According to the official web page of the New York Police Department:
“There is no delineated time frame for cold cases.”
The killing of police Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino on the evening of March 12, 1909, in the city of Palermo, Sicily, is per
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The FBI and police are currently looking for buried bodies at two horse farms in upstate New York, several news outlets report. The dig is in connection with a recent indictment of ten Gambino crime family mobsters.
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He was a really old man when he died, a one-time mob boss of London’s Little Italy. Sometimes he was called “The General of Clerkenwell.” In a life that long, there must be a richness, a flavor of spice that carries his endeavors through decades of t
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Ten members and associates of New York’s Gambino crime family and the Sicilian Mafia were indicted in Brooklyn federal court this week. They are charged with racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation, and union-related crimes committed
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A green light seems like such a positive term. Unless it is issued by a member of the Mexican Mafia. When a person is green lit by them, it means certain death. Still, greed is a funny thing. Why not a bit of drugs and cash? How will the imprisoned
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The boss and two members of the Brooklyn-based Real Ryte gang pleaded guilty to racketeering charges stemming from Real Ryte’s gang war with the Breadgang crew of the 5-9 Brims, a subset of the Bloods, including a shooting in which Real Ryte members
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In 1948 when young Alberto dalla Chiesa, a captain in the carabinieri, the military police, arrives in Corleone, in the province of Palermo, one of the first things he organized is a census of all the families who live in the town of about 10,000. He
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“Loose lips sink ships.” It’s a line that can be found in many a Mafia social club as a reminder not to talk about, alleged, crimes. Why? Because that sort of talk gets you locked up. Something Crips gang boss Duane “Keffe D” Davis found out when he
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A former high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel entered a guilty plea last week to a conspiracy to import tons of cocaine into the United States. 43-year-old Jose Maria Guizar-Valencia, of Tulare, California, is considered one of the last number
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Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro passed away today. He was 61. The elusive Mafioso was viewed as the last man to know the people on both sides of the law involved in some of Italy’s most heinous and profitable crimes. He took those secrets t
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Everyone called him Tommy Brown, but that was not really his name. It was a nickname, a mob monicker, but it really got confused. His name in Italian is Gaetano Lucchese, and the closest we get to that is Guy Lucchese, as the name is pronounced “Guy
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The story of a successful narco kingpin always has the same arc. There is the rise and the inevitable fall. The fall comes in the form of death or prison. No amount of power, money, bloodshed or a combination of all three can stop that. Not even when
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was released from prison this week. She had been locked up since her 2021 arrest on drug and money laundering charges.
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The life of an outlaw is one lived outside the rule of law. Those part of the one percenter biker world thrive on it. Unfortunately for them the rule of law isn’t something they can ignore. Whenever their actions cross that boundary, the law comes kn
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They called them gli scappati “the runaways,” hiding in Venezuela or finding refuge in Miami, drifting through New York, even in the lemon orchards of Monreale. Where they really ended up was New Jersey. At least the ones that were the major targets.
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A kingpin at the center of a narcotics trafficking plot on behalf of notorious gangs MS-13 and the Mexican Mafia received over 17 years in prison this week. 52-year-old Nelson "Mula" Alexander Flores was sentenced for trafficking large quantities of
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Two members of an organized crime group who supplied fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to the criminal underworld have had their sentences increased. The passports, which were issued authentically but applied for using false information,
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A man who admits being a shot caller in the Irish Mob prison gang was sentenced Friday, August 18, in Omaha, Nebraska to 12,5 years in prison. 50-year-old Johnny Dolph, originally of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had tried to attack a witness against him as well
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Five bosses of the Gangster Disciples were sentenced in the Southern District of Illinois for their participation in a years-long interstate racketeering conspiracy involving drug trafficking, witness tampering, and multiple murders.
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John Derek, the movie actor, once said, “Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.” Dominic Di Ciolla managed two out of three, but missed out on the last one. A lesser known player in the field of American organized crime, he came and w
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