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Sep 30, 2015 · Joseph Coffey, a tough-as-nails cop whose legendary police career involved interviewing “Son of Sam” killer David Berkowitz, repeatedly arresting mobster John Gotti and protecting boxer Joe...
Sep 30, 2015 · NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Legendary NYPD Detective Sgt. Joseph Coffey, who worked on some of the city's most high-profile cases, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 77.
- Early Suspicions
- Police Records Found
- ‘Gaspipe’ Talks
- Wrong Guy
- Move to Las Vegas
Joseph Coffey, the highly regarded, one-time head of NYPD’s Organized Crime Task Force and who knew Eppolito and Caracappa before retiring in 1985, said he suspected both men and prevented Caracappa from joining the squad (Caracappa joined it after Coffey left). “It was well-known they were hooked up with the Mob,” Coffey told The Philadelphia Inqu...
In 1984, FBI agents raided a home in New Jersey occupied by a Sicilian Mafia soldier and major heroin trafficker, Rosario Gambino. Inside, agents recovered a file folder with police Intelligence Division records used by Eppolito. The pages, photocopied at the detective’s station in Brooklyn, contained his fingerprints. He had signed a records log f...
A huge hint came in 1994, 10 years before Kaplan’s statement, this time from “Gaspipe” himself. Casso, facing charges related to the 36 murders he confessed to, turned informant for the feds and offered a detailed account of the work he assigned to Eppolito and Caracappa (Eppolito had retired in 1990 and Caracappa, on a disability pension, in 1992)...
That December, Casso asked Kaplan to direct Santoro to get the two cops to use the police computer to obtain the address and photo of a guy named Nicholas Guido, another person on the list provided by Eppolito and Caracappa. But Santoro said that Eppolito wanted more money, another $4,000. Casso declined and decided to search for Guido himself. Aft...
By the mid-’90s, after a grand jury in New York declined to indict Eppolito and Caracappa, they moved across the country, to homes on the same street in suburban southwest Las Vegas. Both cashed their substantial NYPD pension checks. Caracappa took a job as assistant chief of security at a women’s prison in North Las Vegas. Eppolito, a one-time bod...
Oct 2, 2015 · Joseph Coffey, a New York City detective sergeant who took the confession of the serial killer known as Son of Sam, arrested John J. Gotti three times, trailed a minor mobster from Little Italy...
Sep 30, 2015 · Legendary NYPD Detective Sgt. Joseph Coffey, whose storybook crime-busting career spanned locking up gangsters, interviewing Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz, and dancing with First...
Sep 9, 2018 · NYPD Detective Joe Coffey is the former Commanding Officer of the New York Organized Crime Force. Coffey harassed & tracked the Irish Mob, Mafia and even serial killers dur ing more than 30 years as a detective for the NYPD, and the state anti-Mob task force.
Oct 1, 2015 · NYPD Detective Sgt. Joseph Coffey died this past Sunday. He was 77 and had suffered from cancer. The high-profile mob buster was known for his frequent media appearances, as well as an organized crime taskforce he led that solved more than 80 gangland hits.
