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Superintendent William G. Connelie

Annual Report NEW YORK STATE POLICE For the Year 1980 NCJRS

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COVER Tpr. T. B. Howard prevetlts a rifle-toting RU$sian ',iatilion competitor from entering Olympic Village. This photo by Ron Kuntz of UP. appeared itl newspapers around the world. Olympic story, more photos itlside.

A frigh tened puppy is com­ forted by a station commander at a Liberty apaytment llouse fire scene. Middletown Times Herald·Record p,,"oto by Chuck Fadely. Governor Hugh L. Carey

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1980 and inspection infractions, an increase of 45,000 arrests was scored.

Fatal accidents investigated by Reviewing troopers rose from 477 to 495.

the 63rd Year '" * '" Highlights of 1980: DUring 1980, Stllte Police ar­ rests increased a dramatic 9.6 percent • The Division of State Police re­ to 723,737, Up from the 660,162 re­ ceived unprecedented worldwide plau­ corded in 1979. ThfJ total number of dits for its performance at the Feb. 13- offenses known or reported increased 24 winter Olympics at Lake Placid. Two 9.1 percent, from 772,758 to 843,154. years of planning for public safety and security and the protection of all ath­ Greeting Ilisitors outside ti,e State Police exhibi ...... , The Division's traffic arrests of letes paid off doubly when shuttle bus from left, Major George J. Dana of Troop D Pir:t ~a a~ tile ita;e Fair in. Syracuse are, 6'74,945 constituted an upward trend operations broke down and troopers Supt. Jerome J. McNulty, Superintendent Con l' p, d upt. 0 ert D. Qurck, Asst. Dep. charge of tile exhibit. ne re, an Lt. Bruce M. Arnold, who had from the 613,473 last year, and ac­ assumed a leadership role in comfort­ counted for the bulk of total arrest ing and mollifying stranded and frozen increases. multitudes. • Troop Lon i.ong Island, the first ~onal laboratory was opened in 1978 new State Police troop in 12 years was m Newburgh. While speeding arrests stayed • During a year in which seven established on Jan. 1, 1980 as part of about the same with 266,563 sum­ members lost their lives, Inv. Robert 1. a "Parkway Bill" which called for the monses issued, troopers pulled 14,593 Van Hall was shot during a drug investi­ absorption of the Long Island State • Governor Carey applauded the drinking drivers off the state's high­ gation Dec. 5, marking the Division's Parkway System and three smaller Division's contribution to the success ways, a substantial gain over the first death by gunfire sin ce 1975 when parkways with a total lengel of more of t~e 1980 winter Olympics in pre" 12,497 arrested in 1979. In the area Tpr. William V. McDonagh was killed. than 200 miles. As Part of a smooth senting a unit citation of excellence of nonhazardous violations, which The investigator's slayer was quickly transition, 193 parkway officers be­ while addressing 144 new troopers came troopers. at March graduation ceremonies in range from faulty mufflers to license caught. Albany. • The shooting of a trooper Whose ~ersonal body armor possibly saved his • A hospital-to-hospital airlift pro- life led to swift action by the Legisla" tU,re and Governor Carey in appropri­ atmg $600,000 for Division-issue soft body armor for all members. Purchase and distribution were expected to be completed by Spring.

\ • A State Police regional crime lab outside Binghamton was opened in :i early 1980 to serve the Southern Tier :,. J counties as the latest expansion of •. ',' " h 'j' " t ...' : ''lie:'' : .. (-: J" " -;' ; " '~, :,t" •• ·~:JW,·.. ~ State Police Laboratory services. The - ...... ,lI'_~_~.a., ... _~--. ••I!"__ ,_,~!.,~.western New York was under con­ Governor Carey greets Lt. Edward Vander­ symbolizing the transfer of parkway policing duties to State Police. Photo by ThrJ Daily sideration at year's end. The first re- wall at the St. Patrick's parade in NYC News. Photo 'by Bob Miazga. •

-2- -3- in the hands of 30,000 municipal offi­ cers by Spring, 1982. • The growing problem of child abuse and neglect in the state was addressed when the Superintendent • A Crime Prevention Program, car­ initiated an instructor development ried on by a designated trooper in each program in June aimed at training all troop who attempts to resi­ instruc~ Division members in correct investiga­ dents, bUSinesspersons, and community Sigtling in at an open Iiouse at tive and prosecutive steps to be taken the new Ray Brook headquar­ groups on how best to combat such in such cases. ters of Troop B are, from left, crimes as burglary and shoplifting, Chief Insp. Donald G. Bran­ picked up steam dUring 1980 and plans • The BCI had its first woman in­ don, Dep. Supt. Daniel A. are to expand the program during the Dakin, Asst. Dep. Supt. Jerome vestigator when Carol J. Johnson was coming years. J. McNulty, and Dep. Stlpt. promoted to that position in July. She Warretl B. Surdam. was among the initial contingent of • The State Police Summer Pro­ women hired in 1974 and is the second gram for disadvantaged boys completed to rise above trooper level. its fifth year by hosting 175 youngsters 9-12 during 1980. This program, ini­ '" '" tiated by the Superintendent, offers '" The cOllviction rate for cases deselving youngsters one-week educa­ gram ("MEDEVAC") utilizing the Di­ • Having outgrown the existing adjudicated from State Police arrests tional vacations at the Academy. vision Aviation Unit was initiated dur­ computer system, plans were underway was 84 percent, a one percent drop ing 1980 in saving several lives, with ex­ at year's end to convert to a new sys­ from 1979 but still testimony to the pansion eyed during coming years. tem with greater capabilities and speed • The opening of five additional high quality of arrests made by Divi­ State. Police satellite offices brought by late 1981, a move that will affect sion personnel. Convictions were ob­ • Following completion of the in-house applications as well as the 740 the statewide total to 65 in a program tained in 553,927 cases. 1980 winter games, the Olympic Com­ law enforcement agencies linked by the begun in 1974. These offices improve response time, keep patrols on as­ mand and Control Center at Ray Brook State Police-operated NYSPIN net­ Fines, fees and the value of re­ signed posts, conserve energy by officially became headquarters of work. covered propert" and the proceeds eliminating the need to transport Troop B. Malone, which had served from the sale of used equipmcI1t prisoners and complainants to and as troop headquarters for 40 years, • Under a law effective Sept. 1, the totaled $18,656,661, a marked jump from control stations and improve reverted to a 24-hour station. Division became the central registry r from the $17,427,854 registered in communications and coordination be­ for firearms and machine guns owned 1979. Division "ehicles traveled • Tpr. Rob(~d A. Story, one of by law ~nforcement personnel and tween State Police, the public, and local police. 58,224,063 miles, about three million three winners of the Brummer Award, agencies. By year's end, 289 agencies miles more than the previous year.• the highest State Police honor for brav­ pmploying 10,211 officers had regi­ ery, became the first Division member stered weapons with Central Records; to receive the Carnegie Hero Medal, firearms owned by State Police per­ the nation's highest award for non-war sonnel were already on file. related heroism. He also won the 1980 Medal of Honor of the New York State • A beefed-up fleet maintenance Chiefs of Police Association. program began to show substantial savings as most repairs and maintenance • Preparation was underway at of Division vehicles, previously con­ year's end for the first recruit class in signed to private shops, were made at ..... \ Division. history to come under federal troop garages by civilian employees hiring guidelines. A class of 185 starting the second half of the year. scheduled to begin training in Febru­ ary, 1981, will adhere to U.S. District • A special State Police team has Court quotas of 40 percent minorities TU10 troopers stand atop a Christmas card sigtled by 10,000 residetlts of a MaMachllsetts undertaken publication of the fourth town after they caugllt the accilsed killers of a town policeman. Utica Dally Press photo by and 10 percent females established edition of the Manual for Police and George Widman. following a lengthy court case. expects to have the voluminous tome -5- -4- r""'·-''':::~'"'''''':''''~'-''''l.\'''''''''--,,*,'*''m*~__ %'''''$I_1i!@", Ii!!! PER S PRESENCE TRAPS THE REAL KILLER ii!i! Ii!!! The presence of an off-duty troo !!i!! :i:!: from being held as a kill per prevented the wrong man :!:!: !!iii a restaurant parking lote~ e~~ar Rochester. A shooting of two persons at iii!! iiiii on-scene investigation a lu one mortally wounded. When during the iiiii .... . XUl"Y car pulled 'th' ... iii!! sIde, witnesses pointed to the up WI a father and son in- !!iii i!!!! But th~ trooper demurred. AI~~~~~er m~n an~ shouted, "that's him!" iii!! !n were alike, the late arrival had an g rt~~.et; facIal a~d physical features iiii! :::!: trooper was certain the gunw'le ld a 1 ICIal arm WIth a hook, and the :i:!: I); proved him correcl' the murd er was .not an amputee. Investigation iii!: '.':' id t' 1 ' erer was lus brothe d h .:.;. Ii< en lca. The arrival of the . . . r, an t eir cars were :? ::.:;.>...... paIr was sheer COlllcldence ::::

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-6- -7- Speed Enforcement Task Force. The carrier's liquid cargo had a flash point and hip. A fourth shot was caught of 80 degrees and if exploded had the about mid-section in the trooper's force of 83,000 sticks of TNT. It took self-purchased soft body armor, proba­ hours to extinguish the blaze, and the bly saving his life. The trooper man­ heroic trooper was honored at a com­ aged to empty his service revolver and a blast from the shotgun as the An accused rapist is led to his munity dinner. arraignment. Poughkeepsie pair left their stolen car and bar­ Journal photo by Robert. V. Two troopers having knowledge relJed off in the trooper's unmarked Niles. of specialized life-saving techniques troop car. They were captured soon were at the right place at the right after they abandoned the bUlJet­ time. One was on meal break from scarred car and bought bus tickets to patrol when a woman in a Warsaw New York City. The trooper inter­ diner began to gasp and choke. The rupted his hospital recuperation to trooper applied the Heimlich Method visit the Legislature a week later, and to dislodge a piece of turkey from her his testimony spurred a $600,000 windpipe, restoring lJer breathing. A appropriation for vests for all Divi­ sion members. Delivery is expected Capital District trooper stopped for an by Spring. grabbed his son and swam to shore, ted--tackled him and smothered the interview at a teen disco just as a young but his wife was left trapped. The flames with a blanket in time to save dancer collapsed. The trooper began CPR treatment which was continued An assault of a different nature troopers improvised a pulley system him. took place in the North Country in with ropes and worked to and from in the am bulance. The girl, who wore a pacemaker, remained clinically dead the aftennath of the early-morning the car 75 feet from shore while tossed Two troopers and a village expUlsion of a bar patron who had about by surging waters and threaten­ patrolman three times braved a blaze for three hours before responding, and doctors credited the trooper with thrown an ashtray at a waitress who ed by floating debris. The rescue, about to engulf a Monroe three-story refused to serve him. When a patrol structure. First they kicked in the saving her life. which required more than an hour, arrived to arrest the customer, a ended with the mother safe and both front door to rescue an elderly second­ surly crowd of 20 began to punch troopers hospitalized for exposure, floor occupant, then they ran to the * * ... and kick the troopers, and reinforce­ cuts, and bruises. other side of the building to rouse The workaday world of the ments were required. An all-out brawl some sleeping tenants, and finally they that ended in numerous arrests sent A reported brush fire opposite ignored flames on the top st~ry to trooper is fraught with unexpected danger. One Orange County trooper five troopers and three prisoners to an Ellenville shopping mall turned lift an invalid into an electncally­ a hospital emergency room. out to be a car engulfed in fla.mes. operated chair and guide her. to on stopping a speeder noticed a loaded, Two troopers managed to extncate safety. Two other troopers were sld~­ sawed-off shotgun under the front seat which he seized and ordered the Serving a warrant can trigger the trapped driver seconds before the tracked from another assignment m unexpected responses from the wanted vehicle exploded, and while one Oswego County to fight through dense two occupants out. Moments later, one opened fire with a revolver, stri­ person. That's what a trooper and in­ called for an ambulance, the other ex­ smoke and flames to save four sleep­ vestigator discovered near Rochester ,king the trooper in the shOUlder, arm, tinguished the woman's burning clothes ing house occupants. Troopers at When they were set upon and seriously in the nick of time. In the North Fishkill were likewise confronted by Country, an operator p~ned in his scorching heat and thick smoke, but foreign compact car while the ~p­ managed to extricate two elderly r':"'K":;Y~~~:::::::=::':::~~:::'::'::""""~"M<'1 \ tured gas tank in front spurted gasoline women, one of whom was disabled, over his helpless form was pulled aw~y before their home was devastated by by troopers and other r~,scuers . m flames. i.l! what was described as an explOSive ~::r:i:~~~¥{t{~~~::::::::~~~~:~:. ;n~fe~::l~~r:: I .;'.:.!..,: which he asked that the word be written out. When one .uspect made environment." A Thruway trooper The nervewracking job of secur­ ~ coming upon a human torch--.a ing an area from traffic after a tanker ":'., thesalaciousness. identical elTo", found on the note, he was trapped by his illiterate 1....1).: ..1/ ..: motorist who had crawled under hlS carrying hazardous material caught ~ 0 car to repair a gas leak which igni- fire fell to a trooper assigned to the /:;:::::;:;:;:;:::;:::::;:;:;:;:::;.;:;:;:::;:::;:;::::;:::::::;:;:;:;:;:::;.::::;:::;:::;:;::;;:;:::;:::;:::::;:;:;:::;:;:::::::::}::;;:;;;::;::;:':;;;:::;::;:::::::::;:::;:;;}:;:::::::::;:::;:::::;:;:;::;;:::;::::::;::}:::;:::::;:;:::::;:;::::;::::;;;:::::::::;;;:;::::;:;::::::;::::;:::::&

