BELFAST, Maine — Accused murderer Daniel Porter refused to tell police where Jerry Perdomo’s body and the murder weapon were hidden, saying that he would use the information as bargaining chips to get a lesser sentence, according to court documents released this week.
The 24-year-old Jackson man was denied bail Thursday on the charge of murder in the death of the 31-year-old Florida firefighter at a Jackson residence on Feb. 16.
Police have said that the crime was related to the illicit trafficking of prescription pills and that Porter owed Perdomo $3,000.
The affidavit in support of probable cause that Porter committed murder was filed Thursday in Waldo County Superior Court.
In it, police said that Porter’s father, Gary Porter, was the one who gave them the purported murder weapon on Feb. 29. He told police that his son said the Romanian semiautomatic assault rifle was the weapon used to shoot Perdomo. The affidavit does not say who owned the weapon or where it came from.
Gary Porter said that his son told him that his girlfriend, Cheyanne Nowak, and her toddler son had been inside the Jackson home when Perdomo made threatening statements. The father told police his son had shot Perdomo to protect the family, according to the affidavit.
Nowak told police, however, that she had left the house to pick up her toddler son while Porter and Perdomo were playing pool together. When she returned later that night, Porter told her Perdomo had left.
Daniel Porter told police that Perdomo had threatened, among other things, to rape Nowak for $500 of the money Porter owed him.
Among other details that emerged from the court documents:
• When police found Perdomo’s body off a twitch path near Dahlia Farm Road in Newburgh, it was wrapped in three blue tarps tied with rope at both ends. The body was lying on a red snow sled.
• Maine State Police Detective Darryl Peary spoke with Nowak, who said that on Feb. 19, three days after Perdomo’s death, Porter had left $6,000 in her bedroom at her Brooks home. He then instructed her to go shopping for vehicles the next day.
“They purchased their new vehicle from Lee Auto in Bangor and she gave Daniel Porter the money that he originally gave her and he paid the dealer $8,700 in cash. She believes Porter had $4,000 remaining,” the affidavit stated.
The affidavit did not say where the money came from. But Nowak told police she had not seen the Florida man with any cash.
• On March 2, detectives found a Glock Model 30 semiautomatic handgun and two cell phone charger cords which they believe belonged to Perdomo. The items were found in the snow at the base of a tree on property located on Village Road in Jackson, near the intersection with Hadley Mill Road.
• Maine Chief Medical Examiner Margaret Greenwald told Peary that Perdomo died after being shot in his right ear canal. The “fired projectile” exited his skull just below his left ear.
• After Porter was arrested and taken to Waldo County Jail, he allegedly said that “the cops have enough evidence to make me happy, but not enough to make them happy,” according to the affidavit.
Porter’s defense attorney, Jeffrey Silverstein of Bangor, has said that Perdomo had engaged in threatening conduct and communications with Porter.
“This was not an unprovoked incident,” the attorney said. “I think more facts will come out.”
Porter’s family and friends, who have jammed the Waldo County Superior Courthouse during both his first appearance and his bail hearing, have strongly indicated that they believe Porter acted in self-defense. Several put on yellow T-shirts Thursday after the hearing was concluded that read “Free Dan” on the front and “We support the right to protect our families” on the back.
Porter should get life with no possibility of parole for committing murder while engaged in illicit criminal drug activity.
That would let hm off easy. Maine needs the death penalty.
here in Virginia we have the second highest rate of executions in the country—after Texas–and it doesn’t seem to do anything to stop the violence—we still have a high crime rate, particularly in NOVA
It may not, but it does do ONE thing, it makes it so that the taxpayer doesnt have to pay for their sorry butts any longer.
It would end up costing the state more to execute than to incarcerate for life. Unless you also advocate trashing our entire justice system and just having lynch mobs come back.
it usually ends up costing the taxpayer more in the long run for court appeals, etc. to kill someone
unfortunately a lot of criminals act impulsively and are not going to be thinking that they may get the death penalty prior to committing a crime.
At least the death penalty brings the comfort of knowing that the bad guys are being taken out of circulation. How galling it would be, as the survivor of a capital crime, or a family member of a victim, to know that one’s taxes are supporting the perpetrator in comfort and ease in prison – even to the point of the criminal being able to obtain a degree in some cases. Too bad that decades can elapse before justice is done; that’s not fair to anyone.
but they don’t recommit.
Indeed, but it will never happen.
Maine doesn’t have parole.
yes they do
Only for prisoners who commited a crime prior to 1976.
what do you mean Maine doesn’t have parole?
Just what I said. No parole. To be exact, there
aremight be a few in Maine who are on parole, but as of May 1, 1976, no more parole. Longer sentences were instituted instead.http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/34-a/title34-Ach5sec0.html
True story. Probation, yes…never Parole in Maine
Odd, you yahoos could just as easily be expected to making Porter a hero
for defending his wife and child.
Who pulls these people’s strings ?
Seriously, how do you predict or know on which side of anything the Neo-Know Nothings will come down upon ?
With their contradictory, hypocritical, knee jerk positions is there any way to predict what the flag waving, gun toting, NRA life member, “christian” conservative, ACLU hating, law and order, “strict Constitutionalists” mob will do ?
Given that by their own admission they can’t ever compromise, nor “flip flop” predicting their predicting their initial knee jeck reaction is all that matters, politically, isn’t it ?
