Drug Smuggling results in New York City Police Chase

NEW YORK CITY—Four New Yorkers are dead as a result of a police chase involving Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and suspected French assassin, Pierre Jeantot. At around 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Doyle pursued the suspect from 35^th Street Station to 15^th Street Station, the place where Jeantot was finally shot and killed.

The chase began when Jeantot, 36 of Nice, France, attempted to assassinate Doyle from the roof of a building near his apartment at 1767 W. 57^th Ave. The New York City Police Department believes that this attempted assassination is related to Doyle’s recent investigation of illicit heroin smuggling from France into the United States.

According to a public statement issued by New York City Police Commissioner Ruth L. Ess, “Jeantot was allegedly working on behalf of a French drug kingpin who Doyle and his partner, Buddy “Cloudy” Russo, had been investigating.”

The document also stated that Jeantot entered the country on Nov. 4 on a flight from Paris to New York City, according to Homeland Security Records. Two other men are suspected of being involved in the smuggling operation and are being pursued by the police department at this time.

Jeantot, who accidentally shot and killed 63-year-old Betty B. Badluck of the Bronx in his pursuit of Doyle, attempted to flee the scene when he realized that he was being pursued by Detective Doyle. Doyle sprinted up to the roof of the building where Jeantot had been shooting but found nothing but an abandoned rifle.

When Doyle caught sight of Jeantot he was running towards the 35^th Street Station where he boarded the train. Doyle had no choice but to chase the train by car, narrowly avoiding other vehicles and pedestrians in his pursuit of Jeantot.

While Jeantot was aboard the train he shot and killed three train workers; Roland Evans, 34 of Brooklyn, Horatio C. Hornblower, 30 of White Plains, and Peter Howe, 27 of Queens.