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Ken Rodriguez: Hail to the chi
The troops are in high spirits. Two days after Assistant Police Chief Jerry Pittman announced his departure, a patrolman left a message on my answering machine:
"Over here at the substation, we're doing back flips in the parking lot."
A traffic cop wrote: "I am one of those officers who cheered in the streets when this story broke."
Then there was this from a detective: "Morale in the SAPD has never been better and it's all thanks to the new chief."
Bill McManus, take a bow. Your troops are drunk with joy.
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Boston Herald - United States
08 November 2007
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Boston PD bombshell: Cops ID’d
The federal trial of a rogue motorcycle cop threatens to blow the lid off alleged widespread corruption within the Boston Police Department as a key witness drops daily bombshells implicating unindicted officers allegedly involved in illicit drug use, identity fraud and wild sex romps.
Roberto “Kiko” Pulido, 42, an 11-year veteran of the force, is on the hot seat in U.S. District Court charged with attempted possession and conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He and two other officers, Nelson Carrasquillo and Carlos Pizarro - both of whom have since pleaded guilty to like offenses - were busted by the FBI last year after they agreed to provide a truckload of cocaine safe passage to Boston from the state’s western border.
A seemingly troubled police Commissioner Edward M. Davis explained yesterday his internal affairs investigators can’t move against cops identified in court as potentially tainted until the conclusion of Pulido’s trial.
“We are privy to all the information that prosecutors are working with in the trial, and we are constantly balancing what we hear in court with what the evidence has proven,” Davis said during an interview at police headquarters.
“Some of this stuff,” he said of the bombshells, “might be the rantings of (informants) who may or may not be telling the truth.”
But City Councilor Stephen J. Murphy, chairman of the Public Safety Committee, said he’s troubled by the “scope and weight of the police misconduct that is being revealed in the courtroom.”
“We need to be vigilant to work with police officials to see how to prevent and root out any police officers not performing their duties,” Murphy said.
Among other egregious betrayals of his badge, Pulido is alleged to have misused this department’s access to Registry of Motor Vehicle records in order to steal critical information about motorists he would sell to identity thieves for department store gift cards worth thousands of dollars.
Yesterday, assistant U.S. Attorney John McNeil played for jurors a phone call Pulido allegedly placed April 23, 2006, to a BPD officer identified in court as Carl Shorter, asking Shorter to get the “name and address” off a couple of license plates for him.
According to the testimony of FBI Special Agent Kevin Constantine, Pulido made the call while waiting for undercover feds he thought were drug dealers to meet him in Jamaica Plain. Pulido, Constantine said, was paid $20,000 to provide protection for the transport of 40 kilos of coke.
Shorter could not be reached yesterday and it is unclear whether he thought Pulido was legitimately doing police work.
Prosecutors also played for the jury a tape allegedly recorded at 6:45 p.m. on March 1, 2006, of Pulido talking on the phone about a shipment of steroids and the best ways to inject them with then-officer Edgardo Rodriguez, 38.
“I’m waiting for my (expletive deleted),” an agitated-sounding Rodriguez presses Pulido.
Rodriguez was suspended without pay by the department in January after he was indicted on federal charges of steroid possession and distribution, perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the unfolding scandal. He is scheduled to go to trial next year.
Constantine testified Tuesday that Pulido told an informant that Sgt. Mark Vickers ran gaming parties. Vickers vigorously denied the accusation to the Herald.
Constantine also testified that patrolman Gerrard Lett “held after-hours parties in competition with Mr. Pulido.” Attempts to reach Lett have been unsuccessful.
Boston attorney Thomas Drechsler, who has defended police officers against charges of misconduct in the past, cautioned against jumping to conclusions.
“The fact that someone’s name is mentioned in the courtroom does not mean the person has committed the offenses described,” Drechsler said. “It may well be that this is just nothing more than rumors and casual references.”
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