V. Nucci ("Nooch") and the entree to burglary

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texture · addiction era, ~age 23, B.S.

When: during the Percocet/Demerol years; Nucci's funeral marks the Demerol pivot (event 13)
What: Vinnie "Nooch" Nucci, a Salem-beach Dilaudid addict who dropped through Osco skylights on a rope, wasted away and died. Gately occasionally "held the rope" on Nucci's late-night Osco/Rite-Aid skylight missions — his entree to formal burglary proper.