Dave Green

Who is Dave Green?

Retired Lt. David J. Green was born in Miami on August 17, 1938 and died on August 23, 2012. He is survived by three children; Lisa Green, David Green Jr, and Ryan D. Green. Dave served in the US Navy for four years in the Pacific. Lt. David Green became a police officer in 1960 with Metro Dade Police in Miami. He was a Special Agent Supervisor with Florida Department of Law Enforcement, a Lieutenant with the Broward County Sheriffs Office, and finally, a Deputy with the Larimer County Sheriffs Office in Ft. Collins CO.

Lt. Dave Green, when a member of the Broward County Sheriff's Office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, engaged in a two year undercover investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of members of the Bonanno, Bufalino, Gambino, and Genovese Mafia families.

As part of Operation Cherokee Green assumed the identity of Danny Ledford, a stolen liquor salesman. Using this identity he was able to infiltrate organised crime families in South Florida and record over 2,000 conversations linking suspects to narcotics sales, extortion, firearms violations and solicitation for homicide. While undercover he learned inside information about the assassination of Gambino Mafia boss Paul Castellano. This investigation is listed in a U.S Senate Subcommmittee Report titled: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate: Organized Crime: 25 Years After Valachi, Exhibit No. 44, pages 1007 to 1069.