City revives narcotics division
Lt. John Velleca to lead unit disbanded after arrest of two officers by Feds in March 2007
A year and a half after a corruption scandal in the New Haven Police Department Narcotics Enforcement Unit rocked the city and forced Mayor John DeStefano Jr. to dissolve the unit, the city will get a new narc.
Lt. John Velleca, a 16-year NHPD veteran and head of the department’s special investigations division, has been appointed by police Chief James Lewis to lead the narcotics division. The group, which will have 16 detectives and sergeants, will start up again as early as this winter, almost two years after it was dissolved, the New Haven Register reported Friday. Although the...
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