Feds: Customs officers hazing included “rape table” at Newark airport
Last week, three U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were accused of using a “rape table” to haze two of their colleagues at Newark Liberty International Airport. 1 All three of the accused officers, 38-year-old Tito Catota, of Newark; 40-year-old Parmenio Perez, of Paterson, and 32-year-old Michael Papagni, of West Orange, were charged with “forcibly assaulting, impeding, intimidating and interfering”2 the two victims. (The defendants had been assigned to the Passenger Enforcement Rover Team, or PERT, a unit responsible for identifying passengers who might be carrying contraband or associated with terrorist activities.3) It is alleged that senior officers would take newer...
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