{"id":26629,"date":"2025-11-03T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26629\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:29:08","slug":"testimony-offers-inside-look-at-wiretap-drug-investigation-of-prominent-staten-island-caterer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26629\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony offers inside look at wiretap drug investigation of prominent Staten Island caterer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Updated: Nov. 03, 2025, 5:50 a.m.|Published: Nov. 03, 2025, 5:50 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Ettore Mazzei\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5G75IPHW65GL7EBIE4WTCRQ3JQ.png\"\/>Ettore Mazzei is led out of the 120th Precinct stationhouse on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in St. George.(Owen Reiter for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"H6KEZAOVAFEP3KUP4KGC4HGKRU\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 At one point during a drug investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/2024\/05\/he-said-that-no-one-could-take-him-down-multi-million-dollar-bail-set-for-staten-island-biz-owner-accused-in-drug-ring-as-daughter-also-charged.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/2024\/05\/he-said-that-no-one-could-take-him-down-multi-million-dollar-bail-set-for-staten-island-biz-owner-accused-in-drug-ring-as-daughter-also-charged.html\">centered around then prominent caterer Ettore Mazzei, <\/a>there was a brief, in-person exchange between the suspect and a detective who was surveilling him, according to testimony delivered last week in court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"T4NUWHY6MBA7VCYOGFCIQZITKU\">Detective Arthur Truscelli testified that in March 2024, he was alerted by a fellow detective about an alleged incident that occurred near the 700 block of Bay Street in Stapleton, steps from multiple commercial and residential properties owned by Mazzei. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyUpdated: Nov. 03, 2025, 5:50 a.m.|Published: Nov. 03, 2025, 5:50 a.m.Ettore Mazzei is led out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-26629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}