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Motorists who refuse to heed .~ .;iJ orders to stop frequently engage in ~;'r" ..-:- ,~ speed contests with troopers in hot t~~~ J.... pursuit. These danger-filled highway ,~ jousts are literally and figuratively laden with treacherous turns. Two Central New York radarrnen stopped a speeder who emerged from his car just long enough to assault the troopers and jump back in. Multiple police agencies were required to capture the brown belt karate expert, but not until he had crashed a wooden Thru­ way barricade which struck a toll collector with such force it permanently Sta~ Police and Fulton Co~nty officials. haul a cacllf~ of stoletl goods stored in a barn fol­ lowmg the arrest of six th,eves respons,ble for 100 burglaries. Gloversville Leader-Herald blinded him in one eye, then aban­ photo by Harold Laird. doned. his car, assailed an elderly couple and stole their car, attempted port an~a, a three-county pursuit after officer who had pulled their van over. to switch cars again outside a bank A trooper carne to the officer's aid, only to be rebuffed by a wildly scream­ a car had been forced off the road ended in 16 charges and the forth­ probably saving his life, and shots ing woman, and finally was captured Two Southern Tier troopers check out a right comment from the driver: continued to fly until the bullet­ in the stolen vehicle. In western New hunter's kill on the first day of deer season. "Would you stop if you had $300 riddled van took off. One robber York, a wild 100-mile-per-hour chase Cortland Standa:cd photo by Bob Dann. worth of illegal fireworks and a bag jumped out, commandeered another along the Thruway involving another of marijuana in your car?" A Troop L car at gunpoint, and fled in the op­ injured. Over 100 assorted law en­ speeder who wouldn't stop ended trooper learned via radio that the car posite direction. One chase ended at forcement officers surrounded woods with a crash in the center mall. The he was chasing at 100 miles-per-hour a roadblock when the van smashed and after two hours flushed out the trooper handcuffed his prisoners who had been stolen in Nassau County. The into a private car and became air­ attacker, with a canine required to were making suspicious movements, pursuit ended when the car struck a borne. Two of the robbers inside had unearth his weapon. and after help arrived it was deter­ tree, but the two occupants ran off been seriously injured by gunshot mined that not only was their car and had to be fought and handcuffed. wounds. The other pursuit also ended Being called upon to intercede catrying illicit drugs and paraphernalia, The trooper suffered a hand sprain. in a crash during which bullets flew. in a family dispute is considered by but they were sought in various states Ironically, the pair had left a court­ All four had lengthy crime records police officers around the country as including Massachusetts where they room 20 minutes earlier; one had been including bank robberies in three potentially the most explosive and had murdered a druggist. In the Brock- paroled and the other was on proba­ states and attempts on the lives of danger-laden of assignments. A mother tion. several law enforcement officers. Three told a Kingston sergeant that she had high schoolers botched a bank job in SPLIT DECISION left home with her younger children Robbers, being armed and des­ Delaware County, making their ap­ A powerful downstate fearing that her combative 20-year­ perate, place themselves and their prehension simple in contrast. Not chain smoker took instant re­ old son had a gun. The man in gray hunters on perilous ground. The only was their getaway car identified , venge against a faulty cigarette and a local officer were met at the wildest of robbery escapades, described by a passerby, but in their eagerness door by the young man brandishing machine by tossing it down a by a Troop K captain as "an action­ to flee they overturned on a country flight of stairs. Troopers took a knife, threatening to kill both. He packed chase and shootout that resem­ road. Two were picked up while hitch­ dropped the weapon ordered, but him before a magistrate who as bled a Clint Eastwood movie," began hiking, and their girl companion was ruade a Solomon-like judgment: as the two rushed him, he pulled a 'with the afternoon stickup of a Con­ captured after she buried their ski handgun from his pocket and jerked restitution of the $400 machine necticut bank by four bandits. The masks and the $4,600 they had stuffed the trigger four times; luckily the wea­ was ordered, but the weight­ crash-filled chase into New York cul­ into a pillowcase. Among the many pon malfunctioned. In the ensuing lifter was awarded one pack of minated with a shootout with a local other robbers captured during 1980 struggle, however,. the sergeant suf­ cigarettes. fered a shoulder injury. -11- -10- .' -

tempting to talk a mentally-disturbed man into surrendering after he had threatened his family with a gun and were these: A driver who calmly told barricaded himself inside his house. a central New York trooper that he When they finally succeeded in taking had cut his hand while stabbing a car him into custody without harm, they owner seven times and leaving him were startled to learn he was totally for dead before stealing his vehicle. deaf and hadn't heard their pleas. A An armed purse snatcher who grabbed toll collector notified a trooper a his objective from a car and then man had climbed a retaining fence pushed the woman to the ground in leading to the Niagara River. The Goshen, only to be picked up within .trooper found him sitting on a steel hours because he had tackled an ex­ girder overlooking the river, and it perienced victim; she had been simi­ was only after a lengthy exhortation larly attacked four years earlier and that the despondent man consented knew just what information police to join the trooper in the troop car. It would need, including the license took three hours of negotiations for plate number. A Buffalo jewelry store troopers to convince a Sodus Point man robber who fled after scooping up dia­ to emerge from a coop atop a hotel monds and was captured after a bullet­ where he had locked himself with a punctuated car and foot chase by two shotgun. In the Troop D area, a phone troopers. Two brazen robbers who in call described a disturbed man bent broad daylight bumped a car, then on self-destruction and determined to Lt. nov. Mario Cuomo greets a Troo" K take along anyone who tried to stop stopped it and at knife point took the TU10 timber li10lf pups, un endangered and horseman at the Dutchess County Fair. driver's purse an d a box of jewelry, only valuable species, are held by a trooper fol­ him. Four shotgun blasts and a muzzle to be apprehended minutes later be­ lowing the arrest of two thieves who took flash revealed his location, and the water, and the trucker stopped in cause a group of teen-agers who wit­ them from a Lake Placid game farm. man was subdued by troopers and com­ Central ~Tew York whose blood­ nessed the robbery took down the mitted for a mental examination. At spattered cab gave mute evidence he license number and imrn'ediately no­ but he flied a multi-million dollar the tail end of a dispute, one family had killed the owner and dumped his member held a cocked rifle to his tified troopers. suit against the state for allowing deer body along the way. to mn over his pfC'perty. Troopers temple. In the moonlight, a trooper Dealing with murderers tests the at Bath searching for a housewife miss­ talked to him for two hours, and Faced with a potential SUicide, mettle of troopers. A report near mid~ ing for two days found her body when finally his arm became tired , the a trooper must summon not only night of a man firing a gun at a hotel buried in a grove of pine trees on 28 weapon was snatched away by the courage, but patience and ingenuity parking lot near Unadilla brought in acres of family land. Three days later, man in gray. Rapid first aid applied in an attempt to save a life. New troopers. On collaring the gunwielder, her 16-year-old son was arrested as by two troopers saved a Thruway Hartford troopers spent a half h.our at- he repeated, "I did it, I did it." What he walked out of woods; he had slain patron who had slashed her wrists. he did was to shoot three persons, his mother with a gun and buried her. all of whom died of their wounds. Other killers to be confronted by He had been drinking and playing cards troopers include the troublesome rest­ all day, and the taunts of his victims aurant patron outside Syracuse who drove him to get a weapon and to re­ was wanted in West Virginia for blud­ \ turn to commit triple murder. After geoning his wife with a sledgehammer, the shootings, he had a drink at the the estranged hubby who put a deer hotel bar and calmly awaited the ar­ slug through his wife's boyfriend out­ rival of troopers. The same unruffled side a grocery store and then asked demeanor was evidenced by a self­ troopers to be allowed to pick up his styled Chautauqua County cult leader prepacked suitcase for his stay at jail, who unhesitatingly shot and killed a the 20 year old in Middletown who hunter trespassing on his posted land. had murdered his 14-year-old sister Not only was he without emotion in and dumped her nude body into a -13- admitting the killing to troopers, manmade well containing 12 feet of

-12- GETAWAY CARS UNDID THESE TWO ROBBERS For sheer ineptitude by bank robbers, these two 1980 cases are hard to beat: After pulIing a $1,000 stickup of a Newburgh bank, the bandit rushed home to stash the money, then took the car to a gas sta­ ~ ::,' .:J.~~~ ~ ,~ ~ :.:..----. ,.. tion a few blocks from the bank because a trooper had ticketed him three days earlier for failure to have it inspected. Given a description of the robber and his car, the same trooper found the still-uninspected car conveniently waiting its tum outside the gas station. An arrest was made 35 minutes after the heist. Another bungling bandit successfully got out of a North Country bank with $] 4,000 after brandishing a sawed-off shotgun, but his car wouldn't start. The robber knew he had a bad battery, but instead of replacing it he'd purchased a set of jumper cables. A good Samaritan gave him a jump, and moments later fur­ nished troopers with a perfect description, sealing the culprit's fate.

Two troopers look over a damaged platte following a forced landing. Schenectady Gazette photo by Sid Brown. whose inquiry determined she was out while parked over the crest of a hill, But nothing could prevent the suicide. physician contacted State Police be­ on bail after having beaten her little their truck was struck from behind. of another Thruway driver: while cause he suspected parental abuse. daughter to death. The bovine mooed to safety and the motoring along, he discharged a shot­ The mother's boyfriend claimed she'd rustlers headed for the calaboose. A gun blast into his open mouth. His fallen. But the mother described re­ When burglars are caught by Troop C trooper tricked a slow-witted instant death caused an accident and curring bruises while she was at work troopers, it usually turns out they are burglary suspect by telling him his a complex investigation. But the most and he baby-sat. He then admitted habitual thieves whose vocation has prints were found at several locations. involved and lengthiest suicide investi­ "disciplining" the girl, and when she finally caught up with them. In one He quickly responded, "that can't gation revolved around a l3-month succumbed, the initial assault charge such case, an electronic intrusion de­ be true, I always wore gloves." search for a St. Regis Falls man who was upgraded to first degree murder. vice coupled with an audible alarm disappeared leaving behind two letters When a baby with a broken leg was caused four intruders to flee near Arsonists can wreak havoc and stating he would end his life and whose brought to a hospital, suspicious Brewster, dropping a pillowcase full create difficulties for troopers. One car was found in woods with notepad authorities contacted troopers who of loot. A caretaker spotted them and western New York youngster alerted scratchings of "pills, sleeping bag, were told by the father that the tot their unfamiliar car 15 miles away his sleeping family that their house wine, drop cloth." The determined had been assaulted while he was help­ later that day, and a call to troopers was on fire. The damage was minor search did not end until a hunter no­ ing a motorist with car trouble. A quickly led to a roundup. All were and the blaze was quickly contained. tified State Police of finding a skull, polygraph examination at WilIiamson drug users who had committed dozens After the family settled down to and nearby a sleeping bag filled with indicated deception, and he then con­ of thefts and had tossed unwanted sleep again, a second fire broke out bones and an empty bottle bearing fessed that when the baby wouldn't goods into a reservoir. Dredged up by and the youth again heroically led a chlorofonn label. A dental check stop crying he started to punch it. State Police divers, these included his family to safety. This time the confinned the skull was that of the Also in the Troop E area, a four-year­ priceless gems the thieves thought raised ranch house was destroyed. missing man. old girl, apparently the victim of were imitation. Troopers in the Fin­ Only after a lengthy investigation was \ sexual abuse, refused to talk to investi­ ger Lakes region searched for a Georgia it determined that the youth had set A special training program to sen­ gating officers. An imaginative trooper­ van used in numerous burglaries. They both fires, possibly to cover up his sitize all Division personnel to the investigator team came up with a rag­ found it, with two juveniles in front. larceny of cash from his grandmother. mounting problem of child abuse and gedy-ann doll and convinced the child The ringleader, their father, was hiding A rash of fires in a three-mile radius neglect was initiated by the Superin­ to tell her story. She did, and a 31- under a stack of mattresses in back, near Utica initiated a joint uniform­ tendent. In one brutal case, a two-year­ year-old pervert was soon in custody. armed with four shotguns, two loaded. BCI investigation which led to four old Catskill girl with severe injuries-­ In Central New York, an unlicensed Some inveterate cattle rustlers met the persons who had set seven fires. Across bleeding behind the eyes and multiple operator who refused to dim her head­ good cowboys unexpectedly by moon­ the county line, troopers caught up bruises--was hospitalized and her lights bit and kicked arresting troopers, light when, in trying to load a cow with a youth who burned down a

-14- -15- her and tortured her with matches render. A violent Ulster County resi­ established at fire companies and and a leather belt. A trooper made a dent grabbed his 12-year-old brother quick arrest. One night a Painted Post police stations. Troopers were as­ and held a knife to his throat, moving youth forced his way into his neigh­ signed to strategic intersections. All from room to room in his house. The bor's house, dragged the 28-year-old store owners were advised by troopers knifewielder, intent on suicide, injected housewife into nearby Woods and that alarm wires were ineffective and himself with insulin meant for his sexually assaulted her. His arrest security precautions were imperative. diabetic father. When that didn't work, Portable radios were brought to area concluded his history of assaults. he bartered for two hours, finally troopers. Within 24 hours, service trading his brother for a bottle of was restored without a single felonious Sudden emergencies which engulf insulin, which troopers filled with act reported. an area can test a trooper's resource­ water. After the hostage was released, fulness and stamina. While investiga­ officers stormed the house, and rushed ting a two-car accident near Syracuse, Perhaps the most time-consuming the offender to a hospital for treat­ and nervewracking detail of the year a man in gray found himself standing ment and then to a mental institution. in a sudden avalanche of snow that was one which forced the entire Troop An escapee from Essex County Jail is recap­ turned visibility to zero. Within B into overtime status. In June, a large Arrests for sexual crimes take tured. Valley News photo by M. B. Allen. minutes, 32 assorted vehicles including contingent manning a roadblock was many guises. Probably the most seri­ established outside the St. Regis 15 trucks and tractor-trailers had ous attack took place in Wallkill where collided resulting in extraordinary Mohawk Reservation where an ongoing drive-in movie screen. His only identi­ an 87-year-old woman, awaking to take property damage and a monumental conflict between the elected and tradi­ fication was a State Police Junior Citi­ medication, surprised a burglar, who tie-up. Just as remarkable, there were tional factions threatened to erupt. zen card one of the arresting troopers robbed and raped her. When she tried no serious injuries or loss of life. When Some 100 members Participated in the had given him at a crime prevention to phone for help, he stabbed her 11 seminar. a tanker loaded with 8,000 gallons of detail, draining manpower from every times with a butter knife. The oldster, naphtha went off the Southern Tier station of the troop. When in August afflicted by failing eyesight, died two Expressway and the contents from the tensions eased, barricades came down While the taking of hostages on weeks later without being able to ruptured tank spilled into a creek, but monitoring of the dispute con­ the in ternational stage is widely identify her assailant, but Troop F troopers joined with assorted environ­ tinued. Governor Carey praised the recognized, innocent lives are sind­ troopers and investigat ors tracked down mental and health agencies in an effort "high degree of professionalism" shown larly used in high-stakes dealings on the 17-year-old rapist-killer. A 12-year­ to contain the potential damage, with by troopers, an.d added, " ... placed in a less publicized scale within the state. old Plattsburgh girl, abducted near a prime consideration of stopping the the midst of a tense dispute, they Three inmates including two convicted her home, was raped in a drive-in chemical from penetrating drinking worked long hours and provided a murderers fled the Great Meadow Cor­ theater and later dropped off in the water that reached homes at Olean. calming and peace-keeping presence." rectional Facility at Comstock by going city. Her full description of the at­ over the roof, then holed up in a White­ The joint effort managed to contain tacker and his car, given to troopers, The search for lost and missing hall residence taking four hostages. One the spill. An emergency of another enabled the Border Patrol to detain persons can take a trooper far from was allowed to go for beer several times, sort hit the Town of Clarence When his car two hours later until troopers the beaten path. An Albany office and on one trip he advised troopers a contractor while excavating accident­ arrived; he'd returned to a motel to worker, reliable as clockwork for who had set up a roadblock. A detail ally cut into underground telephone pick u.p his wife and daughter before 20 years, disappeared and led a trooper­ sealed off the area, evacuated nearby lines, severing service to 100,000 loca­ crossing into Canada. A Poughkeepsie investigator team on an extensive homes, and in storming the house tions. Portable telephone points were hypnotist who operated a therapy search that stretched from Syracuse, captured the inmates without harm clinic was suspected of molesting to their captives. A new groom be­ fema!r clients while they were being came upset because his bride left him \ treated for smoking and overweight. IRS SLUGS TOLL EVADER at an Ithaca bar and spent the night An undercover woman trooper was with her ex-husband, so he took his A repeated toll evader Who used slugs at Yonkers instead of pay­ able to gamer enough evidence to three stepchildren hostage. Two ing 40 cents was caught by a trooper on the Thruway and was addi­ shortcircuit his extracurricular acti­ troopers reasoned with him through tionally charged with possession of gambling records. The $15,000 in vities. A Central New York lovely a locked door while he held a gun to cash he carried was immediately seized by the Internal Revenue Service told troopers of accompanying a hand­ their heads, and were able to convince because he was $14,888 in arrears on taxes. some stranger to his motel room where him to put down the weapon and sur- he became maniacal, tied and gagged

