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B4 ROCKLAND JOURNAl-NEWS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1992 NEW YOnSt CITY, STATE AND VICINITY 4a Stolen airline parts linked to drugs and mob, report says Holtzman kicks off Senate campaign was supposed to be trucked to Mi- on Tuesday. ami, but never made it. The Associated Press NEW YORK Several airline navigation devices, the kind routinely used by both drug smugglers and long-range commercial flights, have been stolen at Kennedy International Airport in recent months, officials confirmed yesterday. New York Newsday reported that millions of dollars worth of the hightech guidance systems had been stolen at Kennedy by a murderous, mob-run crime ring, which supplied them to drug dealers. "We have no knowledge of that," said Tom Middlemiss, a spokesman for the Port Authority police, one of the investigating agencies.

However, Middlemiss confirmed that on Jan. 28, Pan Am reported the theft of $1 million worth of equipment, including an undetermined number of the navigation devices. It Giudice was arrested Jan. 22 at 1:20 a.m. with the two pieces of equipment from the Tower plane.

Middlemiss said Giudice cut a hole in a fence to get onto the ramp where the plane was parked. Newsday said Giudice also was awaiting trial in connection with a multimillion-dollar, mob-linked autotheft ring based on Long Island. Neale said the thefts didn't affect passenger safety, because planes don't take off when the navigation systems are missing. And he said it didn't delay flights, because major airports like Kennedy keep spares and it takes a mechanic just a few minutes to put in a new one. Arthur Stiffel, a private pilot and U.S.

Customs special agent at Kennedy, said Stiffel said a pilot or flight engineer would immediately Another $10,500 worth of navigation parts was stolen from a British Airways cargo area in August 1991. At least one theft occurred right on a plane. On Jan. 22, a man was arrested for stealing two pieces of equipment, worth $60,000 each, off a parked Tower Air 747, Middlemiss said. "We have no indication there is a widespread problem involving a theft ring or anything of that sort," said Tim Neale, a spokesman for the Washington-based Air Transport Association, which represents 20 airlines.

Newsday said unidentified law enforcers believed the gangland-style shooting of Richard Guidice was linked to the thefts. Guidice, also known as Richard George, was found dead in a lot near the airport The Associated Press NYC Comptroller Liz Holtzman talks to supporters at a rehabilitated apartment building in the Harlem section of the city yesterday. The Associated Press NEW YORK Liz Holtzman kicked off her Senate campaign yesterday saying she'll go to every corner of the state to take on Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and "his sleazy record." But she'll first have to get past a-pack of other well-known Democratic opponents in the upcoming September primary. They include former Rep.

Geraldine Ferraro, state Attorney General Robert Abrams and Rep. Robert Mrazek. A new poll from the Marist man and district attorney and now the city comptroller, followed with 20 percent while Mrazek, a Suffolk County Democrat, was at the bottom of the pack with 3 percent. The poll said 20 percent were College Institute for Public Opinion showed Abrams and Ferraro, the 1984 vice presidential candidate, in a dead heat for the lead, each favored by 27 percent of the 714 Democrats surveyed. Holtzman, a former congresswo- notice if the device were missing.

'Fat Cat' Nichols pleads guilty drug charges. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown issued a statement condemning the "vicious, premeditated" murder of Rooney. Brown said the sentence, coupled with another expected today in a federal court, "will mean that Nichols cannot be eligible to be released from prison until he is a very old man. It is my hope that he never sees the light of day." back while sitting in his car in October 1985, in Jamaica, Queens.

Two months earlier, he had ordered Nichols back to jail for violating the terms of his parole. State Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Pitaro in Kew Gardens sentenced Nichols to 25 years to life for Rooney's death. It will run concurrently with the 25-to-life term he began serving on Feb. 25, 1988, for The Associated Press NEW YORK Former drug lord Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols received the maximum sentence yesterday after pleading guilty to involvement iri his parole officer's murder. Nichols, 34, was accused of using prison phone to order the slaying of Parole Officer Brian Rooney.

Rooney, 35, who had a wife and child, was shot in the i I Y7 On Investigator says he sold Warmus gun found. Prosecutors argue that Warmus was obsessed with Paul Solomon so she killed his wife. Warmus' first trial ended in a hung jury in April. Parco took the stand on the 10th day of the retrial before Westchester County Court Judge John Carey. Parco said Warmus feared that a plane crash that killed one of her father's business partners and a hit-and-run car accident that left her sister injured had been the deliberate acts of an "ex-mistress" of her father.

He said Warmus wanted the woman investigated and wanted a gun for protection. The trial's resumption is scheduled for Monday in White Plains with further testimony by Parco. Parco, a key prosecution witness linking Warmus with a possible murder weapon in the killing of Betty Jeanne Solomon, told the Westchester County courtroom that Warmus eventually paid him $2,500 in cash for an unregistered pistol to protect herself from the woman. Warmus, 28, is charged with second-degree murder and felony weapon possession in the Jan. 15, 1989, slaying of her lover's wife, Betty Jeanne Solomon.

The victim had black hair, and she was 40 years old when she died. Her body was found by her husband, Paul Solomon, in their Greenburgh home. She had been shot nine times by a silencer-equipped handgun, which was never By Cameron McWhirter Staff Writer I A private investigator who knew Carolyn Warmus testified yesterday id her murder retrial that he sold her a silencer-equipped pistol after she told him a woman "living in Westchester" was out to kill her. "She described (the woman) as having black hair, about 40 years of age, attractive, medium build," said Vjncent Parco, testifying in exchange for immunity from prosecution. "She told me the woman originally came from the Michigan area abd she believed she was living in Westchester at the time," he said la'ter.

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