California IN BRIEF : FRESNO : 5 Plead Guilty to Cocaine Charges

Five defendants, including a Clovis chiropractor, have pleaded guilty in federal court in an outgrowth of a Porterville drug case authorities called the biggest in San Joaquin Valley history. The chiropractor, Thomas Joe Henrique, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, as did Kenneth Spray and Donald Lujan Castro. Guilty pleas were also entered by Scott Murphy to conspiracy charges and by David Harp to charges of possession and aiding and abetting distribution of heroin. The federal grand jury in Fresno indicted the defendants last April on charges of conspiring to distribute 1,300 pounds of cocaine. Assistant U.S. Atty. Carl Faller said those indictments grew out of the seizure in 1988, of 480 pounds of cocaine in a mini-storage warehouse.