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Animals are at times the victims to the exploitation of a 750-pound of the punishable cruelty of their Alaskan Brown Bear who was forced masters, but no case during 1980 to wrestle all comers in a shopping equalled the scene of horror to which mall promotion. Its handler was ar­ North Country troopers were exposed rested for the stunt. When a driver when they stopped a horse trailer on on the Palisades Parkway opened his the Northway bound for a Canadian window to accept a ticket, a boa slaughterhouse and found 85 horses A ph011Y 1,0mb whic" emptied constrictor was seen curled around his crammed into a carrier with a maxi­ a Colum bia Calm ty high school arm and the steering wheel. On deter­ mum capacity for 35 head of cattle. is analyzed by a trooper aud mining that the. snake was a pet, the investigator. Capital News­ The van was a charnel house of dead trooper beat a hasty retreat. papers photo by Jack Pinto. dying and trampled equines. A detail of troopers and a veterinarian separated Among the most heartwarming the sUlViving quadrupeds and placed services performed by a trooper is to them in a facility offering food and help bring a new life into the world. shelter. Arrested under the Agriculture ~n the middle of winter, a woman well and Markets Law, the two truckers mto labor pulled up in front of the

, " were jailed in lieu of stiff fines. Six '" ' .. -. Brewster station. The deskman and a .. -," deerjackers who blinded their prey trooper, working in the limited space with a spotlight and then dispatched where her car was found in a lot, to search by troopers, conservation offi­ of the front seat of a 1970 car, covered them illegally were caught by two Nevada, where four months later she cers and rangers, and Plattsburgh air­ the open door with blankets. With an­ was found wandering along a high way. men, located the crash site along a Troop D troopers. Not only were they other trooper in the back seat lending She had one day simply decided to nearly inaccessible slope, and despite in violation of the ConselVation Law an extra hand, a new baby girl was chuck everything and run away. Four the efforts of paramedics lowered at but their van turned out to have bee~ ushered into the world. Mother and adults who dropped from sight in the great risk and a difficult evacuation, stolen from a Dallas policeman. In re­ daughter were then rushed to the North Country one snowy February two of the three occupants who sur­ sponse to an alert by the Humane hospital, both in excellent condition. _ day involved troopers in an extensive vived initially could not be saved. One Society, a Troop A trooper put a stop search for leads. The hunt even in­ of the dead was a world-renowned cluded dragging Lake Champlain after orthopedic surgeon, and his demise, a psychic told relatives their car was coupled with the timing of the acci­ at the bottom. They turned up a half dent, created world headlines. Another year later, having been found by State unusual fatality from aloft involved .~ Police in Iilin ois where they had taken the first gliding death at Wurtsboro ',t\<, /".' up residence without telling anyone. Airport. A pilot with 5,000 hours ~"~\ , An eight-year-old retarded Canadian of flying time lost control and crashed boy who was missing from school near into a heavily-wooded mountaintop the boundary became the object of a where his body was recovered by multi-agency search to which State troopers. For uniqueness, this Wash­ ~ Police committed extensive manpower ington County airplane incident investi­ and bloodhounds. On the third day, gated by Troop G troopers was un­ he was found safe near his school. equalled: a pilot, finding the battery , of his small plane dead, tried to turn No year passes without its the propellor by hand as he'd seen per­ share of plane crashes which require formed in old movies. He set the hand endless hours of police work. The most throttle too high and the brakes were draD;latic crash occurred on the eve of off, so when the engine began purring, the winter Olympics when a private the plane rolled off with the pilot in Superintendent Conflelie preset/ts tile Superintendent's troplly at the fourth anflua/ Division craft went down on a mountain 10 pursuit. The chase ended when the Open Golf Tourney i" Guilderland to the Troop T team from left Tpr M E DRS t J. D, O'Donnel~ Major R. M. Wolfe, and ZISgt. A. J. Qui~" Jr. ' '" e OSCI, g. miles from Lake Placid. A five-hour plane plowed into an empty house.

-18- -19- western New York accident, revealed a high alcohol content in his blood­ stream. In his wallet was a DWI sum­ mons issued two weeks earlier, which he had neither answered nor heeded. In Orange County, a bicyclist attempt­ ing to cross a highway was struck by two cars; one stopped, the other didn't. The youthful bike rider succumbed to his extensive injuries, and an ex­ haustive search was undertaken for the absconding driver. Two months later, his conscience caught up with hinl; he turned himself in, admitting he had been drunk and did not stop for fear of losing his jo b. When a 16- A car missed a clln'e in Cincinnatlu arId year-old driver, licensed for only ktlocked down a house, much to the amaze­ , '. '. 1 d v r on ti,e Northern State Parkway following two weeks, lost her life in western ment of the {tltlestigating trooper. Photo by A Troop L tt'Ooper examines a car that r;~e bt/~ lary, escaped unhanned even thot/gll the Robert Gallor Jr. a pursuit. The tl,ree occupal1ts'1w~te hUo;ng a iridge abl/tment. Newsday photo by Don New York on missing a curve, her car skidded 200 feet on its roo aJler blood test indicated a high level of Jacobsen. intoxication. Troopers and investiga­ tors staked out a store where the liceman and produced various forms of identification, including a retire­ year's total and which accou.nted f?r death-dealing beer had been pur­ Hi~IIW.I~"S ment shield from one department, a 63.3 percent of all traffic tIckets IS­ chased, and when another underage card from another, and a photo of .l\nd 1I,"W;I,TS sued during the year . youth came out with a six-pack and gave a deposition, the owner was ar­ himself in unifornl; it turned out he was a county tow truck operator. A Those twin scourges of the high­ His be.!lotted executioner was on.e rested for illegal sales. Three Central Central New York motorist involved way the speed-demon and the drunk of 14,593 motorists arrested for d;l- New York troopers twice in five days driv~r met one day on Interstate 190 . while intoxicated, a su bstantIal investigated accidents in the same in an accident gave arresting troopers vmg ght . a choice: he had a blowOout, fell asleep in Niagara with tragic results. A increase from the 12,497 cau. m area, each fatal to two youths with or passed out. The troopers chose the trooper from Troop A pulled. over a 1979 as the Division contmue,d liquor to blame in each case. options of drunk driving, speeding, speeder who, despite instructIons to its efforts to decrease the state s stay in his car, tromped after the alcohol-related highway deaths. Na­ The blighted reactions of in­ and having an inadequate tire. Off Lake Ontario, a drunk walking home trooper to argue about t~e summons. tionally, an estimated half of the an- ebriated drivers are sometimes start­ from a tavern "borrowed" a car with When the ticket was wntten, he un­ nua I 50 ,000 motoring deaths can .be ling. A soused Thruway traveler keys left in the ignition. The rudely­ happily stalked back, but before he traced at least in part to exceSSlve smashed into the rear of a slower­ awakened owner jumped into the back could get to his car he was run do~n imbibing. In New York, of the 495 moving motorcycle with such force seat just as the car was taking off, and by a weaving car, operat~d by an m­ fatal accidents investigated by tro.opers, the cyclist was tossed into the center began to strike the imbiber on the ebriate, who took off wlthout stop­ alcohol was the principal cause ~ 1 ~4 mall, and the car continued on for six head with an old water pump. The ping. Witnesses supplied a plate num­ while speed was the main ingredlent m miles with the cycle fastened to the drunk steered into a swamp, jumped ber and the operator soon faced a 125. front end before troopers brought him \ fel~ny count in addition to the drunk to a halt. A 10-mile chase through the out and tried to convince a trooper the other man was trying to kill him. driving charge. These are additional examples of wine country below Lake Canandaigua the mayhem caused by driv~rs who ~ad ended abruptly When a well-lubricated In southern New York, troopers The dead driver was one of too much to drink, leavmg behmd motorcyclist suddenly slammed on his caught a drunk driver who was soaking 266 563 to be halted by patrolling broken families and over~orked brakes. He told the pursuing trooper wet. Since it was a hot, dry night, trodpers for speeding during 198?, a troopers: the specimen an~ySlS a he was afraid a deer might run into his ?f troopers soon discovered the reason: figure which approximates the prevlous 17 year old, ejected and killed m a path. An inebriate caught on the Long Island Parkways insisted he was a po- he'd just tried to rape a woman who pushed him into a creek and fled. A -20- -21- novel DWI arrest was that of a snow­ mobiler who forced several cars off a North Country road, including a troop car, before veering into woods and striking a tree. The most sympathetic drunk driving arrest of the year in­ volved a Canadian trucker en route from Cleveland on the Thruway. Dur­ ing a three-hour layover while loading, he decided to have a cup of coffee, but American tnlckers, eager to show their friendship, plied him with beer after beer, exclaiming, "you guys related deaths investigated by State saved the hostages." Police, but by 3,639 accidents involving personal injuries, accounting for one­ Of the 14,593 drivers picked up quarter of the 14,986 personal injury for DWI, the courts convicted 4,696 acddents to come to the attention of Troopers and the Chatltauqua CoUtlty coroner examine an accidetlt victim whose car ran on the original charge, 6,630 of dri­ Division personnel during 1980. Among over Mm after ejection. Jamestown Post-Journal photo by Kevin K. Kelly. ving while their ability was inlpaired property damage accidents, of 21,335 and 2,546 on lesser charges. About investigated, speed was a factor in another make of car imbedded in the the safe evacuation of six Americans one of every nine drivers arrested for 4,895 cases. damaged front end. A radio check from Iran, my Canadian cousins were an alcohol-related offense refused to with Troop D Headquarters indicated traveling the New York Thruway on submit to a chemical test, subjecting One of the most frightening ac­ a hit-and-run accident 10 miles away their way to Florida. Cruising at about them to revocation of their licenses. cidents of the year, observed by an and the jagged chrome piece matched 70 mph, they were pulled over by a The majority, 10,728, opted for the off-duty Troop K trooper, saw a sports perfectly, leading to multiple charges. patrol car. My cousins were anticipa­ breath test, while 814 submitted to a car traveling over 100 miles-per-hour A Troop G lieutenant ticketed a speed ting the worstas the officerapproached. blood test and five chose to give urine skim along the shoulder, through a demon in a sports car doing 100 on In a booming voice, he said, 'Welcome specimens. guardrail and into a bridge abutment. the Northway, then radioed ahead to the United States! I know you're The engine was pushed back beyond to make certain he was obeying pro bably just pmcticing spiritingAmeri­ The devastating effects of getting the firewall, crushing the two occu .. the speed limit. A trooper soon cans out of danger, and for that we're into an accident while speeding was pants, and the vehicle literally fell clocked him at 86. The same justice forever grateful. But keep the practice evidenced not only by the 125 speed- apart as it was being removed. who had fined him $100 raised the ante sessions down to 55, please. We'd to $200. Back on the highway again, hate to lose you!' Then, with a large The swiftest clocking of the year, he was soon flagged down a third time, grin and a tip of his hat, he returned perhaps the highest ever detected in this time lightening his wallet another to his cruiser." New York by moving ladar, was re­ $200 for doing 95. On the Palisades ported by a member of the Highway Parkw~~r: while a trooper was writing a Among the most challenging Speed Enforcement Task Force com­ speeding ticket, the offender placed a highway accident cases are the hit-and­ posed of some 150 uniform troopers $50 bill on his lap and asked him to runs which often require a scouring \ who focus on speeders on 600 miles cancel it. When a bribery count was for witnesses and the tracing of frag­ of interstate highways. The driver, added, the startled motorist jammed mentary evidence such as glass, paint going at 142 miles-per-hour, was the bill into his mouth and swallowed chips or metallic parts. When a teen­ caught after being slowed by traffic, it, then engaged the trooper in a wrest­ ager was found dead in a snowbank off and blandly stated that since his ling match which he lost. One Thru­ a Cicero road, troopers and investiga­ speedometer only goes up to 55, he way speeding stop appeared in the tors located some auto parts, then re­ had no idea how fast he was going. August edition of the Reader's Digest. turned with heaters to melt snow and It re-ad: "Two days after the news ice which surrendered additional evi­ A holiday safety message is delivered for a A speeder stopped for doing 80 broke about Canada's involvement in dence. A local auto dealer narrowed NYC television station by a sergeant. at Morrisville carried the ornament of -23- -22- A DRUNK'S RIDE HOME ENDS IN HOMICIDE Among the year's most difficult investigations of a drunk driving feet an arrest was imminent. Shortly fatality occurred in western New York w:bere a partially decomposed after the first edition appeared, a body was found in brush off a rural road with telltale paint chips and woman surrendered at the station, grillework nearby. First, prints were compared with those left in the saying that troopers coming to her victim's bedroom to establish positive identification, then a lengthy in­ house would have caused her great quiry was begun ending in an arrest after the State Police Laboratory embarrassment. matched remnants at the scene with a suspected station wagon. The responsible driver was a woman who had staggered out of a tavern mo­ One of the most difficult traffic ments before the accident, and wh 0 faced a long list of charge~ including assignments of 1980 occurred when criminally negligent homicide. Monticello Raceway staged a promo­ tion that included closed circuit show­ A trooper sifts through the but one woman who felt sorry for a Among the 182,941 behemoths wreckage of a car that over­ ing of the top middleweight fight of turned i" Bretuster. Two occu­ the year, creating a jam lasting from young man thumbing outside of Kings­ of the road that were weighed and the pants died uJI,en five-gallo" gas four hours before the bell until after ton was soon f,obbing out a tale to 144,219 that were measured was a 10- cans in the car exploded. 3 a.m., rivalled only, according to troopers of assault and theft of money wheel dump truck that bulged at veteran observers, by the 1969 Wood­ and car. Alerted by the attack, troopers 90,100 pounds. The trucker was down the particular model and color, stock Music Festival. Despite the huge, soon had the car in focus and a chase handed several tickets and ordered to then a computer printout required the unruly mob which couldn't get near and a crash into a tree ended the unload until he reached the legal manual checking of 1,000 cars in five the track, only one death was noted, escapade. limi.t. But the owner quickly took over surrounding counties. A seven-month that of a pedestrian struck by four the wheel and drove off, refusing to investigation concluded with the ar­ cars in heavy traffic. An overly fatigued driver who accede to the troopers' demands that rest of the culprit. Another youth was pushes on can create havoc. One who he pull over. He drove two miles to similarly victimized by a fleeing car A spectacular traffic tie-up of an­ fell asleep near Buffalo didn't awaken a job site where the load was dumped. near the western Pennsylvania border, other sort confronted troopers on In­ until his car hit a curb, became air­ On being removed from the cab, the but this case was closed in two days terstate 81 when two tractor-trailers borne and landed through the wind­ owner said, "I had to run heavy to when an anonymous tipster led jackknifed and collided, killing one shield of another car, instantly killing pay for my fines on a previous load," troopers to a yard two miles from the operator and scattering cargo over the two women. Two other vehicles Although released on bail, he faced death scene where the culpable ve­ highway. Northbound traffic washalted couldn't evade the tangled mass and additional fmes of $2,000. hicle was hidden. An Orange County for 12 hours during the difficult clean­ added to the twisted metal. It took trooper tried an imaginative ploy to up. troopers more than two hours to Traffic arrests totaled 674,945, resolve a hit-and-run case that had reopen the highway. a marked increase from the 613,473 reached a dead end: he placed an Motorists are constantly cau­ in 1979. Most statistical categories article in the local paper to the ef- tioned against picking up hitchhikers, • • • flourished, including arrests for hazard­ ous violations--those that can lead to The 86 troopers assigned to weigh accidents--which rose from 404,874 and measure trucks that use the state's to 421,341. Nonhazardous arrests, highways accounted for 16,278 over­ ranging from blown mufflers to no load arrests, a drop from th.e 1979 insurance, rose from 208,599 to \ total of 17,409, and issued 2,964 253,604. oversize summonses, a jump from the previous year's 2,134. The Division's Road checks mandated under Weighing Detail employs a high-speed the Vehicle and Traffic Law led to electronic weighing device known as 34,605 arrests of which 865 were of an "Eldec" scale, augmented by teams a criminal nature, an increase of nearly with portable hydraulic scales long in 2,000. The number of checkpoints use. held was 2,063. •

Superifltendent Connelie accepts two "Addy" awards of the Northeastern Association of -25- Professional Communicators for three NYSP-produced public service TV spots dealing with drunk driving, speeding, and careless motoring.

