Yet More on Ofc. Mark Marowski

Earlier posts (September 22, 2010, July 28, 2011, and April 18, 2013) discuss Ofc. Mark Marowski as problematic in the events surrounding my brother Mark's death because he abused his powers as a police officer to get even with Mark after a personal argument at a local club by calling in to have him arrested for DWI. As noted, that incident took place the very day before my brother’s truck suspiciously went up in flames and he himself was found burning to death some sixty feet away, yet Marowski was never investigated for possible involvement.

In addition, a recent post (August 11, 2014) includes an anonymous letter mailed to me from western New York claiming that Marowski was having an affair with my brother’s wife. Two others (September 14 and October 17, 2014) reveal aspects of Marowski’s character and behavior that are completely unsuitable for an officer of the law. Those posts note Marowski’s excessive drinking, his heavy gambling, his numerous failures to pay his debts that resulted in lawsuits against him (see also July 28, 2011), his defrauding Holy Cross Club members of $2,000, his use of physical force on women with whom he lived, and even his public boasting about getting my brother arrested for DWI. This post raises yet another highly problematic aspect of Marowski’s behavior.

Although Marowski was suspended from the Salamanca police force in 2006 after he himself was picked up for DWI as well as for speeding (reportedly for going about 80 mph in a 30 mph city zone) and subsequently was made to retire, I was recently informed that the real reason for his forced retirement was his drug use. According to two different individuals, Marowski had a serious addiction to prescription drugs. Marowski, who had a desk job at the police station, was reportedly observed being high on pills while on duty. According to my sources, someone finally blew the whistle on him, and reportedly when police authorities went down and opened his locker, they found it crammed with prescription drugs. If that is the case, how would he have acquired such drugs legally?

According to numerous individuals, Marowski is not a nice person, and he reportedly had argued with my brother on numerous occasions at the Holy Cross Club. All of the information reported here, furthermore, paints the picture of someone who is out of control. Most of it appears to be well known in general to those who socialized at the local clubs and specifically to members of the Salamanca police when Marowski was a member of the force. If the report in the anonymous letter of an affair between Marowski and my brother’s wife Susan is true, how many others knew about it?

All of this disturbing information causes me to wonder further about Inv. Edward Kalfas’s reaction when I asked him if he knew the identity of the off-duty police officer who had got into the argument with my brother at the Holy Cross Club. I had driven up to the Olean bureau of the New York State Police on November 4, 2003, to see the condition of Mark’s truck, which was being kept at the State Police compound, and to ask the investigator a few questions.

Since I was a sister in mourning and was also obviously ill with laryngitis, I was stunned at his rudeness in response to my question about that off-duty police officer. When I spoke with him very early in the investigation, Inv. Kalfas himself referred to the argument without mentioning Marowski’s name. But at the State Police compound, he denied it, adding, “You’d have to have it on tape to prove it. We’re done here. I’m not talking to you any more. I have my job to think of.” Kalfas certainly knew the identity of that police officer. Just how much did he actually know back in November 2003 about Marowski and that argument at the Holy Cross Club? He must have been told enough about that corrupt police officer.

Is that another reason why phone records were never checked during the investigation and why the State Police refused to check them subsequently?