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5/7/89
Ed3 drug speech
bottom of P. 7
PIZZA Connection II
Ato Adomits Cose Triel
3/7/89
Advance -
Kothy Kamanack
meeting w/ MJ. Hatcher
Questions for Ed
who it meeting
Police report to verify
4 shots
witnesses - - were there any ?
K yrs. Since anyone's faced the death penalty
Report of vito for 12 2yrs
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DOJ
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5/8/89
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in N.Y.
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MAR-02-1989
18:11
FROM
U.S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE
TO
84562461
P.09
Lost Radio Contact
13-state
search
is on for
assassin
By Richard Esposito
Undercover narcotics agent Everett
Hatcher was out of contact with his five
backup agents for more than an hour
before bis corpee was found slumped
behind the wheel of his car with two
bullets in his head and two in his body,
authorities said yesterday.
The 18-state manhunt for Constible
Farace, sought in connection with the
execution-style alaying of federal agent
Hatcher Tuesday on Staten Island, has
Newsday Bewchuk
been hampered by the head start the
Investigators late Tuesday night search the car in which undercover DEA agent Everett Hatcher was found stain hours earlier.
killer may have gotten.
Authorities don't know why Hatch-
er's radio transmitter wasn't enough to
Worst News Kin Can Hear
keep him in contact with his backup
team.
Hatcher was the first Drug Enforce-
ment Administration agent to be killed
in the line of duty in New York in more
Wife's disbelief
than 10 years. Authorities said that if
his killing was sanctioned by orga-
nized-crime families. the unofficial
followed by grief
rules have changed. No associate of tra-
ditional organized crime has deliberate-
by killed a federal agent since the time
of Al Capone, they said.
By Richard Esposito
Farace has not been charged with the
Everett Hatcher's two sons were asleep when feder-
murder. A werrant was issued for his
al agents knocked at the front door Tuesday night
arrest on narcotics charges yesterday
and told Hatcher's wife, Mary Jane, that her husband
by U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney,
would never return home from an undercover oper-
based on allegations of past undercover
ation.
purchases of cocaine by Hatcher from
The boys were allowed to sleep on, sheltered from
Farace.
the disbelief, anger and grief that followed Yesterday,
"When is enough enough?" said Rob-
the older boy, Zackery, 9, was sent off to school, to
art Stutman, special agent in charge of
keep him temporarily from the chaos.
the DEA's 500 New York agents and
"He was inseparable from Everett," said one agent
investigators. "We've had two agents
who had worked with the slain man for more than 15
years. "Everent adored his boy." He loved children so
Please see AGENT on Page 24
much that the Hatchers had recently adopted Joshua,
age 3, so they could have a second son, the agent said.
As the agents walked up the driveway to the Hatch-
New
Jersey
Givens
ers' home in Passaic County, N.J., on Tuesday night,
NEW
JERSEY
they knew that they would break the worst news a
law-enforcement family could ever bear.
Newsday/Richard Lee
"But it really hite home when you see the basket-
Ari
detail
Brooklyn
U.S. Attorney Andrew Maloney, left, and Robert Stutman, in charge
of the DEA's 500 New York investigators, discuss agent's death.
Please see FAMILY on Page 25
Rules in the War on Drugs
Reserville
NEWSDAY, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1989
he guarded the house of a witness
clude the head of the New York City
to 90,000 in the city. Homicide detec-
STATEN
scheduled to testify against & Queens
DEA Division, several city politicians,
lives for more than 18 months now
people
drug kingpin - were involved in anti-
including Mayor Edward L Koch, and
have been regularly attached to DEA
ISLAND
drug activities.
several law enforcement officials.
investigations.
According to DEA intelligence docu-
The DEA's intelligence documents
"The newest and most disturbing
Road
of
mente, 11 special agents were involved
identify a half-dozen Colombian, Ja-
trend in crack trafficking is the des
the
Ave
in shooting incidents last year, with
mainan and Dominican drug gangs, as
creasing age of those involved," one
NY
two shot in the head during separate
well as the "home-grown" gangs, that
DEA document usid. It goes on to cite
arrests. A city police officer assigned to
opt for increased violence.
case after CASG of 12, 13, and 14-year-
the agency also was shot and wounded.
Federal statistics on cocaine traffick-
olds arrested for selling creck.
DEA agent was parked on
Federal agents also say they have re-
ing trends show, for instance, that even
"And there's another way the vio-
overpass when stain
crived reliable information about an as-
street-level drug dealers have confeder-
lence of the drug trade compares with
5
sassination plot in reteliation for two
ated into gangs protected by "enform-
Vistuam," Hall maid, "That is, if you're
Clay Pt Ponds
large seizures of cocaine from the Me-
in my business you re always looking
State Park
ers," according to the documents. And
Woodrow
dellin cartel, the drug ring operating
crack arrests now account for 42 per-
for the light at the end of the tunnel
from the Colombian province of Medel
cent of all parcotics busts, which this
So enforcement experts said,
Hh. Targets In the plot the
year are projected to approach 80,000
there is none.
Tom
MAR-02-1989
18:12
FROM
U.S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE
TO
84562461
P.10
Lost Radio Link With Backups
His radio transmitter, still attached
by suction cups to his body, was intest.
indicating the killer had not discovered
it.
Because a police patrol car had
passed this spot at 9:35 p.m., and
Hatcher's car was not there. Staten Is-
land homicide detectives said the kill-
ing must have occurred between then
and just before 10:15 p.m., when the
backup agents returned to the spot and
discovered Hatcher's body slumped be-
hind the wheel of his grey 1987 Buick
Regal Limited That meant the killers
bad up to 40 minutes to leave the area
before Hatcher's body was found.
"It's slow going, said Deputy In-
spector William Wallace, the head of
Staten Island detectives. His detectives,
DEA and FBI agents staked out Staten
Island houses and clubs, watched
bridges and tunnels, alerted airports,
prowled Farace's Brooklyn haunta, and
interviewed his family and friends in
an effort to bring the suspect in for
questioning
Authorities said they haven't deter-
mined how Hatcher lost transmitter
contact with his partners or whether be
was killed because the killer and his as-
sociates had discovered that be was a
federal agent.
"What happened on Staten Island
was as much an execution of a law en-
forcement officer às that of Eddie
Byrne. Pm not intimating his cover was
blown." said William Doran, chief of
the FBI's New York criminal division.
"The killing was out of cold-blocded
neas."
Undercover agent Everett Hatcher was shot four times in this car late Tuesday night in the Rossville section of Staten Island,
Newsday Eawchuk
Police Officer Edward Byrne was
alain, allegedly on the orders of reputed
strest-corner drug kingpins in. South
lyn-based Colombo crime crew, and
ty legislation, complained that the gov-
Jamaica one year and two days earlier.
seven members of his crew were con-
ernment is not doing enough to finance
That slaying was immediately de-
victed on drug charges.
entidrug programs.
nounced by authorities as an assassine-
Ferace, 28, of 32 Melville Ave., Stat-
"How can we look Everett Hatcher's
The
Suspect
tion of a police officer.
En Island, is # relative of Scarpa. In
widow and children in the eye and say
If Farace, called à suspect by Doran
1979 be was arrested and charged in
we are doing everything that we can to
(Gua)
Farace
28
and Stutman, killed Hatcher and the
the sexual assoult and murder of one
end this scourge?" D'Amsto asked in a
Ad the killing of DEA
slaying was sanctioned by the mob. it
man and the beating of à second. He
speech on the Senate floor.
De-
means the criminals have turned up
was convicted of manslaughter charges,
"The and answer is that we aren't
a
the violence against law enforcement
along with Mark Granate, also of Stat-
doing everything needed to battle this
of
N
lamit
two
officers in the drug ware.
en Island Granata's brother Kevin al-
enemy," D'Amato said. "So many have
familian
Partied June 3 after
"Certainly if he did it with knowl-
legedly is a member of Searpa's crime
given their lives in this 'war' without
serving the 7-year
edge (that the target was an agent] and
crew. Ferace also was linked during
the necessary will and resources to
for a
in control of his senses, and it was sanc-
Hatcher's undercover probe to Joseph
back them up.
tion. Described by officials - a
tioned by a member of the crime family,
Chille Jr., 58, a powerful reputed cap-
Stutman, at a news conference at his
model pervice who never missed
then these are big stakes for law en-
tein of a Bonanno family living in Flor-
555 W. 57th St. offices, said that while
a meeting with his parole officer
forcement," said James Fox, the aggis-
ida. The investigation sought in part to
law enforcement has pressed aboad in
Pleaded guilty May 20, 1980,
tant director in charge of the FBI in
determine whether Chille was involved
combating suppliers, treatment and
in the Oct. 4, 1979, slaying of Ste
New York, who cautioned that Farace
in drug dealing.
education efforts have lagged behind
chen Charles, one of Two men
is only B suspect.
Matcher was a lieutenant colonel in
"Let's go from here," Stutmen said.
Farace and three ared to
The investigation into a middle-lev-
the Army Reserve and the father of two
"There is enough blame for everybody.
works Pend Park se Staten Is
el drug-distribution ring with mob
children.
What I mean by that is we still have
land, apparently for 693
ties is the latest in a series of such
"He was a very gentle man," Stut-
people who do not understand what
Took college and vocational pro-
probes conducted by the DEA, FBI
zaso said. "We used to call him the
should be instituted to Sually get seri-
grame and worked on the laws
and U.S. attorney on Staten Island,
Beer, be was like a teddy bear.
ous with the drug problem.'
gardening
de
authorities said.
,On the U.S. Senate floor yesterday.
Mitch Gelman, Chapin Wright,
weile
If
No.
in one recent case, Gregory Scarpa
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who
Jack Sirica and Tom Renner con-
8081607
Jr., 37, reputedly the head of a Brook-
last year sponsored federal death penal-
tributed to this story.
'Are You Sure?' Wife Asks in Disbelief
FAMILY from Page 5
"I used to joke With all those guns you have.
NEWSDAY, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1989
knew my wife, my children's names and where !
I'm going in behind you,' " one agent recelled
ball hoop banging over the driveway just how
lived. But then, all the suspect did was say, It's too
When he was killed, Hatcher had no gun, only a
much be is leaving behind," said one agent.
bad, I like you. Now, will you please get out of my
radio transmitter that failed to keep him in contact
house?"
The agents said Mary Jane Hatcher met the
with five backup agents.
Robert Stutman, bead of the DEA in New York
news with disbelief. "Are you sure?" she asked.
On Tuesday night, police radio transmissions
"Are you sure?" Later abe gave in to her grief. She
and an agent since 1965, said, "During my first six
cautioned that some suspects had police scanners.
wondered why her husband never said no to these
years on the job I never even had to draw my gun."
Investigators said that the agent's killers may
Hatcher, for the past year, was assigned to Stut-
dangerous jobs that regularly kept him from his
have had scenners and overheard Hatcher's part-
man's office staff and had served as a recruiting
NY
home, the agents said. DEA trauma team experts
Mers communicating on their police radios as they
officer.
said the chain of reactions is normal.
combed diners on Hylan Boulevard on Staten Is-
"Despite all his weapons training, be was almost
Everett Hatcher, 46, had been a federal agent
land, searching for Hatcher.
a pacifist," Stutman aaid.
since 1972 A tall, powerfully built man, be was an
One agent, who was exposed as a federal agent
Hatcher's wake will be today and tomorrow at
expert with automatic weapons, & regular medal
during B 2-year probe of the Colombo crime family
Mackaye's funeral home in Boonton. N.J. The fu-
25
winner at competitions.
several years ago, explained how much narcotics
Agents who worked with him said they always
neral service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Seturday at
enforcement had changed
St. Christopher's Roman Catholic Church in Parsi-
felt comfortable when Hatcher was leading a raid.
"I was devastated," the agent recelled. "He
panny, NJ.
OFFICE
TO
84562461
P.05
New York
Newsday
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1989
QUEENS
25 CENTS
DEA AGENT SHOT TO DEATH
It's
like the
jungles
2in the Head,
of
Vietnam
2in the Body
out there
now
I'm tired,
tired of
the body
Victim: Agent Everett Hatcher
Suspect: Constible Farace
count.'
Ex-Con With Mob Ties
Asst, Chief Francis C. Hall,
head of the Police
Sought in 'Execution'
Department's narcotics unit
Jimmy Breslin's Column, Stories on Pages 4-5
Torah Burner Sentenced
Tower: I Won't Surrender
Judge's Terms Spark Outery/ Page 2
Gets-Tough With Opponents / Page 3
MAR-02-1989
18:06
FROM
U.S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE
TO
84562461
P.06
Thursday. March 2 1969
DAILY NEWS
ROADSIDE MEETING WITH ALLEGED COCAINE DEALER
SITE OF SHOOTING
Mob killer hunted
STATEN
ISLAND
of
>
in slaying of fed
TOM
LYNN
Drug agent
shot in S.I.
Authorities set up a nationwide dragnet yes-
terday for a mob-connected paroled killer want-
ed in the coid-biooded murder of an unarmed
undercover federal
drug agent on Staten
Island.
The Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration agent, Everett
Hatcher, was found dead af-
Daily
News
Reported
this
written by
ter losing contact with his
backup team for 40 minutes.
He was shot four times in
the bead and shoulder during
a roadside rendervous with
Everett Hatcher
the alleged cocaine dealer at
about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Farace. 28, of Melville St. in
Although Batcher was
the Princes Bay section of
wearing a radio transmission
Staten Island.
wire, his voice faded in and
Farace. nepbew of reputed
out, and his backups could
Colombo crime family capo
not keep his car in eye con-
Gregory Scarps, was paroled
tact.
June 3 after serving less than
BRISLY Staten Island scene after Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Everstt Matcher was found slain.
The prime suspect was
eight years in prison for the
CIMBLE
identified as Costabile (Gus)
death of a Newark teenager.
Like Byrne killing
Federal officials compared
It's time to get serious
the murder with the assassi-
nation by drug dealers of Po-
lice Officer Edward Byrne.
The slaying followed what
was to have been a routine
HE MEETING was in a truly
cover drug enforcement agent, was
wife and two young sons, was one
T
desolate area the point at
there to meet a 28-year-old degener-
more reminder that we are not yet se-
NOW MANY MORE?
which Bloomingdale Road
ate named Costabile Farace. Some-
rious about law enforcement Crime
An editorial
crosses over the West Shore
one - investigators say they are cer-
and drugs may be out of control but
PAGE 46
Expressway on Staten Island.
tain it was Farace - walked up to the
we're not yet ready to do much about
You will rarely find a pedestrian
window on the driver's side of the
It.
meeting between Hatcher
there in the daytime and never at
Buick Hatcher rolled the window
Example: If we were serious, there
and Farace
night. The only sounds are the wind.
down. It was the last act of his life.
would be DO way Farace would be ai-
They had met three times
which is steady and fierce. and
lowed to walk the streets. Back in
previously. and Farace bad
the occasional swoosh of a pass-
1979 be and a group of buddles picked
sold Hatcher about $ ounces
ing vehicle.
up a couple of teenage boys in Green-
of cocaine for $4,000 during
There are no buildings in the
wich Village, took them to Alley Pond
one session.
immediate vicinity, just litter,
BOB
Park in Queens, sodomized them and
leaves. weeds, cold mud and a
then beat them with a lead pipe until
"Major federal probe'
cluster of bare and miserable
HERBERT
one of the boys died and the other
Hatcher was negotiating A
trees that once were part of a
looked like be was dead.
larger buy Tuesday night in
wood.
Sodomy? Murder? A long prison
what was called the begin-
A red fire alarm box and a
term? Forget about it. Farace and the
ping of a "major federal
rusted fire hydrant stand on one
others pleaded guilty to manslaugh-
probe."
corner.
ter. Farace was sentenced to 7 to 21
"No dope, no money to-
Everett Hatcber. 46 years old, drove
A hand and a gun appeared in the
years in prison. He came out happy as
night," Hatcher told another
up to the intersection a little before
window. Four shots erupted from
a lark and fit as a fiddle last June
DEA agent Tuesday. "Just go-
10 p.m. on Tuesday night He pulled
can't-miss range. Hatcher was hit in
his gray 1987 Buick Regal to the curb
There are endless examples. Ron-
ing to talk. Shouldn't be any
the eye, the ear and the shoulder.
ald Reagan campaigned as 8 crime-
danger.
Bear the fire alarm box, cut his head-
Blood spattered the interior of the
buster in 1980. We've been too soft, be
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney An-
lights and let the motor idle.
Buick The gunman disappeared.
He waited.
said. We've forgotten about the vic-
drew Maloney said are would
The murder of Everett Hatcher
seck the death permity for
Police said that Hatcher. an under-
who lived in New Jersey and had a
See HERBERT Page 45
See AGENT Page 45
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P-6, (b)(6)
Presidential Call to Widow of Slain DEA [Drug Enforcement
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MAR-02-1989 18:03 FRUM U.S. ATTURNEYS OFFICE
IU
84562461
P.02
Thursday, March 2, 1989
MEMORANDUM -- VIA FAX
TO:
David Demarest
Assistant to the President
and Director of Communications
Chriss Winston
Deputy Director of Communications
FROM:
Edward McNally (212-791-1156; 265-4876)
Assistant United States Attorney, S.D.N.Y.
