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Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Wednesday he has told city lawyers to investigate a top aide accused of engineering the promotion of a city police detective and quashing a disciplinary report against the officer.
The allegations surfaced in an e-mail police Cmdr. Catherine McNeilly sent to the mayor and council in which she accused Operations Director Dennis Regan of impeding her attempts to discipline Acting Detective Francis M. Rende for what she called an abuse of sick time tantamount to "incompetency, conduct unbecoming an officer" and "neglect of duty."
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The Boston Globe
23 September 2006
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No cellphones. No computers. No visitors, including their children's playmates, unless they're on an approved list. And absolutely no leaving the house, unless they're strapped to a stretcher and heading to the hospital for emergency care.
Those were just some of the restrictions a federal judge set yesterday while granting bail for two Boston police officers who are charged with conspiring to traffic cocaine and heroin, in one of the department's biggest corruption cases.
The homes of Carlos A. Pizarro, 36, and Nelson Carrasquillo, 35, both in Dorchester, will be searched for weapons before the two are released, on Monday at the earliest.
Their home telephones will be monitored, and the officers will be fitted with electronic bracelets that will trigger an alarm if they stray outside.
The court must approve all visitors before they come.
``I don't want any witness to run any risk," said US District Judge William G. Young, who ordered the restrictions after prosecutors argued that Pizarro and Carrasquillo might try to recruit others -- possibly via the Internet or on disposable cellphones -- to intimidate or harm the government's key witness or his family.
When Pizarro's lawyer, R. Bradford Bailey, asked if the names of children coming to the home for play dates with Pizarro's 9-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son also had to be approved by the court, Young said, ``Yes! This is going to interfere with people's living."
Both Pizarro's wife, Michele, and Carrasquillo's wife, Sharon, told the judge that they understood the strain the conditions would put on their families, but were willing to abide by them and report any violations in order to have their husbands home.
The government urged Young to overrule a magistrate judge who had ordered Pizarro, a 10-year veteran of the department, and Carrasquillo, a seven-year veteran, released on bail.
The alleged ringleader in the case, Officer Roberto Pulido, 41, of Hyde Park, a 10-year veteran assigned to the motorcycle unit, has been ordered jailed without bail until the case is resolved.
The three officers were arrested July 20 in Miami on charges that they protected 100 kilograms of cocaine while it was being trucked to Boston in June by undercover FBI agents posing as drug dealers.
Carrasquillo and Pulido were also charged with protecting an earlier shipment of 40 kilograms of cocaine.
An FBI affidavit filed in court alleges that Pulido was involved in a wide array of crimes, including identity theft, steroid trafficking, and protecting illegal after-hours parties where uniformed officers mingled with drug dealers and prostitutes.
Yesterday, Assistant US Attorney John T. McNeil argued that Pizarro and Carrasquillo might flee if released and would pose a danger.
He cited FBI tapes played during earlier court proceedings in which Pulido boasts that those who helped him protect drug shipments knew that ``if something goes bad and they're at fault, somebody is going to pay, either with their life or their children's lives."
But lawyers for Pizarro and Carrasquillo argued that Pulido's statements about killing children were false bravado and that their clients had no history of violence.
Young said he believed the strict conditions would protect witnesses, while allowing the officers to remain free until their trial. Both officers must also post $50,000 in cash and $200,000 in real estate.
After the hearing, Stephen Neyman, Carrasquillo's lawyer, called the judge's bail conditions fair and said Carrasquillo, a father of three, was grateful for the opportunity to be free after spending 24 hours a day locked in a cell.
Pizarro's lawyer said the family's willingness to abide by such strict restrictions to have him home was ``a real testament of their support" for the officer.
``His kids are willing to give up the Internet," Bailey said.
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