Local News in Brief : Man Arrested on 11-Year-Old Charge
A part-time construction worker was arrested at his Altadena home on an 11-year-old New York charge of possession of heroin for sale, authorities said Thursday.
FBI agents arrested Neeley Clark, 53, at his rented home Wednesday, FBI spokesman Jim Neilson said. Clark was arraigned before a federal magistrate and held without bail pending another detention hearing today.
Papers filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said a federal grand jury in the southern district of New York indicted Clark for possession of a controlled substance for sale in December, 1977.
The court file said Clark’s real name is Edward Friend, but he is also known as Neeley Clark and Morris Barry Thompson Jr. Clark was arrested by Inglewood police Aug. 17, 1979, and charged with grand theft auto but the disposition of the case was not known, the papers said. He also was arrested by Pasadena police March 12, 1987, for possession of narcotics for sale, but that case was dismissed due to insufficient evidence, the file said.
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