Two American tourists, aged 18 and 19, confess to killing an undercover Italian policeman, 35, who tried to recover a backpack they stole in Rome during a bungled drug deal where they were given ground aspirin instead of cocaine
Daily Mail
July 27, 2019
Two San Francisco teens on a ‘drug holiday’ in Rome have been arrested on charges of murder and attempted extortion in connection with the fatal stabbing of a police officer on Friday morning.
Lee Elder Finnegan, 19, confessed to stabbing 35-year-old paramilitary policeman Mario Cerciello Rega, along with his accomplice Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth, 18.
The two men had been looking to buy drugs but were sold a fake batch by a dealer. Seeking revenge, the teens stole the bag of one of the dealers’ fixers and held it to ransom for 100 euros and a gram of cocaine.
But instead of meeting up with the two men to retrieve the backpack, the fixer called police. A scuffle broke out between the officers and Rega was stabbed eight times, with one blow fatally striking his heart.
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I guess in SF it is OK to knife a cop if he is so stupid as to interfere with your dope deal. I think they will find that Italy takes a dim view of it. If they are lucky, once they are convicted, they will be allowed to do their prison time in America. Also, unlike Know, that is apparently no doubt that they actually did it.
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