You obviously stayed up all night thinking how you were going to post that worthless piece of information for all of us…so thanks…I guess
No.
It just rolled off like it was writing itself, but thank you all your kind concern.
What else is there say to say to something like that ?
Anyone else know, because it just like my point above about how off the wall some people, of a particular political point of view can be ?
Seriously, once you have heard them, once you understand their agenda,
what point is there in dealing with people who are proud of not being able to compromise ?
What do they expect, total surrender ?
What place do people who can not or will not compromise ever have at the
political table ?
Porter had no wife and kid — and there wasn’t any girlfriend and kid in the house when any alledged threats were made (this according the girlfriend of Porter herself) Porter a hero are you kidding me — he dealt drugs, tried to skip out on paying his dealer, killed a man and covered it up. I pity you if these type of peope are the hero’s in your life!
Well, since he is an obvious Obama supporter, you can draw you own conclusions…! LOL
Not a yahoo, nor a neo anything, nor a knee jerk reaction from a flag waving NRA member Christian conservative, as I’m none of those things. But your post was an interesting glimpse into your thinking.
*knuckling forehead obsequiously* “Or, sorry, your Worship, ’tis true that only your Worship’s nuanced and considered opinions be worthy of uttering. Beggin yer pardon, Sor…”
I would agree if it were an innocent by stander. If the pill dealers want to kill each other off I have no problem with that.
but he says it was self defense
…despite all physical evidence to the contrary. Words are cheap. Actions tell the story.
Exactly, but we look at his actions, his lying, his behavior after the fact, and we see he lured the drug dealer to his home and murdered him. Then he disposed of the body, threw away the possessions, bought a new car and fled the state.
Maine doesn’t have parole.
I find it amazing that with the speed of todays media that there’s people out there who think Maine has parole. This is a excellent example of just how misinformed some people can be out there.
Just another one of the 55 murders we have in our country every single day of the year. On the average, 20,000 murders per year if you believe the FBI statistics.
I believe it, but will ‘msfrea’? Or would that be just another cop conspiracy link? :)
Once again BDN, can we drop the Firefighter angle. Perdomo is an individual from Florida who just happened to be a firefighter. The fact that he was had nothing to do with why he was murdered. Give it a rest already!!!!
Just a descriptive word, people seem to always be labeled by what they do not who they are. He was indeed a firefighter in Florida, at least BDN is stating something factual.
He gave up the honor of being a “firefighter” when he decided to deal drugs. He would have lost the honor when he got caught selling drugs even if he hadn’t died.
When were you given authority to decide that and by whom?
You a Perdomo supporter? He was selling drugs…we know that now.
He was a firefighter accused of selling drugs, That’s what we know. Your statement that I asked you to justify, still not answered.
Porter was free lancing for Perdomo. So they were both selling drugs.
You know something, you don’t stop to think that he was a guy that was out there saving lives. This same drug dealer as you call him actually did some good for his community. He might of been that guy that gets you out of a burning house, you don’t know. I will not dispute what he was doing outside of his job was completely wrong but i will not take away him him his time in the military and a firefighter.
I’m enjoying this case for the insight it gives us on some people and all of their politics.
Would you feel the same way if he ruined one of your loved ones lives by getting them hooked on his poison? Keep in mind, who ever was buying those drugs is somebodies loved one. It’s the pill heads that are desperate for more, and will do anything to get it.
I am no fan of a dealer…but the dealer is NOT the one that gets someone “hooked” on drugs…its the person who pops that little thing in their own mouth that is the one to blame, so why not start laying blame where it belongs.
it such situations there is plenty of blame to go around
and his status as a firefighter has nothing to do with this, and therefore does not need to be taken away.
Really? He wouldn’t be up here if the market wasn’t so prime for that. What makes it a good market? Demand. Prob when these 2 met it went a lil like this. DP”so your from Florida? Can you get me any p30s?”. JP”all day wanna do sumthin?”. They both had money on the mind thus one of the 7 deadly sins in their heart….greed. As for the people who get hooked no one put a gun to em to do these drugs. Yea they may always be categorized as family first to their loved ones but in their head they want pills and will Rob their family blind for them. Porter prob felt like scarface, best connection in the area lots of cash and guns. Bottom line being there is always going to be someone to fill the void in the market.
some of those getting hooked on drugs may be young people who were abused as children. it’s a way to self medicate and not feel the pain. yes, they brought it on themselves-NOT
I dont blame budweiser for someone being a drunk, i dont blame McDonald’s for someone being over weight. At some point you have to hold people responsible for their own actions and stop making excuses. If a person doesn’t have the self control to stay away from pills or drugs its how it is. I will still love them but they are responsible for their actions.
Budweiser and McDonald’s are just like drug dealers. I’ve got it now.
Are you suggesting that Porter, being the nice family man that he is, was so concerned about the well being of his friends, was forced to buy and sell drugs to them so they wouldn’t have to go through withdrawal or the Methadone Clinic?
So, is it a question of math? He saved 3 lives, and ruined hundreds? Does it work like that? or is it what you know in Florida about the “saving” and what we know about here in Maine about Drug abuse damage?
I have to agree with you…..
if he gets off, lets say…… Jerry’s Family can still SUE porter .for all that Jerry would earn in his life time,Just like they did to O.J. which now is in prison for crime with a Gun
Those earnings include hies drug money?
