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On March 20, 2009, Blackhand Strawman, a documentary of Kansas City's organized crime history was released in theaters in Kansas City. On March 1, 2011 retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst .
Category. : Kansas City crime family. Bosses, Underbosses, Consiglieres, Capos, Soldiers & Associates of the Mafia family in Kansas City, Missouri known as the Kansas City crime family.
Nicholas Civella began his criminal career as a teenager in the Italian "North End" neighborhood of Kansas City. Civella's first arrest was at age 10, after which he dropped out of school. Before he reached age 20, Civella had been arrested for auto theft, illegal gambling, robbery, and vagrancy . In 1932, Civella spent two months in prison for ...
According to Kansas City police annual crime reports data, homicides, non-fatal shootings and motor vehicle theft are all on the rise. Beyond the rise in homicides, non-fatal shootings are also up ...
After Tony Lopiparo's death, Anthony Giordano became boss and declared independence from the Kansas City crime family. [1] In the 1970s, Giordano, along with Detroit mobsters Anthony Joseph Zerilli and Michael Polizzi, attempted to gain control of the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. [1] They failed and all three men were convicted of ...
Carl "Cork" Civella (January 28, 1910 – October 2, 1994) was the leader of the Kansas City crime family following the death of his brother, long-time crime boss Nicholas Civella, after heading day-to-day operations during the mid-1970s. Carl's reign as Kansas city boss was brief. In 1984, he and his son, Anthony Civella, were convicted of ...
Police arrived at the scene around 12:15 a.m., according to Capt. Leslie Foreman, a spokeswoman with the Kansas City Police Department. Emergency medical crews pronounced Arreyues Burton dead at ...
And Kansas City never achieved the 1,500 police officers recommended in the 1968 Mayor’s Commission on Civil Disorder. In 2022, the KCPD reported 1,142 uniformed officers, the numbers dropping ...