![]() ![]() Attorney Michael Barnett.Theriot was held without bond at Northern Neck Regional Jail pending a court hearing, Smith said.Īuthorities suspect Theriot fatally shot Billy Ernest, 43, his son Tanner, 17, and daughter Summer, 20, in their Livingston Parish home early Saturday before driving to his parents home. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Ingrao is being represented by Albany lawyer Lee Kindlon. ![]() There, in a trap compartment, police found nine plastic bags of white powder later revealed to be cocaine, the affidavit said.Īn attorney for Sinde could not be immediately reached. The trooper called for a drug-detecting police dog who signaled the alerted troopers to the vehicle's trunk. The trooper placed Ingrao back in the patrol car. "When the trooper opened the Jeep’s trunk, Ingrao got out of the patrol car and approached the trooper, asking for a cigarette and saying he needed to use the bathroom," the affidavit said. The trooper put Ingrao in his patrol car and further checked Ingrao's Jeep. "At that point, Ingrao spontaneously stated, in sum and substance, that he was worried about 'the drugs,'" the affidavit said. On the backseat, the trooper allegedly found rolled-up $20 bills with white powder residue in a jacket. The affidavit said the trooper, who planned to arrest Ingrao for driving without a license, conducted a roadside inventory of the Jeep. "The trooper quickly determined that Ingrao had no valid driver’s license in New Jersey, where he claimed to reside, and a suspended driver’s license in New York." "Ingrao stated that he had been traveling from a muffler shop in New Jersey, and was driving the car to Schenectady, New York, to provide it to his friend, whom he identified as 'Louie,'" the affidavit stated. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Capital District Drug Enforcement Task Force. On April 2, Ingrao was driving north on the Thruway in Greene County when a state trooper stopped Ingrao's 2018 Jeep Cherokee about 11:45 a.m., according to an affidavit filed by a Saratoga Springs officer on the U.S. Mob connections notwithstanding, the case against Sinde and Ingrao reads like many drug cases prosecuted in federal court. The late Genovese gangster was shot to death in a Springfield hit in 2003. Starting in 1983, Springfield mobster Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno orchestrated the violent "takeover" of the Capital Region's gambling rackets, visited Albany-area bookmakers and organized them "sometimes by threat," FBI documents previously obtained by the Times Union show. New York's Genovese crime family, while traditionally more associated with its operations in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the Bronx's Arthur Avenue strip and parts of New Jersey, among other areas, has long maintained a large crew in Springfield, Mass., that at times has operated in the Albany area. While appearances of "Goodfellas"-type mobsters are rare in Capital Region courtrooms, the area is hardly immune to them or associates of Russian, Albanian and Chinese organized crime syndicates, among others.Īlbany is a short trip for members and associates of New York's five families and Cosa Nostra clans in New Jersey, Philadelphia, New England, Buffalo and Montreal. In 2016, Vance, New York City police and the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor identified Sinde as one of two ringleaders in a Mafia-linked scheme to ship hundreds of pounds of marijuana from California to New York for illegal sale. A judge sentenced Sinde to 2 to 6 years in prison and ordered he forfeit nearly $30,000. In 2017, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced that Sinde pleaded guilty for his part in a Bonanno crime family crew’s illegal gambling operation and illicit sale of the prescription erectile dysfunction drugs Cialis and Viagra. Ingrao has a federal drug conviction for which he spent time in federal prison. The indictment accused both Sinde, known as “Richie,” and Ingrao, known as “Bobby,” with conspiring and possessing cocaine with intent to sell between March 29 and April 2.īoth men have prior criminal histories. Magistrate Judge Daniel Stewart. Ingrao is expected to be arraigned at a later date.
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