Us. We gave him the authority… You know those people who don’t take the quick-path to riches at the expense of our friends, family and neighbors.
I think it’s actually a ‘she.’
why would he lose his job as a fire fighter?as far as I know you can be a fire fighter and have a record,a cop no but fire fighter yes.
I doubt you should be able to be a EMD if you are known to be involved with diverting prescription drugs.
That is true. Felons are barred from this type of work.
Moreso of being a medic. A drug running medic is an oxymoron at best.
To settle this, we could check his tax returns and see if his declared income
from drug dealing was greater, can’t we ?
Tell that to the family’s lives he saved and numerous homes he saved while doing the job of “Firefighter” . He may not have been a good guy in his private life, but you cannot take away the great job he did when he was a firefighter, and i am sure the many families he has helped would be only too happy to tell you that.
What about the many families whose lives were poisoned because he supplied them with the drugs that messed up their lives. Yes, they chose to take them — but they had to get them somewhere. Perdomo, the Drug Dealer — no more, no less.
…and the many wives, children, and parents of the addicts he supplied?
Firefighters have been a hot topic mostly since 9/11. What I REALLY would like to see is the day when “News” be dropped from the title of Newspapers, TV News Networks, etc…. These days It’s all opinion. And it’s meant to satisfy others who share the same opinion of that particular publication or network.
So it’s the paper’s opinion that Perdomo was a firefighter? He was a firefighter, was he not? That’s a fact, is it not?
With Perdomo there is a choice of labels. The BDN picked the one that would best “push” the story. Dead, cheating, suspicious, Florida resident, just isn’t as flashy.
Fact IS he was a firefighter. My issue with “News” being used in the title of Newspapers and TV is a totally different issue. I wasn’t saying that to insinuate that it’s the BDN’s opinion that he was a firefighter.
You are correct that at this point in this developing story the more relevant headline should be, “More details emerge in Perdomo murder case.”
AMEN! The guy was a freakin’ DRUG DEALER!
one goes down, another dealer takes their place. J/S
Porter was dealing drugs, no one MADE him, he just thought it was easier than getting a real job and thought premeditated murder was a way out of paying.
Like it or not Perdomo was a fireman and a medic, Porter is……….. a murderer and just ruined his credit rating by not paying his drug bill.
plus he was involved in drug deals, having an affair when he was a married man with kids.
and do you know this for a fact that it was an affair how do you know that they were not having marriage issues and were staying together for their children’s sake?
Saying that he is a firefighter just sensationalizes the story. Dead drug dealers don’t sell as many stories…..
REALLY!!!! it gives a bad name to the GOOD FIREFIGHTERS!!
He was a firefighter? All I notice is he was running drugs and helping to poison our state.
Must be another Porter supporter…If you did not know porter your statement should have said “Both of them running drugs and helping to poison our state”, not “he”. Does not take one person there were more individuals involved and that includes Lisa and Nowak and Porters Father that everyone let off the hook as if anyone knew they were doing drugs it would be them.
He left 6,000 in her room for her to buy a car but couldn’t pay his supplier. Daddy says that Nowark and her child was in the home when these threats were made but she’s already told police that she’d left and come back two hours later and Perdomo was gone. Uhmmm sounds like to me that the lying is already catching up with Mr. Porter.
Daddy says that’s what he was told by sonny boy. When I studied the first affidavit, I was led to believe that Porter lied to Nowak about a lot of things. Now we see that maybe he lied to his father. I’m not rushing out to get one of those T-shirts his “supporters” like to wear.
Daddy Porter is lying for son Porter, that is pretty obvious
although it is not right, wouldn’t we all want to protect our child in such a terrible situation? As I said, it isn’t right but one loves his child and will usually do what he can to protect his own.
As more details are becoming public, it appears to me that Porter’s father has cooperated with authorities. Must be a very tough spot to be in.
Please stop referring to Perdomo as a Florida firefighter. He was a Florida drug dealer.
According to a murderer.
Murder is a legal term, it isn’t “murder” till the court says it is.
Or we can call him a Maine drug dealer. Sounds like this is where he did all his dealing. Maybe he felt more at home here.
Paul, that would make him a thief in Florida, too, then wouldn’t it ?
Go play with your ox, kid.
Otherwise Maine folks might get a reputation for not being very smaart.
That would just attract more riff raft, like this drug dealing EMT scumbag.
I’m sure some people got my point. It’s just one drug dealer murdering and robbing another drug dealer. Maybe the next one will be a locally grown drug dealer. The focus on his state of residence and day job shows us some Maine folks are not being very “smaart”.
When he was just a missing person he was a Florida fire fighter. What changed?
The facts.
Now he wasn’t a fire fighter?
Now he is a dead pill pusher.
He was a Florida firefighter alleged to have been dealing drugs into Maine. Why is that so hard to wrap your mind around?
I guess i must apologize. I thought Perdomo being tagged as being a firefighter was actually and insult on our hard working honest firefighters. I just don’t see why that affiliation is important enough to make the headline.
A firefighter is descriptive term for a person of a chosen profession. Some of them are good people, some are not so good people – just like any profession. This story began weeks ago with headlines of a firefighter from Florida missing in our area. In my opinion, despite the many revelations since of his sordid behavior, the original affiliation is just a continuation of the unfolding story. I respect what firefighters and military veterans – like Perdomo – do for society and our country. However, they still have human frailties. We shouldn’t put them on too high a pedestal as this story proves. Some posting on this forum want to strip the firefighter tag because he fell from grace and that’s their opinion. I happen to see it differently.
