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The Bufalino crime family, [2] also known as the Pittston crime family, [3] the Scranton Wilkes-Barre crime family, [3] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [4] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [5] [6] or the Scranton Mafia, [7] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Pittston.
The 1982 Wilkes-Barre shootings was a spree shooting which occurred in the United States on September 25, 1982, carried out by George Emil Banks, a former Camp Hill prison guard. Banks fatally shot 13 people in Wilkes-Barre and Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania. The victims included seven children – five being his own – their mothers, some of ...
Russell Alfred Bufalino [2] (/ ˌ b ʌ f ə ˈ l iː n oʊ /; born Rosario Alfredo Bufalino, [3] Italian: [roˈzaːrjo alˈfreːdo bufaˈliːno]; October 29, 1903 – February 25, 1994) was an Italian-American mobster who became the crime boss of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Italian-American Mafia crime family known as the Bufalino crime family, which he ruled from 1949 to 1994.
Nov. 6—WILKES-BARRE — Testimony continues Monday in the homicide trial of James Raymond Alberto, 35, charged for being the mastermind in the killing of Judith Comisky, 56, inside her South ...
At the time of Johnson's arrest, he was wanted by the Pennsylvania Department of Parole for absconding parole linked to a shooting during a home invasion on South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, on ...
John Sciandra (born Giovanni Sciandra, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ʃˈʃandra]; April 10, 1899 – September 11, 1949) was an Italian-American crime boss of the Bufalino crime family of Pennsylvania from 1933 until 1949.
Oct. 5—WILKES-BARRE — The Office of Attorney General recently presented testimony at a House Republican Policy Committee hearing about human trafficking in Pennsylvania and how Attorney ...
17.24 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. 18 Vietnam. Toggle Vietnam subsection. 18.1 Hanoi. 18.2 ... This list includes gangsters and organized crime figures by area of operation ...