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Tenants find eavesdropping bug in cabinet
BY LAURA RIVERA
laura..._at_newsday.com
9:41 PM EDT, October 22, 2007
A Shirley landlord landed in jail after he allegedly broke into his
own tenants' apartment and planted a bug in their kitchen to spy on
the pair, police said.
John Gordon, of 43 Floyd Road North, was arraigned at First District
Court in Central Islip Monday on charges of second-degree burglary
and eavesdropping, Suffolk police said. His bail was set at $25,000
cash or $50,000 bond.
Earlier this month, Gordon, 48, tried to evict Donna Palermo and
Tracey Palagonia, who had rented an apartment in his house since
August, according to court records.
But the court dismissed the case, and Gordon presumably turned to
illicit spying measures, buying what police described as a
mini-electronic transmitter on the Internet.
According to Det. Lt. Michael Diffley of the Seventh Detective Squad,
one of the tenants found the device hidden under the kitchen cabinet
while she cleaned.
"She swept underneath the cabinet and pulled up this small FM
transmitter," Diffley said. The bug, a small black box about the size
of two 9-volt batteries, sends a signal to nearby FM radios, he said.
"It's a continuing landlord-tenant dispute," Diffley said. "He was
trying to get information to help in the eviction."
In court documents, Gordon claimed that Palermo and Palagonia were in
"egregious noncompliance of the rules of my home" and that they were
"out of control."
Palermo, Palagonia and their lawyer could not be reached for comment Monday.
Gordon was taken to Riverhead County Jail Monday.
Near Gordon's two-story house Monday, a neighbor who did not wish to
give his name said Gordon moved in about a year and a half ago.
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