Connecticut State Police Detective Sergeant (Retired) Jerry Longo and journalist Andy Thibault will discuss the career and memoir of Louis the Coin Colavecchio Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. with the Morris Public Library Online, Morris, CT
Colavecchio, had pleaded guilty to creating counterfeit $100 bills at his apartment in Pawtucket, RI.
Longo had arrested Colavecchio in a prior case in which The Coin had manufactured and used undetectable $100 slot machine tokens at casinos in Connecticut, New Jersey and Nevada. They subsequently became friends and appeared together at Gateway Community College in New Haven and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury.
Thibault, city editor for the Republican-American in Waterbury and a private investigator, collaborated with Colavecchio and Gateway Professor Franz Douskey to write the memoir, “You Thought It Was More – Adventures of the World’s Greatest Counterfeiter, Louis The Coin.”
Longo wrote the book’s introduction. He is now a senior investigator for a major casino and chairman of the Connecticut State Police Museum in Meriden. A portion of royalties from the memoir is being donated to the restoration of a 1941 police cruiser at the museum. Direct donations can be mailed to: CSPAAAMEC P.O. Box 1945 Meriden, CT 06450-0899 Notation: Garage or 41 project.
Louis Colavecchio passed away on July 6, 2020, at the age of 78, just weeks after compassionate release from federal prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/louis-colavecchio-dead.html
So long, Louis:
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