Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 17, 1993                   TAG: 9311170182
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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IN VIRGINIA

ALEXANDRIA - Fourteen current and former employees and four inmates at the District of Columbia's Lorton prison complex were arrested Tuesday on bribery and drug-smuggling charges.

Authorities began rounding up the suspects in predawn raids at the prison in Northern Virginia and at their homes in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.

Walter Ridley, director of the D.C. Department of Corrections, said the arrests were the result of an interdiction task force that began its investigation three years ago.

"The Corrections Department is cleaning house," he said. "Unfortunately we have some employees who may have broken the law and jeopardized the security and safety within our prison system. They will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. - Associated Press

\ Clinic staff's claim prompts drug inquiry

ALEXANDRIA - Former employees of an impotency clinic say patients were given controlled drugs without a doctor's supervision.

Federal, state and local officials are investigating Genetus after numerous allegations, including the employees' claim that the clinic's patients were given physical examinations, diagnoses, prescriptions, shots and supplies of the drug prostaglandin without a doctor being present.

Prostaglandin is used to treat impotent men.

Wayne Farrar, spokesman for the state Department of Health Professions, would not comment on the investigation of Genetus other than to say no sanctions have been imposed. - Associated Press

\ Police say 3 dead are murder-suicide victims

CUMBERLAND - Police say three people found dead in a Cumberland County house were the victims of an apparent murder-suicide.

"That's the way the investigation is going unless something drastic comes back from the lab," Deputy Sheriff Danny Henshaw said.

The victims were identified as Sandra Harris Foeman, 48; Edward C. McLaughlin Jr., 31, and Foeman's boyfriend, George Lee Woodson, 29.

Henshaw said authorities believe Woodson killed the others with a shotgun, then shot himself.

The killings took place between 1 and 2 a.m. Saturday at Foeman's home on Virginia 45, six miles outside Farmville, Henshaw said. - Associated Press

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