• Stanislaus "Stan" Valchek is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Al Brown. Valchek is the Polish-American commander of the...
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  • father-in-law, Major Stan Valchek, wishing to stay in Narcotics and work cases like the recent Barksdale investigation. Valchek instead wants Prez to...
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  • Vernon Holley. Al Brown and Jay Landsman reprised their roles as Major Stan Valchek and Lieutenant Dennis Mello. Michael Salconi recurred as veteran Western...
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    within the jurisdiction of his former commander. Meanwhile, police Major Stan Valchek gets into a feud with Polish-American Frank Sobotka, a leader of the...
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  • Marvin Templeton, Scott Tilghman, Dwight Torret Twigg, Roger Tyson, Darnell Valchek, Stanislaus Vinson Vondopoulos, Spiros "Vondas" Wagstaff, Calvin "Cheese"...
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  • due to the higher pay. Prez was the son-in-law of deputy commissioner Stan Valchek who had a knack for tracing phone patterns and money accounts but was...
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  • terrified when he learns that the Jane Does were murdered. To appease Valchek and convince Daniels to take the case, Burrell offers Daniels command of...
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  • Prez to his superiors and gains the respect of his father-in-law, Major Stan Valchek. Under Daniels' supervision, both Prez and Sydnor become valuable assets...
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  • Brown and Jay Landsman reprised their roles as patrol division officers Stan Valchek and Dennis Mello. Michael Salconi recurred as veteran Western patrolman...
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  • backing of local Democrats in Baltimore's 1st district as well as Major Stan Valchek of the Baltimore Police Department. To improve upon the crime and urban...
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  • Randy is forced to face up to Partlow's victims being truly dead. Major Stan Valchek visits Tommy Carcetti at his campaign offices. He tells Carcetti about...
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  • Daniels orders DNRs and finance investigations to be done quickly to placate Valchek, and has Greggs, Herc and Carver look into the drug trade around the port...
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  • approves Daniels's suggestion. Deputy Commissioner of Administration Stan Valchek tells Rawls that he is smart to support Daniels as he is likely to be...
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  • Brandon Young as Mike Fletcher William F. Zorzi as Bill Zorzi Al Brown as Stan Valchek Ed Norris as Ed Norris Michael Salconi as Michael Santangelo Brian Anthony...
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  • activities begin to be suspected by the police following a feud with Major Stan Valchek, district commander for the Baltimore Police Department's Southeast District...
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  • a meeting with Barbara Mikulski and talk about repairing Silo Point. Stan Valchek is enraged when he donates his own window too late. A container for "the...
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  • incompetence and still in the department all due to his father-in-law Stan Valchek, the Southeastern district commander. Landsman is not above getting involved...
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  • inept detective. Because he is married to senior officer Stanislaus "Stan" Valchek's daughter Judy, he is protected from termination, despite their mutual...
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  • warehouse as Bunk, Freamon, Prez, and Beadie man their remaining wiretaps. Valchek expresses his frustrations at a meeting with Rawls, Burrell, and Daniels...
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  • Frank, and tells Valchek that Daniels would have brought in a better case on the Barksdale detail if Burrell had not interfered. When Valchek threatens to...
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  • of Stevedores. They are also hated by Southeastern District commander Stan Valchek who views them as nothing more than dishonorable thieves stealing anything...
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  • investigating white East Baltimore dealers. Daniels brings Herc into Stan Valchek's detail investigating stevedore union boss Frank Sobotka, recognizing...
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  • and drugs are never held by the higher-ups. Prez's major father-in-law Stan Valchek saves his job by agreeing to keep him off the street. Daniels orders...
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  • pay grade and suggests they take it to Major Stan Valchek, who has more experience with politics. Valchek meets with Herc and reassures him that he could...
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  • Hyatt as Brianna Barksdale Bill Raymond as The Greek Al Brown as Major Stan Valchek Hassan Johnson as Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice Delaney Williams as Sergeant...
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    Stanisław Tym (1937–2024), Polish actor, writer and director Stanislaus "Stan" Valchek, character in The Wire Stanislav Vinaver (1891–1955), Serbian writer...
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  • lying on a mortgage application. Burrell shows Carcetti crime stats that Stan Valchek reveals are doctored, giving Carcetti cause to fire him. He plans to...
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  • reporter Roger Twigg places one last call to a police department source – Stan Valchek – to confirm the rumor. As the newsroom watches the press conference...
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  • without clearing it through him first. He then requests two promotions: Stan Valchek to Deputy Commissioner of Administration for helping him throughout the...
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  • plan by sensationalizing the killer. Elsewhere, Deputy Commissioner Stan Valchek leaks rising crime statistics to Mayor Carcetti and makes an appeal to...
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