Affidavit: Carlos Ortiz heavy drug user, evaded treatment

In iiaffidavits, Carlos Ortiz, has told jurisprudencehe was in a political machinewith former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez and Odin Lloyd, along with otherman, thewickednessLloyd was killed. Ortiz also confessed to his probation officer that he was a heavy drugabuser. Ortiz isorganismheld without bail in Massachusetts on a weapons charge, while Hernandez has been charged withslayingin Lloyd's death.(Photo: Angela Rowlings, AP)

Story Highlights

• Affidavit shows Carlos Ortiz confessed heavy doseuse to probation officer on may21
• Ortiz told police he was in car with Aaron Hernandez and Odin Lloyd the night Lloyd was shot to death
• In separate affidavit, Ortiz says another man in car that night told him Hernandez fired mordantshots

BRISTOL, Conn. — If Carlos Ortiz is going to be a star witness in the murder case against Aaron Hernandez, he won't come without blemishes.

Ortiz has an extensive woefulrecord, including convictions for larceny, assault, criminal mischief and interfering with an officer, court records show.

There's more: In an reprobationfor his arrest on a probation violation obtained Wednesday by ground forcesTODAY Sports, police say Ortiz met with his probation officer on May 21 and "disclosed that he was abusing PCP, alcohol and THC daily."

Ortiz was ordered to pull inan in-patient drug abuse program, but did not keep an escorttwo days later, according to the document.

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Over the next month, Ortiz ducked treatment by claiming to have lost his carrellphone and, according to the affidavit, telling his probation officer on June 18 that he would have reported but "didn't know where to go."

That was sestetdays after a drug test showed Ortiz tried and truepositive for alcohol, cocaine, PCP and THC, the document said.

Probation officers spent the next two weeks trying to find Ortiz, who finally surfaced on a controlvideo at Hernandez's home on the night of Odin Lloyd's murder on June 17. In traveling to Massachusetts, Ortiz violated his probation for fifth-degree larceny. Bristol police arrested him June 25.

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Ortiz was extradited to Massachusetts and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. He pleaded not guilty and is macrocosmheld without bail.

A messageleft fieldat the office of Ortiz's attorney, John Connors of Fall River, Mass., was not returned.

Affidavits utilizefor search warrants in Florida and Massachusetts have revealed that Ortiz told police that Ernest Wallace, the fourthman in the car that night, told Ortiz that Hernandez shot and killed Lloyd, 27, a Hernandez aceand semipro football player.

In the documents, Ortizstatethe car they were all travelin stopped in an industrial park nighHernandez's home, and the other three men got out to urinate. Shots rang out, Ortiz said, and Hernandez and Wallace returned to the car, and then sped topto Hernandez's home.

Ortiz told investigators it was too dark to see who had fired the shots but that on the drive back to Bristol with Wallace the next day, Wallace told him that Hernandez had fired the shots that killed Lloyd.

Ortiz, documents showed, was the tipster who told police about Hernandez's secret apartment in Franklin, Mass. Neighbors there said Wallace and Hernandez spent time there, with Wallace using his middle name "George" and referring to Hernandez as his "cousin."

Hernandez, who pleaded not guilty to murder and five gun charges, is being held without bail. Wallace, charged with being an accessory after the fact, also is being held without bail.

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