SUBJECT:
PRESIDENTIAL CALL TO WIDOW OF SLAIN DEA AGENT
This morning New Yorkers awoke to front page
headlines reporting the brutal assassination of DEA Special
Agent Everett Hatcher. (See attached.)
This was no ordinary killing. Hatcher, one of
DEA's most senior black agents in New York, was shot four
times at close range while wearing a transmitter during an
undercover meeting in a major federal drug probe. The
leading suspect is a Mafia-connected convicted killer who is
out on parole. He is now the subject of a nation-wide
manhunt, and if caught may be one of the first (the first?)
to face the new federal death penalty signed into law last
fall.*
Hatcher, 46, left a widow and two young sons. (See
the attached Newsday article.) The President may want to
consider calling Mrs. Hatcher at home or at the funeral home
sometime before her husband is buried Saturday morning. **
If the call is placed sometime before tomorrow's
photo op with the Attorney General and former Secretary
Bennett, the President may want to take that opportunity to
emphasize his personal interest in this tragic crime and in
the continuing battle against drugs.
P6,(6)(6)
Home
MARY JANE HATCHER
Boonton, N.J.
Wake
Mackey Funeral Home (Boonton)
(Thursday, 3/2/89 and Friday, 3/3/89,
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.)
Funeral
St. Christopher's Church, Parsippany
(Saturday, 3/4/89, at 9:30 a.m.)
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(b)(7)(e), (b)(7)(f)
Presidential Call to Widow of Slain DEA [Drug Enforcement
Agency] Agent; agent name redacted. (1 pp.)
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*
Should Hatcher's killer be caught and convicted under
the new federal law providing for the death penalty for cop
killers, he may become the first criminal to be executed
for a federal violation in at least 20 years. In such a
case he would also be the first person executed in New York
state in at least as long, where successive democratic
governors (Carey and Cuomo) have repeatedly vetoed annual
legislation to provide a death penalty for cop killers.
**
President Bush received tremendous acclaim last year,
especially in the law enforcement community, when he
telephoned DEA Special Agent
while he was
hospitalized after being shot in the face during a drug
investigation in New York.
(b)(7)(e),(f)
Before Hatcher, the last policeman assassinated by drug
dealers in New York was Police Officer Byrne. Ironically,
Bryne's suspected killers are now on trial in a courtroom
drama that is being closely watched here. During the campaign,
then Vice President Bush received Patrolman Byrne's police
shield at a New York rally from the slain officer's father.
uts2
ами Y.NAO
a
Saturday, March 4, 1989
DAILY NEWS
Cuomo gets
drug-war tips
POMPANO BEACH,
Widow's lament
Fla. Gov. Cuomo visit-
ed the heartland of the
nation's drug-trafficking
industry yesterday to get
tips from Florida officials
on how to fight the
scourge he has called the
'Nice people'
"single most ominous
phenomenon" in New
York
Cuomo met with Gov.
killed fed agent
Bob Martinez and top
cops here to learn how
Florida goes after and
By RANDY DIAMOND and PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY
wins millions of dollars in
Daily News Staff Writers
cash and property from
As a drug agent's widow blamed recreational
suspected drug dealers.
The governors also
drug users - the "nice people" - for her hus-
signed an agreement that
band's murder, lawmen were investigating
gives New York cops ac-
whether the prime suspect was involved in a
cess to Florida's exten-
double homicide in Brooklyn
sive drug intelligence
last summer, the Daily News
computers, which contain
learned yesterday.
Bush to visit
1.5 million pieces of in-
Sources said investigators
formation on drug deal-
involved in the 15-state man-
DEA widow?
ers.
hunt for Constabile (Gus)
Joel Benenson
Farace were told he was the
Robert Stutman, head
of the Drug Enforcement
triggerman in the shooting
Administration in New
deaths of two of his drug con-
York, said yesterday that
Chief clerk
nections last August - two
President Bush is expect-
months after he was released
from prison after serving
ed to visit the family of
eight years for the 1979 tor-
slain DEA Agent Everett
Hatcher next week.
says he was
ture-slaying of a teenager.
Stutman said Bush is
Investigators were told the
victims were low-level drug
expected on Thursday to
players, sources said.
express his sympathy to
forced out
Hatcher's family in New
Drug Enforcement Agent
Jersey and then to visit
Everett Hatcher was shot
dead on Staten Island Tues-
Hatcher's colleagues at
the DEA's office in the
By STUART MARQUES
day night following a meeting
city.
with Farace, 28, an alleged
The powerful chief clerk of
The White House did
cocaine dealer with whom
not confirm whether
Manhattan's state appellate
Hatcher was negotiating a
Bush would make the
court said yesterday he re-
large drug buy, authorities
tired under pressure after
said.
trip.
learning the state's top judge
WIDOW of slain DEA Agent Everett Hatcher, Mary Jane Hatcher, is
They had met on a deserted
wanted him out for personal
escorted from funeral home yesterday.
BILL LaPORCE Jr. DAILY NEWS
stretch of Bloomingdale
reasons.
Road in the Charleston sec-
tion at 9 p.m. and agreed to go
to a diner. Hatcher's five
Harold Reynolds, who re-
backup agents, traveling in
tired Thursday in the middle
of a bitter dispute at the high-
No place to sleep
three vehicles, lost radio con-
tact with him and then lost
est levels of the court, said he
sight of him. He was found
quit after being told that
dead - shot four times in the
Chief Judge Sol Wachtler had
head and shoulder - at 10:15
told another judge "Reynolds
p.m. near the original meet-
must go."
ing place
Reynolds said he was told
Yesterday, Hatcher's wid-
Wachtler was upset over a
ow, Mary Jane, 44, flanked by
1988 legal opinion that blast-
his sisters, read a statement
ed the prestigious law firm of
that bitterly blamed middle
Sullivan & Cromwell for
class, recreational drug users
"misconduct."
- "nice people" - for his
The opinion was signed by
death.
Reynolds' boss, presiding Ap-
"A good man has been tak-
pellate Division Justice
en from us. The loss we feel
Francis Murphy. But Reyn-
is exceedingly deep, almost
olds has told friends
unbearable," she said out-
Wachtler believed Reynolds
side the Mackey Funeral
wrote the opinion.
Home in Boonton, N.J.,
Wachtler denied forcing
where her husband's wake
Reynolds into retirement and
was held.
called the allegation about
"He died for society in gen-
the Sullivan & Cromwell case
eral and for everyone of us in
"bizarre I barely know
particular.
Harry Reynolds."
"We must answer the ques-
Reynolds, 60, was forced
tion: Who really killed Ever-
out amid allegations he and
ett Hatcher? Who created the
Murphy improperly interced-
market for the poison he val-
ed in several "sensitive" dis-
iantly tried to remove from
ciplinary cases involving law-
our society? People who dab-
yers in Manhattan and the
ble in drugs. We have met the
Bronx. Murphy oversees the
enemy and they are us. He
lawyers' disciplinary commit-
was killed by all of us nice
tee. The cases involved two
people all of you must ac-
former judges, a former com-
cept the blame for the loss of
mittee member and Gov. Cuo-
this good gentle man.'
mo's son, Andrew.
Then the visibly angry wid-
Former committee chief
ow walked back inside the fu-
counsel Michael Gentile, 43,
neral home.
and his deputy, Sarah
A funeral Mass was sched-
McShea, 35, made the allega,
uled for today for Hatcher,
tions. They resigned in any
MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN (seated) at
Authority cops took the kids and the bureau
46, at St. Christopher's
ary in a dispute with Reyn
Bureau of Child Welfare offices yesterday Port
because they were sleeping in PATH station.
Church in Parsippany N.J. It
olds and Murphy
DAVID HANDSCHUN DAILY NEWS
is expected to draw more
than 3,000 law enforcement
officers.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1989
Frustration May Override a Cuomo Veto
In Albany, the Line Against
expected until late spring.
The Assembly Speaker, Mel Mill-
er, an opponent of the death penalty,
has said he believes that 98 Assem-
bly members would now vote for an
The Death Penalty Falls Back
override. Assemblyman Vincent J.
Graber, an upstate Democrat and a
chief sponsor of the death penalty
measure, put the figure at 99.
Whatever the number, both sides
can who is chairman of the Senate
By ELIZABETH KOLBERT
agree that as it approaches 100,
Codes Committee and supports the
wavering lawmakers will be thrust
death penalty, has a different view.
into the spotlight - not a comfort-
ALBANY
"Yes, part of it is frustration, he
able place to be.
HE New York State Legisla-
T
said. "But it's frustration rned to
"A lot of people have told me, 'If
ture has voted to restore the
action. We don't say the nell-
you ever get to 99, I'm going to have
dea th penalty so many times
alty is a panacea. But it's obv the
some problems,' Mr. Graber said.
and Governor has vetoed
death penalty abolition didn't work."
Opponents of capital punishment
it so many times - 12 times the
No criminal has been executed in
have started to lobby legislators with
ast 12 years -that by now the pro-
New York since 1963, A series of
statistics intended to show that the
cess has become an annual ritual.
decisions by the United States Su-
death penalty fails to reduce crime.
But this year the battle over capi-
preme Court and the state's Court of
They note that Houston and Jackson-
tal punishment has lost its cere-
Appeals nullified the most recent
ville, Fla., for example, have higher
monial air. Proponents of a death
death penalty statute by 1977.
per capita murder rates than New
penalty say they have enough votes
New York is one of 13 states with
York City although they are in states
finally to override a veto. Opponents
out capital punishment. Since New
with death penalties.
say that while they think this claim
Jersey restored the death penalty in
But a Gallup poll in September put
is exaggerated, they are worried.
1982, 29 people have been sentenced
support for the death penalty nation-
"We are unfortunately closer than
to die by lethal injection, but no ex-
wide at a 50-year high, with 79 per-
we have been in the past," said Jona-
ecution has been carried out. Only
than Lang, chairman of the civil
one person has been sentenced to die
rights committee of the Association
by electrocution under Connecticut's
of the Bar of the City of New York,
1980 law, and an appeal is pending.
which opposes the death penalty.
Ideas & Trends
In New York in recent years, the
"There appears to be a lot of uncer-
Democratic-led Assembly has
tainty among a few fence-sitters
blocked restoration of the death pen-
Page 24
about how they're going to go."
alty; it has mustered enough votes to
In large measure, the new sense of
pass the bill, but not the two-thirds
urgency to the debate is a result of
Associated Press
margin to override a veto. The Re-
cent of those polled saying they fa-
last November's election, which sent
Michael B. Ross, the only pris-
publican-controlled Senate, by con-
vored it for those convicted of mur-
at least two more advocates of the
death penalty to the State Assembly.
oner on death row in Connecticut.
trast, has overridden Gov. Mario M.
der. Some pollsters caution that
Cuomo's veto in each of the last four
these figures may be exaggerated
But perhaps even more significant,
years.
because they were collected during
as frustration over crime and the
Last month, the Senate approved a
the Presidential campaign in which
violent drug trade has risen, pres-
Committee, G. Oliver Koppell, a
measure to reinstate the death pen-
the death penalty was a theme.
sure on the Legislature to reinstate
Bronx Democrat who opposes the
alty for crimes including murder of
"As the viciousness of society has
the death penalty has grown as well.
death penalty. "People are search-
a police officer, murder committed
escalated, obviously people's feel-
Both supporters and opponents say
ing for an answer. Politicians don't
during a robbery and murder of a
ings have become more elevated,"
the pressure could push wavering
have any easy answers, so they love
witness to a crime, by a vote of 39-to
Senator Volker said. "The signal the
lawmakers to change their votes.
to talk about the death penalty. It be-
17. A vote in the Assembly is ex-
death penalty sends is: we're not
"There's enormous frustration in
comes a code word for being tough
pected tomorrow, to be followed, Mr.
going to pussyfoot around. I happen
people in New York," said the chair-
on crime."
Cuomo has vowed, by a veto. Votes
to believe that message is maybe the
man of the Assembly Judiciary
Dale Volker, an upstate Republi-
on whether to override a veto are not
most important thing."
BETH
THSRAEL
3/5/89 -NEW YORK TIMES
Breakthrough on Methadone
Methadone, a drug that blocks the craving for
children. Methadone, taken orally, gets the addicts
heroin while allowing the addict to lead a normal
off needles as well as heroin.
life, has suffered controversy since the 1960's. A
In 1987, Federal officials gave New York's Beth
new Federal decision to make it more accessible
Israel Hospital, a leader in methadone maintenance
could strike a blow against AIDS and drug abuse.
therapy, permission to dispense methadone to those
Early promoters of methadone oversold it as
on waiting lists without the full panoply of counsel-
the miracle cure for America's heroin problem. Dis-
ing and social services. Under this pilot program,
tribution under lax supervision spawned black mar-
"interim" patients received only an initial physical
kets for the substitute drug and a category of ad-
exam and counseling about AIDS transmission. A
dicts whose life on methadone seemed little better
nurse monitored daily doses of the drug to prevent
any diversion to a black market.
than life on heroin.
In response, Federal and state officials re-
Studies showed that in thes erim program ad-
quired that psychological and vocational counseling
dicts' use of needles declined Wi de their quality of
and other social services be dispensed along with
life improved. Though some continued to abuse co-
methadone. The cost of such services drastically
caine, many stopped doing SO withineedles.
limits the capacity of methadone clinics. In cities
The Food and Drug Administration and the Na-
like New York, home to some 200,000 of the nation's
tional Institute on Drug Abuse now propose rules
half-million heroin abusers, an addict seeking
sanctioning the Beth Israel apardach nationwide. In
methadone therapy must wait several months.
some places, including New York, local govern-
The AIDS epidemic adds urgency to the access
ments will need to approve similar rule changes.
issue. Alarmed officials have watched as a disease
The argument for doing so. has become un-
once associated with gay sex spread rapidly among
assailable. AIDS vastly increases the lethal poten-
drug addicts who contaminate each other's blood
tial of heroin abuse to non-users as well as addicts
with shared hypodermic needles. The addicts then
themselves. Methadone treatment not only helps
transmit the disease to their sexual partners and
cure addiction; it helps save innocent lives.
Two More Arguments
before their own lives if need be, and -
tragically - they were called upon to do
For the Death Penalty
just that.
The big difference in the two cases is that
Robert Machate, 25, married and the fa-
an appropriate penalty for the murder of
ther of an unborn child, was shot to death
Hatcher is already on the books. The mur-
in a Brooklyn street early Friday morn-
derer of a federal officer engaged in a nar-
ing. He was the second law enforcement
cotics investigation faces the death pen-
3/5/89
officer to die in the line of duty in New
alty, thanks to the omnibus anti-drug stat-
York City last week.
ute passed by Congress last year.
The death of Machate, who'd been on the
Machate's murderer, on the other hand,
job fewer than three years, differed in cer-
will almost certainly be prosecuted under
tain respects from that of federal narcot-
state law - and New York, of course, has
ics agent Everett Hatcher, who was
no death penalty.
gunned down on Staten Island Tuesday
That could change this year. Death pen-
night. Hatcher, who had been with the
alty supporters in Albany are closer than
Drug Enforcement Agency since 1972, ap-
ever to having enough votes to override a
Post
pears to have been the target of an under-
gubernatorial veto of capital punishment
world "execution," while in Machate's
legislation. True, such a statute won't stop
murder there was an element of random-
all the killing, but it'll help. Perhaps the
ness - a wrong-place-at-the-wrong time
murders of Machate and Hatcher will con-
N.Y.
aspect.
vince one or two anti-death penalty legis-
But the bottom line is that both men were
lators that enough is enough - that it's
cops; they'd sworn to put the public safety
time to switch. Let's hope so.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 1989
Frustratio. May Ove. a Cuomo Veto
MAR-07-1989
In Albany, the Line Against
expected until late spring.
The Assembly Speaker, Mel Mill-
er, an opponent of the death penalty,
has said he believes that 98 Assem-
The Death Penalty Falls Back
bly members would now vote for an
override. Assemblyman Vincent J.
Graber, an upstate Democrat and a
chief sponsor of the death penalty
FROM
measure, put the figure at 99.
Whatever the number, both sides
can who is chairman of the Senate
By ELIZABETH KOLBERT
agree that as it approaches 100,
Codes Committee and supports the
wavering lawmakers will be thrust
death penalty, has a different view.
into the spotlight - not a comfort-
ALBANY
"Yes, part of it is frustration, he
able place to be.
T
HE New York State Legisla-
said. "Bul it's frustration turned to
"A lot of people have told me, 'If
wrst as voted to restore the
action. We don't say the Dell-
you ever get to 99, I'm going to have
Ppenalty so many times
alty is a panacea. But it's the
some problems,' Mr. Graber said.
Governor has vetood
death penalty abolition didn't work."
it so many 11 hes 12 times In the
Opponents of capital punishment
No criminal has been executed In
have started to lobby legislators with
100 by now the pro-
New York since 1963. A series of
statistics intended to show that the
cess has become an annual ritual.
decisions by the United States Su-
death penalty fails to reduce crime.
U.S. OFFICE
But this year the battle over capi-
preme Court and the state's Court of
They note that Houston and Jackson-
tal punishment has lost its cere-
Appeals nullified the most recent
monial air. Preponents of a death
ville, Fla., for example, have higher
death penalty statute by 1977.
per capita murder rates than New
1989
penalty say they have enough votes
New York in one of 13 states with
finally to override a veto. Opponents
York City although they are in states
out capital punishment. Since New
with death penaltles.
say that while they think this claim
Jersey restored the death penalty in
is exaggerated, they are worried.
