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The New York Times - Wednesday, December 25, 2002
A group that helps the homeless announced yesterday that it had started a fund to help the family of a police officer who was suspended without pay last month after he refused to arrest a homeless man.
The group, Housing Works, which helps homeless people with AIDS and those infected by H.I.V., said that it had collected $3,000 for the family of the officer, Eduardo Delacruz. A week before Thanksgiving, Officer Delacruz was suspended for 30 days after he refused to arrest a man he found sleeping in a private garage near Union Square.
At a news conference on the steps of City Hall, 24 people who were once homeless gathered to present a $3,000 check made out to Officer Delacruz's wife, Marissa. Neither Officer Delacruz nor his wife was present. Their lawyer, Norman Siegel, accepted the check for them.
Officer Delacruz returned to work on Monday, Mr. Siegel said, and has been transferred from the Homeless Outreach Unit to a transit district in Brooklyn.
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