Revere cop had history with suspect

REVERE – Nine months to the day before Revere police officer Daniel Talbot was shot and killed on a field behind Revere High School, Talbot arrested his future alleged killer on drugs and breaking-and-entering charges, the Item has learned.Robert C. Iacoviello Jr. was 19 years old on Dec. 29, 2006 when he was arrested by Patrolman Daniel Talbot and two other officers for allegedly breaking into the basement of a multi-unit home where he and two other men were caught drinking beer and in possession of marijuana.According to a police report, Talbot and officers David Caramanica and Ronald Thornton responded to 22 Rose St. at about 8 p.m. on a report of unwanted people in the basement of the home.The officers would find Iacoviello along with Anthony Sheppard of Revere, now 22 years old, and Edelsein Irizarry of Chelsea, now 23, in a basement storage unit in possession of alcohol, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.The resident of the home called police reporting the unwanted guests were friends of her son, who police described as “a known gang member.” The woman said her son was not at home and there was no reason the three men should be in the basement.When the officers went into the storage unit they discovered the three men sitting around a table with approximately 20 beer cans – some empty and some full – along with several small plastic bags and an ounce of marijuana in another bag, police said.Talbot, 30, was off-duty when he was shot and killed at about 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2007 on the field behind Revere High School, allegedly by Iacoviello. Talbot was drinking alcohol with his fiancée, 28-year-old Connie Bethell and off-duty Revere police officers William Soto, Stacey Bruzzese and Evan Franklin at the time he was shot.After spending a few hours at a police shooting range in Acton, the police trio and Bethell dined at Margarita’s restaurant across the street from the high school in the hours leading up to the shooting.Authorities said they continued “socializing” with a pack of beer behind the high school, where they encountered 17-year-old Derek Lodie of Revere walking across the field.In Suffolk Superior Court last month, prosecutors alleged that Talbot and the other officers taunted Lodie about his connections to gang members as he walked by.Lodie allegedly left the field in a rage before summonsing at least two other men – Iacoviello and 17-year-old James Heang of Revere – to return to the field with a handgun.It was then that Iacoviello allegedly fired shots at Talbot, striking him in the head and killing him.Iacoviello’s girlfriend, Gia Nagy, 17, of Revere, was charged with being an accessory to murder after the fact for allegedly helping Iacoviello dismantle and dispose of the murder weapon.Nagy is scheduled for arraignment in superior court on Jan. 8. A pre-trial conference for Lodie, Iacoviello and Heang is scheduled for Feb. 5.The murder trial could start sometime in December 2008.(Item reporter Thor Jourgensen contributed to this article.)