A former NYPD housing officer was arrested today, the same day as his estranged wife was being buried in Putnam County. What Eddy Coello, who had a history of terrorizing Tina Adovasio as well as a previous girlfriend, was charged with is unclear, but according to the Post, "A team of eight plainclothes cops hustled a handcuffed Coello out of a side entrance to and brought him to the back seat of an unmarked car with tinted windows and drove off." And a law enforcement source told the Daily News, "It was just a matter of time. Outrageous he ever wore a badge."
Adovasio went missing on March 11 from their Bronx apartment, after having a fight with Coello. Surveillance video allegedly showed a man (possibly Coello) dragging a duffel bag "big enough to hold a body" to a car. Then, five days later, ATV riders found her body in Yorktown Heights.
Coello did answer police questions, but refused to offer a DNA sample—and he allegedly also told cops that during their fight, she scratched him, prompting a source to say, "It was as if he knew what was going to happen so he told us that they had fought earlier and she had scratched him, in case we found his skin under her fingernails." Coello's ex-girlfriend, Glory Perez who detailed their harrowing relationship last week, said of the arrest, "It's wonderful news. He needs to spend the rest of his life in jail."
Adovasio and Coello had a 5-year-old daughter, Mia, and Adovasio had three other children from a previous marriage. During her funeral today, the priest relayed what 17-year-old son Joseph Adovasio said, "Tell everybody that she was a good mom. Tell everybody that she cared for her children first. Tell everybody that she was willing to do everything for us and sacrifice everything for us."
