The State - News from May 3, 1989

A local chiropractor accused of involvement in a huge cocaine smuggling ring was described at a bail hearing in Fresno as a devout father and devoted healer, who is being used as bait to capture his fugitive brother. “The man is a genius. The man is like a god to me when it comes to taking care of the human body,” lawyer Charles Garry said of Thomas Enrique, 39, of nearby Clovis. Garry, who represented the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, said federal Drug Enforcement Agents were using Enrique in an effort to capture his brother, John Reilly Enrique, who has been a fugitive since 1982 and is presumed living in Guadalajara, Mex. The brothers have been indicted for their roles in a Mexico-California drug ring, which allegedly imported 1,300 pounds of cocaine valued at tens of millions of dollars between 1981 and 1988, Assistant U.S. Atty. Carl Faller said. The indictment increased the likelihood that Thomas Enrique would join his brother in Mexico, he said.