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on October 20, 2016 at 8:48 AM, updated October 20, 2016 at 8:49 AM
Julio Salcedo Contrer (BCSO)Julio Salcedo Contrer, 34, was arrested on a fugitive warrant last month at a home in Cliffside Park. He was wanted for questioning in the blast that killed NYC Battalion Fire Chief Michael Fahy.
Authorities have said the house in The Bronx was being used to grow marijuana when it apparently blew up, killing Fahy and injuring other firefighters called there on a gas odor.
Contrer and Garivaldi Castillo, 32, both pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Bronx Supreme Court.
According to a report in The N.Y. Daily News, Contrer told investigators in Cliffside Park that he did not know the house where he was living was filled with drugs.
“I was not aware of any marijuana in that house,” Salcedo, 34, told police after his arrest, according to the Daily News, which cited court documents.
Authorities have called the house a drug den.
Julio Salcedo Contrer, 34, was arrested a fugitive warrant on Tuesday in Cliffside Park.
Salcedo allegedly answered the door when firefighters arrived – and then fled before the blast.
He allegedly told police he had noticed a container inside the bathtub but did not think anything of it, even though there were hoses leading from the container into three locked rooms, according to the news report.
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