An FBI agent speaks with men at the door of a home in Wellsville, as agents execute a search warrant on Aug. 8 at a nearby residence where Crystal Quinn was found dead seven days earlier.
A new indictment has added two kidnapping and six witness tampering charges against an Allegany County man under federal investigation since a government witness in the Pharaoh’s strip club case turned up dead in his home.
Simon P. Gogolack 39, of Wellsville, a previously convicted drug dealer, had already been indicted on narcotics and firearms charges.
Gogolack has been been under federal investigation since Aug. 1, when former exotic dancer , 37, died in Gogolack’s home of what authorities suspect was a drug overdose.
Her family and her attorney said Quinn was scheduled to become a reluctant prosecution witness in the case against Peter Gerace Jr., owner of Pharaoh’s strip club in Cheektowaga. Gerace faces an upcoming trial on charges of drug-trafficking, sex-trafficking and bribing a federal drug agent.
The indictment did not identify any of the witnesses who were allegedly threatened and kidnapped by Gogolack, and it did not specify which criminal investigation the witnesses were involved.
- Patrick Lakamp
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Simon Gogolack is charged in the overdose death of Crystal Quinn.
An FBI agent speaks with men at the door of a home in Wellsville, as agents execute a search warrant on Aug. 8 at a nearby residence where Crystal Quinn was found dead seven days earlier.