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Funual services for Tpr. James A. Kelly. Newburgh Evening News pllOto by Thom Duffy.

Buffalo funeral home for a final County and collided with a pickup homage. Ironically, the fallen investi­ truck. gator had received a Superintendent's .....,," commendation a half year earlier for TPR. EUGENE B. ADAMS, th"ing last respects to Inv. diverting a shotgun held by a drug who succumbed to carbon monoxide Governor Carey and Superin tetldetl t Comlelie are among ose pa., dealer at the tail end of an undercover poisoning May 4 while making a car Robert L. Van Hall. narcotics investigation. repair at his Cattaraugus home. He had served Troop A for 18 years. Others who lost their lives: TPR. JOSEPH S. ZABUDOSKI During a grim year in which two TPR. JAMES A KELLY, a thr'4~< of Troop K, who on returning home investigators and five troopers lost year veteran attached to Troop F, who from Somers station April 24 was their lives, INV. ROBERT L. VAN while a passenger in a troop car Aug. 8 mortally injured when the private car HALL became the first member of was fatally injured in a crash in Orange in which he was a passenger struck a NYSP in five years to die by gunfire. County involving a drunk driver who stray horse on a Westchester County was charged with criminally negligent highway. He had served two years. The investigator, a seven-year homicide. Tpr. Kelly was widely known veteran attached to Troop E, was in northeastern police circles as co­ INV. ROBERT K. VAN SON, a slain Dec. 5 by a shotgun blast fired on founder of the annual Police Chase 17-year veteran attached to Troop E, a Corning street by one a f two brothers (marathon) staged at Newburgh Air­ who died suddenly on Aug. 18. during a drug investigation. His part­ port. ner, Inv. William G. Gorenflo, w~s TPR. KEVIN L. HARTMAN, a wounded but recovered. The assail­ TPR. ROBERT J. GA YLO, a 15- 13-year member serving Troop D, who ants were captured 1110ments later year veteran serving Troop F, who was died suddenly Dec. 21. • and charged with first degree murder. killed May 13 when his troop car skidded on a wet downgrade in Cayuga More than 1,500 mourners led by Governor Carey and Superintendent A widow's grief: Mrs. Van Hall. Buffalo -27- Courier-Express photos by Robert S. Bukaty. Connelie lined the streets outside a -26------

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Funeral services for Tpr. James A. Kelly. Newburgh Evening News photo by Thom Duffy.

\ ~ Governor Carey and Superinte"d. . Buffalo funeral home for a final County and collided with a pickup R.obert L. Van Hall. etlt Cormelte are amollg those paying last respects to Inv. homage. Ironically, the fallen investi­ truck. gator had received a Superintendent's commendation a half year earlier for TPR. EUGENE B. ADAMS, diverting a shotgun held by a drug who succumbed to carbon monoxide dealer at the tail end of an undercover poisoning May 4 while making a car . .During a grim year in which two narcotics investigation. repair at his Cattaraugus home. He had mv~stl~ators and five troopers lost served Troop A for 18 years. :elf bves, INV. ROBERT L. VAN Others who lost their lives: ALL became the first member of NYSP in five years to die by gunfire. TPR. JOSEPH S. ZABUDOSKI TPR. JAMES A KELLY, a three­ of Troop K, who on returning home year veteran attached to Troop F, who from Somers station April 24 was The investigator, a seven-year while a passenger in a troop car Aug. 8 veteran attac1led to Troo}) E mortally injured when the private car I' D ' was was fatally injured in a crash in Orange s am .ec. 5 by a shotgun blast fired on in which he was a passenger struck a County involving a drunk driver who a C?nung street by one of two brothers stray horse on a Westchester County was charged with criminally negligent dunng a drug investigation. His Part­ high way. He had served two years. homicide. Tpr. Kelly was widely known ner, Inv. William G. Gorenflo was in northeastern police circles as co­ INV. ROBERT K. VAN SON, a w~unded but recovered. The ~ssail­ founder of the annual Police Chase 17-year veteran attached to Troop E, an s were captured moments later (marathon) staged at Newburgh Air­ who died suddenly on Aug. 18. and charged with first degree murder. port. TPR. KEVIN L. HARTMAN, a More than 1,500 mourners led TPR. ROBERT J. GA YLO, a 15- 13-year member serving Troop D, who by Gov.ern?r Carey and Superintendent year veteran serving Troop E, who was Connelie lined the streets outside a died suddenly Dec. 21. • A u/~dow's grief: Mrs. Van Hall. Buffalo killed May 13 when his troop car Couner-Express photos by Robert S. Bukaty. skidded on a wet downgrade in Cayuga -26- -27- Troopers scan crowds.

'c, t ' ',.~, . , ".'j,' .~~ ~" ",.f 1 "~• ...., Stlperinfc1IC1ent Contlelie and Governor Carey are welcomed by Lake Placid Mayor Robert Peacock. State Police photos

by Bob Miazga. ~ completed six months before the. double work and overtime made up for Games. Arrangements were made to thinned-out staffing. house and feed more than 1,000 Rising To Olympian Heights troopers and Conservation officers at But right at the start of the Camp Adirondack, a nearby minimum Games, an unforseeable circum­ security prison. Long before the first snowflake stance-- -the breakdown of shuttle­ of federal, state, an d local policing bus service for spectators--suddpnly had settled on Whiteface Mountain, a efforts, and the myriad law enforce­ All was in readiness, and the sense of anticipation and circumspec­ propelled State Police i'rom unobtru­ ment problems attendant with any ultimate performance of the unifonn sive peacekeeper to limelight celebrity. tion p(~rvaded the Division of State mass-audience spectacle. force and Bel backed by civilian per­ Police about one of its most unusual sonnel proceeded according to plan Troopers came to the aid of fro­ and c,emanding assignments--public The construction of a $3.8 both at the hectic Olympic area and at -safety and traffic security at the 1980 zen spectators, stranded for hours with­ million State Police facility to serve as the beleaguered "home" front where out their buses. They commandeered winter Olympic games at Lake Placid. the Olympic Command and Control Center for all law enforcement was Two years of planning preceding the Feb. 13-24 competition had to take into account the protection of Olympic Village with its 1,200 worldwide ath­ letes and 600 support personnel, travel to and from a sparsely-populated Olympic region along limited, narrow roads by some 50,000 spectators daily, VIP protection for the world's potentates and personages, security of Olympic venues in the face of poten­ tial terrorist exploitation before an in­ ternational TV aUdience, coordination A captain atld a gold medalist exellange headgear. Chec kj,'g atl Olympian's crederl tials. -28- -29- ~------

Tpr. JeffJost, a member of the Olympic bobsled team, accepts President Carter'.~ congratula­ Major J. F. Leary, who retired Uotts. this year (rigllt), and Troop K BCI persolltlel, itlllestigate tile finding of decapitated body itl a steamer trunk.

and rerouted public transportation. protective, handsome (yes, handsome: They gave comfort and shelter to the the London Times even did a full stricken and panicky. They soothed, women's page spread on his looks.) directed, implored, cajoled, and even "It got to the point," reported one conducted sing-alongs to assuage the trooper, "where a driver thanked me shud<1ering multitudes. for a ticket and asked if he could the State Police, has since its founding keep it for my autograph." The B.C.I. in 1935 established a reputation of And as thousands discovered When the decomposed, nude overcoming all odds to resolve the most that the men in gray were their friends, Once the Olympics ended, the body of a bound and gagged woman difficult cases, foremost among \vhich and in many cases their salvation, so Division was swamped with congratu­ was found in a vacant Ulster County each year are homicides. did the media. As the first skates and latory letters from all walks of life, hotel room by a janitor, the Bureau of skis were being donned, the world constituting the largest public out­ Criminal Investigation was confronted Whether clues abounded around already had an Olympic hero--the pouring of its kind in Division history. by the twin difficulties of making an the victim or were as scarce as American New York State Trooper. identification and finding the killer. flags in Iran! the DCI in 1980 tackled To mark the occasion, Governor Two clues were at hand and they served the 85 murder/manslaughter cases to In his status of newfound lund­ Carey presented a unit citation for ex­ both ends. One was a cocktail napkin, corne to its attention (14 more than in nary, all facets of trooperdom were cellence to the Division, and Superin­ bearing a name and address, stuffed 1979) with the same cool fervor, con­ "discovered" as spectators and the tendent Connelie commissioned the into a pack of cigarettes, which led to fidence, and indefatigable patience as media vied in an adjectival avalanche design and manufacture of a special a man who had met the victim shortly they did in finding the hotel killer. A of adulation of his workaday habits. Olympic pin which was ready for dis­ before her death, and the other was a sampling of these accomplishments: The trooper was helpful, kind, brave, trihution to members at year's end._ set of two keys of the type usually informative, knowledgeable, courteous, carried by hotel workers, which pre­ When a grandmother was cipitated a canvass of area hotels. The strangled and her seriously-ill husband victim's identity was soon established, badly beaten in their Westchester and a developed suspect was captured, County home, more than 1,000 in­ with the help of Manhattan detectives, ten'iews led to a break, culminating but not before he had slain another in the arrest of two muscular students woman in similar fashion in a city hotel at a boys' school who had placed room. His admission to both killings dummies in their beds to circumvent touched off nationwide inquiries re­ the hourly night check by dornl offi­ garding murders with matching modus cials. The motive was robbery and operandi. He was later convicted of their take was $35. both killings and received two life prison sentences. What first appeared as a hit-and­ run accideutal death of a motorcyclist On traffic du ty. With 110ckey star. The BCI, the investigative amI cf in Chautauqua County turned into a

-30- -31- HER DETERMINATION LEADS TO TWO DEATHS A prominent Sullivan County doctor recovered after his wife had Investigators accompany a hacked him with a pick axe, but was warned by investigators to stay Wellsville man accused of tor­ away from her, especially considering her threat on her arrest, "I'll get ching a lumberyard /tl revenge him!" He didn't heed the warning, and a month later she slew him with for tlot beitlg paid for labor. three sIl ots, then took her own life with a single bullet. . , The fire spread, gu tted a chemi­ cal supply outlet, and fumes forced the evacuation of thou­ sands. Photo by Olean Times­ murder investigation when several Herald. bullet holes \\tere found in his back. The bizarre case VIas broken in a week with the arrest of another man in a "'"'- love triangle ancl the two assassins he had hired for $6,500 to eliminate his com petition. During the year, 49,243 cases capital. More than 100,000 persons came to the attention of investigators, had contributed their ante before The discovery of a badly decoIil­ an increase of about 1,600. Of these, arrests and adverse publicity doomed posed body in Saratoga County woods, 26,263 were cleared by arrest and the ilHdt chain scheme. slain by several shotgun rounds, re­ 13,858 were closed by investigaticn. Besides murder and manslaughter en­ quired dental tracing to identify the A bus driver wanted for a rape victim, then a lengthy inquiry that led tries, the voluminous log of wide­ spree over six westem counties led ranging felonies included these: to a companion in Texas who carried investigators on a six-month hunt a weapon which Laboratory firearms during which 3,900 cars from a com­ experts linked to shells found at the When extortionists demanded puterized list were individually checked $500,000 within a day for not ex­ scene. An admission and extradition out and 300 telephoned leads were ploding bombs they claimed were followed. followed. Shortly after the assailant already in place at the Ro bert :Moses had been tagged as a prime suspect, Power Darn and an Ontario hydro­ Hundreds of inmates at Clinton he was nabbed in an aborted attempt Two itlVestigators and a trooper count out electric plant, a hurried investigation Correctional Facility were questioned 145,000 stolen from a house by an Albiotl to rape a jogger. was coupled with precautionary mea­ in the beating death with a baseball minor. Photo by Robert K. MeJury. sures. One plotter was picked up as bat of one prisoner in the yard while Of the numerous bomb threats he tried to retrieve part payment in 300 mille d about. Despite the reluc­ during the year, none was more futile then panicked and shot his wife and bogus bills, and the other's getaway tance of inmates to testify and one at­ than the eight calls to SUNY at Platts­ their Laborador retriever, shoving the car was sealed off by ground and air tempt to set up an innocent convict burgh placed by a student teacher bodies under a fallen tr(~e. If he had patrols. Investigation had already gar­ as the murderer, investigators gleaned not stripped them of their clothes whenever he didn't feel like carrying nered a printout of cars crossing the sufficient evidence to present the case which he burned in sight of youngsters out his assignment. Investigators fi­ border just in advance of the time the to the Clinton County Grand Jury. on a scavenger hunt, he might not nally pieced together the timing of extortion letter was mailed at Massena have been captured as quickly. , the threats and made the arrest. and a Customs officer was later able The disappearance of an envi­ to identify the pair who had told him ronmentalist and his wife, a nurse, in The death of a Columbia County The Bel caught up with just their reason for entering the U.S. was western New York turned into a baf­ housewife at first appeared to be about the biggest swindler to eYer "we're going to the Massena Post fling mystery which occupied investi­ suicide, especially after the husband Office." come to the Divisior..'s attention. He gators, uniform personnel, forest told investigators she was despondent. was \Ii'anted in 10 countries on five rangers, and volunteer searchers for But an investigation came up with continents for flim-flams tnta1i:lg Posing as potential inYestors, the better part of a week. The resolum several discrepancies, including the $70 r.1illion and when picked up by investigators from the Manhattan of­ tion was as strange as it was simple: a angle at which a shotgun was dis­ two Manhattan-based investigators had fice attended meetings of pyramid. youth was hunting woodchuck when charged at point-blank range, and the just finished bilking a Mexican heiress club enterpreneurs who promised he fired at a sound, killing the man, husband was accused of her murder. out of 5140,000 on a phony stock $16,000 in return on $1,000 venture scheme. The premit~re con man had used -·32- -33- >,~;~~~:-,:'~~~~.~"~W'\t! '~I 1 14 aliases, six passports, and eight nationalities, having made world head­ .'-'·:·······~~;~l lines 15 years ago as president of a phony photocopy firm whose stock zoomed from $2 to $25 before it sud­ denly went bankrupt.

