Village In Shock After Ex-Briarcliff Officer Accused In Quadruple Homicide

The fact that a man accused of killing four people worked as a police officer for the Village of Briarcliff Manor is not a headline most residents expected to see. Nicholas Tartagalione was indicted earlier this week for allegedly killing four men execution-style in an Orange County bar over a cocaine deal that went bad .

Details Emerge In Former Briarcliff Manor Officer’s Quadruple Homicide Case

Questions continue to be raised about the checkered past of Nicholas Tartaglione, the former Briarcliff Manor police officer turned drug conspirator who was identified on Tuesday as the suspect in the execution-style slayings of four men. United States Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara announced that the 49-year-old Tartaglione had been charged in a five-count indictment for his participation in a drug conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and for the murders of the four, all of whom lived in Middletown in Orange County.

Retired Police Officer Charged with Murder of 4 Orange County Men

Otisville resident Nicholas Tartaglione -- a retired cop with the Briarcliff Manor Police Department in Westchester -- was arrested Monday and charged in a five count indictment. The indictment alleges that Tartaglione participated in the killing of the four men, some of whom were in the wrong place at the wrong time, in connection with an alleged cocaine ring.