From: "Cravens, Roger D." <[r b g 3] at [CCDOSA1.EM.CDC.GOV]>
Subject: To Serve and (hic) Protect
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 15:14:00 EST
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Subject:  To Serve and (hic) Protect
Date: Sunday, October 20, 1996 10:47PM

(Dallas Morning News, Oct. 20, page 33A)

An agent of the Dallas office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
was arrested on charges of intoxication manslaughter after he allegedly ran
a stop sign and struck a motorcyclist.  Ronald Vegovisch, 49, of Dallas was
arrested at the scene just before midnight after the car he was driving
struck Taylor Niblack, 21, also of Dallas.  The motorcyclist, who suffered
head, neck and internal injuries, died about 12:15am at Baylor Univ. Medical
Center. <snip> Police said that Agent Vegovisch was travelling east on
Velasco Avenue at Skillman Street around 11:45pm when he ran a stop sign and
collided with Mr. Niblack, who was northbound on Skillman on his motorcycle.
The accident occurred near Agent Vegovisch's home, which is at the corner of
the two streets. Officers at the scene said that Agent Vegovisch smelled
strongly of alcohol and that his walk "was unsteady and staggered,"
according to a police report.  He was taken to Lew Sterrett Justice Center
and was released around 11am Saturday on $25,000 bond. <snip> The car he was
driving, a 1991 Chrysler New Yorker, is owned by the federal government,
said an ATF spokesman.  The car was registered in the name of a third party
because it was used in undercover operations, he said.  Agent Vegovisch will
probably be placed on paid leave while the agency investigates the accident,
ATF public information officer Steve Steele said Saturday. <snip>  The
50-member Dallas office of the ATF is a tight-knit group, Mr. Steele added.
He said that a fellow agent posted Mr. Vegovisch's bond.

(Isn't that special)