Cop's testimony: Conroy said, 'I stabbed him'
Quick Read"He said, 'I have a blade on me,'" officer Michael Richardsen testified in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead Monday.
Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | Officer Michael Richardsen testified Monday that he found the knife used to stab Marcelo Lucero in the waistband of Jeffrey Conroy, several blocks from the fatal attack. "He said, 'I stabbed him,'" Richardsen testified, recounting a conversation with Conroy on South Ocean Avenue and Main Street in Patchogue, soon after Lucero was stabbed near the Patchogue train station.
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As Suffolk County Police Officer Michael Richardsen began patting down Jeffrey Conroy down for the second time, the then-17-year-old asked to speak to the officer away from the six other teenagers detained by police minutes after the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in Patchogue.
"He said, 'I have a blade on me,' " Richardsen testified in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead Monday....
