Trooper Bill Johnson was Trooper Andrew Palombo's partner in the
summer of 1982 and participated in the arrest of Paradiso. It appears
officers did not support a fellow officer who tried to detain Bulger
at the airport in 1987. The attitude appears to have been hands off.
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