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Boston Herald - United States
12 December 2007
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Corrupt BPD cop sentenced to 1
The first of three bad-egg Boston cops to plead guilty to drug charges will spend the next 13 years in federal prison for betraying his badge and brethren.
Carlos Pizarro, a married 38-year-old father of two children ages 10 and 6, apologized in a barely audible voice this afternoon in U.S. District Court.
Addressing his former “family” of officers, Pizarro said he was sorry “for the embarrassment and shame I brought, but more so to the individuals that I had the pleasure of working with. I understand in this society that all good deeds are eclipsed by one bad one.”
Judge William G. Young had harsh words for the ex-cop.
“This case is a horrific example of the faithlessness of a sworn oath,” Young said staring Pizarro in the eye. “You’re not worthy of being called a Boston police officer. Those good men and women who daily put their lives on the line for the peace of this community you betrayed far more than any other portion of society.”
Pizarro’s co-defendants, fellow corrupt cops Nelson Carrasquillo, 36, and Roberto “Kiko” Pulido, 42, who also pled guilty to drug charges, are scheduled to be sentenced early next year.
The trio were arrested in Miami on July 20, 2006, while trying to collect payment for a drug-protection job they’d done - unaware they were dealing with undercover federal agents.
Prosecutors have alleged they also ran a strip club and brothel for police called the “Boom-Boom Room.”
Pizarro pled guilty to possession of with intent to distribute cocaine.
Pizarro declined to speak to a reporter after the hearing. His relatives wept and hugged each other as his punishment was handed down.
Assistant U.S. District Attorney John T. McNeill asked Young to send a message not only to Pizarro but to the city of Boston “to start to bring back the trust in the Boston police department.”
McNeill called Pizarro “among the worst kind of offenders we have in the system.”
In a last-ditch pitch for sympathy, Pizarro submitted a pre-sentencing memorandum to Young “unequivocally” accepting responsibility for his criminal conduct, calling it “the worst choice he has ever made.”
In attempting to explain why he “turned away from a job he loved,” the former patrolman of 10 years also apologized to the Boston Police Department, his family “and to society.”
Pizarro, a native of Puerto Rico, claimed in his report he was in “financial ruin” in early 2006 because of construction delays on a property he’d bought in South Boston in the hope of converting it to condos he could sell and a knee he’d damaged “apprehending an armed suspect” that landed him on injury leave.
“‘By the end of April (2006),” Pizarro told the court in his report, “I had lost an estimated $240,000 and my total income was $252 per week.”
A bittersweet letter penned to Young by Pizarro’s 10-year-old daughter Lauren, asking for the court’s mercy, stated: “I know my dad did something he shouldn’t have and I know he needs to pay for what he has done. If you could please be lenient when you sentence my dad to his time he needs to serve. We need him home.”
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