Investigators were able to outwit a team of burglars before the theft took place. When thieves systemati­ cally stripped buildings owned by a town in Wayne County of all tools, surveillance cameras were set up in­ This dusting by a downstate investigator side the next logical structure. 'Vhen came up with a fingerprint matching that of the intrude.rs tumed lip as scheduled, , a rapist. An investigator and trooper supervise tile recovery of a missitlg safe. Chatham Courier their photos were snapped and their photo by Tim Nolan. arrests followed. with whom he had had liaisons to as­ certain he l)ad taken up residence in were collected and the loans were role in BCT activities. The sounding of a bank alarm Louisiana and to help make arrange­ never made, but the rip-off artists summons investigators into action. ments for his retum and that of the depended on hesitation hy their marks THE VIOLENT FELONY WAR­ One such alert at a Clifton Park embezzled funds. to report losses. When one merchant RANT ENFORCEMENT UNIT, cre­ branch bank led to the apprehen­ came forth, an investigator discovered ated in 1979, utilizing 27 investigators sion of the bandit who had passed a Inquiries into arsons are often a dozen others willing to come for­ in nine statewide squads, captured a note to a teller demanding small­ time-consuming and difficult. A fire ward, joined by still others once an Puerto Rican fugitive wanted for five denomination bills coupled with a that started at an Allegany County arrest was made. drug-related. murders after extensive threat to shoot. His girlfriend handed lum beryard and spread to a chemical surveillance in Brooklyn, and appre­ an investigator a bag containing the store was determined to have been Electronic surveillance was in­ hended a Canadian in a Syracuse entire haul of $4,830, saying he had started by a contractor who wanted troduced to record the conversatioll hotel who was wanted for murder in jumped into the car and given her revenge, feeling he had not been com­ between a Warren County rape case Oklahoma and AIkansas, rape in the sack with his smiling admission, pensated fully for his work. witness and a man offering a bribe Texas and grand larceny in New York. "I just robbed a bank." Amazingly to change her story. \Vhen the briber enough, she was innocent of involve­ A white collar scheme in southern later handed an undercover trooper MAJOR CRIMES UNITS broke m~nt. New York and Connecticut that a down payment of $250 to break a large theft ring that concentrated on bilked businessmen out of thousands the arms of another trial figure who boats in Erie and Niagara Counties, re­ When a Dutchess County bank of dollars involved the promise of wouldn't accept a bribe, an arrest covering S1 00,000 worth of speedboats branch manager absconded with government guaranteed business loans followed. A similar technique was and parts, cracked the larceny of 250 S141,000, investigators had to gain of up to $650,000, requiring only an employed when an Orange County cases of cigarettes worth $80,000 in the confidences of several homosexuals advance "commission fee." The fees physician tried to convice a mother Albany County, and spearheaded the to give up her illegitimate child for sweeping arrests of 30 persons to end adoption. Wiring of the woman with a seven-month undercover investigation \ a recording device started an inquiry into a Newburgh sting operation. i~'%'i:"""':::::::::::!~:~::~~~~~:~:~::~::!;::: ::::.:::"'''! into a possible adoption and baby­ ~~~~~ and robbery in his Bronxville hospital room mentioned the name of one :;::: sale racket. GAMBLING UNITS rounded up ~{ potential suspect with an uncommon name. The battered prey shook .::: 10 persons in NYC whose sports and ltl[~ his head, but a voice from the next bed rang out, "I know that guy!" :!.!i * * * horse wagering network booked $20 million a year, clamped down on a Specialization plays a significant $1 million per month football betting L!~~i.~~"~~~~~;~:~:~:~~!~!~:~~~:~:g~§~~~::,::~:::"j -35- -34- Drug Traffic After a suspicious fue had been doused in the Town of Catskill, fire­ men searching through an otherwise An investigator leads trackers empty second-floor apartment dis­ to tile site of a plane crash. covered a huge inventory of vegetable Hornell Evening Tnoune photo matter stored in plastic. Investigators by Steve Heaslip. detenllined it was I Y.2 tons of hashish, and the packaged stacks, turned over to the Drug Enforcement Admini­ stration in Washington for destruction, constituted one of the largest caches of illegal drugs ever located in the Northeast. Information was developed An investigator examines 1~ co-op in Albany County, and utilizing POLYGRAPH experts, who help enabling Narcotics Units from Troops tons of hashish disc(lvered in a court-authorized eavesdropping and establish guilt or innocence, indicated second-floor unoccupied apart­ F and G six weeks later to converge on ment folloUling a fire in Cats­ wiretap evidence seized 10 bookies in a Sullivan County corrections officer a house, also in Greene County, where kill. Ti,e seizllre was one ofthe Westchester County doing a $23 million was not involved in making purchases they seized 1,700 additional pounds largest of its kind ever in ti,e business a year. with a stolen credit card despite the of hashish and $194,000 in cash wrap­ Northeast. word of six witnesses, and subsequent ped in brown paper and tucked under drug sales on school property, a trooper IDENTIFICATION BUREAUS BCI investigation verified the finding. a bathroom sink. Arrested was a Cana­ was planted in an un dercover capacity lifted latent fingerprints from a news­ dian who had been wholesaling the disguised as a school employee and was paper discarded in a getaway car fol­ A UTO THEFT UNITS wage· war grass from both locations. lowing an armed bank robbery in on individual and organized auto soon able to purchase assorted con­ trolled substances from seven persons Orange County to identify one bandit, thieves, like the Westchester County This was one of 7,020 cases in­ ranging in age from 16 to 67, who and employed photo files to finger a distribl;.tors of late-model cars carrying volving controlled substances to come were arrested on 23 criminal charges. lone bandit who had held up a Vermont counterfeit titles from Virginia, cul­ to the attention of State Police during bank and fled into New York. minating in the ringleader's arrest._ 1980. A total of 5,135 persons were The puzzling hijacking of an arrested for their involvement with empty tractor-trailer and the hand­ illicit drugs. cuffing of the trucker to the steering wheel of an abandoned, stolen car When the Hudson city school was solved by Kingston. investigators district alerted the Troop K BCI about after the truck was recovered in New Jersey two days later. A false bottom PATRIOTIC PLANTER had been packed with cannabis, and A southern New Yorker the same trailer had repeatedly been whose green thumb cultivated a shipped between Morocco and New large marijuana garden observable York since 1977, bringing millions of from a highway told atTesting dollars of hashish into the U.S. On officers he was a true patriot its last trip, the trailer had been seized because unlike American grass by Customs officials because its smokers he was not sending camouflage load of Moroccan hand­ dollars abroad for marijuana, thus craft had been packed in straw in con­ keeping our currency from de­ travention of U.S. N!, & Markets re­ preciating further on foreign quirements. The trailer was placed money markets. into regular highway use before the Contraband consistiug of cocaine, marijuana, q'uaaludes, and illegal handguns is dispwyed "importers" could unload the smuggled after the arrest of six persons in Corning. -37- -36- - ~~------~---

shipment, necessitating their hijacking York City and when he injected too caper. much while in their apartment above a bar, he died; his partner and the barten­ A major drug ring bust culmina­ der panickeo and carried his body to ted surveillance of seven unsavory­ another location. looking visitors from Fort Lauderdale A sllccessiot, of generations: who landed at Albany Airport in a An unemployed Syracuse man Tpr. R C. Frank, who retired in 1980, cOl1gratulates 11is SOil, rented jet and then set up business in was arrested by Troop D narcotics Tpr. H. C. Frank, on gradu­ a Kingston motel. They were selling investigators and the Drug Enforce­ ating . from recrnit class it, marijuana in lOO-pound lots to cus­ ment Administration after selling Marcil. tomers from around the country, and heroin valued at more than $1 million, when narco investigators moved in, including $125,000 worth to an under­ only 2,300 of the original 24,000 cover investigator. Amazingly, his pre­ pounds were still on hand during vious record was spotless. what was described as a brisk day of business for the Florida-based net­ A minor accident in a tavern work. parking lot turned into a major case Personnel zone sergeants, 27 sergeant/station when Fulton troopers discovered mari­ The authorized law enforce­ commanders, 26 sergeants, and five A Monticello hotel worker plan­ juana in one car an d a search then ment strength of the Division increased technical sergeants. ned to kill a fellow employee because produced 10,000 capsules in jugs and 205 positions from 3,578 to 3,783, he was a competitor in the cocaine and a duffle bag. Investigators discovered principally brought about by the ab­ The attrition among law enforce­ marijuana business. An informant was by testing that they contained caffeine sorption by State Police of the Long ment personnel totaled 176, including rigged with a body recorder which as the driver claimed, but further Island Parkways and three other park­ 109 service retirements, 26 State Police spun out a plot to lure the victim to inquiry determined that he purchased ways. At the end of 1980, the actual retirements, 12 accidental disability New York City with promises of free pills wholesale to resell them as illegal strength of law enforcement person­ retirements, and 17 resignations. There whiskey and sex, and to decapitate dnlgs at a handsome profit. nel stood at 3,409 with 374 positions were seven deaths (see separate chap­ hinl in Central Park with a machete. vacant. ter). Four members were dismissed A traffic stop at Henrietta came , seven were reinstated, and one was An autopsy revealed that a man up with two bags of marijuana and a A class of 144 new troopers granted military leave. The attrition whose body was found outside an hand-drawn map showing the route to graduated on March 6. No other classes rate was 5.2 percent, the same as in Orange County church had died of the pusher's house. A trooper in mufti were scheduled during 1980 due to 1979. a drug overdose. Investigators tracing dropped in and made a purchase, lead­ fiscal constraints. his last hours discovered he and a ing to a search warrant by which in­ Among those retiring were Major friend had purchased heroin in New vestigators staged a successful raid._ One hundred forty-eight mem­ Joseph F. Leary of Troop K and bers were promoted or designated dur­ Richard E. Bolton, Division counsel ing the year as follows: one major, five for 13 years. captains, nine lieutenants, three techni­ cal lieutenants, 14 senior investigators, Authorized civilian positions A. clandestine laboratory ;n 43 investigators, one first sergeant, 14 were increased by five to 597. At the Ccmisteo capable of producitlg 700 pounds of methamphet­ amine with CI street value of \ 110 million is i~lspected after a The March 6 commencement raid by a trooper, ;rlvestigator, joined brothers in the field. a~/d agentfor the Drng Enforce­ Graduate Robert G. Summer­ ment Administration. lin, left, joins his veteran brother, Carl L., in tile presence of Superintendent Connelie.

-38- -39- end of 1980, civilian strength stood at civilians were promoted, three rein­ 565 positions with 32 vacancies. One For the fifth consecutive year, members, 32 one-week in-service train­ stated, nine reclaSSified, and 11 tem­ the Academy hosted underprivileged hundred two ciVilians were appointed ing sessions for 766 Division members, dUring the year, 70 to permanent porarily upgraded during the year. boys 9-12. Some 175 youngsters at­ 23 specialized training sessions includ­ tended six one-week sessions in sum­ Positions, 16 to tern porary positions, The attrition rate for ciVilians was ing an instructor development course an d 16 to part-time temporary posi­ 9.4 percent compared to 10.9 per­ mer using the Academy as their home in the burgeoning caseload field of cent in 1979. tions. Another six were hired under for an educational vacation. The State "Child Abuse and Neglect," and three Police Summer Program (SPSP) was the provisions of the Comprehensive two-week training programs in drug initiated by the Superintendent and Employees Training Act, and five The overall attrition for all Di­ enforcement co-sponsored by the Drug is funded by private groups and in­ CETA employees resigned and four vision employees was 5.8 percent Enforcement Administration for 143 dividuals around the state. were terminated. There 'were 45 compared to 5.9 percent in 1979. Municipal Law enforcement officers civilian resignations, seven retirements, and 30 State Police members. and one death. Nineteen women were DUring the year, 695 mem­ In addition, the Academy was granted maternity leave. Forty-two bers and 38 civilians were injured on employed for a broad variety of pro­ The Academy for two weeks duty, a decrease of five from 1979 .• grams which included: the training of hosted an executive development 175 former Parkway officers making seminar sponsored by the Interna­ the transition to State Police, supervi­ tional Association of Chiefs of Police Training sory training for 71 noncommissioned provide a vital public service while at which 26 states and two Canadian officers and a basic course for 30 their instruction was reinforced bv provinces were represented. The training of 144 recruits who newly-appointed investigators, a 32- practical experience. Governor Carey, graduated from basic school on March hour Emergency Vehicle Operator's as commencement speaker, praised the Outside agencies conducted 75 6 after 23 weeks of training included Course stressing defensive driving Division's perfonnance at the sessions at the Academy during the for the first time three weeks of field and crash avoidance for 358 county Olympics, pointing to the significant year represented by 3,804 Participants. _ experience under senior troopers, anet. local officers and 252 State Police embracing in part the period of Feb. contribution by the recruits. 13-24 when the tyros provided much­ needed assistance to relieve the man­ At year's end, the Academy was PLANNING AND RESEARCH gearing up for 185 trainees expected P & R will continue to l1e active power drain imposed by the winter DEVEWPS VEST to arrive in mid-February; the class in the program through and beyond Olympics at Lake Placid. SPECIFICATIONS will be the fust under a federal court the arrival of the vests in Spring. quota system mandating 40 percent The newcomers were able to Specifications for soft body ar­ minorities and 10 percent women. The Section in anticipation of mor for all State Police members were the new NYSPIN computer system to furnished by the Planning and Research be installed in late 1981 undertook Section at Division Headquarters to the Several studies addreSSing areas cur­ Office of General Services for bidding rently using manual processes. Rec­ before year's end. :ommendations for computerized alter­ natives were made in such areas as This came on the heels of a case indexing and report control, and November $600,000 legislative appro­ Unifonn Force statistical gathering. priation for Division vests. P & R was Developed also were enhancements ready when the money became avail­ to such existing programs as the File able--the section has for some time 20, distribution of personnel, and the \ .. -'I'''''.''''''' conducted extensive research into the time-and-activity system. characteristics, manUfacture, testing . ; .~-..- r

. and other related aspects of the pro­ L Projects still supported by Law ~ ---..&.~ )...,~~ tective gear. Tha~ included contacts Enforcement Assistance Administra­ Two "..?oper-counselors and their charges break bread during the fifth year of the State with vendors and police agencies tion funds beyond the LEAA's ter­ Police ~ummer Program in which disadvantaged boys spent week-long vacations at the Acad­ utilizing body armor to identify the mination during 1980 are administer­ emy. Some 175 youngsters attended the Superintendent-initiated program during 1980 model best suited to State Police ed by P & R; other potential federal Capital Newspapers photo by Jack Pinto. . requirements. fund sources are being explored._

