Roll of Honor
Osvaldo Albarati
Incident
Location: Puerto Rico Weapon: Gun; Unknown type Offender: Sentenced to life
Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati was shot and killed in what is believed to be retaliation for his investigations into cell phone smuggling at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
He had just left the MDC and was driving home when several gunmen opened fire on his vehicle on the De Diego Expressway, near Exit 13 in Bayamon at 10:15 p.m. Another officer at the prison was arrested several days later on charges of smuggling contraband to several inmates serving life sentences.
On Jan. 28th, 2015, nine inmates were indicted in connection with the conspiracy to murder Lieutenant Albarati. The organizer of the crime was already in jail on drug charges when he orchestrated the shooting and faces a mandatory life imprisonment sentence for the murder of a federal officer.
Lieutenant Albarati had served with the Federal Bureau of Prisons for 11 years and was assigned to a special investigations unit. He had previously served with the Puerto Rico Police Department for six years.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife, son, and two daughters.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Lieutenant Albarati gave the United States Department of Justice 17 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Albarati.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In DC, 754 of 1,418 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 53.2% of this state's fallen. That is 53.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Prisons, 26 of 34 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 76.5% of this agency's fallen.
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