But a Gallup poll in September put
1982, 29 people have been sentenced
"We are unfortunately closer than
support for the death penalty nation-
to die by lethal injection, but no ex-
TO
we have been in the past," said Jona-
wide at a 50-year high, with 79 per-
ecution has been carried out. Only
than Lang, chairman of the civil
one person has been sentenced to die
rights committee of the Association
by electrocution under Connecticut's
of the Bar of the City of New York,
1980 law, and an appeal is pending.
which opposes the death penalty.
Ideas & Trends
In New York in recent years, the
"There appears to be a tot of uncer-
Democratic-led Assembly has
tainty among a few fence-sitters
blocked restoration of the death pen-
Page 24
about how they're going to go."
alty; it has mustered enough votes to
In large measure, the new sense of
pass the bill, but not the two-thirds
urgency to the debate is a result of
Associated Press
margin to override a veto. The Re-
cent of those polled saying they fa-
last November's election, which sent
Michael, B. Ross, the only pris-
publican-controlled Senate, by con-
vored it for those convicted of mur-
at least two more advocates of the
oner on death row in Connecticut.
trast, has overridden Gov. Mario M.
der. Some pollsters caution that
death penalty to the State Assembly.
Cuomo's veto in each of the last four
these figures may be exaggerated
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But perhaps even more significant,
years.
as frustration over crime and the
because they were collected during
Last month, the Senate approved a
the Presidential campaign in which
violent drug trade has risen, pres-
Committee, G. Oliver Koppell, a
measure to reinstate the death pen-
the death penalty was a theme.
sure on the Legislature to reinstate
Bronx Democrat who opposes the
alty for crimes including murder of
"As the victousness of society has
the death penalty has grown as well.
death penalty. "People are search-
a police officer, murder committed
escalated, obviously people's feel-
Both supporters and opponents say
ing for an answer: Politicians don't
during a robbery and murder of a
ings have become more elevated,"
P.02
the pressure could push wavering
have any easy answers, so they love
witness to a crime, by a vote of 39 to
Senator Volker said. "The signal the
lawmakers to change their votes.
to talk about the death penalty. It be-
17. A vote in the Assembly is ex-
death penalty sends is: we're not
"There's enormous frustration in
comes a code word for being tough
pected tomorrow, to be followed, Mr.
going to pussyfoot around. I happen
people in New York," said the chair-
on crime."
Cuomo has vowed, by a veto. Votes
to believe that message is maybe the
man of the Assembly Judiciary
Dale Volker, an upstate Republi-
on whether to override a veto are not
most important thing."
MAR-07-1989
17:14
FROM
U.S. ATTORNEYS OFFICE
TO
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BETH
THSRAEL
3/5/89 - NEW YORK TIMES
Breakthrough on Methadone
Methadone, a drug that blocks the craving for
children. Methadone, taken orally, gets the addicts
heroin while allowing the addict to lead a normal
off needles as well as heroin.
life, has suffered controversy since the 1960's. A
1387, Federal officials gave New York's Beth
new Federal decision to make it more accessible
Hospital, R leader in methadone maintenance
could strike a blow against AIDS and drug abuse.
therapy. permission to dispense methadone to those
Early promoters of methadone oversold it as
on waiting lists without the full panoply of counsel-
the miracle cure for America's heroin problem. Dis-
ing and social services. Under This pilot program,
tribution under lax supervision spawned black mar-
"interim" patients received onlyin initial physical
kets for the substitute drug and a category of ad-
exam and counseling about ADDS transmission. A
dicts whose life on methadone seemed little better
nurse monitored daily doses drug to prevent
any diversion to a black market
than life on heroin.
In response, Federal and state officials re-
dies
showed
program ad-
quired that psychological and vocational counseling
Ticla' use of needles declined their quality of
and other social services be dispensed along with
de improved. Though some continued to abuse co-
methadone. The cost of such services drastically
caine, many stopped doing 30 will needles.
limits the capacity of methadone clinics. In cities
The Food and Drug Administration and the Na-
like New York, home to some 200,000 of the nation's
tional Institute on Drug Abuse now propose rules
half-million heroin abusers, an addict seeking
sanstioning the Beth Israel dach nationwide. In
methadone therapy must wait several months.
some places, including New York, local govern-
The AIDS epidemic adds urgency to the access
ments will need to approve similar rule changes.
issue. Alarmed officials have watched as a disease
The argument for doing 'sb has become un-
once associated with gay sex spread rapidly among
assailable. AIDS vastly increases the lethal poten-
drug addicts who contaminate each other's blood
tial of heroin abuse to non-users as well as addicts
with shared hypodermic needles. The addicts then
themselves. Methadone treatment not only helps
transmit the disease to their sexual partners and
cure addiction; it helps save innocent lives.
Two More Arguments
before their own lives if need be, and -
For the Death Penalty
tragically - they were called upon to do
just that.
The big difference in the two cases is that
Robert Machate, 25, married and the fa-
an appropriate penalty for the murder of
ther of an unborn child, was shot to death
Hatcher is already on the books. The mur-
in a Brooklyn street early Friday morn-
derer of a federal officer engaged in a nar-
ing. He was the second law enforcement
cotics investigation faces the death pen-
3/5/809
officer to die in the line of duty in New
alty, thanks to the omnibus anti-drug stat-
York City last week.
tite passed by Congress last year.
The death of Machate, who'd been on the
Machate's murderer, on the other hand,
job fewer than three years. differed in cer-
will almost certainly be prosecuted under
tain respects from that of federal narcot-
state law - and New York, of course, has
ics agent Everett Hatcher, who was
tno death penalty.
gunned down on Staten Island Tuesday
That could change this year. Death pen-
night. Hatcher, who had been with the
alty supporters in Albany are closer than
Post
Drug Enforcement Agency since 1972, ap-
ever to having enough votes to override a
pears to have been the target of an under-
gubernatorial veto of capital punishment
world "execution," while in Machate's
legislation. True, such a statute won't stop
murder there was an element of random-
all the killing, but it'll help. Perhaps the
ness - a wrong-place-at-the-wrong time
murders of Machate and Hatcher will con-
N.Y.
aspect.
vince one or two anti-death penalty legis-
But the bottom line is that both men were
lators that enough is enough - that it's
cops; they'd sworn to put the public safety
time to switch. Let's hope SO.
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TO
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FINAL REPORT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
ON NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING AND RELATED CRIMES
IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
BENITO ROMANO
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
MARCH 1, 1989
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Table of Contents
Page
INTRODUCTION
1
Part I:
TRENDS IN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
2
1. Heroin
2
2.
Cocaine and Crack
10
3.
Dangerous Drugs
17
PART II: NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF :EW YORK
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1.
Heroin Organizations
19
2.
Cocaine and Crack Prosecutions
53
3.
Other Controlled Substances
60
4.
Forfeiture Program
63
PART III: SELECTED MONEY-LAUNDERING CASE REPORTS
66
PART IV: THE IMPACT OF NARCOTICS USE AND TRAFFICKING
IN NEW YORK CITY
1. Heroin
69
2.
Cocaine and Crack
71
3. Violence
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4.
Financial Impact
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INTRODUCTION
New York City's ethnic diversity is reflected in the
scope and diversity of the narcotics trafficking organizations
that now plague it. Just as the City prides itself for putting
willing sellers together with willing buyers in legitimate
commercial ventures, so it provides international traffickers
with a ready market for their heroin and cocaine, and willing
volunteers to manage distribution. The depressed areas of the
City -- - Harlem, the South Bronx, and the Lower East Side -- have
long included large addict populations, but recent social trends
have created new user groups in every socio-economic level.
Investigations have shown that cocaine is as readily available on
Wall Street as it is on Upper Broadway. As serious and devas-
tating as the problem of narcotics use in the New York area is,
perhaps the most frightening aspect of the area's narcotics
plague has been the level of violence associated with both large
and small-scale traffickers. The cold-blooded attacks, often
fatal, on law enforcement personnel and suspected informants by
these traffickers, as well as their readiness to accept the
murder of innocent bystanders as a "cost of doing business" have
shocked the City and belie the received wisdom that traffickers
kill only their own.
At the outset, it must be stressed that the drug
problems of New York City, the chief but not sole concern of the
Southern District of New York's Narcotics Unit, is one that
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crosses federal district lines. The United States Attorney's
Offices in the Southern District of New York and the Eastern
District of New York work with the same federal, state and local
enforcement authorities and, in many cases, target related
trafficking organizations. Close cooperation between and among
the two Offices and other enforcement authorities, however, has
ensured that overlapping concerns have led to a more effective
enforcement effort, without redundancy. In addition, the
Southern District, especially its White Plains office, has
rigorously pursued trafficking in the District's northern sector,
all the way to Poughkeepsie.
While the Southern District of New York has targeted
illegal traffic in a variety of controlled substances, its chief
concerns have been trafficking in heroin, cocaine, and "crack"
(an especially potent derivative of cocaine).
PART I:
TRENDS IN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING IN THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
1. HEROIN
The significance of New York's heroin problem cannot be
overstated. Current estimates indicate that the City of New York
and the Hudson Valley have 214,000 heroin addicts, 43% of the
nationwide total of 490,000. DEA/New York is responsible for
308-50% of DEA's nationwide total quantity of heroin seized each
year. In FY 1986, DEA's nationwide heroin removals totalled
363.7 kilograms of which DEA/New York accounted for 174.3
kilograms (49.3%). In FY 1987, DEA seized 368.2 kilograms of
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heroin, with DEA/New York responsible for 174.5 kilograms
(47.4%). Preliminary seizure figures for FY 1988 indicate
DEA/New York heroin removals rose to 249.3 kilograms, 32.1% of
DEA's nationwide total of 777.5 kilograms, much of which, while
not seized in New York, was destined here.
Heroin continues to be readily available at both the
wholesale and retail levels in the New York City area. Heroin is
also available in the less affluent sections of lower Westchester
County. Its availability is much more limited in the rural areas
of New York. Rural heroin is generally obtained in New York City
street purchases and then returned to the rural area via auto,
bus, or train to be used by the buyer and other addicts who may
have pooled money for the purchase. Many of these rural addicts
once lived in New York City and took their addiction with them
when they moved.
Analysis of seizures, investigative activity and source
information strongly indicates that ethnic Chinese violators are
solidifying their position as the dominant force in heroin
importation and wholesaling in New York City. However,
traditional Organized Crime figures (members and associates of La
Cosa Nostra), Pakistanis, Indians, Nigerians, Lebanese, and
Israelis remain prominent in the heroin trade, with Turks and
Chanians also playing significant roles.
The Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand, and
mainland China, dominate the heroin traffic from Southeast Asia
to New York. Ethnic Chinese in Latin American countries such as
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the Bronx. These organizations also sell in bundles as well as
dime bags. Their operation is not as open as the Lower East
Side. On the Lower East Side, people ("steerers") will solicit
their own brand names. Each block in the Lower East Side will
sell a different brand, but distributors from each block will not
necessarily be from a different organization. Most organizations
control several brand names which are sold in their own control-
led areas or territory. The different organizations tend to work
in harmony in these areas; there have been few homicides. In
Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, business is not as open as in the
Lower East Side. In these areas, the main business is bundle
sales rather than dime bags. Heroin purity in these areas is not
as high as the Lower East Side, but the heroin is identified by
brand names like in the Lower East Side.
2. COCAINE AND CRACK
New York has always been the nations's primary heroin
market. Now its poupulation and slightly higher cocaine price
have made it the nation's top cocaine market. With the largest
metropolitan pouplation, New York City provides the largest base
of potential consumers. Also, as the price of cocaine has
significantly dropped across the nation, New York's cocaine price
has remained $3,000 - $5,000 per kilogram higher than the price
in major importation areas such as Miami and San Diego. The
slightly higher New York price, now more than ever before,
provides the trafficker with an incentive to bring large
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(also sought on United States warrants). The Medellin Cartel has
become known for its frequent use of violence and assessimation
as a means of revenge and intimidation against other trafficking
and government officials. The Medellin attempts to enter the New
York market and the Cali shipment increases have complicated
enforcement problems over the last 18 months. During FY 1988,
DEA/New York seized over 7,900 kilograms of cocaine -- this is
more than the previous eight fiscal years combined. DEA/New York
has also identified another 2,240 kilograms seized elsewhere by
DEA as destined for New York -- aggregating, for a total of
10,140 kilograms seized in or destined for New York (almost* 20%
of DEA's preliminary FY 1988 nationwide total of 52,000 kilograms
seized and a dramatic rise over the FY 1986 and FY 1987 percen-
tages, which were estimated at 6-7% percent).
While Colombian nationals have long dominated the
supply side, there has also been a noticeable increase in the
number of cocaine cases involving traditional Organized Crime
figures or individuals with connections to traditional Organized
Crime families. These traditional Organized Crime associates, no
longer exclusively lower level, are involved in multi-kilogram
cocaine distribution in New York and on the East Coast. Hispanic
groups, primarily Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, are involved at
the lower lever and street distribution stages. Dominican
traffickers continue to increase their involvement in higher
level trafficking patterns, including importation. Colombian
traffickers have been identified as using sites in the Dominican
Republic to manufacture cocaine because of easier access to
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3.
DANGEROUS DRUGS
Illicitly manufactured dangerous drugs continue to be
found in the less urban areas of New York State. Dangerous drugs
are not a significant problem in New York City with the exception
of PCP or "Angel Dust. 11 PCP continues to be available in areas
of New York City and most prominently in Harlem. PCP prices
have not changed; it sells for approximately $1,200 per ounce and
$8 to $10 for an "envelope" containing five grains. PCP can also
be purchased sprinkled on mint or parsley leaves for $7 - $10 per
"bag." A significant quantity of the PCP available in New York
is believed to originate in California.
LSD investigations at the federal, state, or local
level in New York City are rare, since the level of availability
is not sufficient to support significant enforcement activity.
There has been recent press interest in the controlled substance
analog MDMA (3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine), whose street
name is "Ecstasy." However, "Ecstasy" use appears to be limited
to a small number of abusers in Manhattan who are supplied from
clandestine laboratories in California and Texas. Illegally
produced mescaline, counterfeit quaaludes and depressants are
found only in small quantities when available.
PART II:
NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT NEW YORK
In the past five years, the narcotics prosecutions in
the Southern District of New York have succeeded in eliminating a
series of major dealers and their networks who trafficked in
heroin, cocaine and "crack," as well as other controlled
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to 15 years' imprisonment, $50,000 in fines, and $100,000
restitution; Salvatore Greco was sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment and $200,000 in fines; Francesco Castronovo was
sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, $350,000 in fines and
$200,000 restitution; Francesco Polizzi was sentenced to 20
years' imprisonment, $50,000 in fines and $200,000 restitution;
and Filippo Casamento was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment,
$75,000 in fines and $200,000 restitution; Emanuele Palazzolo
was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and $50,000 in fines;
Giovanni Cangialosi was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and
$50,000 in fines; Salvatore Salamone was sentenced to five
years' imprisonment; Giuseppe Trupiano was sentenced to one year
imprisonment to be followed by five years' probation; and
Giuseppe Vitale was sentenced to five years' imprisonment to be
followed by five years' probation.
TORRES
b) The "Torres" Organization
United States V. Victor Torres, et al.,
$ 87 Cr. 593 (JMW)
The Torres case, an "OCDETE" [The New York/New Jersey
Region of the Presidential Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task
Force] effort, represented an outstanding combination of
convictions and forfeitures which ended the operation of a major
heroin organization in the South Bronx responsible for annual
heroin sales of more than $10 million.
On July 6, 1988, after a 2½ month trial, a jury found
Victor Torres, age 26, his brother Jorge Torres, age 31, and
Nelson Flores, age 33, guilty of violating the recently unacted
amendment to the "kingpin" statute (21 U.S.C. $ 848(b)).
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mandating life imprisonment without parole for the principal
leaders of large-scale continuing narcotics enterprises. The
jury's verdict represented the first conviction under the amended
"kingpin" statute in the New York area and one of the first such
convictions in the country.
The proof at trial showed that the Torres brothers
presided over a massive street-level heroin distribution
operation in the South Bronx and then invested the proceeds of
their heroin trafficking in various legitimate businesses in
Puerto Rico. As the Torres brothers devoted increasing attention
to these legitimate businesses in Puerto Rico, they turned over
the day-to-day operation of their heroin business in the South
Bronx to Flores, who managed it on their behalf.
Typical of New York heroin operations, the organization
maintained "stash houses" (storage areas) and "cutting mills"
(preparation and packaging sites). The heroin was packaged in
$10 bags (glassine envelopes) stamped with the organization's
brand names: "Checkmate," "Top Secret," and "357.' Bundles of
the bags were then doled out to the street managers and in turn
to "pitchers," retailers selling to the City's addict population
In addition to their conviction on the amended kingpin
charge, the Torreses and Flores were convicted, along with nine
of their co-defendants, of conspiracy to distribute heroin. A
variety of the defendants also were convicted of one or more
substantive narcotics violations and the use and carrying of a
firearm in connection with narcotics trafficking. The Torres
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brothers also were convicted of tax evasion for the calendar
years 1983 through 1986.
