L.I PHARMACY SLAY: MELINDA BRADY PLEADS NOT GUILTY

NOT A MURDERER?

THE JUNKIE wife of accused Long Island pharmacy killer David Laffer has pleaded not guilty to her role in the slaughter.
Prosecutor's claimed Melinda Brady helped to plot the robbery,  get rid of stolen drugs, dismantle and bury the murder weapon and concoct an alibi for the Father's Day massacre.
But while the 29-year-old admitted to planning the heist, but claims she had no clue that it involved killing, meaning that prosecutors were only able to charge her with first-degree robbery, instead of murder - much to the frustration of the victim's families.
Rene Mejia whose 17-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was gunned down in the horrendous heist - scoffed at the prosecutions decision not to charge Brady.

He told the NY Daily News: "They are both guilty. I trust in God's law. She drove him there. Maybe if she didn't drive him there, he would not had done what he did.
"Even if she didn't know he was going to do what he did, she covered up his crime afterwards. She should have turned him in. She didn't."
Prosecutor Thomas Spota shared their frustration, but told the court: "We cannot legally prove she knew her husband was armed with a deadly weapon. The law is simply such that we cannot charge her with murder."
Brady, who faces 25-years if convicted  blamed her husband when she was led from police headquarters to a nearby precinct holding cell following her arrest last month.
She said: "He was doing it because he lost his job and I was sick. He did it. He did all of this."
She had previously posted messages on a website discussing her struggles with painkillers.
Laffer, 33, faces first-degree murder charges for allegedly executing store workers Raymond Ferguson, 45, and Jennifer Mejia, 17,  and customers Bryon Sheffield, 71, and Jamie Taccetta, 33.

DAVID LAFFER GETS AMY FISHER'S LAWYER

BEAST

BEAUTY

THE WHACKED out junkie accused of executing four people in a Long Island pharmacy robbery gone wrong has appointed Amy Fisher's attorney to be his legal representative.
David Laffer has picked Eric Nairburg to defend on the charges that he walked into the store, shot and killed the clerk, stole the drugs and killed three other people before fleeing.
The Long Island is best known for defending, Long Island Lolita, Amy Fisher, who like Laffer created national headlines when she plead guilty to shooting her then-lover Joey Buttafouco's wife, Mary Jo, in the head back in 1992.

On her release in 1999 she went on to become a stripper and porn star.

Laffer is unlikely to enjoy anything like such a short sentence, if convicted of the murders of  pharmacist Raymond Ferguson, 45, clerk Jennifer Mejia, 17, and customers Jamie Taccetta, 35, and Byron Sheffield.  
Cops believe and his wife, Melinda Brady, cased various pharmacies in the days leading up to the murders -- narrowing their pick to Haven Drugs in Medford, which they scoped out on the night before the slayings.On Father's Day Laffer is thought to have walked in, stolen the Oxycodone, he and his wife so desperately craved, before lining them up and executing them.   
A source told the NY Post that Brady may be cooperating with prosecutors after she waived her right to be released when she was not indicted by a grand jury in a timely manner.
She is slated to appear before a judge on July 15.

LI PHARMACY FIEND DAVID LAFFER FORMALLY INDICTED

NOT LAFF-ING NOW

THE man accused of executing four innocent people in a Long Island pharmacy robbery has been formally indicted by a grand jury. Dope Fiend David Laffer, allegedly held up the store and then lined up his victims, before cold bloodedly blasting a bullet into the heads of store workers Raymond Ferguson, 45, and Jennifer Mejia, 17,  and customers Bryon Sheffield, 71, and Jamie Taccetta, 33.
Hours after his arrest the 33-year-old was picked out of a lineup by victim Jamie Taccetta's fiancé, James Manzella -- who had been waiting for her outside the drug store and saw the assassin.
"It was definitely him," Manzella said, according to a police source.
The specific charges in the indictment remained sealed until a date can be
scheduled for a formal arraignment in state Supreme Court, which should happen in the coming days according to Laffer's court appointed attorney, Mary Beth Abbate.
She added that she was happy that her client had been put in protective custody at Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead, where he has held without bail and on suicide watch since his arrest.
She said: "If they put him in the general population there's a lot of strong emotion running around. The jail is not immune to that. Yeah, I am concerned about his safety."
Laffer's wife Melinda Brady, 29, who police say drove the getaway car, was also arrested for third-degree robbery.
She was also charged with obstructing governmental administration.
Brady's scheduled court appearance Tuesday was postponed until July 15, although she could be in court before then if a grand jury returns upgraded or additional charges against her.

LI PHARMACY FIEND DAVID LAFFER ON SUICIDE WATCH

SUICIDE

LI PHARMACY fiend David Laffer is being constantly monitored, under a 24-hour suicide watch as officials are worried that he will try and take his own life before he comes to trial.
The 33-year-old is accused of lining up workers Raymond Ferguson, 45, and Jennifer Mejia, 17,  and customers Bryon Sheffield, 71, and Jamie Taccetta, 33 and executing each one with a bullet to the head.
It's thought he wanted the Hydrocodone tablets because he and his wife Melinda Brady were addicted to the painkillers.
Correction officers said Laffer, who was forced to wear an anti-suicide suit, was chatty at first but quieted down.
A jail source also told The Daily News that his fellow prisoners were "seething" as word spread that the killer was in their midst. 
And guards feared for the 33-year-old Army vet's safety if he were released into the general population.
The source added: "When they let him go, they won't find pieces of his body. Even the hardened criminals were disgusted that he just killed them for no reason - especially the young girl.
"If they get to him, he won't last long."

CRIME BRIEFS: HOLLY BOBO SEARCH; LI VICTIM BURIED

* HOLLY BOBO'S MOM BEGS FOR HER RELEASE: It's been more than two months now and still no sign of pretty blonde Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo. Have the cops dropped the ball? The TBI says no but there has been NOTHING new in weeks. Yesterday, a motorcycle run in the 20-year-old's honor was held. Her heartbroken mom said: "To whoever has our daughter, I'm asking you to please do the right thing and let her come home." STILL NO SIGN OF HOLLY BOBO.
* VICTIM OF PILLHEAD DAVID LAFFER BURIED IN WEDDING DRESS: In a Long Island church Saturday hundreds sobbed for Jaime Taccetta--buried in her wedding dress. The pretty young mom, 33, was one of four victims executed in cold blood last Sunday in a Medford, New York pharmacy. The mom of
two had found new love when she was killed. Pillheads David Laffer and his scary looking bride, Melinda Brady are the accused killers. MORE ON THE LONG ISLAND PHARMACY MURDERS IN THE NY POST

* FORMER DETROIT MAYOR ABOUT TO BE SPRUNG: Dirty Kwame Kilpatrick--another in the lone line of rogue Motown mayors is about to be sprung from the Big House. A Michigan parole board voted to release the disgraced pol who violated probation in relation to a 2008 case where he pleaded guilty obstructing justice in an effort to cover up an extramarital affair. He has served 14 months of a 5 year sentence. KINKY KWAME ABOUT TO BE SPRUNG