Word: deluca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually hung out with friends at the housing project. One night last October, police arrested him for drunk and disorderly conduct (he threw a brick through a store front window) and for assaulting a police officer. According to several eyewitnesses, Largey was beaten by the arresting officer. Peter DeLuca, inside the police paddywagon. DeLuca claimed he hit Largey several times but only in self defense...
Largey's death ushered in a wave of violence in the Roosevelt Towers area. For four successive nights teenage kids rampaged, breaking windows and setting fires, demanding that DeLuca be indicted for murder. DeLuca went on a voluntary leave of absence without pay from the police department...
Liacos released his findings in November, criticizing police department procedures for handling arrests and finding that DeLuca and three other officers, Rudolph Carbone, Robert Mills and Anthony J. Temmallo, acted improperly with regard to Largey's arrest. He recommended the City take disciplinary action against the four policemen...
...grand jury that investigated the death in February decided not to hand down any indictments against any police officers. Since DeLuca's leave of absence was voluntary, he returned to active duty in March...
Corcoran recently called the City's failure to wind up the Largey case the "biggest disappointment" of his last year in office. Cambridge's Assistant City Solicitor, Russell Higley, said recently that the City is "still working hard" on DeLuca's case and that the case should come up to trial in October...