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° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° Baron’s isle Barboza had spent the past several months in solitary confinement, and now he was having a tough time transitioning back to life as a husband and father. This certainly wasn’t an Ozzie and Harriet type of arrangement , but it had never been. Barboza was no domesticated animal. Previously , when the boredom of married life became too big a burden, Joe would simply vanish for days on end, shacking up with mistresses here and there. He had proved to be more like his father than he would care to admit in that respect. But there were no avenues of escape on Thacher Island, so Barboza had nothing to do but commit himself to being a better family man. This was no easy task with more than a dozen U.S. marshals constantly hovering around. Little Stacy Barboza had brought her cat Oby to the island, but there was no swing set and there were very few toys for her to play with. Her mother had allowed her to bring her tricycle onto the island, unaware of just how dangerous it could be. The only thing that her father truly feared in life was that something terrible could happen to his little girl. On Thacher Island there seemed to be a deadly hazard around every corner , and Joe had peace of mind only when Stacy was in the cottage and out of harm’s way. On one occasion she asked her father if she could ride her tricycle, and Joe said no. Like most children, little Stacy sought a second opinion, but she didn’t go ask her mother. Instead she asked her new friend, John Partington, who told her that it was okay. The marshal was unaware that he had overruled Barboza, and when the Animal saw Stacy riding her tricycle, he yanked her off and ordered her back to the cottage. “I hate you,” she told him with tears streaming down her cheeks. “I want John.”120 Barboza gave Partington a menacing look. First the marshal had tried 17 Well I run to the rock, please hide me° nina simone 172° casey sherman to win over his wife, and now he was attempting to take his daughter away from him, at least in Joe’s mind. To Partington’s credit, he understood the threat he had posed in Joe’s eyes. The marshal tried to make peace by setting up a makeshift boxing gym and allowing Barboza to sit in on the protection detail’s nightly card games. But even this had its challenges. Joe sparred with another young marshal who had doubted his argument that a great slugger could defeat a great boxer. The two men met on the landing pad and tapped gloves. The young marshal showed a few flashes of skill as he caught Joe with a straight jab to the face. Barboza seemed to relish the pain. His senses were suddenly alive again. It was the first time in a long while that he’d had the chance to physically dominate someone. The predator pounced and returned fire with a powerful hook to the body. The young marshal keeled over and the match was called. X-rays later revealed that Barboza had broken three of the man’s ribs. During a card game, Barboza and Partington had to be physically separated after an angry Joe told the marshal to fuck his mother in the ass. Partington had thought that reuniting Joe with his family would calm him down, but the marshal also understood the added pressure Barboza had felt thanks to the constant visits from Dennis Condon and Paul Rico. Barboza was brought once again before the secret twenty-one-man grand jury investigating the Deegan murder case in late October. Hours after his appearance, detectives fanned out across the Boston area to make their arrests. They grabbed Roy French across the street from his home in Everett . Joe Salvati was nabbed at the corner of Prince and Hanover streets in the heart of the North End. French knew that his luck would eventually run out, but the arrest came as a complete shock to Salvati, who had played no role in the Deegan slaying. Both men hid their faces from news photographers and other onlookers as they were hauled into the Chelsea police station and booked. Salvati was charged with two counts of conspiracy to murder and one count of accessory before the fact to murder. Henry Tameleo was booked on...

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