Manager Denies Employing Witness
Manager Denies Employing Witness
The manager of an Ypsilanti Township drive-in restaurant has denied that Regina Lawson, a witness in the District Court examination of Andrew Manuel, was ever an employe of the business firm.
Miss Lawson, who testified she received three rings from Manuel in the parking lot of the Taco Boy Restaurant on Washtenaw Ave. near Golfside Dr. last June, was identified by a prosecutor’s spokesman as a waitress at the restaurant. The drive-in manager said a check of his employment records fails to show Miss Lawson’s name.
Manuel, friend of accused killer John Norman Collins, appeared Wednesday before Ypsilanti District Court Judge Henry Arkison on a charge of concealing stolen property. The three rings which Miss Lawson said she received at the restaurant from Manuel were stolen, the prosecution claims.
Manuel is scheduled to appear in the same court next Wednesday on another charge of larceny by conversion, a count stemming from his reported failure to return a rented house trailer which he and Collins towed to California last June.