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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]
Leslie Torres was born on April 12, 1970, in New York City to Puerto Rican parents. Until 1977, he lived with his parents in East Harlem, where the largest Hispanic diaspora lived in the city, but after they divorced, Torres moved with his mother to Puerto Rico.
Charlie Chop-off is the pseudonym given to an unidentified American serial killer known to have killed three black children and one Puerto Rican child in Manhattan between 1972 and 1973.
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.
On November 7, 1991, Martinez was arrested in Washington, D.C. for selling drugs. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, various drug charges, and 14 counts of murder, including the murder of former friend and drug dealing partner Rich Porter, D.C drug dealer Michael Anthony Salters aka Fray [5] and Brooklyn drug dealer Demencio Benson. [6]
Subsequently, they went after other East Harlem gang leaders, killing Giuseppe Verrazano, but were unable to reach the Morellos who stayed close to their house on East 116th Street. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Neapolitans did not fear police investigations because they paid off police officers and omertà prevented witnesses to step forward. [ 3 ]