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 KILLER DAVID LAFFER 'A JUNKIE COWARD'

FERGUSON, TACCETTA AND MEJIA

THE SLAUGHTER at Haven Drugs was so brutal even veteran cops were sickened by its senselessness. When accused killer David Laffer walked into the drug store Sunday, "his .45-caliber handgun did the talking" according to the New York Daily News.

Prosecutor John Collins said: "He did not announce a robbery. He simply shot first. This defendant is charged with what I would call the most cold blooded robbery homicide in Suffolk county history. He came back behind them and simply executed them by shooting them in the back of the head." Seven bullets and four people were dead in the shocking bloodbath. Laffer, a 33-year-old pill popping army vet, was in court yesterday for a bail hearing. He and his co-conspirator wife, 29-year-old pillhead Melinda Brady were busted Wednesday. Cops say they were both strung out of their heads.

Victim Jaime Taccetta's uncle James Fegel yelled at the scrawny accused killer: "You're a coward for what you did to those families."
Jaime's brother James added: "I think the whole family should be prosecuted. I'm just glad he was held without bail. He'll never see the light of day. He's a coward and a junkie."
Cops believe Laffer murdered pharmacist Raymond Ferguson, 45, first then clerk Jennifer Mejia, 17, followed by customers Taccetta, 35, and Byron Sheffield. 

DAVID LAFFER PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN LI MASSACRE

MURDEROUS JUNKIES?

THE MAN accused of executing four people in a Long Island pharmacy during a robbery for painkillers has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder. 
The 33-year-old is accused of walking lining up workers Raymond Ferguson, 45, and Jennifer Mejia, 17,  and customers Bryon Sheffield, 71, and Jamie Taccetta, 33 and killing 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
them.
Suffolk County prosecutors say they recovered Laffer’s fingerprints at the scene of the shootings Sunday and they also found the gun they say was used in the slayings at his home.
He was picked up Wednesday after an intense manhunt for the suspect seen in surveillance footage wearing a baseball cap, glasses and sporting a bushy fake beard inside Haven Drugs in Medford.
Brady has also been charged with robbery in the case, and told reporters her husband “did all of this” for her.
She was hospitalized and it’s not clear when she would be arraigned.

4 DEAD IN MASSACRE AT LONG ISLAND PHARMACY

FATHER'S DAY turned into a bloodbath at a Long Island pharmacy Sunday leaving four people dead. Cops say the botched heist happened at Haven Drugs in Medford, New York around 10 a.m. That's when a man entered the family-owned business wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and brandishing a handgun. The stone-cold killer then executed the four people in the store at the time and fled on foot with prescription pills.
Suffolk County cops say two of the victims, Raymond Ferguson, 45, and Jennifer Mejia, 17, of East Patchogue (who was going to graduate from high school next week) worked at the drug store.

The other two victims, Bryon Sheffield, 71, and Jamie Taccetta, 33, were customers. Residents were left in shock by the sinister massacre.
“It’s not like a CVS,” regular customer Stacy Gallagher told The New York Times. “It’s a very homey environment.”
  Other witnesses told the Times the pharmacy’s owner, Vinoda Kudchadkar, collapsed near his store after he learned of what happened Sunday morning.
"This is a vicious, horrible crime," said Chief of Detectives Dominick Varrone. "We suspect that robbery was the motive." Cops have videograb of the triggerman as a massive manhunt got underway on Long Island