As Benderoth kneeled on Luna's back, Biggs started duct-taping the others' hands, he said. Benderoth then ordered everyone to the floor at gunpoint. But it had been blocked and he bounced off the heavy door. Once they entered, Biggs said, Luna recognized him and bolted for the emergency exit. But he brought along Miguel Luna, Santiago and Gutierrez. Biggs said they had Benderoth meet Luna at the door because the two men had never met. On April 11, 2016, with the help of Sullivan, they lured Luna to the Likquid Lounge, a bar owned by Tartaglione's brother in a Chester strip mall. Tartaglione then sent both Benderoth and Biggs to find Luna, but they couldn't. He said he met with Luna and Cruz but soon Luna broke off communication. A friendship developed and Biggs said that around 2013 Tartaglione started using him and Benderoth as enforcers to collect debts from steroid customers. He said he met Tartaglione through the local gym scene in Rockland and began buying steroids from him on a regular basis around 2006, usually in the parking lot of the McDonalds in West Nyack. He supported his habit with armed robberies and burglaries but avoided any criminal record.īiggs said he had been sexually abused by a coach when he was 14 and called himself a "garbagehead" after that, taking cocaine, heroin, LSD, marijuana, anything "to just not feel like me." Biggs' backgroundīiggs said he was a drug addict from his teenage years until his late 20s when he stopped at the time his youngest child was born. Trial opens: Tartaglione was the 'perfect fall guy' in quadruple homicide, ex-cop's defense saysĬooperator: Drug conspiracy and killings detailed in Tartaglione trialīiggs, now 61, lived in Nanuet and was a security guard at the Greenburgh-Graham school in Hastings-on-Hudson when he was arrested in the parking lot there in June 2017.
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