He was a Florida firefighter, drug dealer, father, husband, taxpayer.. etc.. The fact that he was a drug dealer does not make him any less a firefighter nor does the fact that he was a firefighter make him any less a drug dealer. People aren’t defined by just one label. Fact.
A firefighter is thought by all to save lives. A pill dealer ruins lives. The kids are the real victims here. To grow up and know their mother and farther helped destroy hundreds of lives.
Drug dealers can absolutely ruin lives. No question there. However, not all firefighters are squeaky-clean, life-saving heroes. People are people and people do stupid things. The fact that firefighters fight fires and save lives does not make them free from all wrongdoing, human error, stupidity, and immorality.
How do you know he paid taxes? He wasn’t fighting fires here in Maine so is “firefighter” important or even relevant in a Bangor Newspaper? He obviously wasn’t much of a father if he cared so little for his children that his “extracurricular” activities took precedence. and “husband” is the most scurrilous of all the lies.
These new developments further implicate Porter in a big way. Johnnie Cochran is dead, so he is stuck with Silverstein. Good luck, Danny boy.
It will be something if the girlfriend and father manage to get out of this without charges of their own.
He was both.
He was a dirty firefighter.
agreed. but he was a firefighter still.
I guess I am not sure what that means in this case though? Does he deserve some special dispensation? Or is he just another drug dealer? Truck drivers risk their lives everyday and if one of them is caught dealing they don’t get treated as hero’s with a problem…
It’s only relevant because that’s precisely where this story started and attracted national attention (rightly or wrongly) – “Florida firefighter and former Marine missing in Maine.” Otherwise, this story gets no traction if it had been “Florida Wal-Mart shipping clerk missing in Maine.” I am not defending what gets national media attention, but only the fact that we began with the former and so it is relevant in that context.
ahaha, Kinda like that. Could you imagine opening a newspaper with a headline “Wal-Mart Shipping Clerk From Florida, Missing in Maine”
That’s the media-fed society we have been trained to live in, isn’t it?
oh it sadly is. I feel the firefighter reference is a way to describe the guy. Its the same way when you see in the paper, High School teacher caught with child porn, Police Officer accused of rape and so on.
and it would have gotten even less traction if the headline read “Florida Drug Runner Shot in Dispute with Maine Drug Dealer Over Payment”–nobody would care at all—just two scumbags having a falling out—-now its the double life this guy lead that is feeding the media frenzy
I can’t think of any special dispensation that will actually help him now. I don’t believe in baptism for the dead. Maybe he can come back as a zombie?
I meant his legacy with respect to the court of public opinion. People are quick to suggest, “Well he was a firefighter…”, well, so what I ask?
I know but I couldn’t resist. The words “special dispensation” bring such things to mind.
Thats like saying he was a child molester but still he was a priest too. He should be held to a higher standard because he was a firefighter. People who are in a position of public trust have a much bumpier ride when that trust is broken.
Wasn’t he actually an EMT, making him a double dealing, drug pushing EMT ?
You made my point. A child-molesting priest is both. We don’t drop the priest part because he breaks trust.
I’d check with the Catholic Church about that. They now have a policy of defrocking priests before they are formerly charged with a criminal act.
Wouldn’t change the fact that he committed the crime when a priest.
But the Newspaper would not be able to use present tense as they do wityh Perdomo the drug dealer.
They probably would still. I think the relevant point made earlier was the opinion of those that think he lost his right to be called a firefighter because of his alleged actions in Maine. I understand their view, although I see it differently. I respect those in the firefighting profession a great deal but I don’t think a firefighter gone bad gives honorable ones a bad name.
Wasn’t he really an EMT ?
And to think I was attacked 4 times for suggesting that he hadn’t made “10 trips in 10 months just for a tryst. Sounds like a drug runner to me”! :-0
Porter can spin what ever tales he wants. Who’s gonna contradict him? The only other person who knew what was going on has been murdered.
Unfortunately true to an extent. Porter’s statements will still be weighed against physical evidence of wounds to the deceased, of that taken from the scene of the crime, and from Porter’s many incriminating acts in the days after the homicide. We have competent crime investigators here and their findings may be pivotal.
There is a time to be
cocky and a time not to be. This circus of his is about to hit a nasty
reality check and it wont be pretty when his “followers” are humiliated
and humbled by the facts now coming out.
I wonder do they support our right to protect Maine families from drug addicts and dealers both local and from away?
I wonder that too….
assault rifle?bdn reported it was a 357 magnum?does anyone besides porter know the truth?and everyone knows he will never tell what really happend at first thought it was self defense but dont know what to think now drug deal gone way wrong he was just quicker on the trigger what would the headline be if it was porter dead and perdomo the one in jail?
Right! This showdown could have gone either way. They were both knee deep in the swamp.
Maybe it’s the .357 and Porter lied to his father about the rifle. The cops “observed what appeared to be small metal or lead particles on the window sill and window frame of the large picture window” and removed that window as evidence. Even without that they would only need to get one small particle of the bullet from the victim’s body. The analysis of that particle will give them the precise composition of the metal. There’s a very good chance that will suffice to rule out the rifle or the .357 as the murder weapon. That might not prove that the other one is definitely the murder weapon but it can prove somebody is a liar.
