Detroit’s East-West Drug Connection: Wanted Johnson Brothers Worked With Best...
East met west in Motown’s New Millennium narcotics scene. Throw in a little “YBI” and they built themselves a powerhouse. According to sources, as it rose through the Midwest underworld in the 2000s,...
View ArticleEastside Baltimore Dope Crew Down For The Count, ATF Nabs 13 ‘TTGrs’ For...
The ATF brought down more than a dozen members of the eastside Baltimore drug crew known as the Trained To Go gang earlier this week with a multi-count federal drug, gun and racketeering indictment....
View ArticleWhere’s The Beef? Boston Mob Boss of The 1990s Wants To Know Who Was Keeping...
The criminal defense team for former New England mafia don Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme is wondering why it hasn’t received more evidence of government surveillance surrounding the time Salemme...
View ArticleVincent Smothers’ Murder March Of The Mid-2000s: Detroit Gun-For-Hire Shot...
Detroit hit man Vincent (Vito) Smothers ended his murder spree ten years ago, bringing the curtain down on a short, yet incredibly bloody and prolific career in the murder-for-hire game. The slender...
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Bertolo Murder Kicked Off Canadian Mafia War, Mayhem In Montreal Underworld...
The 2005 murder of Canadian mobster Johnny Bertolo set off the epic Montreal mob war that continues to rage to this very day. One of his best friends recently went missing, bringing the Bertolo hit...
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Springfield (MA) Mob Figure Proved Too Smart For The FBI In 2016 Takedown Of...
Albert Calvanese was a target in the FBI investigation that brought down a number of Springfield, Massachusetts mobsters last year but was able to slip away from any legal harm, according to resident...
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Lights, Camera, Killing: Philly Roofers Union President’s Slaying Slated For...
The murder of Roofers Union boss and Philadelphia Irish mobster John McCullough will be shown in the much-anticipated Martin Scorsese mob “supergroup” movie, The Irishman, currently in production in...
View ArticleMob Talk: Philly Crime Family Leaders Conducted Mafia Initiation Ritual In...
The making ceremony for the Philadelphia mafia’s former Boston crew took place in Beantown in the late 1990s, according to a new episode of Mob Talk from award-winning Philly crime reporters George...
View ArticleBeing Frank On The Big Screen: One-Time Philly Mayor & Top Cop Frank Rizzo...
Controversial former Philadelphia Police Commissioner and Mayor Frank Rizzo will get a scene in the much-anticipated Martin Scorsese mob “supergroup” movie, The Irishman, currently in production in New...
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GR SOURCES: Feds Zeroing In On Jailed Chicago Mobster Mandell For 2012 Murder...
The FBI believes imprisoned Chicago mob associate and former cop Steve Mandell is the No. 1 suspect in the unsolved 2012 murder and robbery of suburban restaurateur Giacomo Ruggirello, according to...
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Chicago Mob Muscle Bashes Bosses Saying Outfit Leadership ‘Weak &...
Incarcerated Chicago mafia hit man Steve Mandell wasn’t happy with the Outfit’s leadership structure during his final years pounding the pavement for the mob, according to a new Chicago Tribune report...
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Roles For Mob Godfathers Sam Giancana & Joe Colombo Cast In Scorsese Flick...
The brazen shooting of New York mafia don Joe Colombo in the summer of 1971 was the first scene shot by Martin Scorsese on his high-profile new mob “supergroup” movie, The Irishman. The murder of...
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Losing A Friend Of Theirs: NY-NJ Mob Power John Gambino, Philly Mafia’s ‘Best...
East coast mafia elder statesman, John Gambino, the Philadelphia mob’s contact in New York’s Gambino crime family, died of natural causes this week at 77 years old. The Sicilian-born Gambino was a...
View ArticleWhat’s Up Doc? The Pagan’s MC Loses Leader In Virginia, Local President ‘Dr....
Virginia biker boss Timothy (Dr. T) Dye passed away due to natural causes last week. The 59-year old Dye was the president of the Southwest Virginia chapter of The Pagan’s Motorcycle Club based around...
View ArticleOutlaws MC Member Hit With Murder Charges In Illinois, Denies Involvement In...
Illinois biker gang member Jeremy (Barber Shop) Boshears has been charged with the murder of a girlfriend of his. The 32-year old Boshears, a member of the Joliet chapter of The Outlaws Motorcycle...
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Springfield (MA) Mafia Flashback: Bruno & Delevo Did Business Differently,...
Former Springfield, Massachusetts mob powers Adolfo (Big Al) Bruno and Anthony (Skip) Delevo were both groomed in east coast gangland circles by the notorious Scibelli brothers. Besides their similar...
View ArticleThe Helter Skelter Hit List: A Charles Manson Family Murder Timeline (1968-1977)
Iconic hippie cult leader Charles Manson, convicted of killing nine people in Los Angeles in a one-month period back in the summer of 1969, died of natural causes last week at 83. He had been in prison...
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Home For The Holidays: Alleged Detroit Mob Leader Let Out Of Prison In Time...
Reputed Detroit mafia captain Giuseppe (Joe the Hood) D’Anna made it home Thanksgiving Weekend from a year-and-a-half stint in prison on a federal extortion conviction. D’Anna is 65 and runs a crew...
View ArticleWhere There’s Smoke There’s Fire: Detroit Rap Figure ‘Smokecamp Chino’& Crew...
Another Detroit rapper is in trouble with the law. Earlier this month, Jerray (Smokecamp Chino) Key and more than a dozen of his Smokecamp brethren were taken down in a federal drug and racketeering...
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Aretha Franklin & The Black Mob: The Queen Of Soul Almost Recorded With...
The Queen of Soul, the venerable Aretha Franklin, almost signed a talent contract with deceased Detroit Black mob boss Edward (Fast Eddie) Wingate and his Golden World Records label back in the early...
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