Mr. Perez’s friends concede that others might have wanted Mr. Perez dead. Mr. Perez was arrested in December 1997, at 18, for selling heroin on 157th and Melrose. The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York charged Mr. Irizarry, Mr. Martinez and Mr. Perez with running a violent narcotics conspiracy. Mr. Perez was accused of giving the officer two glassine envelopes of heroin. “Cisco had an opportunity to work for the government at the time,” Mr. Perez’s lawyer in the case, Richard Herman, said.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2016 16:06 UTC