CHELSEA - A 17-year-old Revere girl allegedly helped dispose of a murder weapon used in the slaying of a Revere police officer, authorities said yesterday in court, but the teen's mother insisted her daughter was falsely accused. Gia M. Nagy pleaded not guilty to one count of accessory after the fact of murder and was released on $10,000 cash bail. Nagy, according to Suffolk prosecutors, created a false alibi for her boyfriend, Robert Iacoviello Jr., who authorities allege fired the shot that killed Officer Daniel Talbot behind Revere High School on Sept. 29. ``My daughter didn't have anything to do with this,'' said her mother, Alison Nagy, outside the courtroom. She said her daughter was dating Iacoviello, 20, for about nine months before the shooting. ``She's only a 17-year-old kid. She didn't have anything to do with this.'' Nagy's attorney, Michael P. Doolin, said in a telephone interview that his client was cooperative with authorities and had twice shown up to testify before the grand jury investigating Talbot's murder, but was never called by prosecutors to testify. ``This thing seems to have come out of the blue,'' Doolin said, referring to Nagy's arrest by Revere police Friday night. ``She's a good kid from a very, very nice family. I don't think she did anything wrong. I don't think she committed any crime.'' But in court, Suffolk Assistant District Attorney John Lacey said Nagy provided ``comfort'' to Iacoviello after the shooting, helped him concoct a false alibi, and also helped disassemble the handgun used to kill Talbot, 30, then dumped the pieces in sewer drains along Cushman street in Revere. Authorities have said they recovered the pieces of the handgun and matched spent shells recovered from the shooting scene to the handgun allegedly purchased and used by Iacoviello. With about a half-dozen Revere officers looking on, Lacey also said that some 25 witnesses appeared before the grand jury, including people who testified that they saw Nagy destroy the gun. Lacey also said yesterday in court that Iacoviello has told other people that his girlfriend helped destroy the weapon. State Police Trooper Steven M. McDonald wrote in a report filed in court that Nagy knew the weapon's significance. ``Witnesses testified under oath that Gia Nagy knew that the weapon was the same weapon that was used to kill Daniel Talbot,'' McDonald wrote. Talbot was killed while he, his fiancée, and other off-duty Revere officers were drinking beer behind the school. The group had spent the night drinking at a restaurant after visiting a firing range. Nagy is the third suspect charged in the case. Derek Lodie, 17, allegedly argued with Talbot and other police officers that night and called his friends on his cellphone. Iacoviello allegedly came to the school to assist Lodie and fatally shot Talbot, prosecutors have said. Lodie has pleaded not guilty to a single charge of being an accessory before the killing. Iacoviello has also pleaded not guilty.
Source: The Boston Globe