Huh, nothing much here we didn’t already know of substance.
I just watched this video here and Porter seems to be pretty dang happy for being in court for murder… I still am unsure if this was self defense or not (dont judge please benefit of doubt here) but he just seems to dang happy! ???
The same thing has been bothering me. Porter is either out of touch with reality about what the future has in store for him, and clueless about the severe harm he has caused to so many people, or he is a bonafide psychopath – no signs of remorse, no obvious signs of sleep loss or depression, no signs of the PTSD that typicallyhappens even if self defense… apparently Porter has no conscience at all. He’s acting as if he’ll be the Star of the next Reality TV Series -I agree with you; Porter really does look like he’s amused in some of the photos.
You guys and girls discussing Porter’s demeanor would delight me if I were his attorney. Great fodder for a “diminished capacity” defense.
He is so guilty …
Porter is guilty no matter what. He accepted drugs from Perdomo, and I’ll say it again as I have in a previous article. Drugs or not, if you owe someone money pay the hell up! It’s called common courtesy. Just pay him and forget it! Don’t escalate the problem…
I don’t believe the scumbag ever had any intention to pay up, EB. Follow the money; he ends up with over $12K a day or so later. This is looking more and more like a planned robbery, and an intentional murder with cover-up.
Duh… They are CRIMINALS… you expect “honor, courtesy?” Perdomo was not dealing with the customer relations department at LL Bean!
Police have said that the crime was related to the illicit trafficking
of prescription pills and that Porter owed Perdomo $3,000.
My teacher would have slapped me with a ruler for writing it that way. What police have actually said is that Porter told them he owed Perdomo $3000. They haven’t said it’s a fact. I doubt the amount was that high. I think the real motive is robbery. He probably could have paid Perdomo what he owed but Perdomo wasn’t going to give him credit anymore. Perdomo had probably told him he had some other buyers who paid cash. So Porter sets this meeting up with promises that he’s got enough cash to pay his debt and buy some more drugs. It’s a premeditated murder. It’s not a holdup robbery because he doesn’t plan to point a gun and make demands. He just shoots the guy in the head and helps himself to the cash and drugs.
You could be right as more evidence is coming out. He’s not a very bright guy as from what i can see, Porter has said way to much for a lawyer to fight a self defense motive even if it was self defense in my opinion.
The media isn’t providing the full picture on this one.
You people need to read up on a Dr. John P. Christensen in FL, as it
pertains to the operation of a local pill mill named the “Wagner
Clinic” in Daytona Beach, which was operated by the father and brother
of a local politician named Josh Wagner.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2011/08/05/daytona-clinic-raided-in-state-pain-pill-investigation.html
According to recent local reports, indictments are coming.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2012/03/08/attorney-for-doctor-in-daytona-pill-raid-says-indictments-coming.html
http://www.redyankeepress.com
ok i read the articles, but was does that have to do with the murder?
Maine Chief Medical Examiner Margaret Greenwald told Peary that Perdomo
died after being shot in his right ear canal. The “fired projectile”
exited his skull just below his left ear.
Now we have the trajectory angle. So Perdomo had his head tilted to the right when Porter shot him in self defense? If it was really a rifle (maybe it was the .357 but he lied to his father) let’s try to re-enact a struggle or armed standoff that would result in this fatal wound. Try it at home but don’t use real guns. I’ll give you a banana to play the glock. I’ll use a sawed off broomstick as the rifle. First we’ll try some standoff scenarios. That doesn’t work? Okay, now we’ll try wrestling with the weapons. I just need to get that rifle pointed into your right ear canal and be able to pull the trigger. We gotta make this happen so Daniel can go free.
The movie is called “Deliverance”.
Exactly! Why is he always smiling? Why is he so happy? His attorney needs to reign that boy in.
And not let him look behind him at the people in the court house and smirk and girn who the hell knows who he is really looking at i mean Perdomo’s widow was there he may be smirking at her and i am sure that it bothers her even if he isnt directing it to her
Who cares what she thinks? If she had any class at all, she would stay in Florida and lick her wounds and take care of her (living) children.
LOL! Exactly…
I am not going to make any judgements, but Dan’s family should realize that drug dealing is a dangerous occupation and those that live by the sword can die by the sword.
Mr. Porter will eventually realize that murder is murder, no matter if the victim is a drug dealer to whom he owes money or a firefighter just here in Maine to visit his girlfriend.
Another update about a dead drug dealer.
Isn’t this whole story the very essence of ‘killing two birds with one stone?’ Hey, Perdomo didn’t ‘deserve’ to die, but everyone aside from his immediate family can merrily go about their lives because he did. If Perdomo wanted to play in that ‘drug-running’ league, he got the consequences of it. He chose. And let’s not be so melodramatic to declare that he was ‘just in Maine to visit his girlfriend.’ As if.
Not to mention that ALL of these alleged drug dealers are probably all telling the truth!! Seriously, no testimony will be credible. Good luck getting them all to confess like they do on NCIS and the other shows. Obviously none of them could be trusted and the drug trade is cut throat. Perhaps the gas chamber for all of those involved? Make an example for other drug dealer.
If Porter owed Perdomo $3,000 why didn’t he just pay him? Sounds like he had plenty of cash on hand.