After the original verdict, the jury returned one of
the largest forfeiture verdicts since enactment of the federal
narcotics forfeiture laws, effectively stripping the Torres
brothers of their ill-gotten gains. The United States obtained a
multi-million dollar shopping center and bowling alley complex in
Bayamon, Puerto Rico, three gas stations in and around the
Bayamon area, seven homes, four other pieces of real estate in
various parts of Puerto Rico, more than a half million dollars in
cash, and seven luxury cars, including a $160,000 Lamborghini
sports car. The total value of the Torres forfeitures was
estimated to range between $30 and 50 million.
c) The "Monsanto" Crew
MONSANTO
United States V. Peter Monsanto, et al.,
87 Cr. 555 (RJW).
The verdict in the Monsanto case returned on July 25,
1988, represented the culmination of a enormous effort on the
part of this Office and a combination of "OCDETF" law enforcement
agencies against a powerful and exceedingly violent heroin
enterprise. The Government's case during the seven-month trial
showed that the "Monsanto" organization had for many years
peddled heroin on a massive scale all along the East Coast --
from Boston to Baltimore. The violence in support of the crew's
heroin trafficking included at least three brutal homicides.
The Monsanto organization was pyramidal in structure,
from the boss at the pinnacle, down to crew chiefs, top
lieutenants, sub-lieutenants, and finally to the street sale
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life imprisonment without parole, and his brother and others of
the Monsanto leadership to 20 to 30-year terms of imprisonment.
Reiter/son
d)
The "Mark Reiter" Heroin Supply
REITER/JACKS
United States V. Mark Reiter, et al.
37 Cr. 132 (RO)
Mark Reiter, was convicted with four others on August
25, 1988, of narcotics, racketeering, and tax charges after a
four-month jury trial in the United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York. Reiter was convicted of operating
a continuing criminal enterprise pursuant to Title 21, United
States Code, Section 848, as well as of engaging in racketeering
and narcotics distribution offenses. Also convicted of
racketeering and narcotics offenses were Raymond Clark, Leonard
Rollack, Timothy Smith, and Alfred Dicks.
Reiter was responsible for supplying kilogram
quantities of pure heroin to the primary distributors in Harlem
over an approximately five-year period. Reiter supplied heroin
to James Jackson, Eugene Romero, Peter Monsanto, Ronald Maxwell
a/k/a "Ronald Conquest,' Mitchell Jackson, a/k/a "Red Jack, and
Warren Tyson, a/k/a "Otis," a/k/a "Doug," among others. In
September, 1987, Jackson pleaded guilty to narcotics,
racketeering and tax charges and agreed to cooperate with the
Government. In his cooperation, he detailed Reiter's supply of
heroin to his (Jackson's) and several colleagues' organizations,
Jackson became involved in narcotics trafficking in 1980 with
Eugene Romero, the nephew of Leroy "Nicky" Barnes. Romero headed
the enterprise from 1980 through 1983; in 1983, Romero and
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approximately a dozen homicides which had heretofore been
unsolved.
ADAMITA
e) The "Pizza II" Case
TRIAL
United States V. Emanuel Adamita, et al.
88 Cr. 217 (JES)
Trial began on October 31, 1988, and will continue into
Spring 1989, in United States v. Adamita, et al., on an
indictment charging 17 defendants with conspiracy to import,
distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine
and marijuana. The conspiracy involves several defendants who as
career heroin traffickers had previously eluded law enforcement
and others who have prior heroin trafficking convictions. In
this instance, together they imported heroin from Sicily into the
United States where the demand was the greatest and also exported
cocaine from the United States into Europe where the asking price
was significantly higher. The defendants include those directly
responsible for the importation and distribution of kilogram
quantities of narcotics at the wholesale level. The prosecution
tracked independent undercover investigations conducted by the
FBI and DEA that led to the same group of Sicilian traffickers in
Brooklyn and Queens. This case, in addition to uncovering new
methods for importation and distribution, also includes among its
defendants previously unindicted members of the "Pizza
Connection" case.
BROOKS
£) The "Brooks Davis" Organization
DAVIS
United States V. Brooks Davis, et al.
87 Cr. 853 (TPG)
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BROOKS DAVIS
(CON'D)
In October 1987, after an eighteen-month investigation
using informants, controlled narcotics purchases,
court-authorized wiretaps and searches pursuant to warrant, the
Drug Enforcement Administration, with support from the New York
City Police Department, arrested over twenty members of a
narcotics ring headed by Brooks Davis, a/k/a "Sicle," which had
supplied and distributed heroin and cocaine in Harlem since 1976.
Davis supplied heroin to a number of dealers, each of whom, in
turn controlled a "brand" of heroin (such as: "Brown Sugar, "
"Nightmare on Elm Street, " "Silent Partner," and "No Joke"), sold
on the streets by heroin addicts and neighborhood youths.
To date, after one completed trial and numerous guilty
pleas, fifteen defendants have been convicted, including a
corrupt corrections officer at Sing Sing Prison who warned one
target of the investigation that he was the subject of DEA
surveillance: Four defendants, including Brooks Davis, still
await trial, after prior proceedings against them ended in a
mistrial in May 1988. One of the Government's witnesses was
seriously wounded when he was shot two days before jury selection
began. Later, the mistrial was declared after Davis's defense.
lawyer procured an allegedly false recantation from one of the
Government's incarcerated witnesses while the jury was being
selected. A new trial will be begun shortly.
The Government intends to proceed against the remaining
defendants on the previous charges, as well as on new charges
including the attack on the witness.
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the United States prosecution, three French heroin chemists, and
their co-conspirator, were arrested and prosecuted in
Switzerland.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
300-kilogram morphine base importation was the largest single
morphine shipment ever uncovered. Similarly, this case consti-
tuted the first prosecution of a group manufacturing heroin in
the United States. During the course of the investigation, the
Government seized in excess of $1,500,000 in cash. That cash and
over $600,000 in real property were ultimately forfeited to the
United States.
BASED
BALL
2. COCAINE AND "CRACK" PROSECUTIONS
a) The "Based Balls" Organization
United States V. Santiago Luis Polanco-Rodriguez, et al.
87 Cr. 419 (DNE)
This Office undertook the prosecution of an entire
vertically-integrated organization which distributed cocaine and
"crack" or cocaine base on the streets of New York under the
brand name of "Based Balls." The initial indictment, which was
unsealed in July, 1987, named 29 defendants. On the 19
defendants who were arrested (others having fled to the Dominican
Republic), 18 pleaded guilty prior to trial, including some high
ranking members of the organization such as, Ramon Del Rosario,
Rafael Joaquin Herrera, Franklin Rodriguez and Jose Pluyer
Dominguez. They were sentenced to terms of 15-20 years'
imprisonment. The lone defendant to proceed to trial, Persio
Torres Nunez, was convicted by a jury on charges of participating
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in a narcotics conspiracy, operating a continuing criminal
enterprise, distributing cocaine, and participating in a
racketeering enterprise and a racketeering conspiracy. Nunez was
subsequently sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 60
years.
The operation had its beginning in the Spring of 1982
in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Santiago Luis
Polanco-Rodriguez began with a small group distributing cocaine
in powder form under the brand name, "Coke It.Is." However, by
the Summer of 1985, the organization Polanco-Rodriguez managed
expanded and began to sell primarily crack under the brand name,
"Based Balls." Between June 1985 and May 1987, the organization
distributed massive quantities of $10-20 vials of "Based Balls"
crack. The expanded effort took over twelve different sites to
manufacture, store, and sell their product. The leadership
supervised principal lieutenants, stash house and mill personnel,
street managers, delivery workers, and retailers selling to the
"crack" clientele. The upper echelons employed workers to count
and courier the money received in the sales and then the leaders
transferred their ill-gotten profits out of New York to
individuals and businesses in the Dominican Republic. Others
were employed to exert the force and violence the organization
found necessary to maintain their territory and secure their
riches.
LIDO
b) The "LIDO" Organization
United States :.'. Jorge Ramos, et al.
88 Cr. 133 (KTD)
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LIDO
The second prosecution of an entire cocaine and "crack"
distribution operation was of Jorge Viohanny Ramos and seventeen
others -- including three of his brothers. The case resulted in
the conviction of a large number of successful "crack" dealers
who had captured part of a neighborhood in the Washington Heights
area of Manhattan in 1986 and 1987. The investigation centered
on a well-organized drug network which operated twenty-four hours
a day, seven days a week, and marketed its narcotics under the
distinctive "LIDO" brand name.
The prosecution targeted those who participated at all
levels of the LIDO organization. Evidence demonstrated that the
LIDO organization consisted of (1) supervisors, (ii) street-level
managers, and (iii) street-level sellers. The street-level
managers, resorting readily to strong-arm tactics, policed their
sales territory and any unauthorized use of the "LIDO"
brand-name. The organization functioned for at least a year and
a half, employing its sellers on three different eight-hour
shifts. The sellers were responsible for the distribution of
thousands of vials of crack, mainly to New Jersey purchasers who
entered Manhattan over the George Washington Bridge solely to
purchase narcotics. They maintained and prospered from four
different locations within their territory where the crack was
sold, manufactured, and stored and their proceeds were secured.
Of the 18 indicted defendants, 16 pleaded guilty prior
to trial, one fled prior to trial, and another was never
apprehended. The leaders of the LIDO organization (the four
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$700,000 in hashish profits, which were frozen in Swiss bank
accounts pursuant to our treaty on Mutual Assistance with
Switzerland. A co-defendant of lesser culpability received a
two-year term of imprisonment and a $20,000 fine.
4. FORFEITURE PROGRAM
In 1987 and 1988, the Narcotics Unit, working with the
Office's asset forfeiture attorneys, undertook an aggressive
effort to seize and forfeit the property used and the assets
accumulated in narcotics trafficking offenses. Some of the
forfeitures have been presented as part of on-going criminal
prosecutions and have been paralleled in simultaneous civil
forfeiture actions. Other forfeiture initiatives have been
brought as civil actions against the real and personal property
in issue.
In the various legal efforts, the Southern District of
New York has successfully forfeited or is in the process of for-
feiting: a shopping mall, residential and farm realty, and auto-
mobiles in Puerto Rican, valued at $30 to $50 million, United
States V. Torres; residences in New York City and Westchester
County, valued at $1 million, United States V. Monsanto;
TORRESFEITURES
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APARTMENT BLDG.
SEIZURES
residences and safe deposit box contents aggregating $1.5
million, United States V. Marquez; as well as fourteen ther
properties, including 50-unit apartment buildings in Manhattan,
the Bronx, and Mt. Vernon and specified leaseholds within these
premises, a bar and adjoining premises in Poughkeepsie, a gas
station in Manhattan, an auto repair shop and attached dwelling
in the Bronx, and three apartment leases in public housing in New
York City.
The forfeiture of the public housing leases was a
pinneering effort by this Office taken to remove narcotics
dealers who were able to ply their trade with impunity in public
housing due to the protracted (up to 6 years) eviction procedures
of the New York City Housing Authority. These forfeitures have
made these apartments available to the next families on a list of
over 200,000 eligible individuals waiting for public housing in
the City of New York and rid the buildings of the traffickers who
terrorized the other innocent tenants. This Office's initiative
is now being replicated in similar efforts across the country
Through our forfeiture program, narcotics dealers and
those who allow them to prosper have been put on notice that Law.
enforcement will use every available legal remedy to eradicate
narcotics trafficking networks in this area.
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Hermena Perlmutter, a well-known New York criminal
defense attorney who had represented a number of narcotics
violators in both the federal and state courts of New York, was
indicted in March, 1986, for currency transaction violations.
The indictment, originally dismissed by the trial court judge,
was later reinstated when the Court of Appeals confirmed the
criminality of similar currency transaction activities. Follow-
ing a non-jury trial, Perlmutter was found guilty of felony and
misdemeanor currency transaction violations. The proof showed
that during 1981 and 1982, Perlmutter laundered cash totalling
.over $200,000 for three clients whom she represented in
connection with the purchase of real estate. In each case,
Perlmutter took the purchase price in cash from her clients and
obtained negotiable instruments for payment in such a manner as
to cause the banks in which she deposited the cash either to fail
to prepare a Currency Transaction Report or to prepare a report
that did not disclose her client's interest in the funds.
PART IV:
THE IMPACT OF NARCOTICS USE AND
TRAFFICKING IN NEW YORK CITY
1. HEROIN
The heroin problem in New York State appears to have
stabilized over the past few years. Estimates of the
narcotic-abusing population -- mainly heroin abusers -- have
remained at 260,000, with 200,000 narcotic abusers estimated in
New York City and 60,000 estimated in the rest of the State. The
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No. of cocaine dependants
there were 97,000 heavy drug abusers in the state age 16 or under
with most in New York City. This number has certainly increased.
New York City officials currently estimate there are 600,000
regular cocaine users (addicts), with the vast majority being
crack users. According to DSAS figures, in 1985 primary cocaine
abuse accounted for 15.1% of all admissions to state-funded
treatment programs in New York City. This rose to 33.6% for 1986
and 37% of all admissions for 1987. Sixty-five percent of the
cocaine abusers admitted for treatment during 1987 indicated that
smoking was the primary method of ingestion. Crack abuse affects
males and females and all ethnic groups and geographic lines
within and around New York City.
Crack abuse, because of the high proportion of women
involved, is already eroding the structure of the inner city
family, and if not checked, will destroy the last vestiges of
family structure in the inner city. The long term consequences
of this destruction will no doubt be far more severe than the
drug problem which caused it. Some evidence of the erosion is
already becoming available. Reports to New York City of child
abuse where parents were involved with drugs more than tripled,
from 2,627 to 8,251, over the past two years. William Grinker,
New York City Commissioner of the Human Resources Adminstration
blames crack for driving up the total number of abuse and neglect
cases from 41,464 in 1986 to 52,568 in 1988. A review by the
City of cases of children who were killed by abuse and neglect in
1987, showed that 73% of the deaths resulted from parental drug
abuse, sharply up from 11% in 1985. From 1986 to 1988, the
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more than tripled - -- from 1,325 to 5,088. Most of these babies
tested positive for cocaine.
Crack has also led to a marked increase in venereal
disease because of the extensive sexual activity in crack houses,
usually by women who exchange sex for crack. The addiction for
crack is so strong that many female addicts will become involved
in multiple sexual liaisons either for money to buy crack or in
direct exchange for crack. In New York City where the number of
syphilis cases had remained relatively stable since 1959, the
cases of early stages of the disease jumped 115%, from
2,111 to 4,548 between 1988 and 1987. While there is no
conclusive data yet to draw a link between crack use and AIDS,
many health professionals believe crack may become a major cause
of AIDS transmissins because of the rampant sexual activity at
crack houses.
3. VIOLENCE
Crack has also fueled dramatic increases in violence.
Homicides increased overall from 1,588 in 1986, 1,691 in 1987,
and 1,867 in 1988 -- the highest total ever recorded in the
City. A substantial proportion of these homicides have been
shown to be narcotics-related. Other violent crimes, such as
robbery and aggravated assault, were up 8.47% and 13.1%
respectively for the first nine months of 1988 as compared to the
same period for 1987. Again, these are crimes typically
associated with narcotics trafficking and abuse. Automatic and
semi-automatic weapons have become easily obtainable in narcotics
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DEA killer suspect a 'creep'
who asked that he not be identi-
comment yesterday, other than
By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
yesterday.
Two days earlier, he allegedly
to confirm Farace and his wife
fied.
and PETER MOSES
shot veteran Drug Enforce-
"He said he was in the mob.
had been living at the address
In the quiet Staten Island
ment Administration agent
He carried a gun lots of times.
for the past four months.
neighborhood where he lived
Everett Hatcher to death as the
He got in fights - with all the
The couple moved in shortly
with his new wife, Toni, Consti-
officer sat inside his car along
wrong kinds of people. Kind of
before Thanksgiving - five
ble "Gus" Farace was known as
a lonely Staten Island street.
moody - sometimes you could-
months after Farace was pa-
a quiet and subdued young man
More than one person in his
n't shut him up and sometimes
roled from Arthur Kill mini-
and as a "creep."
neighborhood, including a man
he'd just sit there, saying noth-
mum security prison
Federal authorities say the
who said he knew Farace well,
ing."
Farace, shortly after he was
28-year-old convicted killer ap-
offered comments indicating
The former acquaintance de-
paroled last June, married An-
parently led a double life, in
his alleged involvement with
scribed Farace as "a creep."
toinette Aurarni and
which his outward desire to for-
Hatcher's death may not have
Another neighbor said he
- with permission from Fa-
mulate a new life after prison
been totally out of character.
rented a basement in private
race's parole officer - honey-
CONSTIBLE FARACE
masked his dealing in drugs.
"He was a tough guy, a show-
house.
mooned in Bal Harbour, Fla.
Suspect in killing.
Farace remained at large
off type of guy," said the friend,
The landlord there declined to
Continued on Page 15
AGENT'S PALS DROP ALL
By ANDREA PEYSER
Federal drug fighter Robert Stutman is order-
ing an army of investigators to drop everything
else until they nail the assassin who gunned
TO NAIL SLAYER
down unarmed undercover agent Everett
Hatcher.
"We are going to get him," Stutman said of Consti-
ble "Gus" Farace, a paroled killer with mob ties and
the prime suspect in Hatcher's slaying.
