Fugitive in 1969 Killing of UCLA Black Panthers Surrenders

MIAMI (AP) _ A fugitive convicted of conspiracy in the 1969 murders of two Black Panthers surrendered Friday to FBI agents, 20 years after escaping from prison.

Larry Joseph Stiner, 46, turned himself in at the U.S. Embassy in Suriname, said FBI spokesman Paul Miller. Stiner arrived in Miami late Friday afternoon and was being held at Dade County Jail, Miller said. Stiner was scheduled to appear before a federal judge Monday.

Stiner and his brother, George Phillip Stiner, 47, were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in the Jan. 17, 1969, shootings of two Black Panthers on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles, Miller said.

The Stiners belonged to the rival black militant US Party, which got into a dispute with the Black Panthers over a proposed black studies program. After a meeting about the program, Alpentice ''Bunchy'' Carter, a deputy minister of defense for the Panthers, and John Jerome Huggins, an area captain, were shot.

The brothers were given life terms and sent to San Quentin, but walked away from a minimum security area on March 30, 1974, Miller said. George Stiner remains a fugitive.

Larry Stiner was expected to be returned to California soon, Miller said.

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