NORTHRIDGE : INS Releases Briton Cleared in 4 Murders

A British subject, acquitted last week on charges that he murdered four members of a Northridge family who disappeared in 1982, has been released from custody by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Harvey Rader, 49, was released from the Immigration Service’s holding center at Terminal Island after friends posted $20,000 bail Tuesday. Following the conclusion of his murder trial, Rader was detained for allegedly using fraud to obtain a U.S. visa.

Defense lawyer Joel R. Isaacson said that Rader’s release marked the first time since April, 1987, that he has been free. However, he faces a scheduled July 27 deportation hearing on charges that he obtained a U.S. visa through fraud in 1981 by concealing the fact that he had 13 criminal convictions in Britain.

Rader, a former Reseda auto shop owner, was acquitted July 8 of charges that he murdered former Israeli soldier Sol Salomon, Salomon’s wife, Elaine, their son, Mitchell, 9, and Elaine Salomon’s daughter, Michalle, 15.