The grim and determined head of the Drug Enforce-
ment Administration's New York office spoke last night
outside a funeral home in Boonton, N.J., where more
than 100 of Hatcher's
friends, neighbors and
comrades in the war on
when he was shot dead in
drugs came to pay their
a desolate part of Staten
last respects.
Island Tuesday night.
"I am ceasing all other
"He's happier right now
investigations in our
than he's ever been on this
fice. Every agent will be
carth, sald Cindy Pulley,
wife of Hatcher's cousin.
working on nothing else
until we apprehend this
"You can't love the Lord
suspect," he said.
and be angry."
Hatcher nicknamed
Stutman predicted an
arrest because "we have
"Teddy Bear" because of
an excellent game plan"
his imposing size and gen-
tle nature - loved his
and the manpower.
He said all of the more
work so much he believed
than 500 agents in his of-
it was worth risking his
fice - the largest in the
life, his uncle said.
country - now are on the
The son of a postal clerk
and a nurse, Hatcher was
case.
They're working with
born in Westchester.
BEREFT WIFE: Mourners console Mary Jane Hatcher (center) at her husband's wake yesterday.
"hundreds" of FBI agents
and cops from several
states to set up a massive
dragnet, he said.
An all points bulletin
Slain agent was after
that focused on New York
City and parts of New Jer-
By MURRAY WEISS
sey was issued for Farace
after Hatcher was killed
Federal drug agent
on Staten Island.
Everett Hatcher was exe-
Bonanno family
Stutman said last night
cuted trying to infiltrate a
it wasn't known if the sus-
major
Florida-to-New
pect was in still in either
York cocaine operation
state.
run by a top chieftain in
the Bonanno crime fami-
crime chieftain
After his announcment,
Stutman returned to the
ly, The Post has learned.
Sources identified the
funeral home where
Mr. Big behind the co-
was murdered Tues-
Rastelli, but was knocke
Hatcher's
70-year-old
mother, Lola, supported
caine pipeline as reputed
day.
down after an interna
by family members,
mobster Gerard Chilli, 54,
Suspected killer Consti-
squabble. The specia
of Staten Island and West
ble "Gus" Farace, 28, a pa-
DEA-FBI unit chose Fa
moaned softly as she
Palm Beach.
roled murderer, remained
race as its entry point in
viewed her son's body.
Chilli - reportedly once
yesterday the subject of a
toChilll's operation be
Hatcher's wife, Mary
nationwide manhunt.
cause of Farace's clos
Jane, looked on quietly
the acting boss of the en-
with red-rimmed eyes.
tire Bonanno family -
Chilli has long been con-
family and personal rela
Her two boys - Joshua,
was described by sources
sidered a major loanshark
tionships with Chilli dru
9, and Zachary, 3 - were
and powerhouse at the
distributors.
close to the case as the
tended to by relatives.
Fulton Fish Market,
Farace is a first-cousi
long-range target of a ape-
Dozens of FBI and drug
cial joint Drug Enforce-
sources said.
of Gregory Scarpa Jr., th
reputed Columbo crim
agents - their badges
ment Administration and
But only in the last year,
FBI operation working
family captain and con
covered with black bands
they said, did he emerge
in tribute to Hatcher -
out of FBI headquarters
victed drug racketeer.
as a cocaine kingpin on
Farace's accomplice in
also came to say their last
in Lower Manhattan.
Staten Island and Brook-
1979 kidnapping murde
goodbyes.
F.N. Kinney II
The operation was in its
lyn.
was Mark Granata, whos
Hatcher, a Vietnam vet
MOURNING MOM: Family member leads
infancy when Hatcher -
According to one source,
brother, Kevin, was con
and crack-shot, was meet-
working undercover as
Chilli served briefly as
victed with Scarpa 0
ing with suspected drug
Everett Hatcher's mother, Lola, into funeral
the lead agent trying to
acting family boss for
drug
racketeerin
dealers unarmed -
home.
gain the ring's confidence
jailed mob czar Philip
charges.
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Associated Press
The body of Everett Hatcher, a Federal drug agent, was slumped across the steering wheel of his car on Staten Island yesterday.
He told fellow agents Tuesday night that he was going to meet a man believed to be linked to cocaine trafficking.
Drug Agent Slaying Called 'Perplexing'
By MICHEL MARRIOTT
Hatcher had been driving before he returned to
About an hour after a Federal drug agent
the spot where his body was found. "There are
radioed colleagues that he was driving to a new
a lot of clues that we are working on that are
site to meet a drug dealer, he was found shot to
somewhat perplexing and strange," said Mr.
death on a dark stretch of Staten Island where
Stutman. "The perplexing part is that he was
agents had last seen him.
back to the original meet spot."
The last message agents from the Federal
The police and Federal agents are seeking
Constabile (Gus) Farace for questioning. He is
Drug Enforcement Administration and the
a Staten Island resident who Federal authori-
F.B.I. received Tuesday night from the agent,
ties believe is linked to both drug trafficking
Everett Hatcher, was that he was driving to
and organized crime.
meet his target at a diner two miles away, offi-
Initially Mr. Hatcher, a 46-year-old special
cials said yesterday in a news conference. Pre-
agent who had been with the drug agency since
cisely what happened to Mr. Hatcher is a mys-
1972, was to have met Mr. Farace at a desolate
tery, said Robert M. Stutman, special agent in
clearing in Staten Island's Rossville section,
charge of the Federal drug agency office in
Mr. Stutman said. The meeting, on Blooming-
Manhattan.
dale Road, near the West Shore Expressway,
Five agents were tracking Mr. Hatcher, who
was to have been their fourth.
had a radio transmitter hidden on his body,
Mr. Hatcher "felt there was no danger at all,
when the back-up agents lost touch with him.
because he said to one of the other agents be-
Everett Hatcher, who was part of
Mr. Stutman said it was not clear why com-
munications had broken off or where Mr.
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ARTHUR KILL
CORRECTIONAL
Mr. Stutman recounted. Mr. Hatcher,
FACILITY
who had been an Army captain in the
Victnam War, chose to go to the meet-
ing unarmed, drug agency. officials
said.
CHEMICAL LANE
BLOOMINGDALE
Agent's
body found
The meeting was scheduled as part
of a long-term Federal investigation
RD.
into cocaine trafficking and organized
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crime in New York City, Mr. Stutman
ARTHUR
said.
CHARLESTON
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At an earlier meeting, Mr. Farace
LUCILLE AVE
had sold Mr. Hatcher an eighth of a kilo
of cocaine, valued at $4,000 on the
WINANT
street, Mr. Stutman said. But Tues-
day's meeting was "strictly for negoti-
The Now York Times/March 2, 1989
ations" and for agents to listen over the
The agent was slain on a lonely
concealed transmitter that Mr.
stretch of road on Staten Island.
Hatcher wore..
But something went terribly wrong,
lost radio contact with Mr. Hatcher and
Mr. Stutman said, visibly shaken by the
then sight of his car in heavy traffic on
killing of Mr. Hatcher, whom he called
Highland Boulevard.
a colleague and friend.
At 10:15 P.M. the five agents drove
Shortly after 9 P.M., four drug agents
back to the starting point on Blooming-
and an agent from the Federal Bureau
dale Road and found Mr. Hatcher
of Investigation, stationed in three
slumped over the steering wheel of his
cars, observed Mr. Hatcher in his
car, dead, Mr. Stutman said.n
Buick Regal sedan at the Bloomingdale
Mr. Hatcher was shot four times, at
Road site, Mr. Stutman said. A few
least once In the head, Mr. Stutman
minutes later the agents saw a light-
said.
colored van pull up.
Mr. Farace, who seven months ago
As the van, presumably driven by
was freed from a state prison after
Mr. Farace, and Mr. Hatcher's car
serving eight years of a 7-to-21-year
drove off toward Highland Boulevard
term for first-degree manslaughter, is
on Staten Island, Mr. Stutman sald, the
the prime suspect in Mr. Hatcher's
other agents followed. But they soon
murder, Mr. Stutman said.
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By MARY ENGELS
and DAVID L KRANCEK
Daily News Staff Writers
Costabile (Gus) Farace has spent
Legal tangles began as teen
much of his life on the wrong side of
the law.
He grew up in a well-beeled section
his 17th birthday. on charges of pos-
sodomized, shot and left for dead
session of * weapon and forgery.
Farace married after being paroled.
of Princes Rev. Staten Island, and at-
Charles died. The second youth, after
He and bis wife. Toni. rented a base.
tended Public School 3. Intermediate
Pickup in Greenwich Village
weeks in a coma. recovered
ment spartment in a huge house on
School 34 and Tottenville High
A law enforcement source de-
School. A schoolmate. Lori Schultz,
On Oct. 7. 1379, Farace and four
Melville St. two blocks from the
scribed Farace. 6-feet-3 and 220
27, yesterday remembered him as a
friends picked up Steven Charles, 17,
$500,000 home of his father, Frank
pounds, as "one mean SOB."
of Newark, and another teen in
He neemed happy. the marriage was
"regular guy. a nice person."
Farace pleaded guilty to man-
Greenwich Village and drove to
working. and be and his brother
But Farace. 28, got into trouble car-
slaughter and was sentenced to seven
ly and often.
Wolfes Pond Park in their neighbor-
to 21 years in prison. He walked out of
opened & telephone-answering ser-
hood.
vice in Tottenville,
He was busted twice in 1977. before
Elmira state prison June 3 after serv-
Cops said the boys were tortured,
The good times apparently ended
ing less than eight years.
Tuesday night
Was it the smoked salmon?
AGENT
FROM PAGE THREE
Hatcher's friller under a new
Robert Stutman. head of
federal law that allows capi-
the DEA in New York said at
tal punishment for drug deal-
a news conference that
ers who kin lawmen
Hatcher was to meet Farace
In a move that allows the
at 9 p.m. Tuesday at Bloom-
feds to take jurisdiction. Far-
ingdale Road.
ace was charged yesterday in
a federal arrest warrant in
Four DEA agents and an
FBI agent in three vehicles
connection with the drug
sale. Two other men may
were assigned to back him
have been with Farace, offi-
up. The backups were forced
eials said.
to stay far away from the site
because the area is so deso
Hatcher's backup team
late.
found him slumped over the
Farace arrived a few min-
wheel of his 1967 gray Buick
utes after 9 in a light-colored
Regal at Bloomingdale Road
van. He and Hatcher agreed
just off the West Shore Ex-
to drive in separate vehicles
pressway in Charleston
to an diner OD Hylan Blvd.
The engine was running.
about 2 miles away.
the car was in gear. and
Hatcher's right foot was on
Hatcher gave directions as
the brake.
be drove. and the backups
were close enough to see his
Shot through window
car for several minutes. until
He had been shot in the left
the transmitter faded and
they lost him.
eye. ear and shoulder at close
range through the rolled-
Cops said yesterday that
down driver's side window.
nareotics backups generally
Undercover agents are of-
by to keep their undercovers
ten unarmed to help them
in eye contact because the ra.
avoid detection.
dio signal often fades. But the
Hatcher, 46, was the first
backups Tuesday were forced
DELICATESSEN BURNS in Bay Shore, LL,
fire at the Fourth Avenue Gourmet Dell Cause of
lawman murdered in the city
to stay far from Hatcher be-
yesterday as firefighters direct streams of water
fire, which broke out at 6:15 a.m., wasn't imme-
this year and the first DEA
cause of the light traffic.
on smoky blaze. One firefighter was hun bettling
distely known.
agent killed here in more
The agents drove up and
than B decade.
down Hylan Blvd. checking
the parking lot at each diner.
HERBERT
FROM PAGE 3
Returned to site
time.
He's no more serious than
At 10:40 p.m. 40 minutes af-
After getting elected. he cut
Friday David Dinkins, a me-
Bronx principal who was ar-
ter they lost contact, they re-
any of the others To really
money for law enforcement,
for mayoral candidate, went
rested for allegedly buying
turned to Bioomingdale Road
especially for the fight
fight crime and drugs will
to Rikers Island and told a
take a tremendous effort, M
crack and who had a history
and found the agent dead.
against drugs Crime flour-
cheering group of inmates
long time. and & tremendous
of alcohol abuse. absentee-
Investigators yesterday
shed during the Reagan ad-
that, "I care desperately
ninistration as it never had
amount of money.
ism and other problems.
were trying to piece together
about you and want you to
It might be better if Din-
the events of those 40 min-
refore. The criminals acted
We're not yet serious.
know that I am not alone. A
kins cared "desperately".
utes, but there were few
like they were on super-vita-
Yesterday in Kew Gardens.
lot of people care about you."
about the victims of the
leads.
Queens, we listened to a
nins. They got bolder and
Most of the inmates passing
Rikers inmates, and If Green
pank swear in court that be
older. Murder rates skyrock-
through Rikers Island are in-
eared more about the young.
Stutman said a police radio
ted. Crack came along It
heard one of the defendants
volved in some form of drug
sters unfortunate enough to
car passed the rendervous
vas a golden age for drug
in the Edward Byrne case say
activity. Most have committed
have Barnwell as their prin-
spot at 9:35 p.m. and did not
leaters.
flat-out, "We have to kill a po-
crimea. Many are violent fel-
cipal
see the Buick Authorities be-
lice-officer."
We also had Ed Koch He
ons. Dinkins' visit didn't ex-
Sometime yesterday morn-
lieve two vehicles - the van,
The other defendants. ac-
vas a real tough law and on-
actly send & surge of confi-
ing Everett Hatcher's body
with Farace and another man
ler candidate back in the
cording to this witness, nod-
dence through crime-numbed
was lifted from his car and
Inside. and a Lincoln with a
ded in agreement
ate 70s and early 80s. He
New Yorkers. Perhaps be
taken from the desolate Stat-
single man Inside - may
romised to crack down on
The police point out that
doesn't care, but his visit is
en Island neighborhood in
have been at the scene.
they then went out and did it.
time in New York and make
not the kind of gesture to
which he died. By yesterday
Rookie Police Officer Ed-
he streets and the subways
help a candidate get elected
afternoon, the car also was
Hatcher was hired by the
afe again.
ward Byrne died helpless in
in a city where public safety
DEA in 1972 and spent his en-
gone There was no visible
the driver's seat, just like vet-
Later we learned that Koch
is the number one issue.
tire career in New York He
evidence that anything terri-
eran Drug Enforcement
ouldn't even crack down on.
And then there is Schools
ble had happened.
lived in North Boonton, N.J.,
Agent Everett Hatcher. In
Chancellor Richard Green
with his wife. Mary Jane. and
rime in City Hall
Soon a similar scene will
Now we have George Bush
other words. the punks. the
On the same day that Dinkins
take place somewhere else.
their sons, Zachary. 9. and
dealers and the killers are se-
a the White House and he's
went to Ribera Green felt
Joshua. 3.
The story will be the same.
rious. They do their thing
promised to beat this thing
compelled once again to -
Only the setting will be dif-
A funeral Mass is sched-
alled drugs. But he's also
When are we going to wake
press his concern for the way
ferent. We can be sure of this
used for 9:30 am Saturday at
up and strike back?
romised not to raise taxes
Matthew Barnwell has been
because we're not yet ready.
St. Christopher Catholic
Probably no time soon. Last
treated. Burnwell was the
to get serious about crime.
Church in Partippany. N.J.
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How many more
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must die?
A
DD ONE MORE NAME to the list of soldiers slaughtered
in the War on Drugs. Add the name of Everett Hatcher.
Forty-six years old. Undercover agent with the federal
Drug Enforcement Administration. Shot dead on Staten Island.
Murdered Murdered for trying to do his job.
As these words were being written, the DEA, the FBI and the
NYPD were hunting his killer. By the time these words appear
in print, the killer may have been found. At least, that is, the
killer who actually pulled the trigger. But there are other kill-
ers involved in this deed. a multitude of them.
Agent Hatcher was assigned to an investigation linking orga-
nized crime and cocaine trafficking. Read the word again. Co-
caine. That which spawned the crack epidemic and that which
is, still, the "glamor" drug of choice among "recreational" us-
ers. Most of the crackheads have had their brains fried and are
too far gone to think twice about a federal agent lying dead. If
they would have thought once in any case. But what about the
so-called "recreational" user? How much killing will it take be-
fore they can see the blood on their hands?
The tragedy is that these people will continue to feed their
filthy habit. Hear them mock the "nares." Hear them defend
their little stashes of coke. Hear them natter on about how their
cocaine use does no harm to anyone but themselves - if they
A waste
even have the sense to see they are harming themselves.
Manhattan: If the
Maybe they are beyond reaching. Pray that they are not Pray
that some small light will begin to shine, that they will - finally
Rushdie's book prin
- realize it's their habits and their money and the market they
are indicative of h
create that fund, and that finally cause, murder.
shame to cut down 1
Everett Hatcher is dead. He died just trying to do his job.
Think about that. Think about the others who carry on the fight.
And think about the users who couldn't give a damn that he is
A writer's right
dead, or that others may die. Mourn for Everett Hatcher. Mourn
Brooklyn: I am angry that b
for the society that signed his death warrant.
stores pulled "The Sata
Verses" off their shelves.
