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cs MAIORANA VY, MACDONALD violations in the Lowell area. From Maiorana, he received information that led to some arrests and prosecutions. On February 12, 1973, he, along with two Lawrence police officers, arrested Maiorana at his home for an armed robbery while masked. According to Jajuga’s affidavit, during the arrest Maiorana reached under a pillow for a revolver, but was prevented from getting it by one of the officers grabbing his hand. This was contradicted by plaintiff, who, in one of her affidavits, stated that at the time of the arrest she was standing in the doorway and that. Jajuga asked her son where the gun was, that her son told him the gun was under the pillow and that Jajuga ' then reached over and took it,* Jajuga last received information from Maiorana in November, 197 3, had no subsequent contact with him, and did not participate in the events leading to the attempt to arrest him on February 15,. 1974. In-January and February, 1974;-MacDonald was investi-’ gating illegal firearms traffie in the Woburn area. Agent. Foderaro informed MacDonald that, while under cover, he had purchased a gun from Maiorana. On advice of Fod- “eraro, MacDonald contacted Long, who was also conducting a firearms trafficking investigation with Guilmette and was planning to obtain a search warrant for the aparement where Maiorana obtained the gun sold to Foderaro. Long and Guilmette had the cooperation of William Callagy and Stephen Fleischman. Long’s affidavit states that Callagy told him that many guns were being sold illegally in Law- rence, that his girl friend had received numerous phone calls threatening her life and the lives of her two children, ‘that Maiorana, who carried a (357 Magnum, was the main source of the guns in Lawrence and that he obtained them * After the arrest, Maiorana was bound over for the next term of the grand jury. No further explanation is given as to why he was not in custody during the events whieh concern us. , + RE ene atin eee