SUSPECT'S TRIP TO MOVIES IS JUST THE TICKET FOR OFFICIALS, WHO ARREST HIM

An alleged drug kingpin who bought a ticket to "The Sum of All Fears" may
have realized his own a few minutes later when he was arrested at a movie
theater in Long Beach, the U.S. marshal's office said Tuesday.

Darrell Dwight Bellamy, 33, is suspected of heading a narcotics network
that distributed more than 150 kilograms of cocaine and half a ton of
marijuana in Arizona, Oklahoma, Illinois and Michigan over about eight
years, officials said.

He is accused by a grand jury in Tulsa, Okla., of torturing a woman by
dipping her feet in boiling oil and branding her arm with a hot iron after
she lost more than $291,000 in drug receipts. Deputy Marshal Kurt Ellingson
said marshals followed Bellamy from a nearby home to the AMC theaters on
Pine Avenue on Monday afternoon after receiving a tip on his whereabouts
from investigators in Oklahoma.

"He purchased a ticket and disappeared inside," Ellingson said.

Marshals quickly checked with the box office, determined which movie
Bellamy was watching and unobtrusively entered the back of the theater,
Ellingson said.

"He was watching a showing that was almost over," Ellingson said. "As he
got up to leave, we blocked his exit, handcuffed him quietly and took him
outside. I don't think most of the people in that theater ever realized
what had happened."

Bellamy is awaiting arraignment in Los Angeles before his scheduled return
to Oklahoma.

Chad Greer, an assistant U.S. attorney in Tulsa, said that during his
months on the run, Bellamy gambled away about $3 million in Las Vegas in an
unsuccessful attempt to launder his alleged drug profits. Bellamy was added
to the marshals' "15 Most Wanted List" in April.

Investigators said Bellamy allegedly employed more than 20 "mules,"
couriers who transported drugs by plane and automobile and then returned
with the proceeds. The female courier reportedly was tortured when she was
suspected of stealing drug money. In reality, she apparently lost the money
in a robbery, officials said. Five of Bellamy's purported accomplices went
on trial last week in Tulsa.