26 The QUEE NS Courier • MARCH 7, 2013 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com ‘Cannibal Cop’ trial closing BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO [email protected] After a week of gruesome testimony and eerie evidence, the jury in the trial of “cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle will soon begin its deliberations, according to reports. The six-year NYPD veteran who is accused of planning to kidnap, kill and eat 100 women decided not to take the stand during his trial, which began February 25. Valle’s estranged wife broke down during her testimony while describing her husband’s “deranged” plot to include her in his meal plan, according to reports. Other possible “targets” described their interaction with the cop, and FBI agents took the stand, since Valle is also charged with improperly using a federal law enforcement database to look up information on his possible targets. They said Valle’s Internet searches included “recipes for human flesh” and “how to chloroform a girl,” reports said. Photo courtesy of Facebook Gilberto Valle, accused “cannibal cop.” Defense attorney Robert Baum told reporters the evidence shows “all fantasy role play.” The jury was set to return Thursday, March 7, to hear closing arguments before beginning deliberations. MLS: DEAL SON, OR WE WALK BY TERENCE M. CULLEN [email protected] Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner Don Garber said he hopes the sport’s top U.S. league will ink a deal with the city sometime this year or it will look elsewhere. Garber, speaking with reporters after his season-opening address, said he wasn’t putting a time period on when the league would explore markets outside of New York. But if talks for a 25,000-seat arena in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park carried on for several years, the league would start looking at other cities, he said. “If we’re not able to be successful, we’ll throw our hands up and say, ‘Time for shifting emphasis.’ I will say it will be far sooner than three years.” During his remarks, however, Garber said MLS had strong talks with officials at the city and state level and is continuing to hammer out the details of the project, which he once projected to be up and running for the 2016 MLS season. “Expansion, particularly here in New York City, remains a big priority for us,” he said. “We continue to work hard to have our 20th team play here in New York, in a new stadium, hopefully in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.” Because parkland would be lost, getting a deal approved by the City Council, and then the state, could take time. MLS representatives would have to speak with community boards that surround the borough’s largest park for a recommending vote. Final approval, at the city level, would be the Council. In October 2012, Garber said he hoped for an agreement with the city within a month, but nothing came of it. Since then, the league has held several meetings with the communities surrounding the park, including a town hall style meeting in December that was criticized for mostly having league supporters. Opposition to the proposed project, which could take up to 13 acres of parkland away, has been harsh and growing in numbers by people who want to protect the park from privatization. Alfredo Centola, a member of Save Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, said Garber’s comments were a scare tactic to push the project along — something he said he’s seen other developers do in the past. 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