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"I know where the cop-killer is," a longtime source told Coleman, 55, who now works with Auld & Associates Investigations in Newtown Square. "He's on Windsor Street," said the source, who began to describe the abandoned rowhouse in which Eric DeShawn Floyd was hiding with his girlfriend, Tonya Lynne Stephens.
Coleman, who retired June 1, stopped the source, saying, "Let me put you in touch with the guys looking for him."
Known as "The Living Legend" within the FBI, Coleman called Agent Bill Shute, of the FBI-Police Fugitive Task Force, which was waiting for the SWAT team before raiding several houses in Southwest Philadelphia.
"The Legend is on the phone! He's got him," shouted Shute to excited officers.
"Wait a minute," Coleman told Shute.
"I put [Shute] on with my source and told [the source] to tell him exactly where [Floyd] was," Coleman said. The officers in the background grew quiet.
Fifteen minutes later, Coleman received a call:
"We got him! We got him!" Shute told him. Floyd and Stephens offered no resistance.
The whole thing took less than 30 minutes, Coleman said. His source later called back to tell the ex-agent: "Maybe I'll take you to lunch." He also wanted to know when he would receive the reward money.
Coleman, known as a humble guy, is an agent's agent and a cop's cop, who is beloved by prosecutors and investigators for his strategic thinking and quick wit in nabbing bad guys and preparing for trial.
Through the years, he's come to understand how criminals think. He treats them with respect as he tries to get them to cooperate and turn their lives around.
In the eyes of drug traffickers, he's larger than life, an icon in the city's underworld. In 28 years of FBI investigations, he's led or participated in taking down the city's most violent drug traffickers, including his own brother-in-law, Aaron "AJ" Jones, the street boss of the notoriously violent Junior Black Mafia of the late 1980s. Jones is now on death row.
Among those infamous crime figures were major drug kingpins Roland Bartlett, Rick Jones, Darryl Coleman, Kaboni Savage, Dawud Bey and a corrupt imam, Shamsud-din Ali, whose wiretapped conversation with a drug dealer led to the recent city public corruption probe.
Yesterday, Coleman was thinking of the family of Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, gunned down Saturday by one of three bank robbers, Howard Cain, who was fatally shot by police.
"I'm glad [Floyd's capture] brought some closure to the family," Coleman said. "I'm so happy for the agents and police and was so glad I could play a small part in it.
"If I could help out officers and agents when I was working [as an FBI agent], I would do it in a second now," he added.
"Once an agent, always an agent," said a fellow FBI agent. "He retired, but he's not gone. He's still contributing."
Said another longtime source of Coleman's: "The FBI don't know what the f--- they lost." *
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