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November 8, 2007

Station evidence: Tickets made on the fly

The "pileup had already begun," said Joseph Amato when he arrived around 11 p.m.

When he arrived, Amato told the State Police that his wife and her friend had just gotten out.

" ... At that point there was a pile maybe three feet high and people were trying to go over um -- and then -- just people kept falling on um -- and ah -- you know, you could see the people inside on ... you could see people inside you know -- on fire."

Hours before the show, Amato and friend Chris Jacobs bought tickets at the nightclub -- tickets that were business cards with numbers written on them in magic marker, Amato told the state police during the interview.

"Did they make mention there were no more printed tickets?" a state police detective asked Amato, according to case documents released by state Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's office today.

"They said there were no more printed tickets, but this would get us in the door. And we were saying 'are you -- I don't want to come back here and not get in -- and they said 'don't worry, you'll get it," Amato said.

Amato said a person, whom he couldn't identify, took the card out of a pocket and numbers were written on the tickets in marker: an 8 on Amato's ticket and a 7 on his friend Chris Jacobs'.

The copy of the ticket Amato gave the police detective says "station Concert Club" and had then-club co-owner Jeffrey Derderian's name on it.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 3:56 PM | Permalink

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