Christian Acuna, 35, and Dennis Alves, 32, both of Queens, and Eduardo Moncayo, of Lyndhurst, N.

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Alves' arraignment attorney had no comment, and the attorney for Acuna didn't return a call seeking comment.

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Claudia Acuna grew up in Chile a singer of many stripes, and was especially transfixed by the improvisation of musicians like Erroll Garner and Thelonious Monk.

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An early encounter with Dizzy Gillespie's Afro-Cuban music persuaded Acuna that she could find original common ground between the Latin music of her youth and the modern jazz idiom.

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As thousands of bused-in police academy cadets gathered along the route to prepare for the procession, Olivero and his wife, Yelitza Acuna, hid from the sun while waiting in a block-long line to buy flour, coffee, butter and other food staples they said have been hard to come by for about two years.

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