Shout it from the rooftops
man Rushdie has the right t
opinion. If Khomeini and his
On Tuesday, firebombs were hurled into two Berkeley (Calif.)
lowers disagree. they don't }
bookstores that had dared sell "The Satanic Verses." On Tues-
to buy the book
John M
day, a firebomb destroyed the offices of The Riverdale Press, a
small Bronx weekly newspaper that had defended the sale of
Toothless dragon?
"The Satanic Verses." Was the Bronx attack a result of the pa-,
Manhattan: Where is Marg:
per's editorial support of author Salman Rushdie, and of free-
Thatcher in all this furor (
dom of speech? Or was it prompted by some other stance the
Salman Rushdie? Is she aft
paper had taken on some other issue? The Justice Department
that she will be exposed for
is investigating all three incidents, at President Bush's urging
hypocrite that she is? For
It is well and good that the power of the federal government
past several years, she has b
belching blue flames across E
is being wielded here. For the power of the government rests
ain like a dragon from the B
on the power of freedom. In America, all voices have the free-
die Ages. banning books and
dom to speak and the right to be heard. The smallest voice can
tigating the British media. S
become a clarion call. Those who demand silence are waging a
behavior serves no other I
futile battle. For an attempt to silence the voices is an attempt
pose but to open the floodga
to shatter the fundamental liberties of this nation, and thus the
for obtuse right-wing eleme
nation itself. Those voices, and this nation, will not allow that to
like the Ayatoliah who will $
happen. Those who would demand silence, who would sup-
at nothing to get their X
press, neither understand the United States nor deserve its
across. It is a crying shame t
hospitality and protections.
all those authors who are
condémning the Ayatollah
Crazed'
rightfully so) did not
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When
He'd never admit it, but Bullets g
Tactics of the Past
ager Bob Ferry must be growing R li
After all. things were supposed to
this year. Having spent a decade as
monument to mediocrity, Washing
this season with a commitment to
For Today's Plague
awful.
Ferry let go free agent Moses Mal
$2-million salary last summer, gett
in return. He brought in no free as
It was about 10 good paces from the door to the
For now. nearly 15 years later, we are a city
distinction. He dealt Menute Bol 1
table where the three interviewers sat, and as
living on a pier and the waves are starting to
riors for Dave Feitl That made Fe
each applicant came through the door and
splinter the pilings. With drugs everywhere and
lets' starting center, which is ano'
walked to the table, the interviewers watched the
nobody knowing what to do about them. the old
saving they had none.
entrance closely. Get a good look at the guy, see
implied agreements under which crime was con-
The preseason experts nodded the
what he's made of.
ducted have been shattered. Once, it WES un-
was hard to argue with Ferry's
Everett Hatcher took care of it all with his first
turned the Bullets into Blanks. The
thinkable to shoot a policeman. And now drug
two strides. Big, confident, strong and conserve-
gunmen have killed four. Police Officers Edward
the smallest team in the league, an
tively dressed to match the military background
Byrne in South Jamaica, Michael Buczek and
en't very good shooters, either. \
which had won between 35 and 4:
on his records. Hatcher had the three interview-
Christopher Hoban in Manhattan
ers impressed before he even took a seat.
the last nine seasons, would be forta
And on Tuesday night, federal drug agent Ev-
20 this time around.
This was on Tuesday. Dec. 2. 1975. and Hetch-
crett Hatcher, now 46, still working undercover
Yes. they W
RATA
er was being interviewed for a position as a Drug
the old way, alone, with DO gun on him, est in his
Enforcement Administration agent.
They were a c.
swby, 17. testifies
car on a lonely night on an overpase
INSIDE
The interview was held in an 18th-
lettery. Ans
esterday.
over an expressway at the end of Stat-
floor office in the drab, dark glass of-
en Island and they put four into him.
THE NBA
course, was P
fice tower on West 57th Street where
Hatcher was wearing a wire, the
point. After all
Jerry
the agency has its Manhattan head-
drug enforcement agency says, and
of picking 12
quarters. The three agents interview-
Sullivan
picking badl:
S
was out with Constible Ferace, whose
ing him were Quarequio. Campbell
homicide of record is the beating to
would have a
and Jackson.
death of a gay on Staten Island. Farace
top players. He might even have
Quarequio remembered yesterday
apperently runs errands for the Bon-
pick his son, Danny, out of Duke.
In
that he saw that Hatcher had been a
anno outfit in Brooklyn, which has
asking your old man for pocket ch
major in the army in Germany. The
never done much of anything else but
Dad, could you spare $8 million? A
questions were standard Had Hatcher
heroin. As Hatcher was talking to Far-
to the Buick?"
ever used drugs? No. The chances are
Jimmy
ace about obtaining a large quantity of
The problem is. the players have
ase
good that you might be sent out of
Breslin
drugs someday, but was buying noth-
ing their full cooperation. The Bulle
town. Do you mind relocating? Hatch-
ing on the spot, the backup tentn of
14 of their previous 24 games, and
er smiled. He had been transferred a
drug agents gave him distance. Which
losses behind the Ceitics in the "bs
hundred times in the army.
made it impossible to hear anything from Hatch-
eighth and final playoff spot in 1
"Do you have any problems working undercov-
er's wire. And be was with this Farace, who at 28,
Conference. They are 23.31, two g
er?" Quarequio remembers asking him. It was a
on parole, automatically owes years and years if
than they were with Moses at this
estified yesterday
standard question.
ago.
anything goes wrong in his life. Farace must be
Police Officer Ed-
"No," Hatcher said
This is hardly what Ferry had is
figured as desperate. Yet he is supposed to be a
that one of them
"You have to get on the same level as these
tainly the fans aren't excited about
Mafia guy. On the day Hatcher started work as
help.
people." Quarequio said. "But never morally.
ton is last in the league in attendan-
an agent, the rule for a matter like Tuesday night
bld the jury that
You can't use drugs with them or make believe
game. They' re doing that well only
was that Farace would have jumped out of the car
boss had put out
you're using them.'
were smart enough to play three gai
one of us was to
"I will not embarrass the agency or myself."
and fled. Everything has become different and on
more. No other team in the league
Hatcher said firmly.
Tuesday night Hatcher was killed.
less than 11,000.
:utors contend
And now there can be no more of this insanity
The fane have seen all the med
Quarequio doesn't remember which of the in-
boss" is Howard
terviewers said it, but when they told Hatcher
of risking and losing innocent lives by sending in
can stand. What they need is a sign.
who is in jail on
that he would hear from the agency, the tone was
unarmed policemen to buy drugs, or having them
the future, in the form of a high 5
charges.
out drug streets without enough help. These
preferably the first pick overall. L
that be sure would Hatcher walked out and
and a fellow ac-
are acts of the past and they stop nothing today.
Bullets showed for all those years, c
Quarequio noticed that be had almost no notes
red drug dealer,
and neither did the other two interviewers. You
Officer Byrne was alons in 8 car on a cold night
make the playoffs.
and had the heater on when be was killed Who
Almost despite themselves, the
wby, in testimo-
only keep notes on somebody being turned down.
threatening to make a run at posts
e Supreme Court
in case of appeal.
ever sent Byrne out there alone today walks
They beat the Knicks in Baltimore
ardens yesterday
On that day in 1975, the government hired Ev-
through Police Department hallways with blood
Monday, they won in Houston. Th
the scene where
crett Hatcher as a $22,000 agent to fight drugs,
on his hands. Yet those who run the department
Nets at home last night. If they k
stion of the 22-
which was thought of then as a national evil
ignore the matter, and the police union for some
they'll play themselves right out of
rookie police offi-
Nobody in the room understood that the Devil
"Well. it is & little bit of R dilemma
lanned. Both wit-
had not even found his legs yet.
Please nee BRESLIN on Page 24
yesterday. "But we re too far away $
d they sold drugs
of the season to think about that
south Jameica
thing is to just play the best you can
it, where the ac-
cards fall. I never thought of it any
lers allegedly dis-
Still, at one time or another, it
eir intentions.
'Law of the Jungle' Now
occurred to him that his team wou
der of Byrne, who
off finishing ninth and making the
ISS, while be was
fluishing eighth and getting annihi
of A drug-witness
Cavaliers in the first round.
nts are Scott, 20;
It's the same sort of dilemma the F
By Bob Drury
crack, and the availability of guns.
» 25. Another de-
a year ago. When Rick Pitino's team
"It's like the jungles of Vietnsm out
It's reflected in what happened to
tried later.
its late-season playoff run. fans WC
e drug beadquer-
there now," Assistent Chief Francis C.
Agent Hatcher. I'm tired - tired of
might be better off missing the playe
of Feb. 25, 1988.
Hall, head of narcotics for New York
the body count."
ing another lottery pick. But the K
offer to help kill
City, said yesterday after the slaying of
The gruesome statistics confirm
the playoffs, and Pitino has said if:
ht?' he testified.
federal Drug Enforcement Administra-
Hall's war-laden metophor. City homi-
they wouldn't be the team they are
suidn't get caught
tion Special Agent Everett Hatcher on
cides increased 18 percent last year, po-
"If (Washington) can somehow
Celtics, it gives them a starting bk
id it'll be easy.
Staten Island
lice said, the death toll rising from
season." Pitino said. "And with th
"We have to killa
"When the phone rings in the mid-
1,588 in 1987 to 1,867, the highest
agent rules. I'm not sure building
W Cobb and Cope-
Newby is Cope-
die of the night it's never good news,"
count ever recorded. More than 38 per-
draft is going to help the Bullets rig
said Hall, who is retiring later this
cent of those billings were narcotica-re-
Building through the draft ha
creck for a gang
month after + 36-year career with the
lated.
them much for A decade, but a
8 when the killing
department. "But the level of violence
Five of the aix city police officers
would sure come in handy. It would
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slain last year including Patrohman
Francis C:
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watched Hatcher meet a beige van and
they saw Hatcher alive.
AS
then listened as he SPOES into the
When Hatcher's body was found at
transmitter, telling them he was going
10:15 p.m., his left foot was on the
to a diner on Hylan Boulevard. They
brake, and the car was still in drive. The
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driver's side window was open. Hatcher
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years and now, with the numbing
death of agent Hatcher, listen for
reason doesn't bring it up.
the first demands for the relax-
In the case of Officer Hoban, the
ation of search and seizure rules.
crack dealers spoke Spenish and
The police will say that the only
Hoban had an Irish morning for a
reason they do dangerous under-
face. They made him as a cop the
minute he walked unarmed into
cover work is that they are not al-
NEWSDAY, THURSDAY, MARCH 2. 1980
the hallway of $ place on 107th
lowed to stop citizens and search
Street in Manhattan They blew
them at will And we all can walk
him away at the top of the stairs. A
with Less liberty. and the drugs will
backup team. parked about a half
continue.
block away, was of no use. The
Any other idea is complicated.
whole thing was absolutely crazy
and therefore serve, Drug treat-
from the start.
ment - and that treatment on de-
On Tuesday night, agent Hatch-
mand - and drug education is a
or at least resembled what be said
better way to immediately battle
be was, A tough black guy looking
drugs than surrendering a piece of
for drugs. But then his backup
freedom. But expect all attention
team lost him for so long. Who
knows where Hatcher was? Some-
to be centered on shaving at your
liberty.
body mentioned that Hatcher and
the thug Farace might have gone
When Joe Quarequio, who
to a diner. I stopped in two of them
helped hire Hatcher, heard the
NY
in Staten Island yesterday, but saw
news on the radio yesterday. be
nobody investigating
said, "Why haven't they caught
But all this is conjecture while
this Farace yet? I know they're out
standing in the rubble of murder.
there breaking their backs. But
What is real and obvious is that we
look how they have to do it. They
24
no longer can allow policemen to
have to sey, Excuse me. Have you
die in a hopeless cause.
seen Mr. Farace lately?' They
Immediately, the first wall you
should be allowed to kick down
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doors and talk to people in such a
been expecting it for the past three
way that they give you an answer.'
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Widow's lament
how
to
fight
the
be
the
'Nice people'
killed fed agent
By RANDY DIAMOND and PATRICK O'SHAUGHNESSY
Daty Now the -
As a drug agent's widow blamed recreational
dirty
drug users in the "nice people - for her hus-
band's murder, lawmen were investigating
whether the prime suspect was involved in a
double homicide In Brooklyn
give
drug
intelligence
last summer, the Daily News
which
contain
learned yesterday.
Buch to Visit
please
of
Sources said Investigators
drug
involved to the 15-state man-
DEA widow?
hunt for Constabile (Gus)
Farace were told be was the
ellobert Statman, head
triggerman in the shooting
Preg Exterement
in New
deaths of two of his drug con-
Chief clerk
nections last August - two
York actd yesterday that
months after be was released
Predident Bush & expect-
from prison after serving
- to VESIT the Family of
eight years for the 1979 tor-
Male DEA Agent Everett
Betcher next week
says he was
ture-slaying of a teenager.
Statetes setd Buth is
Investigators were told the
victims were low-Level drug
expected ON Thursday to
forced out
players. sources said.
express his sympathy to
Drug Enforcement Agent
Retcher's family to New
Everent Hatcher was shot
Service and then 90 visit
dead on States Island Tues.
Hatcher's colleagues at
day night following a meeting
the DEAN office de the
By STUART MARQUES
with Forees, 28, an alleged
Qty
The powerful chief clerk of
The White House did
cocaine dealer with whom
Manhattan's state appellate
Batcher WES negotisting #
not confirm whether
court said yesterday be re-
large drug buy, authorities
Bran would make the
tired under pressure after
said
drip
learning the state's top Judge
WIDOW of sisin DEA Agent Every Hatcher, Mary Jane Hatcher, is
They had met on a deserted
wanted him out for personal
escorted from funerel home yesterday.
ORA NEWS
stretch of Bloomingdale
reasons.
Read in the Charleston sec-
tion at 9 p.m. and agreed to go
to a diner. Hatcher's five
Harold Reynolds, who re-
backup agents, traveling in
tired Thursday in the middle
No place to sleep
three vehicles, lost radio con.
of a bitter dispute at the high-
tact with him and then lost
est levels of the court. said he
sight of him. He was found
quit after being told that
dead - *hot four times in the
Chief Judge Sol Wachiler had
head and sirbuider at 10:15
told another judge "Reynolds
p.m. near the original meet-
must no.
the place
Reynolds said be was told
Vesterday, Hatcher's wid.
Wachtler was upset over a
DW, Mary Jane, 44, flanked by
1988 legal opinion that blast-
his sisters, read & statement
ed the presticious law firm of
that bitterly blamed middle
Sullivan & Crumwell for
class. recreational drug users
"misconduct"
- "nice people" - for his
The opinion was signed by
death
Reynolds' bots, presiding Ap-
"A good IDAD has been take
pellate Division Justice
en from us. The loss we feel
Francis Murphy. Bet Reyn.
is exceedingly deep, almost
olde bag told friends
unbearable." she said *out-
Wachtler believed Reynolds
side the Mackey Funeral
wrote the opinion.
Home in Boonton, N.J.
Wachtler denied foreing
where ber busband's wake
Reynolds into retirement and
was held
called the allegation about
"He died for society in gen-
the Sullivan & Cromwell case
eral and for everyone of us in
"bizarre I barely know
particular.
Harry Reynolds."
"We must answer the ques-
Reynolds, 60, was forced
tion: Who really killed Ever-
out amid allegations be and
ett Hatcher? Who created the
Murphy improperly intereed-
market for the poison he val-
ed in several "eensitive" dis-
tantly tried to remove from
ciplinary cases involving law.
our society? People who dab-
yers to Manhattan and the
ble its drugs. We have met the
Bronx Murphy oversees the
enemy and they are us. He
lawyers' disciplinary commit-
was filled by all of us nice
ter. The cases involved two
people all of you must ac-
former judges. $ former com-
cept the blame for the loss of
mittee member and Gov. Coo-
this good gentle men."
mo's son, Andrew.
angry
Former committee chief
ow walked back Inside the fu.
counsel Michael Gentile, 43,
neral home
and his deputy, Sarah
A funeral Mass was sched-
McShea, 29 made the Allegan
uled for today for Hatcher,
dont They returned Isnu
the
at 388. Christopher's
ary In & dispute with MAYS
Burcau
they
were
station.
Courch in Passionary N
dids and Murphy
is expected to draw more
than 3,000 law enforcement
officers.
DEA/McNally DEA/ mcNally
Quotes:
1. "90% Boredom"
NYT 2-11-85
NYPD officer John Casey
2. "Finding bones'
NYT 6-2-74
FBI Agent J. Wallace Laparde
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HEADLINE: Police Widows Attempt to Care For Their Own
BYLINE: By Alexis Jetter
KEYWORD: POLICE; DEATH; FAMILY; QUOTE; LANA GALAPO; SURVIVORS OF THE SHEILD;
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Lana Galapo turned on her television set last October For the first time in
two months, and froze in disbelief.
She hadn't watched television since August, when her husband, Police Officer
Joe Galapo, was accidentally shot to death by his partner during an undercover
buy-and-bust drug operation in Brooklyn.
But on the night of Oct. 18, she decided to soothe her nerves by watching a
romantic movie about the Civil War. Instead, she saw the bloody sidewalk in
Washington Heights where Police Officer Michael Buczek had just been gunned
down.
"I was just in horror," Galapo said recently, her hazel eyes troubled as she
sat in her kitchen in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. "It was just like they had
killed Joe all over again."
