Word: velez
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...papers are false. Back in New York, the police check out a dozen possible Frankies and are convinced their man is Frankie Segarra, a small-time pusher. Other officers trace a dog-vaccination certificate that they found in the Plymouth to the girl friend of a Luis Serrano Velez. They think he is the triggerman. Her address lists the wrong street, but police check 507 East on every street in the area until they find her apartment at 507 East 13th Street. The police get a search warrant from a judge...
...room, identifies himself, then breaks in when he hears sounds of the door's apparently being barricaded. Segarra, 24, dressed in his underwear, is there with his wife and three-year-old son. He spread-eagles himself on the bed and surrenders. He says that he last saw Velez, the suspected killer, at an apartment on Clinton Street. Thirty-five officers go there...
...Before dawn, officers clear everyone from the apartments above, below and next to the watched apartment. Wearing armored vests because they have word that Velez may be armed with a grenade as well as a gun, they force their way in. All they find is a swarm of cockroaches. They issue a formal alarm for the arrest of Velez...
...everyone else on the force has it in mind. "There are 30,000 cops looking for that guy," says Averill. The dragnet has turned up unanticipated side benefits. The bank-robbery evidence has led to the tagging of two more men-already jailed on different offenses-as accomplices of Velez, Segarra and Car Owner Hernandez (who is wanted for allegedly taking part in the bank jobs). Raids based on tips about the suspects in the cop-killing cases have also uncovered various small caches of narcotics and $8,000 in cash, and led to the arrest of a parole violator...