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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from a previous seizure of funds
and was anxious to avoid another such incident, so he offered
Hund and Grove half the money to ignore the cash.18 They
accepted one container and asked Hitchens not to mention this to
the other officers who would be arriving later. Hitchens put the
other container in his neighbor's trash can, from which the
neighbor later retrieved it for him.
Thereafter, Cattalo arrived, then Wilson, and later Giongo.
Hitchens had a box of casino chips in a kitchen cabinet and
diamonds in the freezer. Approximately $16,000 in a closet was
left untouched. Hitchens had $2,213 in currency on his person
which was returned to him. No drugs were found on the premises.
Hitchens was not arrested. After the search, Hitchens found that
the majority of the casino chips and diamonds were missing.
When Grove, Hund, and Cattalo left the unit at the end of
their shift, each of them appropriated a portion of the $24,000
from the container. Karasinski visited Hund after the Hitchens
search and saw a large sum of money, a velvet sack of diamonds,
and casino chips in $500's on the kitchen table. Hund led
Karasinski to believe that the items were Hund's share of what
18 It was sometime after this Dec. 30, 1982, search that
Hitchens developed his relationship with Grove and Hund described
supra p. 10.
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