She spent a sleepless night, thinking about Buczek's young widow, Christina.
"I just really felt the horror that this girl was going to go through, the
nightmare that was going to start for her," said Galapo, 30. Three days later,
she left her three small children with a relative and drove through a rainstorm
to the Buczek wake in NEW Jersey.
"I didn't know where the hell I was going," Galapo said. "But I Found it, and
when I got there, Chris didn't want me to leave."
Nothing attracts more attention in New York than the murder of a police
officer. But when the funeral is over, when the cries for retribution are
stilled and the publicity dies down, the spouse - if there is one - is often
left to pick up the pieces alone.
Galapo and Buczek, however, have joined about 20 other police widows in a new
organization that hopes to transform grief into action for the New Yorkers whose
police officer spouses have died in the line of duty.
Called "Survivors of the Shield," the fledgling group plans to dispatch widow
"response teams" to the home of a bereaved spouse after a police shooting, lobby
for pension reform 50 that widows, if they remarry, are not forced to forfeit
their husbands' pensions, alert them to be on the lookout for signs of trauma
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in their children years after the death, and provide a buffer against the
loneliness that envelopes their lives after the last bagpipe has sounded.
Although not yet sanctioned by the police department, the group sprang into
action Friday, when Police Officer Robert Machate was killed by a Brooklyn
gunman. At 7 a.m., Mary Beth Ruotolo, SOS vice president, got a call from Galapo
telling her about the shooting. Moments later, Ruotolo called the Patrolmen's
Benevolent Association and the employee relations division of the New York City
Police Department. She told them the Brooklyn response team, consisting of
Galapo and another widow, were ready to talk to the officer's young wife
whenever she felt ready.
SOS members hope that the initial contact will prepare her for and perhaps
spare her from - some of the pain.
"What happened to us was such a shock," Galapo said. "From Day One, when it
happened, we all go through the same thing: We go through the everybody-cares
business right down to nobody-comes-around-anymore.'
SOS is not the first organization for police widows. Other local and national
organizations lobby For increased pensions and provide grief counseling to
police widows. But SOS is one of only a handful of groups across the nation
fighting For official, active participation in a drama that has for generations
limited women to the role of grieving wife.
The president, Susan McCormick, said the group is seeking official
recognition by the Police Department so its response teams are notified
immediately after an officer is shot to go with the First officers to tell the
family about the death. "So you're not just some lady by the phone saying, 'call
me if you need ME, " she explained.
The idea has drawn support from the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association but
mixed reviews from the Police Department. Police officials question the
psychological benefits and worry about the logistical problems of widow response
teams.
But the women say they can handle the stress, and want to put their
particular brand of knowledge to use. They can talk about the jarring pain of
hearing about their husbands' deaths over the radio. Or the days when, despite
scores of microphones pressed to their lips, they could not speak at all. Or
about forcing doctors to tell and retell the grisly details of their husband's
final moments because, somehow, they must know.
And while they appreciate all that is done for them, many of the younger
women say they need more than memorials. They want, through counseling and
companionship, to help other widows avoid their scars.
"I don't want to keep saying how much it hurts," said Christina Buczek. "I'm
in search of a different message to the public."
There is a blur of blue when a police officer dies. A priest comes to the
door with a retinue of cops, most of them strangers, to break the news - even
though many women say they had already guessed the worst from sketchy details on
television or radio. The police fraternity takes over: Calling the hospital,
arranging the funeral, removing guns from the house (because the registered
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owner is now dead), and keeping reporters at bay.
Denied a private expression of grief by the press, the women say they took
some comfort in the rituals provided by their husband's colleagues, most often
men. But the police fraternity, so attuned to action, can be clumsy in grief.
"It's not like WE were neglected by the Police Department," said Mary Beth
Ruotolo, 32, of Dobbs Ferry, whose husband, Officer Thomas Ruotolo, was killed
by a parole violator on Valentine's Day, 1984. "They just don't know what our
needs are."
Some women Found themselves accepting advice they later regretted. Like Susan
McCormick, 41, who - on advice from the department decided against going to
the hospital after her husband was Fatally shot in the chest by a Bronx gunman.
Her last image of Joseph McCormick, an Emergency Services officer, was watching
him step out of their house in Carmel on a beautiful September day in 1983.
She did not see him again until three days later, when he was laid out in a
casket. Now, McCormick says, she feels cheated. "They think they're protecting
you," she said. "But I feel a loss from that. Here you see him going off to
work, and the next time you see him is in full dress uniform lying in a coffin.
There's an unreality about that."
Dr. Gregory Fried, deputy chief surgeon for the Police Department, is
frequently called to the scene of police shootings. He said he routinely advises
Family members not to SEE the officer's body if it is mutilated.
"I try to talk the wives out of seeing their dead husbands," he said. "To 52e
someone's head blown off or hideously swollen will leave them with a horrible
image in their minds for the rest of their lives."
The women of SOS say they want to give the widow support to make her own
decision.
Sometimes the team dispatched to notify the widow simply cannot Find the
words to comfort her. Christina Buczek fondly remembers the young priest who
came to tell her that her 24-year-old husband had been killed. But she couldn't
say anything to him or to anyone else.
Buczek, 24, had already figured out from the evening news that the unnamed
police officer slain at West 161st Street and Broadway was her husband. She was
frantically calling the 34th Precinct and her sister-in-law when she looked out
the kitchen window of her Suffern apartment and saw the officers climbing out of
the patrol car. She hung up the phone, and stopped speaking for three days.
It was only when relatives called the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association,
which then asked Mary Beth Ruotolo to pay a visit, that Buczek Found her voice.
"Everyone is watching your every move
I think I just withdrew because I
didn't want to believe it," Buczek said. "But there was a presence there of
somebody who knew. There's just a sense of security there."
Sometimes, the official police routine is awkward. When Lana Salapo, a
Sephardic Jew, opened the door last Aug. 16 to find a priest, she knew it could
mean only one thing. "Actually, it's terrible," she said. "A priest means bad
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news to a cop's wife."
For Salapo, the embrace of the police fraternity was bittersweet. Officer
Galapo's partner and mentor, Sgt. William Martin, inadvertently shot Galapo in
the face when a handcuffed drug suspect jostled Martin's arm.
"It makes it harder to swallow," Galapo said softly, her face illuminated by
a memorial yortzeit candle. "I don't hate him. But 1 don't know what to make of
this whole situation. My whole life went up in smoke in seconds."
Martin came to the services for Salapo to offer his condolences last August.
"Other than 'I'm sorry, there wasn't much he could say," Galapo recalled. "He
was in a lot of pain that day."
The two men were close enough that Martin had attended the circumcision
ceremony for Galapo's youngest son, Richard, now 2 years old. "I try and let
them not hate or resent anybody," Galapo said of her children, one of whom still
has nightmares about the shooting. "But it doesn't seem to make any sense to
them. From what they see on TV, the good guy always wins."
Lana Galapo says she feels worst for her children. Recently, she took her
three youngsters for a vacation in Pennsylvania, to a hotel they Frequented when
her husband was alive.
"The kids started to cling to people in the pool," she said, caressing the
shoulder-length locks of her youngest child, Richard. "I had to go over and say:
'You can't hang on to this guy all the time. He's here with his kids. "
The men often asked where the children's father was, she added. "Answer that
one without crying. It's something that tears your life upside down."
Susan McCormick bristles when she hears people say that she should have been
ready for her husband's death. "The public doesn't see us as victims,' she
said. "Because a lot of people say, 'Well, that was his job. He was paid to do
that. You should have been prepared. "
Is it possible for the women to be truly prepared? Their husbands worked in
dangerous Fields, and in dangerous places. Galapo was an undercover narcotics
officer. Buczek worked in drugand violence-ridden Washington Heights. Ruotolo
worked in the "Fort Apache" precinct in the south Bronx. McCormick handled
hostage situations.
But the daily risk on the job was something most of the women simply put out
of their heads. Otherwise, they said, they wouldn't be able to live. Buczek said
she didn't get a Full sense of her husband's working conditions until a Few
weeks after he died, when she developed a roll of film he'd left behind. "It was
pictures of a murder scene," she said, grimacing at the memory. "I never
realized what they see every single day."
In September, 1983, Sue McCormick lost her husband. In the following months,
she felt like she also lost her family. The couple had married one month after
he joined the Police Department, and for 15 years, McCormick said she knew no
other life than that of a police officer's wife.
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"You get used to the schedule, you understand the lingo, and you Feel part of
a world that nobody else understands," she said, talking over the hum of the
refrigerator in her mother's apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
But after the shooting, McCormick no longer saw her husband's partner and his
wife, and soon lost virtually all contact with the Police Department. "Not only
have you lost your husband," she said. "It's almost like being drummed out of
the corps."
McCormick and others suspect that seeing widows is too painful a reminder for
cops: of their dead friend, and of their own mortality. For McCormick, the new
group holds the promise of reviving the police Family, but on a new footing: her
own.
The group has not yet approached the Police Department with its proposals,
but Alice McGillion, deputy commissioner for public information, said she was
receptive. "They've been through an experience that none of us has," she said.
"They might have some insight into the situation as to why it should be done."
Fried, who has counseled several police widows since assuming his post in
1981, said he had reservations. "It's easy to say: 'I want to help,' " said
Fried. "But it's a hard, hard job. I personally don't think many of them would
like to relive a killing
They're going to face flashbacks."
Some women may not want the shoulder offered by the widows, added a source at
the PBA. Several women want nothing to do with police, widows or even New York
City after their husbands are killed, and the PBA has lost track of many women
who have tried to put the experience behind them.
But the women of SOS feel that, with training, they can provide a valuable
service at a critical time.
Groups like SOS can be of enormous assistance in combating the depression
that inevitably follows the loss of a spouse, said Phyllis Carpenter, a
counselor and police widow from Grand Junction, Colo. She runs support groups
for the Concerns of Police Survivors [COPS], a national organization for
families of slain police officers. "There certainly is a catharsis, of feeling
that you are not alone," she said.
The idea for SOS came two summers ago, at the annual week-in-the-Catskills
vacation provided by the PBA for widows and their children. Originally hosted at
the old NYPD camp in Tannersville, the event has been held in recent years at
the Concord and other hotels.
"It's a summer vacation we give to them and their children under 18," said
Edward Haggerty, recording secretary for the PBA. "So they have a diversion."
The PBA also hosts an annual Christmas party for the Families.
The police union welcomes the new group's efforts.
"Any support that can be given to someone under these tragic circumstances
from another person who's been through a similar trauma could only be helpful,"
a PBA spokesperson said.
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McCormick, who had been attending yearly meetings of COPS, suggested the New
York City contingent start its own organization. Ruotolo and another woman,
Cathy Murray, agreed. The group held its first meeting at the 112th Precinct in
Forest Hills, Queens, last November, which drew 23 widows. Leaders of the group,
who say they would welcome police widowers if they wanted to join, met last week
with a psychiatrist to organize training sessions in grief counseling. They hope
to begin officially sanctioned operations in coming months.
There are, however, some tricky issues left unresolved. In the event of a
non-fatal shooting, for example, should widows appear on the scene?
Lori Gunn thinks SO. Gunn's husband, Police Officer William Gunn, 28, was
shot along with Det. Louis Rango on Jan. 20 in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A few weeks
ago, Lori Gunn got a call from Lana Galapo.
"At First when she called ME, she was afraid," said Gunn, whose husband is
paralyzed and has suffered extensive brain damage. "She didn't want to scare me"
with the specter of widowhood.
It is awkward, Gunn conceded, to Find herself socializing with widows. "It's
not the most pleasant thought. But if I have to weigh that against what I get
from them
" She paused. "He's never going to be Billy again. Lana's way
ahead of me, so whatever happens, she'll help me."
GRAPHIC: Newsday Photos by Donna Dietrich-1) Robbie Galapo, 6, tries on uniform
hat of his late father Joe who was accidentally shot and killed in the line of
duty by his partner during an arrest last year. 2) When Joseph McCormick was
killed five years ago, he left his daughter Jessica, left, his wife Sue, and two
sons. Sue is president of the Survivors of the Shield. 3) Joe Galapo's Family:
Lana and, clockwise, Richie, 2, Robbie, 6, and Danny, 9. 4) Newsday Photo by
John Paraskevas- Members of the police widows support group, Survivors OF the
Shield, are, from left, Lana Galapo, Mary Beth Ruotolo and Christina Buczek. All
of their husbands were New York City Police Department officers slain in the
line of duty
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Associated Press.
March 4, 1989, Saturday, AM cycle
SECTION: Domestic News
LENGTH: 284 words
HEADLINE: Two Arrested in Slaying of Police Officer
DATELINE: NEW YORK
KEYWORD: Officer Slain
BODY:
Two men, including an illegal alien with a history of attacking police
officers, were charged Saturday in the slaying of a plainclothes policeman who
was killed with his own revolver, police said.
Renaldo Rayside, 23, and Kurt Haneiph, 22, were picked up within an hour of
the shooting early Friday of Officer Robert E. Machate, officials said.
Rayside was charged with first-degree murder and criminal possession of a
loaded firearm - Machate's revolver.
Haneiph, who 15 also an illegal alien, was charged with felonious assault on
a police officer and criminal possession of a dangerous weapon, police said.
Machate, 25, was the First NEW York police officer killed in the line of duty
this year and the second law enforcement officer slain in the city in less than
three days. An undercover U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent was shot
to death Tuesday.
Machate lost his gun during a struggle with Rayside after the officer and a
partner stopped some men acting suspiciously at a location known for drug
deals. He died From a single bullet that hit him in the left side, just under
his bulletproof vest, authorities said.
Rayside, a native of Panama, served two years in state prison for attempted
robbery and assaulting a New York City police officer in 1982, said Sgt. Maurice
Howard, a police spokesman.
Several months after being Freed on parole in 1985, Rayside allegedly
attacked another city police officer during an arrest on possession of stolen
property charges. He pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and was sentenced to
time served, the police said.
Haneiph, also a native of Panama, has served prison time on attempted murder,
weapons and other charges, Howard said.
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HEADLINE: Concern for Officers' Safety Grows
BYLINE: By Bob Liff and Richard Esposito
KEYWORD: POLICE; MURDER; ATTACKS ON POLICE; SAFETY; SECURITY; ARREST; VIOLENCE;
SEARCH AND SEIZURE
BODY:
At a time when violence against police appears to be rising steadily, the
Police Department is seeking ways of reducing the risks officers face each day.
While situations such as the one early yesterday that led to the death of
Officer Robert Machate may not be preventable, authorities are hoping to at
least minimize the risk during arrests.
Police have been calling in heavily armed teams of Emergency Service Unit
officers as backup more frequently since two officers were wounded Jan. 20 by a
suspected killer they had gone to arrest in Brooklyn. In addition, the
department's detective division is conducting its first review of arrest tactics
since 1983.
Some critics within the department say the tactical review, begun in late
January, has been long in coming.
They say the review should have been done after the November, 1987, attempt
to arrest Larry Davis left six police officers wounded. A team of 27 detectives
and Emergency Service Unit officers took part in the raid, which Davis escaped.
He later was caught and acquitted by a Bronx jury of attempted murder charges in
the shootings.
The tactical review is not being done now in response to any particular
incident, but in the face of what is seen as an increasing level of violence
against police.
"We are not reacting to one situation," said Chief of Detectives Robert
Colangelo in a recent interview. "Homicide statistics are up, violent situations
are up, the number of guns out there is up. We evaluate this information and
develop tactics. The public has to understand we are not running scared and
overreacting."
Colangelo said there are no hard and fast rules for a detective commander to
apply to every situation, but a suspect's record of violence and the arrest
location are factors taken into consideration before deciding on how large an
arrest team or search team is necessary.
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The use of heavily armed ESU officers has been criticized in at least one
recent incident in which a Brooklyn family's home was raided during a search.
Leroy Francis, an East Flatbush record producer, and his Family charge that
an ESU squad broke down their front door to search for his brother, who is a
murder suspect. Francis had voluntarily allowed detectives into his home three
times previously to look for his brother, he said.
But the last time police came, on Feb. 2 - less than two weeks after two
officers were injured trying to arrest a murder suspect - they did not wait to
be invited in, the family said.
"I can't think of another case they did something like this, showing up with
45 people and a SWAT team with dogs, except for Larry Davis," said Trevor
Headly, the Family's attorney. "It smacks of gestapo-type tactics. It's really a
violation of the family's privacy. If they want to search, they can knock on the
door as they did before. I told them before, if he [a detective] has a warrant,
he is entitled to search wherever a body might be found."
Francis' brother, Victor Francis, is sought in connection with the Oct. 14,
1988, fatal shooting of Walter Williams, 18, in Brooklyn in what police describe
as a drug -related incident.
Colangelo wouldn't comment on the Francis case, but said weighing the
intrusion into citizens' lives is one part of a complex judgment a commander
must make before calling in ESU officers.
But for commanders the safety of arresting officers is as compelling as civil
liberities, police officials said.
"It's a complex situation and it requires careful, sound judgment by
supervisors," Colangelo said.
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March 4, 1989, Saturday, Late City Final Edition
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LENGTH: 1339 words
HEADLINE: Officer Slain In a Struggle In Flatbush
BYLINE: By DAVID E. PITT
BODY:
A 25-year-old plainclothes police officer on the lookout for street robberies
was shot and killed in Brooklyn early yesterday, possibly with his own gun, as
he and his partner struggled with two men they had tried to question.
