Entries tagged with 'Crime'
He tried to sell the 3,000 cases of pizza when his semi had mechanical trouble and he realized he wouldn't make the delivery date. At that point, he allegedly opted to sell the 26,000 pounds of fro-pi and pocket the cash.
Posted by Adam Kuban, March 15, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Some sad news today. Romero Morales, a bartender at DeMarco's Pizzeria (a kinda-sorta offshoot of legendary Di Fara) was shot and killed last night for unknown reasons by a gunman. The shooter ran from DeMarco's and was chased by two auxiliary policemen—Nicholas Pekearo and Yevgeniy Marshalik—, who were then shot and killed by the gunman. The shooter, in turn, was shot and killed by cops arriving on the scene moments later.
The New York Times says:
It was unclear last night what lay behind the first shooting at the pizzeria, DeMarco’s at 146 Macdougal Street. The police said the gunman, wearing a fake beard, walked into the restaurant and was given a menu by Mr. Romero. When Mr. Romero turned away, the authorities said, the gunman shot him 15 times in the back.
When asked at a news conference this morning at nearly 2:30 what had prompted the attack, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, “It’s just inexplicable.”
Our condolences to the family and friends of the bartender and the staff and owners of DeMarco's and to the family, friends, and colleagues of the two auxiliary police officers
Update: The Associated Press is reporting:
Authorities were investigating why David Gavin, 32, went into a pizzeria around 9 p.m. Wednesday, asked for a menu and then shot an employee 15 times in the back before fleeing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
A neighborhood resident, Tina Lourenco, said she saw the gunman and recognized him as a former employee of the pizzeria.
FURTHER READING
All Slice posts on DeMarco's [The Slice Archives]
SOURCES
Village Shooting: 4 Dead, Including 2 Auxiliary Cops [Gothamist]
Greenwich Village Gunfight Leaves Four Dead [New York Times]
4 killed in NYC shootout; motive unknown [AP]
Posted by Adam Kuban, October 31, 2006 at 4:40 PM
Somethin' don't smell right:
COLUMBUS, IND. — A sheriff's deputy sniffed out two men suspected of robbing a pizza delivery woman when he caught a whiff of pepperoni and sausage pizza at their home.
Smell of pizza leads deputy to suspects [forbes.com]
Posted by Adam Kuban, April 25, 2006 at 3:03 PM
A former New Hampshire corrections officer, just hours after being indicted on charges of raping inmates he was in charge of guarding, violates his parole by delivering pizza to a prison:
"Pretty stupid, huh?" said [bail enforcement agent Lance] Wilkinson. "I told him, 'If Jesus Christ told me to deliver those pizzas, I would have said no.' "
Pizza proves indicted guard's downfall [New Hampshire Union Leader]
Posted by Adam Kuban, January 25, 2006 at 11:27 AM
As you might know, I've been on jury duty. That ended yesterday around 4:30 p.m. when we came to a verdict (guilty on four of the six counts).
While we argued in the jury room, I recalled a quote attributed to Otto von Bismarck: "Those who love sausage and obey the law should not watch either being made." Which in turn led me to think, "Mmmm ... sausage," and then to "Mmmm ... sausage on pizza." But the quote (and the week's legal proceedings) spurred me to deeper reflection on both the law and sausage—specifically: "How hard would it be to make sausage at home?"
If you don't want to make sausage links, which require casings, then it appears to be as easy as coming to agreement on the felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm charge that we considered as jurors.* Even if you do want to stuff casings with your sausage mixture (Heh. That kinda sounds dirty), it only takes a few relatively affordable tools and some time.
Here's a recipe for Italian fennel sausage, as adapted (for pizza) from one found on InMamasKitchen.com:
HOMEMADE ITALIAN SAUSAGE
Makes about 5 pounds
2 tablespoons salt
3 teaspoons fennel seed
2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon crushed hot pepper
1 teaspoon caraway seed
3 teaspoons coriander
5 pounds coarse ground pork butt
1 cup dry red wine
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1. Grind together (preferably in a mortar and pestle) salt, fennel, sugar, hot pepper, caraway, and coriander.
2. In a large bowl, sprinkle herbs over ground pork. Add wine and crushed garlic. Mix well by hand or with the paddle attachment of an electric mixer. Continue until evenly distributed. Be sure to mix well in this step.
