From: Tom Klemesrud Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Lerma Raid!!! Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 07:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Right now there is a Federal raid in progress at former Scientologist, Arnoldo Lera's house in Arlington, Virgina. Earle C. Cooley, Helena Kobrin, two armed Federal Marshals, 2 computer tech's, for a total of ten people. He is being raided because he posted what is the Fishman Court case obtained at the Federla Courthouse in Los Angeles--which contains the OT materials. Tom ------------------ From: mech@eff.org (Stanton McCandlish) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.religion.scientology,misc.legal,misc.legal.computing,alt.censorship Subject: CoS raids Lerma Date: 12 Aug 1995 11:20:26 -0400 Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Message-ID: <40igrq$1ho@eff.org> Looks like someone cancelled the original post about this, so I'll repost the gist: The Church of Scientology is right now conducting a raid on Arnie Lerma, a CoS critic. Lerma's attorneys are on the premises. I don't have any more info at present. -- Stanton McCandlish
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Online Services Mgr. ------------- From: tomklem@netcom.com (Tom Klemesrud) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Lerma is Raided!!! Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 15:31:58 GMT Armed with a Federal Writ of Seizure, Church of Scientology attorneys Earl C. Cooley of Boston, and Helena K. Kobrin on North Hollywood, CA; are raiding the Arlington, Virginia house of Arlnaldo Lerma, a former Scientology. What they are seeking is material legally obtained from the Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles--the Fishman case--in which the upper level material, the secret, sacrid scriptures of the Cult, are revealed. It is alleged that Lerma posted the Court documents, that are unsealed, on Usenet. Accompanying the two attorney's are two armed Federal Marshals, and six other people included two computer technicians. "The are upstairs and downstairs in the house. Lerma is having the whole raid videotaped, for presentation on TV, or the evening news. There will be news coverage. No news of who the Federal Judge is that issued the order, or if the Judge knew that the materials sought were given to Lerma, or Lerma's source by the Clerk of the Federal Court in Los Angeles. -------------- Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: tom.klemesrud@support.com Subject: Lerma is Raided!!! Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 Message-ID: <9508121020.0EIOK01@support.com> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 10:20:06 -0700 Writ of Seizure was issued by Judge Lennie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia. Civil action No. 95-1107A issued August 11, 1995. The raid took place from 9:30 am to 12:15 pm EDT. Lerma told the Federal Marshals that they had to wait until Lerma's attorney arrived. The Marshals, one of which was N. David Williams, said they did not have to wait for Lerma's attorney. What was taken: His whole computer, with 550 megabyte hard drive that included Lerma's business clients, invoices, personal letters, spread sheets, proposals, and archives of ARS traffic including a private E-mail list. The Scientologists took pictures of his house and videotaped the raid. Arnie Lerma also videotaped the videotaping of the raid, and the raid. Waren McShane was present with Earl C. Cooley and Helena Kobrin. They had two men from INET (Interprise Network Solutions of Betheda, MD.): James C. Settle, Director of Information Security, and Ronald d. Tencati. Also present was attorney Chad Dunn of Williams and Brinks of Arlington, VA. On the Writ of Seizure it appears that Arnaldo Pagliarini Lerma, and Individual; and DIGITAL GATEWAY SYSTEMS, a Virginia Corporation, is being sued for Copyright Infringement, and Trade Secret Misappropriation. Exhibit A LIST OF UNPUBLISHED LITERARY WORKS OT I REG NUMBER 303382 OT II 303388 OT III 290496 OT IV REG PENDING OT V REG PENDING OT VI REG PENDING OT VII REG PENDING Affidavits of Warren McShane, Helena K. Kobrin, and Susan Taylor where submitted in support of the request for a Writ of Seizure. More to follow. Tom ------------- Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: tom.klemesrud@support.com Subject: Lerma is Raided!!! Message-ID: <9508121124.0G0LY01@support.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 95 11:24:04 -0700 Lerma says, " I have horror stories that have never been told about the Hubbards. I'm going to tell them." PARTIAL INVENTORY LEFT BY FEDERAL MARSHALS: Box: programs 40 disk found in the basement. Box: Microsoft Vsiaual Basic 3 disks Wordstar 5 disks Utilities and drivers 42 disks Bag: 61 5 & 3 1/4 disks in a box. Microsoft Visual Basic 3 two floppies 1 bag 43 disks 1 bag 22 disks 1 bag 57 disks 1 bag 1 data cartridge They took his whole computer, scanner, and a hard disk he had for re-sale. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Tom Klemesrud, Sysop _/ _/ L.A. Valley College BBS _/ _/ tom.klemesrud@support.com _/ _/ FidoNet 1:102/837 KoX _/ _/ root@support.com _/ _/ North Hollywood, CA USA _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/