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- Aug. 26, 1963 -
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Lodi Police Dept. NJ Patch
Resided: NJ, USA
Born: Unk  
Fallen: Aug. 26, 1963
Race/Sex: Caucasian Male / 21 yrs. of age
Agency
Dept: Lodi Police Dept. NJ
1 Memorial Drive  
Lodi, NJ   07644   USA
(973)473-7600
County: Bergen
Dept. Type: Municipal/Police
Hero's Rank: Officer
Sworn Date: Unk
FBI Class: Homicide - Ambush
Weapon Class: Police
Agency URL: Click Here
Memorial Panel: Sin Strip Executions
On The Job: 1 years
Bio: Gary Tedesco was only 21 and a trainee, due to get his uniform and gun a week later. He carried only a flashlight on Aug. 20, 1963, when he rode with Voto to Route 46.

Fatal Incident Summary
Offender: Thomas Trantino :: Caucasian / Male - 25 years old
(born February 11, 1938) convicted murderer, sentenced to life in prison for the execution style shooting deaths in 1963 of two police officers in Lodi, New Jersey. He was sentenced to death by electrocution, which was commuted to life in prison after the death penalty was abolished in the 1970s. This began a long battle for parole, which continued until his release from prison in 2002.

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Offender: Frank Falco :: Caucasian / Male
killed two days later by Police while resisting arrest

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Location:   Lodi,   Bergen County, NJ   USA   Mon. Aug. 26, 1963
Summary: Probationary Officer Gary Tedesco and Sergeant Peter Voto were shot and killed while responding to a disturbance call at a local bar.

A neighbor thought someone was shooting off fireworks. He called the police with a noise complaint at 2:30 a.m.

Sgt. Voto and Trainee Tedesco responded to Angel Bar, a seamy roadhouse bar on a stretch of Route 46 that used to be called “Sin Strip.”

Sgt. Voto entered the bar — leaving behind Tedesco, a probationary officer who could not carry a weapon — and was immediately ambushed by Frank Falco and Thomas Trantino, who were there to celebrate a successful robbery earlier in Brooklyn.

They pistol whipped Sgt. Voto, forced him to undress, after he had discovered their gun behind the bar, wrapped in a towel. It was being stored there after they had shot it off in the bar in celebration, sparking the original noise complaint.

When Voto did not return, Tedesco went into the bar and was also ambushed.

Both were tortured and killed execution style.

Disposition: A dragnet found Frank Falco across the Hudson River, in a hotel near Times Square. New York police said he resisted when they woke him, and they had no choice but to shoot him six times.

The second, Trantino, Trantino had enough sense to turn himself in. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, but was released by the New Jersey State Supreme Court in 2001 after serving 37 years.

His original death penalty conviction was overturned in 1972 when the death penalty was declared unconstitutional and his sentence was changed to life in prison. In 1972, life in prison meant a prisoner came up for parole the first time after 15 years.

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