3. Cover and place in refrigerator at least 3 hours, to allow flavors to meld.
4. <Test after 3 hours by taking a small portion and sautéing in small pan.
5. Apply to uncooked pizza(s) as chunks (chunk size is by your preference, but smaller chunks will cook faster). Alternatively, for links, you can run meat mixture through a sausage stuffer and into casings. Any extra can be frozen in portions for later use.
For my own reference later, and for yours, I'm going to list some sausage-making links ...
FURTHER READING
SausageMaker.com should have everything you need to get started—casings, prickers, seasonings, what have you. As of this posting, there's a sale (regularly $70, now $50) on three-pound-capacity stuffers, too!
This Sausage-Stuffer Attachment for Kitchen Aid stand mixers might be an option of you've already got a Kitchen Aid. (About $15.) Don't have a Kitchen Aid? Consider getting one. They're great for making pizza dough.
Homemade Italian Sausage Recipe [In Mama's Kitchen]
Another recipe, this one for Italian Fennel Pork Sausage. Notable for its inclusion of Asiago cheese in the mix. Mmm ... cheese.
Related reading: Hot Dogs at Home [Bite by Byte]
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Posted by Adam Kuban, December 21, 2005 at 1:42 AM
What started with a car theft turned into an escape and resulting chase that ended with the male fugitive being caught hiding out in a woman's restroom by an officer who received a ride from a pizza deliveryman.
Chase involving pizza deliveryman ends in ladies' room [7online.com]
Posted by Adam Kuban, October 7, 2005 at 12:00 PM
Opposition legislators grilled Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe [left] in Parliament on Tuesday after learning that he had spent C$138 on a pizza dinner for two and charged it to his expense account....
"I have heard of extra toppings, but this is ridiculous. When the most expensive item on the menu is C$34, how did he manage to spend C$138 for two people at a pizzeria?" asked Conservative Member of Parliament Rahim Jaffer.
BELMONT [Mich.] — While workers at a former Belmont pizza parlor delivered hot pepperoni pies, federal authorities say the business owner shipped pounds of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine out the same door.
The smells of cheese and pepperoni drew dozens of students to a set of covered tables on the grassy median at 45th Avenue and 17th Street yesterday. There, representatives from the TAG Marketing Group offered students a free medium Dominos pizza — if they filled out a credit card application. [Ah, two of the many evils of college life—shitty pizza and easy credit. Beware young, frosh, beware.]
In picking a pizza wine, we suggest you look for a lot of fruit and substantial body to stand up to the strong flavors such as sausage, onion and pepperoni. It has to be easy drinking — and, of course, not expensive if it's going with pizza.
To anyone else, it would have been an ordinary slice of pepperoni pizza, but to the victims and rescue workers in New Orleans, it was a slice of normalcy.
"Being a pizza guy isn't glamorous at all, but in a funny sort of way, just having a Domino's Pizza store open gave a sort of normalcy to an area that was otherwise a war-zone," said Nelson Hockert-Lotz, who owns two Domino's pizza shops in New Bedford.
The pizzeria with the fastest pizza makers in the state of New York isn't in Brooklyn or any borough of New York City. It's in Scarsdale, and it's named Amore Pizza.
Posted by Adam Kuban, June 27, 2005 at 3:15 PM
Pizza can bring great joy, as evidenced by the poems in our Pizza Haiku Contest. But there is also a dark side to pizza—muggings and murders of delivery drivers, pizzerias as fronts for drug operations, etc.
And now, in New York City, it seems like cops are looking at a pizza deliveryman as a suspect in the "Spider Man Rapist" case. The heinous perp in these assaults has been climbing down fire escapes into open windows, assualting women, and then using some sort of wire system to lower himself down to the ground. The deliveryman cops are investigating, Eugenio Aguilar, is out on bail and delivering pizzas for Figaro Pizza (1469 Second Ave., b/n 76th and 77th Streets). Though police have yet to arrest him for the rapes, he was caught in June sneaking into a woman's apartment; he has been indicted for that incident. But there's more:
Aguilar was also busted in February for allegedly snapping photos up women's skirts on his pizza round.
Shortly after taking his fingerprints, police linked Aguilar to the June 25, 2004, incident on East 77th Street.
