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In early 1985, Polizzi was picked up by US law enforcement and put on trial for major involvement in heroin and cocaine operations. A main defendant in the infamous Pizza Connection Trial, Polizzi was charged with distribution and transportation of narcotics, in which Mafia bosses of both New York City and Sicily had cooperated in and brought drugs worth an amount of $1.6 billion into the ...
Brothers for Life, also Brothers 4 Life was [citation needed] a Middle Eastern crime gang, active in south-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia.They came to public prominence largely from internal disputes between the Bankstown chapter and the Blacktown chapter that resulted in a number of shootings in October 2012 to February 2014 that killed two members.
The Bufalino crime family, [5] also known as the Pittston crime family, [6] the Scranton Wilkes-Barre crime family, [6] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [7] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [8] [9] or the Scranton Mafia, [10] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Pittston.
A grand jury indictment filed by the Circuit Court of Douglas County on Wednesday charges Bobby Lee Banks with the murder, kidnapping and rape of an unnamed woman on June 30, 1989. The date listed ...
A man whom authorities named the “Penguin Bandit” was sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison last week after robbing multiple banks in the Denver, Colorado area.
Badami continued operating a small Mafia group while working alongside other Mafia families. Badami was unsuccessful in taking over the Elizabeth Ribera Mafia faction because he was born in Corleone, Sicily and they didn't trust him. [21] On March 31, 1955, Badami went to a restaurant in Newark and was murdered being stabbed 40 times. [21]
His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia’s “boss of bosses,’’ Salvatore “Toto” Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.
By the early 1930s, he became associated with the American Mafia. In mid 1934, he was arrested for armed robbery and for the May 1934 murder of New York police officer, Arthur Philip Rasmussen. [146] His last known arrest was in 1942 for trafficking narcotics and served over one year in prison.