Let me get this straight:
You feel that life is OK if one drug dealer pays the other one, and they continue their business unfettered?
Not at all I have no sympathy for drug dealers. I’m just implying that nobody would have died. Being a full time firefighter/paramedic myself for 30 years I find it hard somebody would waste their life, family and career over something like this.
After reading alot of the comments here, Least we forget, Young Mr. Porter appears to be a lying, drug dealing, scumbag also.
I would love to be a fly on the wall of you saying those things in the middle of Porter’s friends and family.
Id love Porters defenders to say what a great guy their DRUG DEALING friend was in the middle of a group of families hurt by drug abuse.
Probably get shot in the ear…
Hey SilverStein, Wake up man, your boy is obviously lying to you. Self Defense? are you serious? Since when is it self defense to put a gun to someone’s head and pull the trigger so that the bullet comes out the other side self defense….that sounds much more like premedatated, i got you where i want you, MURDER to me buddy.
Ok sooo do we really believe all these stories? what about perdomos wife? do we really believe she did not know anything about this? sure she knew, why do you think she allowed him to go to maine all the time? she liked the return cash flow as well, and she should be looked at as a dealer also not the greiving widow they are portraying her to be she is as guilty. I’m sure she helped “Pack” Jerry’s things when he made his trips, and sounds lkike nowak is as guilty she cannot keep her stories straight bag them all up send them all to jail so we can pay for them, again absolutlyfoolish
It seems people really want to focus on every angle except the actual muder here. The issue at hand is the murder of Perdomo, not if the wife knew about the affair/drug dealing. Her knowing/not knowing makes no difference at all to what happened in that house that night. The case is about the increasingly bogus “self defense” claim that “required” Porter to shoot Perdomo in the side/back of the head. Apparently Porter had enough money to pay his debt (and end the whole scenario where his life would be “at risk”), but instead chose to murder a man instead of pay what he owed. Both were involved with drugs, and yes drugs are bad, but murder is worse, yet people want to stay on the bashing of Perdomo and his family about drugs rather than the actual MURDER.
Effective summary of the central matter at hand: A crime of murder.
Murder is a legal term. There is no “murder” until the court says so.
You can wait for the court to tell you [it] if you wish.
It is a legal ter5m meaning the subject has been CONVICTED you may remain uneducated if you wish.
It’s also a biblical term, used long before our court system was established.
IF Perdomo (as you say above) is a drug dealer, I am delighted he is dead. I would like to pile 100 drug-dealer rotting corpses under the “Welcome to Maine” sign on I 95.
So long as the standard is the same for in state dealers as “from away”, fair enough.
Maybe worse for “domestic dealers… They actually must be able to see the damage they cause.
How dumb does Porter think people are? IF and that is a big word, if it was self-defense, then why not just call the cops? People should stop and think that misdirection is a way of life for politicians, murderers, drug dealers and anyone else that have ulterior motives….c’mon people, focus and use common sense, but then again common sense is a rare commodity in this day and age.
mayb u should know what your talking about befor u talk about it.
oh “brandy” i do!
So Perdomo threatened to rape Cheyenne, but Porter, the loving family protector that he is, sent her out alone to meet him and bring him to a secluded location? He either is a jerk who used his woman as bait or isn’t telling the truth about the threat.
Supposedly (from the way I read it), it was after he was at the house already. It’s just a garbage claim to try and bolster the self defense angle, but I agree with your view in general as to if Porter was so afraid of Perdomo, why send the girlfriend at all? Quite the chivalrous guy, huh?
According to Porter, but dead men tell no tales. Also, Nowak contradicted her boyfriend when he stated she was there when Perdomo made threats by saying that in actuality she was not there but rather picking up her kid.
welcome to Maine Roxy LOL Maine is in for a fun ride… Bath salts will be a small blip compared to the results of Roxy… Good Luck Maine PD And Herb is still Illegal LOL
So let’s get this straight…Porter was dealing drugs also, killed his dealer, tried to cover the whole thing up, fled the state, stole money from the dead dealer to buy his getaway car. Sounds like guilty to me. They both filed threatening claims against each other before. I do not believe a word that comes out of Porter’s or anyone associated (Daddy, girlfriend, & mistress) mouths.
Way too much C.Y.A. syndrome going on here. Porter’s cocky attitude makes me want to see him go away for a long time. Let’s hope justice prevails in this case. Dealer or not murder is murder!
Not only do I hope he gets life in prison, I hope they ship him out of state to a nice multi-cultural correctional facility.
when did porters dad give him the gun?
Mr. Porter appears to be very cocky and thinks he is smarter than the police. But hopefully he won’t feel like blowing kisses after the courts get through with him. I agree Mr. Palermo should no longer be referred to as a fire fighter but as a drug dealer. The only sane thing about this is that drug dealers are killing each other and not innocent people yet.
I hope the jury in this eventual trial keeps things in proper perspective. This Perdomo was a dope dealer who thought he could strong arm money for a illegal drug debt.He came to collect and ended up being collected. Nothing more,nothing less.
So Porter’s allowed to kill another person because he feels like it. The jury I hope will keep a proper perspective — a drug supplier was killed by the dealer because he didn’t want to have to pay his debt. Which in turn left one man dead and hopefully one behind bars for a long time. Letting Porter off would open the flood gates to dealers killing whoever they don’t like then claim self-defense because they didn’t want to pay up.
