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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (874)	1/15/2001 7:58:27 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1397

Re: 1/15/01 - NH Register: City police coverup still a mystery City police coverup still a mystery William Kaempffer, Register Staff January 15, 2001 NEW HAVEN — Despite two lengthy investigations, motive remains a mystery in the case of evidence hidden from another police department as a murder remained unsolved. Neither a state grand jury nor internal police probe found answers to the key question: Why would a top detective here abruptly halt a probe and withhold the identity of a possible suspect? Last month, Judge Carmen Elisa Espinosa, the one-person grand jury, reported a six-month probe and 57 witnesses failed to reveal a reason. Her probe led to the arrest of police Capt. Brian Sullivan, the former head of detectives. And last week, police internal affairs investigators also reported they didn’t discover why the alleged cover-up occurred. "We don’t know the motive," said police Chief Melvin H. Wearing. But Wearing said that it could have been as simple as one police officer stonewalling an investigation out of personal animosity. Wearing said he believed the entire episode could have stemmed from a personal dislike between Sullivan and his counterpart in North Haven, Capt. Thomas Habib. "It was no more than that," Wearing speculated last week. Another theory inside the police department was examined by internal affairs. According to the police probe, the Internal Values and Ethics unit examined a rumored link between the 1994 murder of a New Haven police lieutenant’s son and the 1996 murder of Philip Cusick, the case in which police allegedly hid evidence. The theory maintains that the suspected killer in the Cusick case was protected by police because of informant ties to New Haven Lt. William L. White. The lieutenant’s son, Tyler White, was murdered in Bridgeport with another man, Arosmo Diaz, in 1994 in a gang-related shooting. Diaz was believed to have been an informant for White. The possible suspect in the Cusick killing is Diaz’s half-brother. Internal affairs investigated whether Diaz’s alleged ties with Lt. White may have led police to protect the Cusick suspect. Capt. Bryan Kearney and Lt. John Minardi, both of internal affairs, said they reviewed New Haven informant files to look for connections. They did not find Diaz, his half-brother or the man who named the half-brother as a suspect in the Cusick killing as registered informants with the department. Kearney and Minardi also checked New Haven and Bridgeport files on the White/Diaz double murder looking for "common elements." According to the internal report, the investigators found the name of the possible suspect in the Cusick murder in a New Haven police report about the Bridgeport murder. They also spoke with the FBI and learned that the possible suspect in the Cusick murder had not been a police informant in the White/Diaz slayings. In the end, Kearney reported they could neither prove or disprove the theory. "We did not find any concrete evidence to establish a link between the two cases or anything that suggested wrongdoing by Lieutenant White," Kearney wrote. Kearney later wrote in the report that "we can not establish a connection between the two cases or substantiate the rumors at this time." Cusick was killed in November 1996, some two years after White and Diaz died. Police believe Cusick died in a soured drug deal in New Haven but his body was dropped outside his parents’ home in North Haven. ©New Haven Register 2001 zwire.com