DIRECTOR OF CAMP FOR TROUBLED KIDS ARRESTED ON MURDER, ABUSE CHARGES

PHOENIX -- The director of a boot camp for troubled youngsters was arrested
on murder and child-abuse charges Friday in the death of a teen-age camper
who collapsed in the 111-degree heat last summer. Charles Long II, 56, was
also charged with aggravated assault for allegedly pulling a knife on a
camper, and with marijuana possession for a quarter-pound of the drug found
in his bedroom closet.

The second-degree murder charge was filed over the death of 14-year-old
Anthony Haynes. He died July 1 while attending a five-week boot camp
operated by the America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors Association.

The medical examiner's office said Haynes died of complications from
dehydration and near-drowning -- dehydration after being made to stand in
the sun for up to five hours, the near-drowning from being left in a motel
bathtub, where he had been taken to cool him off.

Camp sergeant Ray Anderson, 39, was also arrested Friday and charged with
child abuse for allegedly spanking, stomping, beating and whipping more
than 14 children.