Why should we care? One dead drug dealer, one going to jail?? Win Win!
So…He did have enough cash, did tell his supplier he had none, and then shot the supplier. All according to him.
And that is what his supporters call “protecting his family”?
The Book. Throw it.
I wish they would stop insulting all the good firefighters out there, and call him what he was, A drug dealer in a fireman’s uniform.
some people when they are nervous smirk. George W did it and my husband does. It makes me want to kill him at times.
Gary Porter said that his son told him that his girlfriend, Cheyanne Nowak, and her toddler son had been inside the Jackson home when Perdomo made threatening statements. The father told police his son had shot Perdomo to protect the family, according to the affidavit.
Nowak told police, however, that she had left the house to pick up her toddler son while Porter and Perdomo were playing pool together. When she returned later that night, Porter told her Perdomo had left.
Her statement contradicting his certainly makes him out to be a liar. Thus, I would be suspect of anything Porter says. He lied to his father & the police. He hid the body & the weapon & refused to tell where they were hidden. From the coroner’s statement, I’d figure he told Perdomo he was going to get another beer, got the gun instead & shot him while he was lining up a pool shot. Nothing self defensive about that.
I do agree. I feel it was a Plan to Rob ,Kill Jerry and hide his body. his lawyer is just wasting his time
So,somebody thinks he is a “Rock Stah'”!
Don Horch, I love you!
Both these guys are drug dealers, lets remember that point….this is what happens when a deal goes bad. He really thinks not telling the police where the body and weapon is his bargaining chip for a lesser sentence?
Yes ! just like you said, they are Drug Dealers,I feel that its too bad they didn’t shoot each other.Porter thinks hes going to get out of this ? I don’t think so. hes just a Kid.if he don’t start thinking……. Hes going to be there for a long.I don’t understand Why his Supporter think they are helping. THE Law is going to Stand,He Killed a Person He is going to have pay,even if he got off. JERRYS,Family will Sue. this Boy will never live it Down
What grounds will Jerry’s family use to sue?
Gee my husband was just doing a drug deal, and he got shot in the course of doing business? sounds like a worker’s comp claim to me…. If Maine still paid workers comp.
if it was really self defense you would have called 911….he threatened my girlfriend so I protected her honor …pleassssseee.. you could of protected her by not doing drug deals around her .. lets face it your both guilty of living a life of drug deals, he paid with his life… now you should step up to the plate and pay your dues as well.
Hopefully someone has written down all Porter’s lies for him so he can study real hard come time for trial.
Why ??? would he get off ?? he killed a person that there is a enough to put him away for a while. I don’t feel Danny Boy could tell the Truth even if he was to read it.
I agree about calling him a Fire ??? but, I think both of them are just a pair of want a be’s
what Difference does it make ? who owed ? who… its better get both of them off the Streets
Can’t you read ?? They are Both the BLAME. Danny boy was in the drug selling Bus. I do wonder How the two Met ??
I would like to know Why the Court is letting porter blow kisses ? talk out of term ? doing what wants
If this were a self defense issue then why was the victim removed from the scene? When you protect yourself you should have nothing to hide and had you been threatened it would have been appropriate to notify the authorities. That is what a law abiding citizen should have done and not try to hide the facts that surrouded the incident.
“Self defense” my mule. Self defense would not entail being able to hold a semi auto rifle to the side of the head and fire straight in. This was an execution and if found guilty it would be another rally cry for the state to use euthanization… err, my bad, the death penalty for our wayward animals..
It was self defense. I did a reconstruction of it today. I was facing north with my right arm pointing a glock east at my buddy. He was able to point his assault rifle at my head. He put the red laser dot on my right ear canal and said “click”.
This was drug on drug crime. That knucklehead that killed the other knucklehead was a drug dealer just the same as the guy he killed, so who cares about either one of them? Put him in jail, and move on. He might have a right to defend his family, but he has no right to kill.
This isn’t news anymore.
It’s nothing but a planned and premeditated murder. The motive is a mix of the following:
1) He doesn’t want to finish paying for the drugs he already bought. Forget about his claim that he owed $3000 because he is a liar. The remaining debt was probably under $1000.
2) He’s mad because Perdomo is cutting back the line of credit.
3) He wants to take Perdomo’s cash and drugs.
As more details come out I’m sure some of those Free Dan shirts will be converted to cleaning rags.
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If you are doing illegal business with a man from Florida that carries a Loaded gun and 2 drop phones, are you suppose to bring a pen to sign a contract???
Why Did Predomo have a GUN???
How did Porter know Predomo had a gun unless he presented it to threaten Porter??
These are things that would run through my head if I sat on a Jury…
O.k. if it was “self defense” why would you hide the body 15 miles or 21 mins away from where you live, plus hide the murder weapon oh and to mention that he took the victims car and drove it to Walmart in Bangor. If it really was ” self defense” why wouldn’t you call the cops and tell them that it was self defense.. That right there makes him look guilty to me.. Oh and one last thing Mr. Porter before you lie to the police or anyone else for that matter maybe you and your girlfriend should tell the same story.. Because her story didn’t match up with yours what so ever. And in my opinion you deserve to be in prison the rest of your life, if you can take someones life over 3,000 dollars. No amount of money should be worth taking another human beings life.
