1981 News Clipping: Greg Diles Had Gun Battle With Cops
November 25, 1981 – Cops find two pounds of cocaine valued at $1M after the second raid on Nash’s home.
July 10, 1981 – During the first raid on Nash’s house, Greg Diles had a “brief gun battle” with cops at the onset of the raid. By the way, Diles once chased a man from one of Eddie’s clubs and fired six shots across several lanes of traffic on Santa Monica Blvd at two o’clock in the afternoon. Nobody was injured.
You cannot make this stuff up!
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December 8, 1981
James DelCol, 
scabiesoftherat 11:27 pm on March 20, 2013 Permalink |
More great stuff here, John. Isn’t it amazing that these two,…Nash and Diles, can get leveled with felonies and still make bail? Just what is a “brief gun battle” exactly? Fire two shots, hopelessly miss and then drop your guns and quit?…and then arrest him on another charge. LA is so screwed up, man.
So his wife actually put him up for protection and was trying to get him to co-operate with the cops? Was that in the movie? I mighta missed it. Isn’t that aiding and abetting if you are hiding a fugitive?
Great article, John. I don’t know where you find them but just keep them coming….Good Job, Man
John W 6:15 am on March 21, 2013 Permalink |
Susan Launius was 25 at the time of the murders, some reports say 29. Either way, when she and Ron married in 71, she would have been a teenager. He was about 27. He was honorably discharged in 1970. One early article said he spent a few months in the brig. I wonder what he did to get military jail time? Drugs? Or stealing. He worked in Logistics Command in the USAF. He had access to supplies and equipment….
scabiesoftherat 12:29 am on March 22, 2013 Permalink
I read somewhere,…and I can’t remember where,….so you can dismiss me right now and I won’t be offended,…that he smuggled heroin in the carcasses of dead soldiers coming home from the battlefields of Vietnam. That’s pretty cold. Did you ever hear Holmes on record talking about Wonderland? Talkin smack about Lind and all? They were in a restaurant. Just talkin’ over coffee and shit….like it was nothing. You really need head phones for it but it is kinda worth it in regards to how Holmes was introduced to the Wonderland gang. Here’s the link. Follow it to part two after part one:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKdLnLYKs_c
What a character,…that John Holmes. I really think he did sell his soul to the devil. What his wife saw in him, I haven’t a clue,….oh, that’s right….the d**k. As Emily Litella would say,….”Nevermind…..”
Geez. Was it all worth that crap?…really. In my eyes, Launius looks like a St. next to holmes. (capitalization omitted on purpose)
James DelCol 8:20 am on June 10, 2013 Permalink
Ron Launius was caught smuggling heroin from Thailand, but this was not so unusual. So many GI’s were caught doing this. You would be shocked to hear high ranking officials were caught doing the same thing. BTW Ron received an Honorable Discharge. The movie states he received a dishonorable discharge. Misinformation for dramatic effect happens in US movies and news. Check your sources. American bullshit is pretty nefarious.
“Drugs did not only affect the lower ranks. In 1970 an Air Force major was apprehended at Tan Son Nhut air base near Saigon with $8 million dollars worth of heroin in his aircraft. In 1971 a colonel was court-martialed for leading marijuana parties in his squadron. Nor were U.S. security forces immune: that year 43 military policemen at Cam Ranh Air Force Base were arrested in narcotics raids. At Pleiku, a newly arrived lieutenant was gunned down in front of his entire platoon by four Army drug dealers. The company and battalion commanders were relieved of their commands; the feeling was both should have known about the drug dealing in their command. In 1971 U.S. customs at an Army post in New Jersey seized about 15 pounds of heroin from Bangkok in a package mailed through the U.S. military postal system. In March and April 1971 248 pieces of mail containing drugs were detected by customs in the Army and Air Force postal systems.”
Robert D. Heinl, Jr., “The Collapse of the Armed Forces,”in Marvin E. Gettleman et. al., Vietnam and America, (New York: Grove Press), 1995, p. 329; James Kittfield, Prodigal Soldiers, (New York: Simon & Schuster), 1995, p. 189, 190; McCoy, p. 259.