Narcotics unit revived
Lt. John Velleca stood at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Sherman Parkway Tuesday afternoon, his hair closely cut and his suit crisply pressed. Although he follows in the notorious and sourly remembered footsteps of his predecessor, he appeared unfazed by his reborn narcotics division’s tarnished past.
Velleca, the newly appointed head of the New Haven Police Department’s narcotics enforcement unit, is set to replace former Lt. Billy White, the currently imprisoned officer who nearly sent the city’s police department into a tailspin in March 2007. Now, it is up to Velleca to...
“Whether it’s a homicide or a motor-vehicle accident, it doesn’t matter,” Sydnor said. “There’s no difference.”
The chief said that, not Sydnor.