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Molasses Salon owner charged with selling fake ID’s Man dies
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The fire department arrived By Juan Valdez
within minutes of the blast Everyone coming out of Miz for over six months by a joint for credit cards, buy cars or U.S. Postal Inspection Service
and hosed down the molasses, Willie’s Salon de Beaute on task force of local police houses, and run up debt in and the FBI. Two federal By Chris Banks
sending the smelly liquid into Castle Street had every right officers and FBI agents, said other people’s names,” says agents even went undercover WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH
storm drains and onto lawns. to feel like a new person. Evangelous. Owner Van der and bought -- Fishermen found the
The damage will run more In addition to new hairdos, Roste supplied customers with ‘The day of the complete several ID’s, body of a Connecticut
than $20,000, said Bill
George, fire chief.
polished nails and tighter fraudulent birth certificates, makeover at this salon is a Puerto multimillionaire yesterday,
pores, many walked out with Social Security cards, green Rican birth tied to concrete blocks in the
Peter Clougherty, 34, owner entirely new identities. cards, passports and driver over’ c e r t i f i c a t e , deep water beside his 100
of the liquor store, was
charged with possession of
Wilhelmina Van der Roste, licenses. Some of the fake - Wilmington Police Chief a Social foot long yacht, After You,
52, was arrested yesterday, identification cards used the Security card police said.
illegal distillery equipment, and charged with illegally names and Social Security Ralph Evangelous and two U.S. Wrigley Byron Knightsley,
a misdemeanor, and various possessing and transferring numbers of people living in passports. Jr., 68, heir to second largest
counts of destruction someone else’s passport for Puerto Rico. Evangelous. “But remember Law enforcement officers shut axle grease fortune in the
of private property. He felonious use, according While Van der Roste charged how the terrorists that attacked the operation down yesterday country, was dead when two
was released on his own to Ralph Evangelous, several dollars for a haircut, the World Trade Center by simultaneously executing local clammers happened by
recognizance. He refused to Wilmington’s Chief of Police. she’d pocket about $1,000 for embedded themselves into search warrants at the salon and saw Knightsley’s head
comment on the situation. “This arrest marks the a fraudulent Social Security this country; they all had fake and Van der Roste’s home. bobbing on the surface of the
Molasses has a long history in beginning of the end of a card and a birth certificate ID’s. These ID’s could’ve Seized were 17 sets of ID’s Intracoastal Waterway just
the distilling industry, with its lucrative and illegal business in the same name. A valid just as easily fallen into the that were about to hit the off The Dockside restaurant,
most famous products usually that was operating for years U.S. passport alone would hands of terrorists, or big-time streets. Van der Roste is being 1308 Airlie Road.
bearing the label of rum. in this city,” said Evangelous. set a customer back the same criminals.” held in the New Hanover The clammers, Abe Green,
“I’d never buy no rum, no “The day of the complete amount. Police uncovered the salon’s County Detention Facility in 18, and Fruity Nelson, 18,
where, no how, but I’d buy makeover at this salon is over.” “Her customers were mostly crooked dealings in June lieu of $5 million bail. Five told police they were out
Peter’s,” said Burgaw native Miz Willie’s Salon de Beaute undocumented immigrants, 2007, and began a six-month co-defendants pleaded guilty in their skiff around 3 a.m.
Olaf Stormstrand. “It was had been under surveillance who could use them to apply joint investigation with the to similar charges. trying to get the best clams
better than anything I’ve ever when they saw what they