance fraud operations.
Blitzstein once was the top lieutenant of slain Chicago mob kingpin Anthony Spilotro, who controlled Las Vegas street rackets in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Cino also was convicted of 12 other federal charges, mostly related to a conspiracy to counterfeit travelers checks.
The men, who have been in federal custody 16 months, asked to be released until their Aug. 27 sentencing.
Trial date set for LV man
A Las Vegas man charged with 88 felony counts of sexual assault on a minor and using that child in production of pornography faces trial next Tuesday.
David Donald Shumey, who also goes by the name Louis William Garcia, is charged in connection with the sexual abuse of a Las Vegas girl, who was 7 when the incidents began, according to court records.
District Judge Jeffrey Sobel on Tuesday set a 10 a.m. Thursday hearing date for the defense to attempt to suppress the evidence -- dozens of Polaroid pictures of a man having sex with a young girl -- and statements Shumey made to police before he was read his rights.
Regardless of the outcome of that hearing, the trial is scheduled to begin the day after the Memorial Day holiday.
Shumey, 52, was arrested at the Economy Inn, after a maintenance man on July 29, 1998, found a food storage container full of photographs inside an air conditioner while he was repairing the unit in the room where Shumey had checked in 19 days earlier.
Body found at recycling plant
A body was found on a conveyor belt where trash is separated Tuesday at the Silver State Recycling Center, 333 W. Gowan Road, Metro Police said.
An employee of the plant discovered the body, tentatively identified as a 32-year-old Las Vegas man, about 6:30 p.m. police said.
No cause of death was immediately apparent. A medical investigation will be done today by the Clark County Coroner's office.
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