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On February 14, 1950, the California Commission on Organized Crime singled out Dragna as the head of a crime syndicate that controlled crime in Southern California. [7] Soon after, several Los Angeles family members were arrested for the bombing of Mickey Cohen's home. Dragna fled the state to avoid questioning.
Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in New York City to Jewish parents. [2] Cohen's parents immigrated to the US from Kiev. [3] He was first raised in New York, moving with his mother and siblings to the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles at an early age.
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family [7] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [8] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Authorities in California have identified a family of four who are believed to have died in a murder-suicide. On Thursday, Dec. 19, the Milpitas Police Department confirmed in a release that Vinh ...
The DA’s office – which has been looking into the case since 2022 – said that it could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was committed, and so the investigation has been put ...
DeSena began his criminal career as an associate in the Gambino family before becoming a member of the Lucchese family. [129] In the early 2010s, DeSena was an associate of Gambino family capo Ignazio "Uncle Iggy" Alonga. [130] His nephew Pete Tuccio is a Gambino family associate and the former driver for Philadelphia boss Joseph Merlino. [129 ...
In 1950, Stompanato, described as a "recent and inexperienced recruit from Illinois," was listed as one of the principal members of the Cohen gang by the California Commission on Organized Crime. [13] Throughout the 1950s, he was arrested seven times by the LAPD for various criminal charges ranging from vagrancy to suspicion of robbery.
A teenage hunter allegedly shot dead his parents and younger brother before taking his own life in a horrifying murder-suicide. Clifford Hunt Jr., 19, is believed to have shot parents Michelle, 48 ...