02-22-2009, 05:41 PM
and this dirt ball worked with us and backed us up......no wonder he could'nt figure out what PC was, he was too busy breaking the law! Makes me sick! Read this or see it on the Sarasota Herald Tribunes website:
Drug dealer Joseph Ungarelli, left, said a sheriff's deputy gave him information about rivals. One of the names the drug dealer gave to the FBI was Tony Hedrick, a Sarasota sheriff's deputy who, according to agents, gave Ungarelli information about his rivals.
Hedrick met Ungarelli, a member of the Renegades Motorcycle Club, on a Web site for swingers in 2004.
The deputy and his wife admitted they partied with Ungarelli and his friends when internal affairs questioned them in late January.
Hedrick was fired this month and is the subject of a federal corruption investigation, according to an internal affairs report that includes interviews with FBI special agents David Street and George Sandoval.
The FBI alleges that in May 2006 Hedrick was speaking to agents in an unrelated case when one of them mentioned that Ungarelli was under federal surveillance.
Soon after, Hedrick sent Ungarelli a text message: "Be careful, big brother may be watching."
According to an internal affairs report, Hedrick and his wife, Tiffanie Unger, confirmed some of the things Ungarelli told the FBI, including that they met through the Swing Lifestyle Web site and became good friends who frequented bars and biker parties together.
Unger told internal affairs that they knew the sheriff's office forbids relationships with known criminals, but that the couple were "enamored" by the biker and his lifestyle.
They spoke on the phone or by e-mail almost every day, according to Ungarelli, who also told the FBI that he introduced Hedrick to members of the Renegades.
Ungarelli says that he told Hedrick that he was a reformed criminal who spent several years in state prison when he was younger.
Ungarelli, 36, is a convicted drug dealer who has been in and out of prison during the last decade and once was a member of the Pagans motorcycle gang.
He switched allegiances and was known as a high ranking member of the Renegades group in Bradenton, federal court records show.
Last year, he pleaded guilty in a drug case after authorities caught him delivering 500 grams of cocaine to an informant in New Port Richey. As part of his plea deal, he agreed to provide information to the FBI.
"I got a lot of information on people," he told detectives during an interview.
Ungarelli told federal agents that he sometimes asked Hedrick to run license plates or track down rivals.
Once, Ungarelli wanted information on a man named "John Gambino" and asked if Hedrick could do some background work.
A few days later, according to the sheriff's internal affairs report, Hedrick handed Ungarelli a thick packet that showed where the man lived, who his relatives were and where he grew up.
When questioned by internal affairs, Hedrick denied helping Ungarelli. He said that he may have passed along the biker's request to his wife, who worked for a private investigator.
Hedrick also said he did not know Ungarelli was a Renegade or that he had a criminal past.
Ungarelli said Hedrick had to have known of his affiliation with the Renegades.
"He knew my stigma, what people said about me," Ungarelli said.
Hedrick also told internal affairs that the text message warning about "big brother" was meant to be a farewell.
He said once he learned of Ungarelli's criminal connections, he called off the friendship.
But records show the two exchanged at least 50 phone calls in the weeks leading up to Ungarelli's cocaine trafficking arrest.
After his arrest, Ungarelli told federal agents that he reached out again to Hedrick, by having his mother call the deputy and warn him he was being investigated by the FBI.
"I told him to keep in touch," Ungarelli said. "He totally disappeared and wouldn't return nobody's phone calls no more."
The FBI would not comment.
A sheriff's official said Friday that the Sheriff's Office does not plan to charge Hedrick criminally.
A 15-year deputy, Hedrick worked as a detective, a patrolman, and as a school resource officer at Sarasota High School during his career.
Personnel records show he was twice cited in internal affairs complaints -- once for falsifying a time sheet for off-duty work and again when he broke up a neighborhood dispute that he did not clear with supervisors.
He could not be reached for comment. Unger, reached by telephone, would not comment.
Drug dealer Joseph Ungarelli, left, said a sheriff's deputy gave him information about rivals. One of the names the drug dealer gave to the FBI was Tony Hedrick, a Sarasota sheriff's deputy who, according to agents, gave Ungarelli information about his rivals.
Hedrick met Ungarelli, a member of the Renegades Motorcycle Club, on a Web site for swingers in 2004.
The deputy and his wife admitted they partied with Ungarelli and his friends when internal affairs questioned them in late January.
Hedrick was fired this month and is the subject of a federal corruption investigation, according to an internal affairs report that includes interviews with FBI special agents David Street and George Sandoval.
The FBI alleges that in May 2006 Hedrick was speaking to agents in an unrelated case when one of them mentioned that Ungarelli was under federal surveillance.
Soon after, Hedrick sent Ungarelli a text message: "Be careful, big brother may be watching."
According to an internal affairs report, Hedrick and his wife, Tiffanie Unger, confirmed some of the things Ungarelli told the FBI, including that they met through the Swing Lifestyle Web site and became good friends who frequented bars and biker parties together.
Unger told internal affairs that they knew the sheriff's office forbids relationships with known criminals, but that the couple were "enamored" by the biker and his lifestyle.
They spoke on the phone or by e-mail almost every day, according to Ungarelli, who also told the FBI that he introduced Hedrick to members of the Renegades.
Ungarelli says that he told Hedrick that he was a reformed criminal who spent several years in state prison when he was younger.
Ungarelli, 36, is a convicted drug dealer who has been in and out of prison during the last decade and once was a member of the Pagans motorcycle gang.
He switched allegiances and was known as a high ranking member of the Renegades group in Bradenton, federal court records show.
Last year, he pleaded guilty in a drug case after authorities caught him delivering 500 grams of cocaine to an informant in New Port Richey. As part of his plea deal, he agreed to provide information to the FBI.
"I got a lot of information on people," he told detectives during an interview.
Ungarelli told federal agents that he sometimes asked Hedrick to run license plates or track down rivals.
Once, Ungarelli wanted information on a man named "John Gambino" and asked if Hedrick could do some background work.
A few days later, according to the sheriff's internal affairs report, Hedrick handed Ungarelli a thick packet that showed where the man lived, who his relatives were and where he grew up.
When questioned by internal affairs, Hedrick denied helping Ungarelli. He said that he may have passed along the biker's request to his wife, who worked for a private investigator.
Hedrick also said he did not know Ungarelli was a Renegade or that he had a criminal past.
Ungarelli said Hedrick had to have known of his affiliation with the Renegades.
"He knew my stigma, what people said about me," Ungarelli said.
Hedrick also told internal affairs that the text message warning about "big brother" was meant to be a farewell.
He said once he learned of Ungarelli's criminal connections, he called off the friendship.
But records show the two exchanged at least 50 phone calls in the weeks leading up to Ungarelli's cocaine trafficking arrest.
After his arrest, Ungarelli told federal agents that he reached out again to Hedrick, by having his mother call the deputy and warn him he was being investigated by the FBI.
"I told him to keep in touch," Ungarelli said. "He totally disappeared and wouldn't return nobody's phone calls no more."
The FBI would not comment.
A sheriff's official said Friday that the Sheriff's Office does not plan to charge Hedrick criminally.
A 15-year deputy, Hedrick worked as a detective, a patrolman, and as a school resource officer at Sarasota High School during his career.
Personnel records show he was twice cited in internal affairs complaints -- once for falsifying a time sheet for off-duty work and again when he broke up a neighborhood dispute that he did not clear with supervisors.
He could not be reached for comment. Unger, reached by telephone, would not comment.