Doctors Involved in Dispute Arrest Each Other

A doctor made a citizen’s arrest of two men after a dispute in her offices, and the men, including another doctor, reciprocated by arresting her, authorities said Friday.

The three--including Dr. Milos Klvana, who was ordered in October to stand trial on six counts of second-degree murder involving the deaths of newborn babies whose births he had supervised--had argued over a business deal, said Sgt. Ed Dvorak of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Klvana and Robert Neumann, 34, went Thursday to the Valencia clinic Klvana used to operate, Dvorak said. Klvana sold the clinic and his practice to Dr. Sandra Soho last year, according to Soho.

Soho, 44, who operates a family and gynecology practice in Klvana’s old offices, said that Thursday, Klvana asked for more money than they had originally agreed upon. Klvana disputes Soho’s ownership of the practice, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Dick Young.

Summoned Twice

Deputies were summoned twice Thursday to the clinic, once by Soho and then by Klvana, Dvorak said. They left the first time because they believed that the three would work out their differences, Dvorak said.

“They said they had resolved their difficulty and, then, when we returned later in the day, that’s when Klvana said Soho had pointed the pistol at him,” Dvorak said.

Soho accused the two men of beating her and told deputies that she wanted them arrested, and the men said Soho had brandished a .357 magnum at them and wanted her arrested, Dvorak said.

Because sheriff’s deputies did not observe the incidents, they informed the three that citizen’s arrests could be made, Dvorak said.

3 Taken Into Custody

After the arrests, deputies took the three into custody. Neumann and Klvana were arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery, and Soho was arrested on suspicion of wielding a weapon in a threatening manner, also a misdemeanor. By Friday, the three had been released on $500 bail each.

Klvana, 47, was released in October on $200,000 bail pending his Los Angeles Superior Court trial later this year on the second-degree murder charges.

Klvana and his assistant, Delores Doyle, were arrested in October, 1986, after a two-year investigation into the deaths of nine infants that Klvana had delivered between December, 1982, and September, 1986.

After a four-month preliminary hearing, a Municipal Court judge upheld six of the nine murder charges against Klvana. Doyle was ordered to stand trial on two of the three counts of murder filed against her.

Klvana declared bankruptcy in 1986, after the investigation.