State Police Investigator takes the stand in Flaco trial

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State Police Investigator takes the stand in Flaco trial

By JOLEEN FERRIS

UTICA - Wesley Molina-Cirino is accused of shooting Utica Police Officer Thomas Lindsey to death in April 2007, just minutes after the officer had pulled over a car in a routine traffic stop.

State Police Investigator Samuel Serrano testified Tuesday about translating during police interviews with the defendant both in Onondaga County, where he was in jail on an unrelated charge, and at the Utica Police Station.

The Onondaga County interview was conducted May 14 and is in color, recorded from relatively close by. The interview at UPD is black and white and was shot from further away. Investigator Serrano testified that Wesley Molina-Cirino's story changed from one interview to the next.

Serrano testified that at first, Cirino said he got all his information about the night Officer Lindsey died, from other people - people we've heard about before in this trial including a man known as Indio - who is the uncle of Sammy Rivera - the man officer Lindsey pulled over minutes before he was shot.

But then, Serrano says that Cirino actually put himself at the murder scene but still said this was a plan carried out by Sammy and Indio - Cirino claiming that he was just a bystander.

So basically you have a an eyewitness and defendant each saying the other was involved in the officer's murder.

Testimony is expected to wrap up the jury will most likely come in early in the morning for closing arguments.

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