Mark Raposo
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47 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Mark Raposo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They don't speak English. You know, I think in his mind, I believe less likely to complain, less likely to understand that they're being subjected to an illegal search.
His Crown Vic, the front of it just caught on fire. It was early, early, early in the morning, 4, 5, 6 in the morning.
He ruffles so many feathers that someone lights his, well, his cruiser catches itself on fire in front of his house.
And I said, you know, I'm not gonna be part of this. This is not a secret what this guy does. I flat out telling him, I'm not backing that kid up. I'm not, I'm not doing it.
I was thinking, I can't be around this stuff. This guy's gonna get in big trouble. And in the end, I get in trouble.
I mean, he's a cop, but he's not working as a cop. He's not really dressed as a cop. He tells us, hey, I have information that there's drugs on this boat, but he doesn't call anybody about it. I'm going to see what I can grab, and I'm going to make my way home.
I even get a fucking piece of paper and I look back at the station after everybody leaves and I write drug rip and I fold it and I put it on his desk.
Even if he did say in a perfect world he does have this person as a CIA, they tell him, hey, we got this stuff on the boat. The last thing anybody's going to do is put their sweatpants on, throw a radio in their back pocket, drive their car down there, not tell anybody what they're doing and start ransacking a boat with four or five guys in it.
So I get the grand jury summons, and I go there. I want to say I go there to testify that day, and I walk in, and I said, hey, let's have a little sit-down. Let's talk.
Well, I says, it depends what you're going to do. Are you going to follow this through? And his words to me is, I'm going to take this wherever the evidence takes me. He tells me this. So Raposo agrees. You know, you can't manipulate this as a grand jury now. You can't. This can't be manipulated now. This is just, this is going to go. This has wheels now. This is it.
These guys are going to have to answer now.
George at the time was erratic as can be. And this is a guy who's proficient with firearms. Not only on patrol level, this guy worked on SWAT for a little while. You know, he was off the wall at this time. You know, he was really upset with his former co-workers. And I can't imagine he was upset with any of them more than he was with me.
My wife knew. I confided in her and told her a lot about what was going on, and she was very nervous.
You can be a police officer, ask to testify at a grand jury, stick your neck out there, go in there, tell the truth. If I knew this was going to happen, I would have refused to testify. I took a lot of grief over this. It is not... It's not a great place to be where you have to testify against another police officer. Culturally, you keep your mouth shut and that's it.
And at this point, I kind of throw my hands up as I can't do anything else.
I'll tell you, they made my life pretty hard over this. They took years off my life with this.
The most upsetting thing was the people who were our leaders during this that let this all ride. I mean, George is one thing, but to have my supervisor have the deputy chief of police... brush these concerns off. A DA's office brushed them off. And then on top of it, I get removed from my position. It was pretty disheartening.
Yeah, because what I figured was, hey, I'm now going to have to go on the record with a federal agency, and I'm going to get fucking fried.
I make a call to the Lakeville FBI office. I talk to a female FBI agent, give her my info. It's some issues in New Bedford. I'm a police officer. My editor, Brendan, is with me for the interview.
Yeah, I told her, listen, there's a police officer who was involved in criminal activity. I think it's going to get covered up. I'd like somebody to talk to. And that was it.
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