Shoplifting Prozac* 17/04/1992 Colorado Irish Widow Faces Deportation: Has Shoplifting Charges
Shoplifting	Prozac*	1992-04-17	Colorado	Irish Widow Faces Deportation: Has Shoplifting Charges

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Summary:<br><br>Paragraph 1 reads:&nbsp; &quot;<strong>Maureen Farrell, the Irish widow fighting deportation from the United States, won a 90-day reprieve from a federal judge yesterday, and Farrell&#39;s attorney suggested she may be<u> suffering side effects of the antidepressant Prozac .&quot; <br /><br /></u></strong>Paragraph 7 reads:&nbsp; &quot;<strong>The most recent arrest was Saturday at the Cinnamon Bakery in Westminster Mall, where Farrell allegedly took a $9.99 package of cinnamon rolls. Kiely said Farrell&#39;s<u> alleged shoplifting was &quot;out of character,&quot; possibly brought on by her use of Prozac . <br /><br /><br /></u><h3><strong>Farrell wins 90-day reprieve - Attorney says anti-depressant may account for shoplifting arrests </strong></h3><font size="3">The Denver Post - April 17, 1992 <br />Author: Peter Chronis; Denver Post Staff Writer<br /><br />Maureen Farrell, the Irish widow fighting deportation from the United States, won a 90-day reprieve from a federal judge yesterday, and Farrell&#39;s attorney suggested she may be suffering side effects of the antidepressant <strong>Prozac</strong> . <br /><br />In an impromptu news conference outside the Denver federal courthouse, attorney Joseph Kiely said Farrell has been depressed and has been taking <strong>Prozac</strong> for three years. Kiely said he&#39;ll seek a psychiatric evaluation of his client. <br /><br />Revelations this week that Farrell has an arrest record prompted Kiely&#39;s comments, after a brief hearing before U.S. District Judge Jim Carrigan, who stayed Farrell&#39;s scheduled May 17 deportation until Aug. 17. <br /><br />Kiely, who has a serious illness and left a hospital bed to make the court appearance, said he needed more time to study Farrell&#39;s case. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which has resisted public pressure to give Farrell political asylum in the United States, did not oppose Carrigan&#39;s reopening of the case. <br /><br />&quot;The court has been concerned in the past that the petitioner seems very depressed,&quot; Carrigan said, noting he was &quot;concerned that her decisions have been made under the effects of depression.&quot; <br /><br />Farrell, a 35-year-old legal secretary, wants to remain in the United States to raise her 4-year-old American daughter, Jamie. Her attempts to gain permanent residency have made her a cause celebre, but she found herself surrounded by controversy over the revelation Wednesday that she had been arrested several times on shoplifting charges. <br /><br />The most recent arrest was Saturday at the Cinnamon Bakery in Westminster Mall, where Farrell allegedly took a $9.99 package of cinnamon rolls. Kiely said Farrell&#39;s alleged shoplifting was &quot;out of character,&quot; possibly brought on by her use of <strong>Prozac</strong> . <br /><br />Farrell would not respond to questions yesterday. But in a previous interview with The Denver Post, when a reporter asked her about a rumor that she had an arrest record, Farrell denied it. <br /><br />Farrell apparently made a similar declaration in an affidavit to the INS. Kiely said that issue &quot;could be a problem.&quot; <br /><br />Kiely also responded to reports that Farrell was born in Scotland, not Ireland, and that her husband&#39;s death three years ago might have been a suicide and not from complications of diabetes. <br /><br />Kiely said Farrell&#39;s father was Irish and her mother was Scottish. Her parents moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland, when Farrell was 2 months old. <br /><br />&quot;She&#39;s a Northern Irish citizen,&quot; he said. Farrell&#39;s passport lists her birthplace as Scotland. <br /><br />Farrell and her husband had family problems, Kiely said, and the husband had left their home. But the cause of death three years ago wasn&#39;t determined to be suicide, Kiely said. <br /><br />&quot;The body wasn&#39;t found until three weeks after he had passed away,&quot; Kiely said. <br /><br />Farrell came to the United States in 1982 after her apartment building in Portadown, Northern Ireland, was destroyed by a 400-pound terrorist car bomb. She has waged a 10-year campaign to gain political asylum. Police records indicate Farrell has several arrests: <br /><br />June 25, 1982, in Vail, where she was arrested on a <strong>larceny</strong> charge. Disposition of that case is unclear. <br /><br />Dec. 18, 1983, at the Sears store in Northglenn, where Farrell allegedly took perfume valued at $69. The charge was dismissed, and she was fined $100 for disturbing the peace. <br /><br />June 9, 1984, J.C. Penney Co., Northglenn, where she allegedly took clothing worth $100. That charge also was dismissed, and Farrell was fined $100 for disturbing the peace. <br /><br />Dec. 16, 1989, at the Broadway Southwest, Westminster, Farrell was caught shoplifting goods valued at $226.64. She pleaded guilty and paid a $135 fine. <br /><br />Nov. 23, 1990, May D&amp;F, Westminster, Farrell was arrested and pleaded guilty to stealing a child&#39;s blanket worth $16. She was fined $100. <br />Page: 1A<br />Record Number: DNVR107181<br />Copyright 1992 The Denver Post Corp.<br />To bookmark this article, right-click on the link below, and copy the link location:<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:DNPB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=0EB2291465BABF86&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">Farrell wins 90-day reprieve - Attorney says anti-depressant may account for shoplifting arrests </a></font></strong> 
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