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Arohn Kee (born September 18, 1973), known as The East-Harlem Rapist, is an American serial killer and serial rapist who was responsible for four rapes and at least three murders of teenaged girls in different street blocks of East Harlem, located in Manhattan, New York City from 1991 to 1998.
The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s.
The war resulted in more than 40 murders and several kidnappings and ended with St. Clair's arrest and imprisonment. Johnson, however, struck a deal with the Mafia following Schultz's 1935 murder, through which he quickly built up his own organization in Harlem in exchange for favorable business deals. [5]
Salerno based the crew in the Palma Boys Social Club located at 416 East 115th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, the 116th Street Crew had absorbed and initiated many former members of the vicious East Harlem Purple Gang , an Italian-American murder for hire and drug trafficking gang operating in 1970s Italian ...
With an arrest record dating back to 1946, Pagano had been charged with robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and narcotics trafficking. Pagano worked with Genovese mobster and future government informant Joe Valachi in Anthony Strollo's organization, then one of the biggest distributors of heroin and cocaine in the East Harlem section of ...
In early 1911, the Lucchese family emigrated to the United States, [3] settling in Manhattan's Italian neighborhood of East Harlem. [4] [5] The family first lived in a building at 213 East 106th Street before moving to 316 East 118th Street; both buildings were in the Italian East Harlem neighborhood. [6] Lucchese's father worked hauling cement.
During the early 1980s, before joining the Bonanno family, Mancuso was affiliated with the East Harlem Purple Gang. [4] In August 1984, Mancuso fatally shot his wife Evelina and left her body on a bench in front of Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx. [5] Mancuso pleaded guilty to manslaughter of his wife and received a 10-year prison sentence. [5] [6]
The war continued and resulted in nine murders and three disappearances. [9] With the start of the gang war, the Gallo crew retreated to the Dormitory. [10] In late November 1961, Joe Gallo was sentenced to seven-to-fourteen years in prison for murder. [11] On June 6, 1962, Profaci died and was succeeded by longtime underboss Joseph Magliocco.