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The decision was also a bad sign for another top mobster: Colombo family mobster Joel (Joe Waverly) Cacace, who is awaiting trial for the 1997 execution murder of police officer Ralph Dols.

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"I find it incredibly disrespectful, not only to the artist, but to the Pedestrian Art program and the city," said [Matt] Dols, who has been helping to install sculpture downtown under the Pedestrian Art banner for about two years.

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In court papers, and when Cacace and Colombo capo Dino (Big Dino) Calabro and soldier Dino (Little Dino) Saracino were charged with Dols's murder last December, authorities stated that "Cacace ordered Dols 'murder," but have not reported where that evidence comes from.

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Within hours of Dols 'death, for example, police were told by a confidential informant that a Russian hoodlum had killed Dols because the cop was putting pressure on his "drug dealing operation," according to a 10-page-long summary of suspects and possible motives that have been filed in the case.

Jerry Capeci: Police Reports In Cop Killling Point To Russian Gangsters 2009

Dols, who was shot five times at 11: 28 pm on Aug. 25, 1997 and died in surgery early the next morning, also gave police details about the assault and his assassins that differ from some aspects of the current theory of the prosecution, wrote prosecutors Geddes, Gatta and Posa.

Jerry Capeci: Police Reports In Cop Killling Point To Russian Gangsters 2009

But several investigative leads, which officials also state were erroneous, had Dols being killed over disputes with various unsavory characters involving "narcotics and steroids allegations."

Jerry Capeci: Police Reports In Cop Killling Point To Russian Gangsters 2009

In the days after Dols 'slaying, that's what scores of witnesses and tipsters - including confidential police and FBI informers - were telling detectives investigating the execution slaying.

Jerry Capeci: Police Reports In Cop Killling Point To Russian Gangsters 2009

First, detectives established that Dols had caused the Russian hoodlum's arrest a few weeks earlier when he spotted him waving a gun at the Cozy Tavern, a bar across the street from the cop's home.

Jerry Capeci: Police Reports In Cop Killling Point To Russian Gangsters 2009

But they are a treasure trove for defense lawyers, who are sure to try to make use of any negative reports about Dols and other viable suspects in his murder in an effort to help their clients at trial.

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Then, Dols 'widow reported that her husband had become "very upset one night" soon after when he spotted the gunman in the neighborhood.

Jerry Capeci: Police Reports In Cop Killling Point To Russian Gangsters 2009