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The Westies were a New York City-based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing. They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan .
New York mobster and leader of the Westies during the 1970s and 80s Timmy Connolly 1: No image available: 1958– 1976–1995 Member of the Winter Hill Gang Eddie "The Butcher" Cummiskey: No image available: 1934–1976 -1976 New York mobster and enforcer for mobster Mickey Spillane during the 1950s and 60s.
The Westies was the name given by the Irish media to a criminal gang based in Blanchardstown, west Dublin, Ireland. They controlled the heroin trade in west Dublin in the late 90s and early 2000s and were known for their extreme violence against drug addicts and rival drug dealers.
The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a usually crime family–based ethnic collective of organized crime syndicates composed of primarily ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and have been in existence since the early 19th century.
James Michael Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who served as the boss of the Westies gang, an Irish mob group based in Hell's Kitchen, from approximately 1977 to 1988. Coonan was incarcerated and began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988.
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The manhunt for two Louisville fugitives, alleged members of the Victory Park Crips gang, spanned more than a year and ended on the West Coast. ... Both were released in April 2021 on supervised ...
James "Jimmy Mac" McElroy (1945–2011) was an Irish American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York, who was an enforcer for the Westies, a criminal organization that operated out of Hell's Kitchen.