SUPERMOM, YES OR NO?
The woman, who has not been named out of concern for the her and her children’s safety, went to the Omaha Police Department to see if she could get the 15-year sentence her husband received for dealing meth reduced if she helped police bring down the people he had been working for.
They agreed, and began an undercover investigation that lasted seven months and resulted in the convictions of eleven people and the confiscation of 13 lbs. of methamphetamine.
In order to befriend the dealers her husband had been consorting with before being arrested, the woman — a mother of six — spent time with them at a garage where the dealers would outfit cars with secret compartments to hide drugs and money.
Bringing Down El Primo
The woman would do their laundry, bring them food and give them rides. Once she earned their trust she began, with police instructions, to do a few small drug deals. All of this was in the hopes of finding information that would lead to the arrest of Juan Correa-Gutierrez, or “El Primo.”
Correa-Gutierrez never trusted the woman and refused to get close to her, but after seven months she learned from one of his dealers that Correa-Gutierrez would be traveling to California to pick up a meth shipment, which the disgruntled dealer would have to guard while Correa-Gutierrez was in Mexico for his daughter’s Quinceañera.
With this information in hand, the Omaha police began gearing up for a series of big busts to take down part of a drug ring with players in Nebraska, Arizona, Texas, California and Iowa.
A Big Find
With search warrants for multiple locations, the police waited for the informant to receive a coded text message before beginning their searches. After two straight days of arresting small-time dealers and confiscating weapons, ammunition, drugs and cash, the minivan turned up and the police searched it.
It was empty.
They contacted the woman, who instructed them how to find the secret compartment in the van and uncovered 8 lbs. of 90-percent-pure meth. It was enough to charge Correa-Gutierrez with conspiring to deal drugs. After the prosecution showed up at trial with a surprise witness ready to testify about purchases of more than 100 lbs. of meth, El Primo and his right-hand man Nica both pleaded guilty and received hefty prison sentences, including 27 years for Correa-Gutierrez.
The woman and her children have moved out of the area for their own safety, and her husband is hoping his sentence will get reduced after the last of the ring’s sentencings has gone through.
The woman stated in court that her children miss their father more than she does, which truly makes this lady one heck of a supermom.
She then met with an undercover Boynton Beach police officer, whom she thought to be a hit man, on Monday, agreeing to pay him $3,000 once he killed her husband, police said.
When the officer asked if she was sure she wanted her husband dead, Dalia Dippolito said, “I will be very happy,” according to police.
“She assured him several times that she was 5,000 percent sure she wanted her husband killed and that she wanted it done,” said Stephanie Slater of the Boynton Beach Police Department.
On Wednesday morning, police called Dippolito while she was at the gym. She rushed home to find that her townhouse was a crime scene. A police sergeant told her that Michael Dippolito had been fatally shot in the head and she burst into tears, police said.
Police then took her to the station, where they let her meet the man they said killed her husband. Then, officers told her the supposed hit man was an undercover police officer — and her husband was still alive.
Police said Dippolito acted very differently when they told her her husband was dead than when she arranged the hit.
“We wanted to see her reaction because when she met with the undercover, she’s smiling and she’s giggling and she’s saying she’s 5,000 percent sure that she wants her husband killed,” Slater said.
Dalia Dippolito faces charges of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. She was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail.
“I didn’t do anything and I didn’t plot anything,” she said from the back of a squad car.
Michael Dippolito said he and his wife have known each other for 10 months and could only give the following reason for a possible motive.
“There’s a lot of funny business going on her for a long time. There’s unexplained money and things, and it just makes a lot of sense,” Michael Dippolito said.
Michael Dippolito was unemotional as he discussed what happened.
“I’m pretty numb to the whole thing. I’m just disappointed. There’s no reason for it. The girl had everything she could have wanted,” he said.
Dalia and Michael Dippolito were no strangers to the Boynton Beach Police Department. In March, police responded to their home for a “suspicious incident.” In April, they were back for a “domestic dispute” and in May, they returned for “phone threats.”
Neighbor Todd Hunter said Dalia Dippolito’s outburst woke him up Wednesday morning.
“We woke up to somebody crying, sobbing, very loudly,” Hunter told Local 10’s Rob Schmitt.
Michael Dippolito has a record in Broward County for charges of grand theft and other charges.
Police did not have any more information on a possible motive.