When cops quizzed him in that case, he said he had gone to the building to deliver a pizza, and saw the woman enter her apartment.
"She was very pretty," Aguilar said, court records show. "I delivered the pizza . . . then I went through the stairwell window, onto a ledge, and I climbed into her window. Her window was slightly open and I was watching her. I just wanted to watch her.
"She came out of the bathroom not fully dressed, and she started screaming and grabbed my leg. I got free, climbed back into the stairwell window and went back to work."
Aguilar was originally charged with criminal trespass, but was indicted in May on burglary charges.
When approached by The Post while delivering pizza on 75th Street last night, he denied he was the Spider-Man rapist.
Posted by Adam Kuban, June 27, 2005 at 2:15 PM
Slice has a bulletin board forum dedicated to pizza. It's called The Pizza Peel. I've got mixed feelings about the continued usefulness of this site feature, but every now and then, something pops up on it that catches my eye. Like this message from a TV producer. I thought I'd highlight it here on the main part of the site:
I’m looking for passionate pizza chefs for a Discovery Times Channel series called '15 Films About Pizza'. I need a pizza chef that believes the Chicago deep dish is the one and only- and a New Yorker that believes the NY style rules!
I'm also looking for a pizzeria brave enough to make pizzas for our global pizza taste challenge. We'll supply the recipes - but who will be brave enough to make curried cabbage pizza?!
This is all good fun- at goes out to 35 million viewers.
Finally I’m also looking for a pizza addict! Can’t go a day without a delicious pizza? Then get in touch.
Email me on michelle@zigzag.uk.com
You heard her, folks. Have at it!
Posted by seltzerboy, November 3, 2003 at 9:18 PM
Halloween night's Larry King Live featured an interview with Ted Rowlands of KTVU and Laura Ingle of KFI radio, who were in the courtroom for day three of alleged wife-and-baby-killer Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing. (Nancy Grace was guest host; Mr. King was out scaring trick-or-treators.)
Grace: Well, let me ask Ted Rowlands a question, speaking of his urgency, his concern—yes, it may have wiped out his mind what he was fishing with, but am I correct? Was it in the testimony today, Ted Rowlands, that when he got home, saw his wife's vehicle, the pocketbook, the keys, the wallet, and so forth, he ordered or ate a pizza?and took a shower and changed clothes before he called anyone?
Rowlands: I don't know that that was in the testimony today. I was out of the courtroom for a brief period of time. I didn't hear that in the record today. Maybe I'm wrong. But we've heard that before. What we did find out, what Sharon Rocha talked about, which she thought was glaring, was that when Scott Peterson called over to the Grantski house and asked them if Laci was over there, he right away offered up the fact that she was missing. And she said—and we've heard that before—that that stuck with her as being strange, especially in retrospect. And then she detailed it from there. The other thing that—the first—for the first time, we did see some emotion in the courtroom. At one point, Jackie Peterson broke down. A lot of Laci's friends were crying through it when they talked about Laci herself. And actually, there was some camaraderie between Lee and Scott. When Lee sat down to testify, he gave Scott a wink and told the court that he was proud to be Scott's father.
Grace: You know, let me go back to you, Laura Ingle. Maybe you were in the courtroom when Ted was taking a break. I'm referring specifically to the testimony of Detective John Evers on the shower and the pizza?portion of the testimony. Were you there for that?
Ingle: I was there for that, and he did bring that up. And he said, I asked Scott, you know, what did you do when you got home? And he said, well, he said he was hungry, so he went and got a cold slice of pizza?out of the fridge, and he did take a shower, you know, because he's been fishing. So he took a shower and he washed his clothes and then started making the calls. So that's where that timeline lays down.
Posted by Adam Kuban, October 22, 2003 at 1:55 PM
We learn from the New York Times, in its story about Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris's target-practice video, that the teens worked in a pizzeria:
The man who taped the target practice was Philip Duran, who worked with Harris and Klebold at a pizza shop, Jefferson County district attorney's spokeswoman Pam Russell said.
I knew some menacing folks who worked at pizza parlors, too, but the worst they ever did was put some type of oil—I don't remember what kind—on the pizza pans, thereby inducing diarrhea in unsuspecting diners.
