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Released from federal prison in 2013 after serving 23 years for bank robbery, Munoz returned to his old neighborhood on the west side of Wilmington to find it claimed by Mexican Mafia members held ...
In the city Elizabeth, New Jersey the Mafia faction was made up of mostly immigrants from Ribera, Sicily. [2] [9] The Mafia group was based out of the Peterstown section of Elizabeth. [21] The earliest known boss the Elizabeth Mafia faction was Filippo "Big Phil" Amari. [21] He was born in Ribera, Sicily and arrived in Elizabeth in the early ...
In early 1985, Polizzi was picked up by US law enforcement and put on trial for major involvement in heroin and cocaine operations. A main defendant in the infamous Pizza Connection Trial, Polizzi was charged with distribution and transportation of narcotics, in which Mafia bosses of both New York City and Sicily had cooperated in and brought drugs worth an amount of $1.6 billion into the ...
Five years later, Pape was convicted of obstruction of justice for his part in the fix [93] and sentenced to three years in prison. [98] In the face of previous Mafia convictions, particularly the success of the Mafia Commission Trial, Gotti's acquittal was a major upset that further added to his reputation. [99]
The trial centered on a Mafia-run enterprise that involved processing heroin from Sicily, morphine purchased from Turkey and Southwest Asia, and cocaine from South America, for final distribution of the drugs in the United States through independently owned pizza parlor fronts as the money was laundered through several banks and brokerages in the United States and overseas. [7]
“Today’s arrests of members from two La Cosa Nostra crime families demonstrate that the mafia continues to pollute our communities with illegal gambling, extortion, and violence while using ...
Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
Three men have been arrested in the 35-year-old cold case surrounding the disappearance and death of Kelle Ann Workman.. A grand jury indictment filed by the Circuit Court of Douglas County on ...