DEA in the Press

On Friday, April 17, 2020, Det. Jack Polimeni, who died of the Coronavirus, was laid to rest. Family, colleagues, and the Police Department had to postpone usual wake and burial […]

DEA President Paul DiGiacomo’s letter to Queens Judge Kenneth Holder weighed in on the Judge’s decision to deny release to the second perpetrator complicit in the death of Det. Brian […]

Christopher Ransom, one of the two perpetrators responsible for the death of Det. Brian Simonson, is making a bid for release from prison. Read about it in the April 14, […]

Prison release was denied for Jagger Freeman, one of the two perpetrators responsible for the death of Det. Brian Simonsen, as chronicled in the April 14, 2020 issue of the […]

The DEA President spoke with John Catsimitidis on Easter Sunday morning about the dangers Detectives face on the front lines of the Coronavirus pandemic. Listen here.  

I met 90-year-old Mollie Gustine in early March, at the Queens nursing home where she was temporarily living recovering from an illness. I was doing a story about the retired […]

(CNN) As coronavirus ravages the city, New York Police Department detectives are responding to a significant rise in calls to homes where a death is reported, an increase one detective […]

An NYPD detective has died after contracting COVID-19, police sources said Friday. Detective Jack V. Polimeni, a 23-veteran of the NYPD, died from complications while being treated for coronavirus — […]

Coronavirus took the life of a second NYPD detective on Friday — but Commissioner Dermot Shea assured New Yorkers there is light at the end of the tunnel. Detective Jack […]

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