Alberto Martinez
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Alberto Martinez better known as "Alpo" is a Harlem-bread Drug Lord, who is of Puerto Rican descent,who rose to power in the 1980's alonogside teenage "friends" Richie Porter and Azie Faison. The majority of his trade was centralized around the North East in cities of New York City, Virginia Beach and Washington DC. On the night of January 4th, 1990 Martinez and an accomplice murdered Rich Poter. Porter was murdered beacuse of drug money he supposedly owed Martinez. In the issue of F.E.D.S. magazine he explains how he killed his good friend: "My man Gary shot him twice, but Rich didn't die so than i shot him. I know he felt something because i had to pry his hands off the door knob. Did I kill Rich yes, yes i did kill Rich but it wasn't personal it was business". Martinez is currently serving a life sentence for 13 homicides including the murder of Rich Porter.
[edit] Information On His Arrest
November 10, 1992; Page d3
A New York man sought by the FBI for more than a year on cocaine distribution charges in Northern Virginia and wanted for questioning in drug-related killings from Washington to New York was arrested yesterday in the District Alberto "Alpo" Martinez, 25, was arrested just after midnight Thursday by the FBI and D.C. police as he drove his truck in Southeast Washington near Pennsylvania and Minnesota avenues, said his attorney, Thomas Abbenante.
The FBI and D.C. police provided only scant information yesterday about Martinez's arrest, saying that their investigations into his alleged drug dealing and his possible involvement in homicides are continuing.
Law enforcement sources said Martinez is believed to have information about some highly publicized homicides here in recent months, including the July 16 killing of D.C. drug dealer Michael Anthony Salters and the Oct. 21 daylight killings of Timothy Cohen and Mark Mullen at Sam's Car Wash in Oxon Hill.
According to an affidavit filed in April at U.S. District Court in Alexandria in support of Martinez's arrest, Martinez served as liaison between a New York cocaine operation and drug dealers in the Washington, Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg area.