-40- -41- quiry into murders rose by three to an even 100. In one suspected driving­ while-intoxicated case in which a motor­ cyclist was badly injured and his pass­ enger was killed upon being tossed against a parked car, the culpable dri­ ver's blood was sent to toxicologists with the notation that a beer bottle had been tossed from the car. There was no trace of the normal intoxicant, but analysis came up with the probable cause: traces of toluene were present; the driver had been sniffing glue prior to the accident. Superinte11den t Cormelie presides at open Ilouse ceremonies at the newly-opened Southem Tier Regional Laboratory. To his left is Capt. Stark Ferriss, Laboratory director. Of the 1,511 cases listed by the Firearnls Section for 1980 was one in A microscope used to compare tool marks, outside Binghamton, which officially which a l3-year-old boy apparently hairs, aud fibers is inspected by open Ilouse opened in February. Fifteen months fell while hunting woodchucks and was visitors. The - I ~ • •• ~II I earlier, the first regional laboratory killed when a bullet accidentally dis­ SClen tlflec;:~_ I_:-::-~~ had been opened in Newburgh to serve charged. Laboratory investigation first chase record of a purportedly stolen the Mid-Hudson region. These two, determined that his rifle did not have lUXUry car which appeared in a dealer's Laboratory and a third regional lab projected for the characteristics matching the fatal motor vehicle registry book over an­ western New York, relieve the heavy missile. Field investigators then loca­ other entry which had been oblitera­ The intruder who cut himself caseload at the main Laboratory in ted two other rifles in the youngster's ted by white correction fluid. Testi­ severely on broken window glass might Albany and provide handy local ser­ home which were submitted for ex­ mony in court indicated that a simple have thought twice about burglarizing vices to the entire law enforcement amination. One was eliminated, but the error had been rectified. But the State a private residence had he known the community. other was identified as the probable Police documents examiner, using fiber small pool of blood he left behind fatal weapon. Since it belonged to optic lights, was able to pierce the al­ would become a telltale witness. The An undercover narcotics investi­ the deceased boy's 14-year-old brother, teration and to determine that all data, evidence found its way to the newly­ gator who had purchased from a pusher an interview quickly brought about an including the car, its year, color, and opened State Police Southern Tier nine small yellow tablets alleged to be admission of shooting his sibling. identification number, were completely Regional Lahoratory and was analyzed LSD learned by way of laboratory different and not simply corrections. by serologists employing a sophisti­ analysis that they were really PCP. He The Documents Section lists The businessman had not only made cated new "electrophoresis" apparatus was able to maintain 11is cover by con­ II 3,251 examinations during the year, a substantial changes to official records, which expands the blood ~rouping fronting the seller at their next meeting II drop of 337. One involved the pur- but had peIjured himself in court. characteristics identifiable in dried with, "you sold me bad acid," and to I blood stains. A suspect's blood was be told, "I knew that, now you'll 11!11*:::::::::::::::::::::::::*::;;;:~:i:~~~~:~~:::~~:~:::;~~~:~~:::~i::~~::::::~~:;:~:~~:~i:i:i~:i:::::i:::::~::::::::::i:::i:::ljllil similarly tested and both led to a start­ get some good stuff." This was one of ing and conclusive finding: a combina­ 5,112 cases involving controlled sub­ A young man, forced into an alley and sodomized, was unable to provide investigating officers with a full description of his assailant be­ tion of genetic markers traceable in stances to come to the attention of SP \ one of every 175,000 persons. The drug analysts, an $:rea that has in recent cause there was little streetlighting during the nighttime attack. One thief didn't wait for the trial to get years paced the Laboratory caseload. suspect's trousers, bearing a strange substance on one leg, was sent to under way; he just pled guilty. the Laboratory, where the material was identified as calcium sulfate, On the upswing again as they used chiefly in plaster. An investigator was directed to return to the The case was one of 11,482 have been for some time were analyses alley; there he came up with a small glob of whitish material, which the handled by the Laboratory system, an of evidence in arsons which spiraled by Laboratory also determined was the same chemical. On the strength of increase of 1,300 from 1979, and one 86 cases to 436, and tests based on this evidence, the deviant was convicted at a jury trial. of 1,178 which came to the attention dnmk driving arrests which cHm bed of the new Southern Tier Laboratory from 1,649 to 1,860. Evidential in- -43- -42- The Criminalistics Section's 368 1980 acquired a stereomicroscope and cases for the year started and ended photomicrographic system, which in with a bang: two explosions in home one case was able to determine that oil furnaces in which analysis detected some microscopic brass shavings found gasoline vapors. The year's score of on a rapist's c10thitlg matched those footprint identifications included an discovered adhering to his victim's almost perfect "test impression" left dress. by an excited burglar who in his hurry to flee stepped on the inside cover of a About 40 percent of Laboratory cash box. The plaster footprint cast cases originated from these areas: law submitted was so detailed the examiner enforcement departments other than had no difficulty in making a positive State Police, state agencies, federal identification which swiftly led to a offices, an d outside laboratories. Lab match and an arrest. The section in personnel testified at 87 erials. IJol 1.~ The State Police Communications Center at Ray Rrooll, in action during tlte Olympics. \ I participate in a computer demonstra­ missing persons. Department of Motor \ Vehicles license and registration data r The brutal slaying of the mana­ tion. He offered his driver's license ger of a 1\"ew York City car rental for a computer search, and when his is accessed hy NYSPIN. agency didn't go unnoticed, but the name and date of birth were punched A breakdown of NYSI>IN traffic scant and inexact information sup­ into the termin:u, the returning print­ shows 7.2 million stolen property in­ plied by witnesses to the city's police out revealed he was wanted on a department required an intricate li­ grand larceny warrant in Colorado. quiries, 6.3 National Crime Information cense check. "A dark blue or black Center inquiries, and 11.2 million car, probably a late model Chevro­ An inquiry into the possibility Department of Motor Vehicle in­ let, license plate bearing orange or a car shop foreman itl Henrietta was quiries. red numbers on white background." pocketing repair fees centered on in­ That was all the information turned fOflnation that a Mercedes Benz had * * * over to the State Police-operated been fixed but no payment was re­ Eighteen members of the State statewide computerized teletype net­ corded on company books. A com­ Dep. Supt. Warren B. Surc1am work known by the acronym of puter search for all 1977 models in a Police communications staff coordina­ addresses the ammal NYSPIN ted radio, telephone, and data com­ NYSPIN (New York State Police In­ five-county area enabled investigators advisory committee. munications for all agencies involved formation Network). But it was enough. to identify the owner who readily in the 1980 winter Olympics. Opera­ First the NYSPIN staff surmised that told of having his car fixed at the ting from the Command and Control the plate was from Florida, then a partment is one of 740 federal, state, shop. His statement was instrumental Center at Ray Brook, staffers handled check of that state's Department of and municipal law enforcement de­ in the arrest of the foreman on three as many as 4,000 radio transactions Motor Vehicles registration files led partments in the state linked by the grand larceny counts. daily at the height of the games. Dur­ to a lengthy list of potential cars and NYSPIN system, with ties to national ing the year, communicators planned their owners. A painstaking search of memory banks in Washington and The NYSPIN system, which and implemented telephone, radio, New York State files using the ve­ Phoenix. processed 108.4 million transmissions and data communications for newly­ hicle identification number detennined during 1980 (a daily average of activated Troop L on Long Island, with a reregistration here, with the owner Here are other examples of 296,266), stores and disseminates such some 1,200 highway patrol transac­ being the same person who had regi­ NYSPIN "hits" during 1980: infonnation as stolen vehicles and tions coordinated daily through the stered the car in Florida. That infor­ plates, nationwide driver and regi­ communications center at troop head­ mation led to a quick arrest by NYC For the second summer in a stration inform ation, stolen guns, boats, quarters at Islip Terrace. _ police. row, a visitor to the State Police ex­ articles, securities, and wanted and hibit at the State Fair in Syracuse The New York City Police De- was arrested after volunteering to -45-

-·44- ~d SOMETIMES THE MASTER IS ON HIS OWN . f handl Infrequently a ?og handler has to leave his closest associate and e a matter on IllS own. It happened when a Brittany S aJ1iel was swe,pt over 167-foot Chittenango Falls and became trapped ~n a rock ledge 130 feet from the base of the falls The t'" T D h Crow and Jicky sniff through I d th I . '" 0 roop andlers Olympic VmClge in LClke Placid t~were. emse ves by rope from the observation deck onto the ledge before tile arrit'al of competi. ben raI~ed the do~ by strapping it into a harness and hoisting it to th~ o tors to make sure tlO explo. . se} z:vahon deck mto the waiting arms of its owner a visitor from sives are al,out. Syracuse MIC lIgan. ' Herald.Joumai piloto by John Berry.

;'~:!. ~nd t~ol~:~e~~~;~~ t~~~:! tak.1! bY~~':;:;~:::'";:;::':: edge of a swamp near Middletown from various playgrounds to a sublevel of a railroad station w~"ere she fre- wI lere Ii visiting mother and her two alII' quently went to meet her mother ~~re ~l~~::~ ~::mb:~~::u~~s~l~~:' Twice the hounds stopped, but nothin~ covered at a hospital. more could be found. Two days later (~anine Corps based on the nasal observances of th~ A, B, D, G and K and the versatile dogs, the New York City PI> again The year's saddest moment for Thor, the Troop B bloodhound, shepherds who live and patrol with searched and discovered the girl's proved he merited being the namesake their trooper-masters between bouts the canine corps carne when Donner the Troop A shepherd, died of heat body hidden on a beam 35 feet directly of the mythological God of War and of sniffing out explosives, drugs, bodies, above the point where tl1e dogs had exhaustion on Aug. 1. He was one of Thunder when one morning he sniffed and wanted persons. concluded their trail. A neighbor was seven shepherds to complete 18 weeks some clothes left behind by two es­ subsequently arrested and convicted capees from Essex County Jail and then The most publicized single acti­ of training and to receive his diploma of murder and rape. tracked them from an abandoned rail­ vity by State Police dogs was the at the only Academy canine gradua­ tion in history on Nov. 10, 1978. road on a circuitous trail through "sanitizing" of Olympic Village in early Bloodhound Dudley Do Right of dense pine trees into a thick briar February preliminary to the arrival ...... Tr~op. A. demonstrated similar per­ patch where they were hiding. Their of 1,800 international athletes and spIcaCIty m tr&cking a 13 year old for only comment as they lamely sur­ support personnel at Lake Placid. three miles from his residence to a Thumper and Jill, bloodhounds rendered: "We don't believe it." The shepherds sniffed out the entire garage he was hiding, then nasally attached to Troop K, helped to catch whe~e village to make certain it was free of beat a tral1 that linked him to three Argus, the Troop D shepherd, explosives while the U.S. media a murderer. They sniffed out a path burglaries. II bearing the name of the fabled giant watched. The village was then secured, with 100 eyes, showed he has an even and the dogs stayed on for periphery keener nose when during the search security and to catch a whiff of in­ for the victim of a gangland slaying coming haggage; the shepherds can he was lowered by rope down an 80- readily detect a weapon or an illicit ShephercLf also Itave to knoru foot frozen waterfall and located the drug inside a suitcase. h~w to submit to TV inter­ body under 18 inches of ice and snow ",erus. Here Dick Wood of WTEN.Albat,y receives a non. \ less than a minute after reaching Dodge, the Troop F shepherd, committal reply from Crow. ground. demonstrated his breed's sensitivity to His IICIt/dler is Tpr. J. J. Curry, explosives when during a raid on a IlJho heads the shepherd pro­ These are two exall1ples that Wallkill town house he led arresting gram. prove the Division's canine program officers directly to hidden dynamite pays off in collars and sc('nts. Nearly and a hand grenade. He later exhibited 300 cases were logged by the sharp­ his tracking proclivities in joining with nosed bloodhounds kenneled at Troops Brummer of Troop C and Crow of

-46- -47- pulled the exhausted angler into the rising water of the Catskill Creek en­ craft. gulfed his disabled car and he was eventually swept from its roof before Missing persons oftentimes owe he could be rescued. their lives to discovery from above. A hunter missing in the Cicero State Criminal activity is at times Game Management area might have shortcircuited by eagle-eyed pilots. A perished in bone-chilling cold had not man who had assaulted a trooper and a State Police chopper located him in two Syracuse patrolmen crashed his a swampy area just before dusk. A stolen car and tried to hide in woods helicopter was also employed to find only to be spotted from up high and a missing Canadian Air Force plane captured by troopers directed to the which crashed on Peekamoose Moun· spot. A makeshift shelter in woods tain west of Kingston; the pilot pin­ couldn't hide two western New York MEDEVAC in action outside Albany Medical Center Hospital. Albany. Capital Newspapers photo by Skip Dickstein. pointed the downed cr~.ft quickly, but detention home escapees who were re­ all four aboard apparently had perish­ captured as result of an aerial search. ed on impact and it was left to troopers A rapist sought by the Colonie PD was Aviation matic deadline: prognosis was he had and forest rangers to remove the bodies. seen running through woods and was A MEDEV AC program, still in 90 minutes to live without emergency Also reclaimed as the result of several held in sight by a pilot until the de­ its infancy and some aspects unGer surgery. The operation was on time days of flights was the body of a dri­ partment's dog and handler had him study as 1981 dawned, would provide and left the child in critical but stable ver who drowned when suddenly under control. _ much of the state with hospital-to­ condition. hospital State Police air transportation in emergency medical cases. Two surplus nine-place Huey Central helicopters are employed for MFDE­ respondence. A total of 1,433 requests In one such mission of mercy, a V AC missions. They are part of the Records for verification of lost or stolen medical trauma team from Ellis Hospi­ State Police Aviation Unit which also property were processed for claim­ tal, Schenectady, was flown to Johns­ includes three Bell Jet Ranger copters, All records required by statute, ants. Soundex received 36,039 BCI town Hospital to stabilize a 14-year­ a fiXed-wing Cessna, and a turbine­ management policy or good police case reports, 32,256 uniform case old motorcyclist who in an accident had powered seven-seat Bell Long Ranger practice can be found in the Central reports and 32,600 supplemental re­ suffered severe head and leg injuries. which was added in 1980 to replace a Records Section. Existing records of ports for filing. During the year, over Treatment began alDft and continued slower, l2-year-old gas-engine Bell the Division include infonnation con­ 8,500 requests for information from for weeks at Albany Medical Center bubble copter. cerning criminal complaints and investi­ authorized agencies concerning flIes Hospital, but it was the rapid response gation, arrest data, administrative flIes, were processed with appropriate re­ (15 minutes there, 17 minutes back) The Division's 11 pilots, who fly fireanns licensees, and the arms they sponses made. that was credited with saving the in response to calls around the state possess. youth's leg and possibly his life. from airports at Albany, Syracuse, and On Dec. 31, there were 732,433 Newburgh, are backed by a mainten­ Some of the more pertinent sta­ pistol license applications on flIe in­ In other MEDEV AC flights: a ance staff of two uniform members tistics concerning the record keeping cluding 70,937 licenses issued during five-year-old kidney transplant patient and two civilians at Albany. functions of the Division are: the year. The total record of firearms was transported from Saratoga Hospi­ now on file is 3,420,083 which in­ , tal to a Boston hospital; the transfer State Police airmen are some­ At the close of 1980, theSoundex cludes 236,656 new records flIed dur­ would not have succeeded by ground times called upon to perform diffi­ criminal case index retrieval system ing 1980. A total of 61,554 amend­ conveyance, doctors reported. A pre­ cult rescue maneuvers. In one such in­ contained 1,937,986 cards, and the ments to existing pistol licenses were mature baby weighing 11/2 pounds stance, one of four fishermen who had newly-created administrative cor­ issued by the various licensing offi­ was rushed from Monticello to Albany been swept down the Salmon River respondence flIe contained 15,565 cials and were received for filing dur­ Medical Center Hospital; although the when water was released from a hydro­ cards. During the year, 167,960 in­ ing the year. Responses were made to mission was successful, the infant suc·· electric plant was located from aloft dex cards were generated, reflecting 5,732 inquiries concerning weapons cum bed later. A comatose seven-year­ clinging to a bush on a small island. case reports and administrative cor- and licenses during 1980. _ old boy suffering a cerebral hemorrage Since land rescuers couldn't reach was shifted from Potsdam to Syracuse him, the copter hovered overhead -49- Upstate Hospital in the face of a dra- and a trooper aboard as an observer

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was able to develop the waterlogged film, one shot showed the missing woman at the campsite holding the beer. Investigation then led to a youth who had been seen nearby. He led the BCI to a fallen tree under which he had buried both bodies.

