Police Arrest Two Narcotics Ring Suspects

A schoolteacher and a former schoolteacher, who Police Chief Walter E. Krasny says were operating a "tremendous" illicit narcotics business in the Ann Arbor area, were arrested Thursday night. John King Graham, 26, and Gerald Frank Oleszkowicz, 27, have been charged with the sale of marijuana. Both have been living in a rented farm house at 2711 Lohr Rd., just off the 1-94 expressway at the south edge of Ann Arbor. They were arrested after a raid of the house by a combined force of Ann Arbor police, Michigan State Police and detectives from the Genesee County Sheriff s Department in Flint. Chief Krasny said Graham is a former teacher at Edmonson Junior High School, Willow Run, while Oleszkowicz is a teacher at Willow Run High School. The raiders confiscated about five pounds of marijuana and a number of other drugs which will be analyzed at the State Police Crime Laboratory in Plymouth. Two other persons found in the house at the time of the raid were released after questioning. The chief said Graham and Oleszkowicz and the house they rented had been under surveillance since last summer. He said a "regular and extensive" business in narcotics traffic was centered in the house and virtually all the narcotics bought and sold there were brought here from distant states. He said Graham and Oleszkowicz were the key figures in the narcotics ring and knew each other from a period when they were both students at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Genesee County deputies were called in to participate in the raid after an investigation in their area was tied into local narcotics traffic, Chief Krasny said. The chief said an investigation into the Lohr Rd. operation is continuing and more arrests may be made. Graham demanded examination on the sale of marijuana charge in a District Court arraignment yesterday afternoon. Judge S. J. Elden ordered the examination for Jan. 20 and Graham was released after a $15,000 bond had been posted. Oleszkewicz, who was arrested on a warrant while walking down an Ann Arbor street late yesterday afternoon, also demanded examination when arraigned before Judge Elden in the County Jail last night. The judge set Oleszkowicz's bond at $15,000 and ordered him to appear in Ann Arbor District Court on Jan. 11 for the setting of an examination date. Oleszkewicz also was released on a $15,000 bond.