Because he was a drug dealer!!! I understand perfectly why a guy with a going criminal business would want to have a little time to sanitize his residence before inviting the police in…
jabbatha you can Love Waldo Co. if you was born there you are entitled to what you want.
If you are from somewhere else maybe you havn’t lived there long enough. I lived in Maine all of my 60 years, moved to Waldo Co. for 10 years never saw so many drug users,thiefs,drunks,in family sex… gun carriers,crime……its not a place I want to bring up my children, my wife never felt safe there
O.K. I believe you, you have lived in Maine all your 60 years… so why do you call yourself “exmainer 2011?”
why do I call myself exmainer2011 ? its because I don’t live in Maine anymore,when I sold my Place in Waldo Co.I got Ripped Off so bad its not Funny,from the Buyer and with that along with what I know about the people there. we decided to make a better move,The Buyer Stole most of my Tools and Personal items.Me being Disabled couldn’t do much about it. But,me believing what goes around comes around, he will get his someday
I just love to see porter where he should be,its tooo bad that all HIS supporters are just wasting there time. this is a case of he said and she said. all lies. do you all think they were just drug runners ? I am sure they didn’t have time to file there taxes
this is why we need to have the death penalty in Maine
States with a working death penalty have homicide rates far higher than Maine. In fact Perdomo was 4 times more likely to be a victim in Florida.
Also, even in a death penalty State Porter (who is white) has little chance of receiving a death sentence. Mitigating circumstances (such as the fact that Perdomo left his residence with a gun, threatened Porter, and was far from a good-guy himself) may not keep him out of jail, BUT in a death penalty State it would keep him out of the execution chamber.
Porter keeps throwing out more lies to justify this murder. The article states that “Daniel Porter told police that Perdomo had threatened, among other things, to rape Nowak for $500 of the money Porter owed him.” Now come on if that were true and Porter is this great guy trying to protect his family from this horrible guy(Perdomo) why would you send Nowak alone to go lead him to your fathers house?
Ok all you people who believe Porter is wrongfully charged and adore his kisses to you…have NO CLUE!!!!!! why would a man say ” i rape your girlfriend for $500″ COME ON people!!! REALLY???? Why wouldnt the man just do it if he wanted to.? Porter has the worst ideas for self defense and deserves whatever happens to him. And all you supporters of him… PLEASE CHALLENGE ME ON THIS!
Challenge you about what? I think you are doing a fine job looking ignorant on your own.
In the state of Florida if you feel that someone is threating your life or putting people around you in danger you are aloud to shoot them dead in the middle of the street.
exmainer201123 hours agoin reply to Maine04401Yes ! just like you said, they are Drug Dealers,I feel that its too bad they didn’t shoot each other.Porter thinks hes going to get out of this ? I don’t think so. hes just a Kid.if he don’t start thinking……. Hes going to be there for a long.I don’t understand Why his Supporter think they are helping. THE Law is going to Stand,He Killed a Person He is going to have pay,even if he got off. JERRYS,Family will Sue. this Boy will never live it Down
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You also have to figure in the danger Porter has put his family in. What ever DTO Perdomo was working for is not happy now, particularly if he was making them a lot of money. Hope nothing happens to someone in the family because of this guy’s inability to fully grasp the people he was dealing with.
Folks, the mantra is the inmates are running the taxpayer funded criminal justice asylum.
More of your tax dime is spent arresting other cops than the real perps, you know, the politicians and people at Goldman Sachs, eh?
now go back to sleep.
Informant in ‘dirty DUI’ case tells his story
Justin Berton
Sunday, March 11, 2012
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2012/03/11/MNM91NH9MP.DTL
Danny boy will get some time out of this,and he along his supports will blame the Court System. he admits what he did ,he thinks he was right, NOT just set back and watch….. it would had been a lot better if they shot each other Does anyone understand the people that has Died in Waldo Co. in the past 10 years,its not just drugs,its Guns,drunks also
I would like to see more Facts …. Not Lies The Law knows he is Lying…. Look at the Murder of Woman in Brooks 7 years ago.they let him off,But the man didn’t learn a thing. he was back in jail just last week. he lives across the road from Porters Girl Friends mother
VI would like to see more Facts …. Not Lies The Law knows he is Lying…. Look at the Murder of Woman in Brooks 7 years ago.they let him off,But the man didn’t learn a thing. he was back in jail just last week. he lives across the road from Porters Girl Friends mother
I would like to see more Facts …. Not Lies The Law knows he is Lying…. Look at the Murder of Woman in Brooks 7 years ago.they let him off,But the man didn’t learn a thing. he was back in jail just last week. he lives across the road from Porters Girl Friends motherSave edit
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Shoot someone in the side of the head with an assault rifle and claim self defense!!! The drug dealer by night perfect hero by day man probably never saw it coming. And all the supporters in yellow who say “he was just protecting his family”, make me think how naive can some be. It is honorable that they stand behind their friend but be realistic he shot the man in the side of the head, hid the body and went to have his “farewell” party all because he knew his life was over because he murdered someone. And he did so to protect no one but himself.
Agree 100%
Porter had left $6,000 in her bedroom at her Brooks home….Why didnt he pay the stupid debt and all this wouldnt have happened!!!! I cant believe he had the cash but refused to pay, then cries that his family was being threatened!! 3000 dollars isnt worth spending the rest of my life in prison!!