By The Associated Press
Poughkeepsie Journal

NEW YORK - Investigators say they have found no evidence to support charges by Tawana Brawley's lawyers that three white Law Enforcement Officials brutalized the black teen-ager last year, according to the New York Times.

A reconstruction of the movements of the three men showed that each had "extensive alibis" for the period during which Miss Brawley was missing from her home in Wappingers Falls, the newspaper said in Saturday's Edition.

Authorities say the routine nature of the men's lives from Nov. 24 to 28, when Miss Brawley was missing, strongly suggests they were not involved in a prolonged attack on her, the Times said.

With the men virtually eliminated as suspects, investigators reportedly say they are left without significant leads.

The men who have been accused by the Brawley lawyers are Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones; Harry J. Crist Jr., a part-time Fishkill Police Officer who committed suicide; and Scott Patterson, a State Trooper. Pagones' attorney has threatened to sue one of the accusers, attorney Alton Maddox, for slander.

Interviewers with lawyers and acquaintances of the men, and with investigators, show the men where at work, out shopping, at dinners with friends or relatives and were seen by many at various times and places during that period, the Times said.