Divers from Troop A used safety lines to enter a section of the Niagara River where reverse currents created a whirlpool effect. Their objective: to investigate a suspected dumping site for stolen automobiles. The divers inlmediately emerged to report two late model cars below. The thieves had apparently selected that spot de­ liberately because of the unlikeliness of discovery. A Troop C diver emerges from the Susque­ Two Troop G divers get a helping hand from an Albany patrolmatl Ivhile dredging Tivoli hanna River with two stolen weapons. Lake for a drownirlg victim. Albany PD photo by Joe WincheD. Two difficult winter recoveries were recorded by Troop D divers. In one, a State Police helicopter dropped then found the missing adventurer. In Seuba Divers and the search party, which included a marker on frozen Oneida Lake where a dangerous assignment, divers entered two fire department divers, was con­ a snowmobiler had apparently gone the St. Lawrence River in search for a The most exhaustive and ex­ fronted by a treacherous trip: first a through ice in a bUn ding snowstorm. despondent teacher thought to be a hausting search for drowning victims lengthy voyage along the Saranac Four days of diving below eight-inch suicide victim. When winds suddenly in many years was carried on for seven River in a small boat, then a two-mile layers of ice came up empty. Again shifted, menacing ice floes drifted weeks stretching from April through hike portaging 150 pounds of equip­ the helicopter was called in, and the through the area, necessitating a halt. June after four collegians disappeared ment per diver over a narrow, slippery pilot noted a shiny object three miles By the next day, the floes had cleared in the Great Sacandaga Lake. All Troop mountain trail through freezing rain from the search scene--a helmet and searchers were ahle to locate the G divers, joined by many scubamen and sleet. The searchers made it and partially protruded through the frozen body 100 yards from where the from other troops, conducted this ex­ came up with the body of the angler, surface, and the subsurface operatives instructor had entered the water._ traordinarily difficult needle-in-a hay­ which they carried back over the same stack hunt in frigid, roily, obstacle­ route. laden water that enshrouded its vic­ tims in near zero visibility. As relatives These are just two of many, lined the shore in an unending vigil, varied assignments handled by State searchers eventually were able to ac­ Police troopers who become detached count for all bodies--three were re­ from normal patrol duty to slip into Thirty rolls of stole'l copper covered and one floated to the surface. underwater gear when the occasion de­ wire are recovered from Chit­ \ Most of the personal effects of the mands. All troops except the Thruway tenango Creek by Troop D quartet were also dredged up. have teams of about six divers. divers. Oneida Daily Dispatch photo by Mike Sorenson. Obstacles of a different kind Troop A divers helped to resolve greeted two Troop B divers summoned a double murder by recovering several to recover a non-swimming fisherman items from a large pond near which a who went down with his leaky row­ couple on a camping hip was last seen. boat in a Franklin County pond. The Among them was a camera and a bottle fishing spot was all but inaccessible of beer; when the identification section -51- -50- ~ ~--~ ---

New Hiring Guidelines For 1981 Class

At year's end, the Division was job-related examination with the help making plans to begin a recruit class in of minority groups, educators, and mid-February that will be unique in police officials around the country and the organization's history: the new­ the U.S. Civil Service Commission. A comers will be hired under a federally federal grant subsidized a prototype mandated quota syste.m. police examination.

In 1979, following a lengthy In 1975, preliminary to giving court case, Chief Justice James T. the examination, a major recruitment Foley of the U.S. District Court's program in line with Governor Carey's Northern District ordered that future affirmative action initiatives was under­ classes have a population of 10 per­ taken. It included widespread dissemi­ cent female, 40 percent Black and nation of information and recruiting Hispanic, and 50 percent male Cau­ utilizing storefronts in the inner cities casian and others. and enlisting the assistance of minority Superintendetlt ContleUe is flanked by tile three u)jntlers of the Bnlmmer AlVard, the highest State Police honor for bravery, from left, Tpr. Robert A. Sto1)', IntI. Douglas N. Dymond, leaders. As a result, the 22,000 appli­ and Tpr. Wayne G. Lawrence. . In this initial class since that cants taking the examination included ruling, the 185 troopers will be com­ 2,000 minorities and 1,200 women. posed of 74 minorities, 19 women, A wards 1.3)Y and 92 white men and others. In September 1977, the U.S. In another house fire in the Town Attorney General's Office filed a com­ The daring rescue of two children of Rochester, Ulster County, Tpr. The order will remain in ef­ plaint against the Division of State in separate house fires earned two Wayne G. Lawrence broke through a fect until the percentages of minori­ Police alleging discriminatory practices troopers and an investigator the Brum­ window and helped a mother and her ties employed as members of the Di­ in the employment of minorities and mer Award, the highest State Police four-year-old son to safety while lnv. vision are in proportion to the State females as members of the State Police. honor for bravery. Douglas H. Dymond crept into the population, while the female represen­ After many months of negotiations flaming bedroom to rescue the two­ One of the recipients, Tpr. year-old daughter. tation will undergo a review in two and numerous hearings before the U.S. Robert A. Story, subsequently became years. District Court in Albany, a lengthy trial ensued in' the summer of 1978. the first Division member to be Fifteen members received Super­ Also at year's end, a major re~ honored with the Carnegie Hero Medal, intendent's Commendation Awards, cruiting campaign was being mapped the nation's highest award for non-war chosen from among Superintendent's The lawsuit centered around the to precede a statewide examination related heroism. He also received the commendations for outstanding per­ validity of the State Police job-related projected for June 1981. A similar examination that was developed in con M 1980 Medal of Honor of the New York fonnance during 1979. They were: Sr. campaign in 1979 attracted 4,200 junction with the U.S. Civil Service State Chiefs of Police Association. Inv. Thomas J. Carl, Invs. Kenneth J. minorities and 3,300 females among Commission over a period of four Troidl, Don T. Fuhnnan, Douglas B. 25,000 examination applicants. years. The Division found itself drawn In the highlight of a series of Smith, David R. Ferringer, Michael into a major philosophical conflict be­ presentations at the fourth annual G. Poisson, and Lawrence P. McDonald, The court case has this history: tween the U.S. Department of Justice A wards Day at the Academy May 5, an d Tprs. Bruce A. Bell, Daniel E. and the U.S. Civil Service. Judge Foley the three each received $1,000 repre­ Hanchett, Brendan Moran, Gerald C. , In 1973, the State Police com­ ruled against the State Police and senting income from a trust fund es­ Allwell, John W. Sucharski Jr., James menced the development of a totally ordered the insititution of guidelines. a tablished in 1968 by the late Bertram W. Cafe III, James M. Byrne, and F. Brummer and his wife, Susie. William J. Mante.

Tpr. Story broke through the The annual State Troopers second-floor window of a flaming Alumni Association Award was pre­ dwelling in Canastota, Madison County, sented to Tpr. Jose E. Irizarry. Recipi­ to rescue an unconscious two-year­ ent of the annual George M. Searle old boy, applying mouth-to-mouth Memoml Award for contributions to -53- resuscitation as he crawled to safety. training went to Tpr. Frank A.DiNuzzo. a

-52- CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT DATA

Persons Arrested' Feloni es Mi sdemeanars Lesser Offens e s Hpfc·rrl·d Arrl'sll'd DiSill issc·d 10 ·P{lrC"(lnt Off.. 111'<('1'< or ('ol1vic·l .. d or Fnmily ('onvic'll'd HUltlll10flPd Aequillc'd Court

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it CRIMINAL OFFENSES FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1980 PI'ndlng III Pl'nding at lll'ginning Known or F'nl~(' or (,1I'ml'd by ('Io"pd by Hl'purtt'd Unfoundpd Arn,,,t lnvP"tiglltion I';nd of !'Priod of I'Ni()d Off('n"p" \Ii"d. IIlld ~Ii"d. IUlIl ~Ii"d. !lnd Mi"d. lind \l1"d. lind MI"d. lind FpioniPH h'.s,spr I,'plonll''' It'HHPr Vl'lonit'" IpHHPr fi\tioni(ls Ip:-:tHPr F(lioniPH Ipst-wr F'pionipH IpHHPr ofrt'Il1-'(tH ()fft'n~PH orrt'nso:-. Ofr(lnHt'H uffplU'W:-; Orr('nHPH

AggrtlVlIll'd IIl1rtl""lIlpnl :I~ :11'11 liD \l09 219:3 27 Agri('ullurl' and \Iarkl'l." Llllv :1ol7 ,10 70 232 5 A 1('011011(' lll'v"rngl' Conlrol Lllw HI a 128 na 1 ~O5 8 174 6 Animlll" (('rillw" Only) 5 ~05 1 71 8 S3 I 241l I 3 tH"on 210 70Q 202 200 316 222 A""aull..- 117 7 IIUO 711 17 05 1051 502 99 i73 110 11 B"il Jumping 2!l 17 IO!] I:l~ I:I~ 101 9 10 73 .J4 BribPrY 2 a :l!J 2() 2 a an 16 1 4 2 Burgll\rj 51!)!,; 2n7~n !lO5!) 51l0n 11()!\~ 5078 CO(lrc·jon 2 li 17 7 7 2 0 1 1 Con:-oprvlLtion LI\\\' ~ :lIO~ :J:l:l 12tH 1972 1 ('on"pir,lC'Y 2 :17 Ino an 157 1 2 2 1 ControlJpd :->Ub"tlll1C'(' lii() a~ 11:1n 51)IH 0:) 05 I02U 663,1 00 1~9 1:11 H Criminal ~Iis('hipf :Wl 2()O 12~7 1·I~n:l '.!:J OHR ,,:In 30aa IlOG 112:)0 308 112 Criminal Nui,slUl('(t 71 0 :J1l 37 Criminal ')'rpl:-tlH\HH 7 I 11175 H5~ 1 ~nl~ 1l0OO 9 Crlminlll l'"ullr~' 1 n II 1 5 ·1 :J 9 Custodilll Inlprf"rPlw(' I !l 5 2:1!l 2 on ,1 7fl 97 3 5 \ DIl.n~(lrou:-; \\pl\pon~ 11 :JI 5a·1 1127 :)0 ail 10·1 067 1:\ 115 11 31 DiHordc>rly ConduC'l 17 J(i2(W 5!'iH :I:J77 1~(la9 9 1·:t1u('alion La\v 1 I 0 :.Hl !l 7 9 7 2 14~I('pti()n LILW 1 2·1 I :JO t 1':111\'1';'.;'. 1I'mI'II 1 Iii 17ii In ·1 157 :17 11\ 11 13 1 1'~=--('IlJJlI~ and A h.... ('ond i ng 7'1 15 lin !l!lll I ·1 167 155 ,I 1113 1111"111"111 In l!l~ III tun 5 1 1""lIIil,\o ('ourl .,\pl 5~ 7:JIO 120 10M 5156 37 F,·!l(Or,11 orrl'n,,"" I I :JU() l:In !l 7 :J·l·1 !Hi 11) 3a :Jl Fir('work" 0211 I~ aou 577 1 ri"urgpr.). nnel CitJlIll'rr"i lillI-{ !I!h '; :JOOO 11)1) I fin 00 H 2:111<1 ~~ :l15 16 306 17 I··mud ),)! a!l7 ~5~ ~I05 !lil 121 77H Ga'G til 17:l2 IlO :l1l3 (illm\,lil1g I !l 170 27!l a Ii IOU ~>tu 1'\ ~6 :l Ppndin!.: nL Known or [i'al~·w or Cll'l\rl'd by ClllI'H,d by Pl'ndin!.: al Il"/-linnin/-l [l"jlorll·d l'nfoundl'd ArrPHl I';nd of P"rlod lnvf.':-lligalioCi of [\'rlod Offl'n""" WHd, nnd ~IIHd, and ~IiHd, lind ~11"d, lUll I .\11"d, and ~IiHd, nnl! F'plonil':-l 11'HHf.'r F'l'lonil'H 11'HHPr Fplonit'H h'.:4t4pr F'l'ioniPB !t.\,s,sf.'r r~l'lonil'~ 1(':40:-:(,1' Fl'lonit'.s Ip~':'H'r uffpllHl'H (Jfrl'IlHf.1 H off(,IIlH(":4 uffl'IlHPH orf('n~(,H O(fPIlHl'H

nl'lll'l'nl Bw-:iIlPHH La\\' ~ 00 a 2 51 15 II indl·rin/-l Pro"",'uliun 10 ,W 10 ~I 5 1I0mi('ld,,: ~Iurd"r Ion H2 5 00 H lOG ~Inn" Inll/-lh l"r 8 1:1 a [) I 8 Crlminlll \If.'gli~(1IH·(,~ i\ulo I 1(1 II 7 8 Olllt'r ·111 ·108 ~.~(\ ()~ ·jS 52 \\idl1l1l'l'in/-l I 5t ~~ ~~ a (j Ll\hor Li\\\' a 7 27 2 10 5 1:1 \ Lnr('(ln~ - Tllt·fl \-'Ina ~5a 180n 17~t5 ~·I(l J.I ,I n 10·11 500U :H)75 U75,1 l:loa 2nG Loilt>rln/-l 4US I I ,1(1 HI ~1t'l1l.l\1 IIY/-lit'np Lill\· ao 81 Ii:! 5, II U8 nill! I ~' ~Iolor \'"hic'l" 'I'hpfl UO II 1185 10·10 8al !l50 207 !lOG 08·1 BO:! na 34 Nl\vignlion Lnw 50 I ~1 8~ ObHc'pnlly I1l1d Indl'l'l'nl ~"Il"rilll ~ I 5 2:J 8 rjury 2:J 2 III 2 ·1 l'oHI:H'HHlon of Ilur/-llnr Tool" I Ha I·I.! I'riHon ('onlmlHlnd (I'romolfn/-l) 10 In 70 :lIlS ·1 no aUi 3 a!l ~ 11 I'rm'li lu lion lind \' ic'" 10 I 1i I Public' Drug IlIloxic'nLioll ,15 II al Publl(' 11"l\llh Ln IV :! :\ :! :l:!:1 :Ja 8 ~:JI I 7(i I :l HilI''' - ForC'ihlt· ~a lOr, -II 1\)', :)7 a7 Rill''' - A Lh'mptN I 27 (1 1a I 5 n"111 Propt'rly Lnw III I In ~ Hohh!'rY I~ I 50:) 155 ~n5 1·15 In:! S('x Off"nH"8 ·16 10 7r,2 (107 R5 :17 5na r)(11 7:1 no 57 2'i Simple AH811uiL a:) -I 1007-1 4111 2 IH~ ~ fdl ~ ,I:J PpntiitH! al POl1dlng uL 1\1101\11 or F'nlHp or Cl<'!\rNI by Clos('d by BI'~innill~ I/Pl'orlpd llnfound"d Arrt'HL In vN;LlgnLlon r~nd of P('riod of Porlod Offl'/I""" \l1"d. lind ~II:-;d. I\l1d MiHd. Ill1d ~IiHd ••tnd MisC!. fllld MIHd. unci I,'plonipt--. l(>~!'lt'r I'\')onil't' h1 :-u"H'f [·'"Ioni<'" l{,~Hpr ri\l Ion i('t4 It'SSM F\--ioniN; leHse,' [~t~lonlos IOHser {Jfr(1n~(l~ orrpll:"u':-t UrrPllHN"; off,'n:-;PH offC'll:-;ps offOllSt'S

