along with Astacio were identified as Paul Adams, 46, Michael Brown, 24, and Joseph Alacqua, 31. All are free on bond, NBC New York reported.

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Investigators had already been tailing Astacio because they were eyeing him for other heists, the New York Post reported.

Astacio returns to court Aug. 9, Suffolk County District Attorney spokesman Robert Clifford told msnbc.com

During his time as a squad detective, Astacio was involved in several high-profile cases, including the arrest of a man who posed as a gynecologist to molest women who answered help-wanted ads and the arrest of a Queens man charged with abducting a passed-out woman from a nightclub and raping her.

Astacio joined the NYPD in 1995 and made more than $100,000 in 2010 in salary plusor so he responded to let me know it was still available on the website. The album is en route to me as I type this and the link is here.

With my quest for the recording out of the way, the mystery of how I had never heard of William Grant Still remained.

Who was he? Why isn’t his music very prominently played on classical networks?

William Grant Still was Born on May 11th, 1895 in Woodville, Mississippi to two teachers, Carrie Lena Fambro and William Grant Still, Sr. His father was a music teacher, but passed away when he was only three. His mother Carrie later moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. His mother remarried a man named Charles Shepperson who took Still under his wing and inspired him by