The victim, Robert E. Machate, was the first New York City police officer
killed in the line of duty this year. He died from a single bullet that struck
him in the left side, just under his bulletproof vest.
Officer Machate, a popular, highly decorated member of the Brooklyn South
Task Force Anti-Crime Unit, had been an officer for two and half years. His
widow is six months pregnant with their first child.
As Officer Machate fell, one of the suspects opened fire on the officer's
partner, triggering a wild gun fight at close quarters in which nine shots were
exchanged, four of them from the gun used by the assailant. The partner, Officer
Gustavo Ceccini, 28, a five-year police veteran, was unharmed, but the
authorities said he was under sedation and still too shaken by the death to give
a detailed account of what had occurred.
Two Young Men Seized
Two young men, 22 and 25 years old, were picked up nearby within an hour of
the shooting, which occurred at 12:50 A.M. on East 23d Street, near Newkirk and
Ditmas Avenues in the Flatbush section. They were seized after scores of police
officers, alerted by Officer's Ceccini's frantic radio call, swept into the
neighborhood and began a house-to-house search.
But by late yesterday, no formal arrests had been made or charges filed, and
both men were still being questioned by detectives at the 70th Precinct station
house, at 154 Lawrence Avenue in the Kensington Park section.
Officials said the two suspects, who were unarmed when they were apprehended,
had fled down a long alley to an apartment building at 513 East 22d Street after
abandoning a green Oldsmobile sedan they were sitting in when the officers
approached. Minutes later, officers seized the 22-year-old in front of the
building; the other was discovered less than an hour later, hiding in the
basement.
The slain officer's .38-caliber service revolver was missing, and authorities
theorized that his assailant may have wrenched it away during the struggle,
although they said the fatal shot could have come From another weapon.
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A Fully loaded 9-millimeter pistol was Found under the suspects' automobile,
but there was no immediate indication that it had been fired. It had apparently
been thrown out of the car by one of the suspects as the officers approached.
'During the struggle, Officer Ceccini heard a shot and his partner yelled,
'I've been hit - he's got my gun!' said a police spokesman, Inspector Richard
J. Mayronne.
Late yesterday, police spokesmen said that ballistics tests had ruled out the
possibility that Officer Machate had been hit by a bullet from his partner's
gun. Last April authorities belatedly discovered that a slain police sergeant,
John F. McCormick, had been shot to death by a comrade.
Officials said it was not immediately clear whether the shooting was
drug -related, although Inspector Mayronne said the area ''is a well-known
drug location.'
Koch Rushed to Hospital
But Mayor Edward I. Koch, who rushed to Kings County Hospital, where the
officer was pronounced dead at 1:40 A.M., said that if the killing was found to
be linked to narcotics, he would recommend that the case be turned over to the
United States Attorney for the Eastern District, Andrew J. Maloney. That way,
Mr. Kach said, prosecutors could use a new Federal statute that permits the
death penalty in drug cases in which law-enforcement officers are killed.
But the Brooklyn District Attorney, Elizabeth Holtzman, reiterating her
opposition to capital punishment, said she would resist any effort to transfer
the case from her office.
First Deputy Police Commissioner Richard J. Condon said the incident
apparently began when the two officers, who were patrolling in an unmarked car,
noticed a group of five men on the corner of East 23d Street 'who were acting
suspiciously.
Another police spokesman, Lieut. Stephen Davis, said the officers' attention
may have been drawn by what appeared to be a dispute among the men.
Six Men Scattered
''So the cops stop their car, and one of the officers - we think it was
Officer Machate - gets out and walks toward the group, Inspector Mayronne
said. ''But there's another fella standing off to the side, and he apparently
realizes these are cops and alerts the five others.
At that point, the officials said, all six men scattered, with Officer
Machate apparently chasing the man who gave the alarm on foot while his partner
gave chase in the unmarked car. The police said the man being pursued jumped
into a green Oldsmobile Cutlass.
'They approach the car, and they see there's a second man in it, and they
apparently want to question them, Inspector Mayronne said. ''But as the
officers move forward, they hear what sounds like a gun hitting the ground. Now
a struggle ensues. The inspector and other officials said it was still not
clear what, if anything, the officers thought the two suspects, and the others
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who fled, might have been up to.
Patrol in Robbery Area
Officials said the struggle apparently began as the officers attempted to
take the two suspects from the car and handcuff them. They said that Officer
Ceccini told them he was struggling with one of the suspects when he heard a
shot and released the man to go to his partner's assistance.
'The officers were specifically patrolling an area of the 70th Precinct that
was designated as a robbery target area,'' Inspector Mayronne said, 'where
they've had a very heavy concentration of street robberies.'
Officer Machate and Officer Ceccini, who became partners eight months ago,
'were like brothers,' said their supervisor, Lieut. Raymond Powers, who spent
the night trying to console Officer Machate's 26-year-old widow, Grace Ann, and
other Family members at the slain officer's home on Banner Avenue in Sheepshead
Bay.
The lieutenant said he had put the two officers together in the Anti-Crime
Unit six months ago 'because they were such active cops, and I thought the
Brooklyn South Task Force was the best place to put them 50 they could get
quality arrests. And they had a lot, a lot.
The slain officer came, as Mayor Koch put it, from a strong civil service
family. His father, Robert Machate, is about to retire as a senior special
officer with the Human Resources Administration; a brother, Thomas Machate, 22,
a policeman since April 1987, is assigned to the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn
Heights; a stepbrother, Howard Figueroa, has been a correction officer on Rikers
Island for eight years; a grandfather, Robert Costello, retired in 1973 from the
60th Precinct in Coney Island after 23 years as a policeman, and an uncle, James
Rawleigh, is a retired policeman with the mounted unit.
Police records show that the slain officer had never been fired on before,
although suspects had pointed weapons at him at least twice.
Lieutenant Powers said Officer Machate, whom he described as
'well-thought-of, with a good sense of humor and an aggressive attitude toward
police work, had received commendations for incidents in April and July in
which he confiscated automatic and semi-automatic weapons from suspects without
firing a shot.
The lieutemant, groggy From nearly 36 hours without sleep, said Mrs. Machate
was still in shock when he left her.
'Last night she was numb, and I'm sure the grief will be setting in soon,'
he said. ''But she's a strong girl, and she's got a lot of family to help her
through.
Officials said a Funeral had been scheduled for 10:30 A.M. Tuesday at St.
Marks Roman Catholic Church at Avenue Z and Ocean Avenue in Sheepshead Bay. It
is the same church where Officer Machate and his wife were married in October
1985.
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The Police Department set up a hot line for callers to give any information
about the case. The number is (718) 287-0311.
GRAPHIC: Photos of Police officers searching bags of garbage for clues on East
23d Street near Newkirk Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn near where
Robert E. Machate, a plainclothes officer, was shot to death (NYT/John
Sotomayor) (pg. 29); Robert E. Machate, the first New York City police
officer to die in the line of duty this year (AP); map of an area in Brooklyn
indicating where the officer was shot (NYT) (pg. 31)
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(New York, New York)
For Immediate Release
March 9, 1989
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO DEA NEW YORK FIELD OFFICE
Drug Enforcement Administration Office
New York, New York
4:19 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. Thank you, Bob.
Bob Stutman, and to Commissioner, and I guess all are distinguished
guests. Secretary Bennett -- this is my man here on the left -- the
man that I have selected, and that the country, I think,
overwhelmingly approves to be the first drug czar in the history of
this country. I'm glad he came up here with me today. And to all of
the prosecutors, and especially each one of you out there on the
cutting edge, on the front line, thank you for being here. And you
have important work to do, and Bob gave you the time frame: short,
but to me, very important. I have a chance to say hello to Ms.
Hatcher. I wish the circumstances were different -- but also to
listen and learn -- when we finish here, listen to some of those who
are out there every single day risking their lives.
In the empty streets of an island borough, the life of
Everett Hatcher was ended with some cowardly -- four cowardly shots.
And the echoes of those four shots were heard in Washington, and I'd
say even more important, all across this country where decent men and
women share your sense of loss and share your sense of outrage.
Here in New York, as in other cities across the country,
the war is no metaphor. Before we could -- I say "we" as a country
-- bury Everett Hatcher last week another officer was gunned down,
felled by a single shot fired point blank beneath his bullet-proof
vest. And as we speak, those accused of ambushing Eddie Byrne, one
of New York's Finest, are standing trial in this city. And this week
the DEA group that helped handle security for Everett's funeral is in
yet another New York courtroom, testifying about the attempted murder
of Special Agent Bruce Traverse.
You know that my personal interest and the interest of
the nation goes beyond today's visit. As Vice President, I wrote to
Bruce Traverse while he was in the hosptial, and now, Bruce -- all of
us are glad that he's recovering so well. Last week, Matthew Byrne,
the dad to Eddie Byrne, came down to the White House for dinner with
Barbara and me, joining us for a private dinner there. He couldn't
believe he was in the White House, and I couldn't believe I was,
either -- (laughter) -- so we had a nice private dinner. But it was
important to me that he come. Earlier today, as I said, I had the
pleasure to -- privilege, put it that way -- of visiting with Mary
Jane, a woman of enormous dignity and strength. She and her two kids
and husband's mother and sisters.
And so it's been quite an education. And I understand, I
think, the special and dangerous challenges that all New York drug
enforcement officers face. This area leads the nation in overall
consumption, distribution, the importation of narcotics, run by a
well-armed cross-section of drug traffickers as diverse as this city
itself. Your role in this battle is very special. You put your life
on the line every day. And if the legions of state and local
patrolmen represent the infantrymen in this effort -- and I salute
them at every occasion -- then you are something like the Special
Forces, the Green Berets, if you will, of narcotics enforcement.
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Like Everett Hatcher, many of you have worked undercover,
in effect, operating, if you want to use the conventional war
analogy, behind enemy lines. And I admire your courage. When I was
a kid in World War II, I was behind enemy lines only briefly, sick
and paddling in a little raft to get away from a Japanese-held
island. But it was enough to know what it feels like -- and I'll
confess it -- to be scared, and each of you probably has been there.
You know the dry mouth and the moist palms, and the ball of ice that
grips your stomach.
And you know, it used to be unthinkable to shoot a cop.
And no longer -- Bob was telling me this upstairs -- no longer.
Today narcotics agents are sometimes the first ones shot, targeted by
criminals armed with a staggering array of battlefield weaponry. The
explosive, expensive lesson of the past year in New York is that the
rules of the game have dramatically changed.
Well, we've got to deliver some news to the bad guys.
The hunting season is over. The rules on our side have changed, too,
and we still need more change in those rules. But they're changing
fast, and it's about time.
The scales of justice are becoming more balanced because
of the newly-enacted federal drug laws. New York policemen and all
of you in this room deserve all the protection that tough laws can
offer. I've asked Bill Bennett to look into what can be done to
prevent these fully automatic assault weapons from falling into the
hands of the criminals that you face. Drug dealers need to
understand a simple fact -- you shoot a cop and you're going to be
life. severely punished fast. And if I had my way, I'd say with your
Drug traffickers used to know that, but it's been over 25
years since anyone has faced the death penalty in this state, and
they may have gotten a little forgetful. But I want you to know that
I have not changed my view. I strongly support the death penalty for
the crimes we're talking about here today. And I want to have it as
federal law, and I want to see it swiftly and firmly, fairly enacted.
(Applause.) The killing's got to stop.
I wish Senator D'Amato had come up with me today. He
couldn't leave the Senate, and it was legitimate Senate business.
He's been in the forefront though, down there, of the drug question.
A strong leader, a tough, no-nonsense fighter against drugs. And he
has been very helpful to me in having me understand the problems that
you face. I understand that this state is the home to an estimated
260,000 heroin addicts -- half of all those in the United States.
And in the city alone, another 600,000 people are believed dependent
on crack or cocaine.
And not surprisingly, the seizures that you've made are
correspondingly huge. DEA New York is responsible for 30 to 50
percent of all heroin seized by the DEA nationwide each year. And
last year, you seized more than 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in or
destined for New York, almost 20 percent of the entire DEA nationwide
total. In January, you recovered nearly $20 million from a furniture
store delivery van, said to be the largest cash seizure in the world.
And these impressive figures are a credit to your talent
and dedication and to the effective working relations you've forged
with your federal, state and local counterparts.
And still, we in Washington understand that the
importance of a case cannot be measured merely by the size of the
seizures or the numbers of arrests. Statistics in the drug war
become mind-numbing as well as mind-boggling. And wars aren't won by
statistics. We know wars are won by winning battles and, in this
war, battles are won by putting particular drug organizations out of
business. It's done the old-fashioned way, one group at a time.
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And you in New York have done just that. And the names
are as familiar to you here as the battlefields of World War II are
to my generation. United States versus Torres. Monsanto. LIDO.
Based Balls. Bob was explaining this to me just a minute ago. The
Flying Dragons. Lai King Man. Reiter-Jackson. These are more than
buy-busts, more than just another news conference with powder on the
table, no matter how impressive those conferences are. Each of these
cases represents an entire organization put behind bars, out of
business.
And most importantly, each of these cases involved
sophisticated, long-term investigations -- and several were among the
first cases in the entire country to make use of the new drug kingpin
statutes. Nearly all involved Task Force cooperation and the
pioneering use of forfeiture laws, in some cases to spectacular
effect: the forfeitures from the Torres brothers, I'm told, may
ultimately total $30 to $50 million.
And just as the death penalty for cop killers helps even
the odds, stripping the enemy of their ill-gotten gains turns the
tables in a dramatic and highly effective way. Perhaps you heard
Woody Allen's wry observation: "Organized crime in America takes in
over $40 billion a year and spends very little on office supplies."
Philosopher that he is.
Experts have estimated that today drugs alone count for
$110 billion. An industry right here in our own country. We're
hurting the drug kingpins where they live when we take their money
and we're going to get even better at taking it. We've got to be.
Ladies and gentlemen, we do intend to prevail. The scourge will end.
I will lead the fight. Bill Bennett, our nation's first drug czar --
tenacious, unafraid -- is going to be right there at my side.
And although we meet on a crucial battlefield of this
war, you might say, it is a war that is being waged on many fronts.
Last month, I spoke to Congress about four areas: rehabilitation,
education, interdiction, and enforcement. And in a time of budget
constraints -- and regrettably, we are living in such a time -- I
asked for an increase of $1 billion in budget outlays to fund these
new efforts.
And for you in federal law enforcement, our proposal
budgets a record $4.1 billion, fully 70 percent of the total. By
1995, we also intend to reduce present prison overcrowding by 50
percent.
And beyond enforcement, other monies will go to expanded
treatment for the innocent and the poor, like the over 5,000 babies
born in New York last year already addicted to drugs.
Other new funds will go to cut the waiting time for the
treatment programs, perhaps along the lines of the innovative oral
methadone program at New York's Beth Israel Hospital, designed to get
the addicts off the needles as well as heroin.
Mary Jane Hatcher spoke with eloquence last week about
the responsibility mainstream America and so-called "casual" cocaine
users must bear for the death of her husband. Well, $1.1 billion of
our request will go for prevention and education, to let the casual
users know the risk they take and the price they may have to pay, and
to tell our children that drugs are wrong.
While there may not be light at the end of the tunnel,
there does seem to be some light coming in under the door. At the
Apollo Theatre in Harlem one Wednesday last month, the amateur night
performances were interrupted by spontaneous antidrug messages from
the stage and then supportive chants from the crowd.
And things like this don't happen because of government
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programs. They happen because attitudes are beginning to change, and
they are changing -- because the American people are behind your
efforts all the way.
Attitudes are beginning to change overseas, as well.
Your boss, the Attorney General, returns today from meetings with
officials in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru. And Bill and I will meet
with him as soon as he gets back. I think we're having lunch
tomorrow at the White House to be briefed on this trip. And I know
that some of you have also served or will serve your own tours in
South America, a tribute to our increased cooperation there.
When I first became Vice President eight years ago,
several South American presidents told me, "It's your problem.
You're the consumer. If it weren't for the rich gringos to the
north, we wouldn't have the problem." But now they see that the
narcotics have affected their own kids, their own society. Look at
Colombia, where the Supreme Court justices were mowed down like
tenpins.
Obviously, the race is far from won. But there is power
in us yet. And we in Washington will continue to understand, to
learn -- but certainly to support your work here. The Adamita trial,
the Johnny Kon and Brooks Davis cases, the new seizure program in
which whole apartment buildings are wrested back from the crack lords
who control them -- they're all important to this fight.
But first and foremost, the killing must stop. And we
must repeat it until we're hoarse, repeat it until we're heard. From
the Apollo Theatre to the halls of Congress to anyone who doesn't
seem to understand what it is you are up against out there on the
street -- the killing must stop.
And what happened on the streets of Staten Island last
week was a horrible tragedy which means -- you knew it all along --
that you have an important task ahead.
The cowards who murdered Everett Hatcher should be given
no. rest. But be careful out there. Remember the tearful salute of
nine-year-old Zachery. And find these criminals. Bring them to
justice. Nobody -- nobody but nobody is going to beat the DEA.
May God bless you all, and thanks for what you're doing
for the United States. (Applause.)
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