UNITED STATES v. BELTEMPO

Nos. 612, 648 and 649, Dockets 81-1392, 81-1394 and 81-1396.

675 F.2d 472 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee. v. Vincent BELTEMPO, Guiseppe Gallina, a/k/a "Fillipo", and Barbara Walberg, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1982.

Certiorari Denied June 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Alch, Boston, Mass. (Joseph S. Oteri, Martin G. Weinberg, James W. Lawson, Oteri & Weinberg, Boston, Mass., of counsel), for defendant-appellant Beltempo.

James O. Druker, Mineola, N. Y. (Paula Schwartz Frome, Kase & Druker, Mineola, N. Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellant Gallina.

David Ely, New York City (Alan Scribner, Ivan S. Fisher, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant Walberg.

Reena Raggi, Asst. U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y. (Edward R. Korman, U. S. Atty., John Latella, Asst. U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for the United States of America.

Before MESKILL and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges, and HOLDEN, District Judge.


Certiorari Denied June 21, 1982. See 102 S.Ct. 2963.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

In February 1981 United States Customs officials at Kennedy International Airport in New York discovered sixteen pounds of heroin concealed in the false bottoms of suitcases belonging to a couple attempting to enter the United States. Carefully deploying their investigative nets the authorities discovered six others whom they indicted along with this couple as part of a conspiracy...

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