October 24, 1975

By Carlos J. Licea

Humberto Lopez Jr. was described as a "political fanatic" who is "mentally incompetent and doesn't know right from wrong" in a motion filed by his attorney seeking psychiatric examinations for the Cuban exile.

Lopez, whose jailing on bail jumping charges has sparked four bombings in the Miami area in recent weeks, is currently back in the Broward County Jail and scheduled for trial during the week of November 3.

The motion made by Lopez' attorney, Gino Negretti, was granted yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Charlene Sorrentino, appointed Dr. Albert Jaslow to perform the evaluation.

Negretti objected to the selection of Jaslow today, saying he wants a Spanish-speaking psychiatrist instead.

"The bridge is too wide, and questions in English with a translator interpreting just would not have satisfactory results," Negretti said in comments outside the courtroom today.

Lopez was transferred to Broward from Martin County Jail yesterday after the sheriff there said he feared bombings in his community.

Gino Negretti, Lopez' attorney, said his client "was visited by two men while he was at the Martin county jail and they told him that some people wanted to kill him."

Lopez's father, Humberto Lopez Sr., said he is afraid his son will be killed. "If anything happens to him I will personally hold the U.S. government responsible."

The younger Lopez fears he will be murdered in such a way it will look like he committed suicide. For the record, Negretti said, "He [Lopez] has no intention of killing himself and his is not going to hang himself."

Lopez is "in good shape," Negretti said. He will be permitted visitors at the jail "like any other prisoner during visiting hours on Sunday." It has been a week since he was transferred out of the Broward County Jail after a bomb exploded in the jail parking lot. He was transferred to the Martin County Jail in Stuart.

When another bomb, which did not explode, was found at the Dominicana Airlines office in downtown Miami Monday, the Martin County sheriff asked the Federal marshals to take Lopez away.

"The marshals took him to the Indian River County Jail where they dressed him up as a convict and put him in under a false name."

"He was housed with another prisoner in a small cell," said Negretti.

However, after Negretti protested that Lopez was not being allowed to bathe or brush his teeth, the marshals brought him back to Broward County to await sentencing,

Lopez was found guilty of illegal possession of explosives after a bomb factory in Little Havana in Miami blew up. He lost an eye and part of a foot in the explosion.