About the author
Tony Zeoli is a retired Lieutenant from the Port Authority Police Department of New York and New Jersey.
He’s a graduate of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Police Command College at the US Military Academy at West Point, the Homicide Fellows Program at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Police Department's Hostage Negotiation Training.
After the 9/11/2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, he was a member of the PAPD's Special Operations/Emergency Service Division's - Search, Rescue & Recovery Unit know as Recovery Team Romeo at Ground Zero for approximately nine arduous months, until their final march out of America's most Hallowed Ground on May 30, 2002, when the City of New York officially declared that recovery efforts at Ground Zero were completed.
He’s also a consultant for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the TRR (Trauma & Resiliency Resources) and for several 9/11 Rescue & Recovery support groups, including the 9/11 Cops Association, where he’s one of the original founders.
He was born and raised in the Bronx and presently resides in Orange County, NY.