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Photo Gallery
Michael Pevarnik at work on "Operation Tune-Up"
Rey Barnes's Business Card
Rey Barnes’s “We Do It All” business card for Locomotion Auto Repairs – a distribution center in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester for heroin, crack, stolen guns, bulk marijuana, and kilograms of pure cocaine smuggled out of Panama. (Chapter 1)
Heroin Stamps
Stamped imprints used on glassine bags of heroin distributed by the thousands – one form of the many illicit products manufactured by the Roberto “El Gordo” Portes organization. (Chapter 6)
Paul Fazio Painting
Acrylic on canvas painting by Paul Fazio - an inspired rendition of the author in front of a bullet holed police station draped with the Puerto Rican flag, after reading the chapter about the author and Worcester Detective Richie Burgos chasing fugitive Jose “Flaco” Garcia on the Caribbean island. (Chapter 5)
Anything But Routine
Surveillance photo (by the author) during a vehicle stop alongside a carwash on Park Avenue that didn’t go quite as planned. (Chapter 7)
The Mill Moves
Surveillance photo (by the author) in front of 46 Florence Street, as two of Gordo’s workers transfer equipment taken out of the organization’s heroin mill at the Clarion Suites Hotel – a move connected to a brutal murder committed in New York. (Chapter 8)
SEA Heroin
Hotel folio of the Westway Motor Inn at LaGuardia Airport, where the Worcester based New England cell leader of an international organization awaited the unloading of a shipment of Southeast Asian (SEA) heroin off a boat in New York Harbor. (Chapter 11)
Takedown
Headline following the takedown of Operation Tune-Up (Worcester Sunday Telegram)
History Made
Headlines a year and a half after Operation Tune-Up’s takedown - the local impact affect after virtually eliminating heroin in New England’s second largest city, which led to the history-making revitalization of an entire inner-city neighborhood (Worcester Telegram & Gazette and The Boston Globe)
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