United States v. Andrea Aiello, A/K/A "Antonio Aiello", Francesca Bartolotta, Lorenzo Scaduto

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

Andrea Aiello, Lorenzo Scaduto, and Francesca Bartolotta appeal judgments of conviction of narcotics violations after a ten week jury trial in the Eastern District of New York before Mark A. Costantino, Judge. Appellants raise various issues, the most important of which are challenges to the district court’s evidentiary and suppression rulings and to the ruling that a third-party’s approach to one juror did not require the declaration of a mistrial. We affirm, except as to the disposition of Scaduto’s convictions on two lesser-included offenses.

In October 1982 Daniel…