Slolpll Prlll'prl~ {il f, 1:J17 nS7 ,10 51 11tH RGO 65 68 58 7 l 'nauthori/.l'd tT..... (. of \ .. h il'\,' a I 1,100 :Jl:J 700 545 37 l'nll\\l fu1 IIl1l'ri""11llll'l1l !l a rd n~ ~ 24 13 62 3 14 9 1 \11 Ollll·r" 1~lll I.i:,'l",f\ 1!1 In (l:l~ r,~\la % 1010 50A 1677 45 407R 19 13

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Ppnciing P"'Hling ~I"ll",,; F'al,sC' or ('oll\'l'rtl'(l to (,1",,, •.1 by rla~.sj fiC'alion of In\'P~ligalion;:-.; 13{~ginning End of 1/('porL,'d l'nfound"d Criminal ('n~p Inv{'~ Ligation of Pl'riod (,<·,.jod

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,\ irp!'"H' 7~ 23 1 .J7 a IlunLing 2 86 5 RO 3 NIIViglltiOl1 :l :If> ~ ~4 :l 1'min 31 :1 :11 ~liHc('IIIIl1(,ou,,; 11 1638 2~ :l 1610 14 Animal" (No C'rinH' Inv"lv(>d) :l 5097 51 :J 5HaG ApJ.llielll1i.H (fliviHiol1 Only) 1)0 100 :J(lO :J3il DPIILh, NIILuml 15 080 9 HRI 11 Drowning 1 ill 7 72 :1 1"ir,,"rmH lind \\l'apOl1H (No Crim,' Involv(>(!) 84 ~12 0 a~7 'lO F'ire.s, FloudH, OLlH'r lliHII,.;Lur,.; 1 772 , 80 ·1 670 1 Lo.st. and \lisHing PllrHon::-; 3S 1:l8S 200 :J6 ·1050 ·11 I'rop"rLy - LOHL al1d [<'ound 47 a608 81 10 3600 5·1 SuiC'idt' (inC'lud" ALL('mpL.."i) 11 574 8:1 6 48·1 1:J A It OLlwr 77 3700:J 1>75 17 361:13 54

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Tow,,· :120 56072 1465 74 54a74 479 INVESTIGATIVE ACTION SUMMARY, CRIMINAL AND NONCRIMINA~ * CALENDAR YEAR 1980 Pending Ilt Known Fa.lse Cleared Closed Con vPrted to Pending at TyflG of Activity Beginning Iteport"d or by by Criminal End of Period or RHC('ivpc1 Unfounded A rrel< t Invl'I

Criminal ViolationI' 10044 168209 17723 65713 85116 9701 Noncrirnitml Inv"I

TOTAL ACTIVITY 10364 227565 19188 65713 142774 74 10180

*Y"hiul" and Tmffic Poloni"1< and Mil

HUMMARY - UNITH OF worm

Criminal Cal<"1' I~"port"d 168209 V"hiel" and Traffic CIlSCS 674945 N oncri rn i nal In VOl< tig[llionl' 56072 V"hielp and Traffic Inv"I

VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT DATA Hazardous Violation Arrests

I'prcpnt of All Violation NumbN of ArrN1. 1·1-1 :" 3.·1 1401 0.0 J)roVll Median Rtrlp 1570 (l.cl Motoreyol(> [':qul]ll11l'nt Infraction 177~ 0.4 ~Iotor V"hleI" Equipnll'lIt !nfnwlion 0383 Jo;'llIlpmpnt - MiHd. 2.~ :J07 0.1 Fai I to Comply ~03 0') !~ai I to Dim LlghtH 9:.l~ 0') I·'ail to ](ppp Hight 61:J5 1.5 Fai I to/Impropl'r Signal :l11:3 (l.5 Fail to Stop/fiail road 50 0.0 Failed to Yipld Hight of \\'a~ ·1316 1.0 I~ollowlng Too (,loH" ~559 Highway Law 0.0 lOS 0.0 II ilC'hh i king 158~ 0.·1 Illpgl\l TurnH ·1:197 I.(l Improppr Lnllt' Usngp 399~ 1.0 ImprOllPr l'aH"ing 780Q 1.7 Innch'quatp BrakpH - ~!iHd. 45 0.0 InH('('url' Load - ~fi"d. 1')') 0.0 InHuffiC'ipnt Light'" :l8031 7.S No Hpd Flag - Light." 275 0.1 OUHt.ruetpd \,iHi on !Hi05 0.6 Onp-\\ny Traffic 5GO 0.1 I'l\I'klng In fraption 1497 1.1 PaHH lh'd Light 51369 PUHH School BUH l.a :lGO 0.1 PU"I< Stop Sign 7837 1.7 Pt'dpHtrinn IlIfrnC'lion 02 0.0 Hpc'kll'HH Driving - ~fiHd. 10RO 0.3 Spl'l'ding Infrtwlion :l0:l0:l0 68.3 Srwoding, 'Conlii tion~ 4tH 1 1.1 Sp"l'ding - ~fiHd. 5:3 0.0 Un~(\f(' Tirl'H 8757!l n.5 Other l!azllrdouH Infra,'tlollH GS31 1.5 Olllt'r III\znrdouH/Biey<'ll' 11 ~ 0.0 Othl'r l!a~ardouH !~tC' 60 0.0 To tal l!lIzardouH \' iolaliollH I:J 13·11 100.0

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Accident Causes Personal Properly PercenL of Non hazar d ous V'10 I atlan. Arrests Principul Causes of Aceldenls F'aLlti Injury ))nll1ugl' Tolnl '''ULld Pc'rc'pn l of A II Non- "iolalion Numbpr of /1I·rc',,[.'< ha;; 0.7 Driver lnpxperienced 8 440 475 923 1.9 L"fll'\""n<' Ac'('id('nt.'~lh·aJ. al0 0.1 Drugs (Il1pgal) 16 15 31 0.1 Li('pnHP Tnfrll.('lion ~5315 10.0 F'ailure Lo Yiold !l.O.IV. 25 1323 2020 3368 6.9 Li<·pn~{·. t~liNd. 1!.!5 0.0 29 703 639 1371 2.8 Lill<'l'ing lRO:! 0.7 F'ell Asl !?OP 2 1117 1659 2808 5.7 ~Iuffll'r Infl'll('lion ~il~·l a.l Following Too Close 0.1 Li('('ns{' ,"';u~pllIHl(1d - H(\\'okpcJ '\IL·ul. 1107a 4.1 Illness 3 ,11 15 59 0') II<'gl"lmlion SU"I"'nd"d - Ilpvuk"d '\Ii"d. ~\l 0.0 Losl Consciousness 6 70 21 97 Ovpr.~l;~<, \,pllic'l" 1 .) 21lG·1 Passenger Dislmction 1 55 70 126 0.3 OV"rw<,ighllnfrnC'lion 1627R G•• j 53 1334 2670 4057 B.3 No }>prmiL ~izl' \\(light Passing/Lana Usage Improper :11 0.0 1.1 H<'gi"lration Infrn<'lion 4aaR!) 17.1 PedesLrlan l~rror/Confusion 36 478 33 5'17 23 0.0 I/<'gi"lralion. '\Ii"d. ~O 0.0 Physical Disability 7 16 0') 20 0.0 l';x('p:--H ,~JI1()h.(' ·11 !l Prpscription ~Iedleation 10 10 I .J \'<'IIi"I" In"pl"'tion Infra('lioll R18:l0 :12.0 Tmffic Control DC'vice 10 263 317 590 OLllt'r NOllha;, 197 0.1 2.1 Turning improperly 1 274 760 1035 Olh"r NOllhn;:f\l'ciouH/~liHd. 102 0.0 125 3639 4895 8059 17.7 LO('nl Ln.w:-; - Orciinn.I1('p a:l·1 0.1 Unsnfe Hpeed 6.4 1';aHt lIuti"on Parkway AUlhority lIul,·".'IIt'gH. 7073 .1.0 OLhN Human Causps 26 1064 2067 3157 l'ubliP 11"al th Law/MiHd. !l 0.0 21335 36800 75.1 Trn.nHp()rLaLion Law 75.f.1 3.0 ToLal Humnn 479 14986 Thruwny ViolntionH :l7·j7 1.1 Truc'k ~Iilc'agp Tal< Law HMO a.1i

P(1/'80nal Propllrty l'Ncl'nL of 1·'.,Lnl 'I'otal Principnl'Causps of Accldpnl.<; Injury J)al1ln~(' 'I'olal

- VEHICU LA R - Tolul NonhmmrciouH Violation" 253604 100.0 Acc(lll'rntor ))erl'('tiv(' 30 50 116 0.2 674945 'i'olld Trnffic' Arrc·"I.~ 13ruJ..c'" J)dl·clive 2 104- 191 207 0.0 lIeadlight DC'ft'clivl' 6 8 14 0.0 Vehicle and Tra ff'Ie A rres s 0.1 Other Ligh tin~ J)t'fet'll:< 19 45 64 0.1 Ppnding Tolal Closed by PC'nding PC'l'cl'nt Con- OVl'l'SiZl' V('hieic' 3 52 55 BC'ginning All ConvictionR J)iRmissals End of vietl'd ,Casps Invc·.;;tigation Htc~t\r F'ailurp 110 1:35 251 0.5 of I'Prlod Arrp::lls P('f'iod in Court Tiw Fnilun./lnndNlunlc' 5 26H 509 782 1.6 10 54 64 0.1 cr Tow lIil('h J)pfeetivl' :lG<141:J 674945 5255-16 • 96157 r)742~ 2502:]7 Sf: " " . II'lndshi('ld Inad",qultL(' 5 2 7 0.0 .. nilS mcludes I.JJ.. 10 ulsmlssals - Nollce or Correcllon - Lights - which Bccoun ts for 13·~ of dismissals OLhl'r Vc.hil'ul,tr Cnusl's 1 251 949 1201 2.5 Ac'dCI en t A no IYSI s Tnllll \'('lti('ull1l' 8 IlIIl 1!l05 2R21 5.8 P"rsonal Injury l:ropt'rty Y<'!tr Tolol Aeeid('nls F'atal A(·eid(·nlH Domagl' ;\eeid('nts A('(' id(.n I.... 1!l79 ·1563f1 177 15542 29620 - Ppr,sonal I'roPNty P(~r('fln t () r 'i'otld 10110 ·18989 ·195 17358 !II la6 Prin"il'lll ('IlUHl'I:< or AC'('idc'nll:< ["atltl Injury D'lnlllgP Toled

Speedi n 9 A rres s - ENVIRONMENTAL - ,1 581 5!lGG 6450 la.8 P('r('('nl P{)rC'(lont Anim"l'" AC'tion Totul o 'J y(ln.r of Tolal (;Ill/'(> ·14 57 101 \ Hpt'pd Radar of To Lui PaLrol SpPl'd Ii 0.0 Hp<'l'd Lane ~1r1l'king hnpropc>r,'lnadNluatc' 2 6 1.1 1979 2GR611 23~HS7 80,6 36127 13.,1 Obstrut'li,ln. 'Dc·bris 1 120 10G 53il 0.1 1080 26G563 225449 84.6 .111 \ry HIHluldNs Dl'f,.(·Liv,•. 'ImpropN 1 G 27 42 0.1 Intaxlcat d DrI . 'i'mffic' Control ll(,vi('l' ImpropC'r.' e ver V'10 I a t'Ions 0.0 Non work ill~ 7 10 17 Totul TOlnl ('11(>micnl T('sts Total Convictions ConviC'tions ('onvietions \,i c'IV Obstructpd.'Limi l"d 1 lOR 1(;2 271 0.6 Y"ur DIn R('fusnls DWI DIVA! L('sser 69 IGf) 238 0.5 Arrpsl.<; BrpaLh Blood lTrine Churg(' OllH'r Environml'ntal ('ausc's I 9a68 10.1 1970 12·107 10106 675 6 15·16 4141 5351 2955 'i'oull ":llvirOlll1lc'ntnl 8 155·1 7806 311:36 41i989 100.0 1980 1·1593 10728 lll·j n 1659 ·1096 6630 2546 Total ('nll.sl\~ ·IA" 17358 -Con\.:l toi n col umns Include persons arrested m prevIOus years. x ix ------

Accident Arrests Ac·c·ide·nl Arrp,",lH for Prirwil'al ('au,",l'H of A{'{'idl'ntH 'I'hil4 Viulaliull PprC"l'nt. ur Total

~pc',,(I.'To() Flll4l fur Conditionl4 31J.14 1") I) [o'ailc·c! lu 1«',,1' ltiJ.lhl 330!) 10.5 Flli\"d to Yi"ld H.O.II. :J003 .q.O FollowinJ.l Too (,IOH" j.j I:J .(.,1 Iml'rol'or I'nHl4illg Hl-15 5.0 Bac'king l1nHllr('I~' 755 ~1.3 IIl1d UPl'n Dri nk ing 3927 1~!. 1 Iml'rqll'r Turning OUO ~. t 1 ., L'nHaf" l':quil'nll'nl :\RR .~ llnHllf" 'l'iwl4 I:JOR ·1.0 Imprtll'or Parking - ~lopl'ing :J19 0.7 [h'c·klpl4l4 llriving 30:J 1.1 1 ., Pl\R~('d KLop Hign 395 .u Fail"d to ~ignnl 105 0.3 LiJ.lhll4 - ImproPN USl' - Dpf""Uvl' 159 0.5 Pussl'd Rc.d Light :J5R O.H OLlll'r lIn;',ll rdous Violalions 262 O.R Nonhmmrdou8 ViolationI' 10439 32.2

TOlal 32430 100.0

Rood Check Stotl stl cs

(!loud checks rC'quirC'd by Section 300, Vehi"l" nnd Tmffic- 1,111\) Totul Ch('ckpoints [1('ld 2003

!load Clwck Arr('sls: V&T 337<10 Criminal 805 Tolal 34605

INVgSTIGATIvr.~ ACTIVITY - VEIIlCLE AND THAfW!C

NUMlll>:R TYPE OF INVgSTIGATION CON[)U(,Tl~D Depl. of Transporlation (re traffie signals, spo()d zones, olhN ('onlrols) 2450 Suspension & Hevocalion Ordflrs for DeparlmC'nl of Motor Vehic'los 10539 Falal Accidont Scene Heview 495 Tolal Invesligalions 13·1[;4

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