From The Depths Of The Sea: The ‘Shrimp Boy’ Chow S.F. Chinatown Murders
Incarcerated San Francisco Chinatown Godfather Raymond (Shrimp Boy) Chow’s saw eight of his associates sentenced to prison time last week, two years after he was put behind bars on racketeering and...
View ArticleSubject Of Upcoming Movie, Detroit’s ‘White Boy Rick’ Wershe Found Guilty In...
Former Detroit teenage drug dealer Richard (White Boy Rick) Wershe was convicted in state court 30 years ago this week and sentenced to life in prison under the now-defunct “650 Lifer Law,” following...
View ArticlePhilly Mob Soldier ‘Sonny’ Mazzone Isn’t Someone To Be Messed With, Seen...
Maybe his nickname should be “Mad Dog?” Alleged Philadelphia mobster Salvatore (Sonny) Mazzone has quite the temper. Last week, Philly mafia figure Gaeton Lucibello got charged with violating his...
View ArticleThe Delaware County Question: Philly Mobsters Borgesi & Ciancaglini Both Have...
Delaware County, Pennsylvania is valuable mob turf. Philadelphia mafia power George (Georgie Boy) Borgesi recently took back portions of the territory he ruled in the late 1990s and first part of the...
View ArticleGangster Report Roll Call: The Montreal Irish Mob’s All-Time Roster (West End...
Montreal’s Irish Mob, known locally in the Quebec province of Canada as the “West End Gang,” rose to prominence in the 1960s. The group of killers, thugs, thieves, bookies, loan sharks and drug...
View ArticleThe Razor’s Edge: Actor Bobby Cannavale Will Be ‘Skinny Razor,’ Not ‘Crazy...
Multiple-Emmy Award-winner Bobby Cannavale is playing storied Philadelphia mob captain Felix (Skinny Razor) DiTullio in Martin Scorsese’s highly-anticipated upcoming film,The Irishman, based on the...
View ArticleTake Me Home, Country Roads: Feds Bag West Virginia Branch Of Detroit’s...
The leaders of the Northwest Detroit Young n’ Scandalous Gang’s West Virginia wing were hit with a federal indictment this week, charged with racketeering, drug trafficking and kidnapping. “YNS” West...
View ArticleOutlaws MC’s ‘Snivelhead’ White Kept Battling Govt. In His Death Penalty Case...
Fighting his death penalty sentence all the way to his last breath, Outlaws Motorcycle Club member William (Snivelhead) White died of natural causes this month. The 72-year old White, who belonged to...
View ArticleSteve Wynn & The Mob: Casino Tycoon Walked On Wild Side In Early Days...
Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn got his start in the hotel and gaming industry with the help of the Detroit mafia. The 76-year old Wynn, who has been the corporate face of Sin City since 1990s,...
View ArticleCocaine Cowboys Cheat Sheet: Miami’s ‘Los Muchachos’&‘The Corporation’...
The quintessential Cocaine Cowboys of Miami in the 1980s, Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, known on the streets of South Florida as, “Los Muchachos,” ran a near-billion dollar drug trafficking and...
View ArticlePort Chester Pride: Beef With ‘Greaseball Nick’ Melia Led To ‘Rooster’...
East coast wiseguy Eugene (Rooster) O’Nofrio switched from New York’s Gambino crime family to the Genovese crime family in the late 1990s after a blowup with a Gambino higher-up at his headquarters...
View ArticlePress Reports: Providence Mobster ‘Little Eddie’ Lato Nearing Charges In ’92...
As Gangster Report first revealed almost a year ago, according to reports in the Rhode Island press, imprisoned New England mob captain Edward (Little Eddie) Lato is getting zeroed in on by federal...
View ArticleTemptations Singer Dennis Edwards Used To Party With Detroit Drug Dons, Part...
Many of the Motown music label elite partied with “Super Fly Era” Detroit drug kingpins Eddie (The Fat Man) Jackson and Courtney (The Field Marshal) Brown. Per sources and archival law enforcement...
View ArticleDeath Of A City Slicker: Payback For Previous Mob Murder Might Be Motive For...
Retribution for a previous gangland slaying might have been the motive for the 1992 New England mafia hit of mob associate and enforcer Kevin Hanrahan, per a recent WPRI television exclusive on the...
View ArticleBlack Mafia Family Cheat Sheet: BMF Crew Man-By-Man, Detroit, ATL, NYC, L.A....
The Black Mafia Family was the biggest urban drug conglomerate in American history. Founded on the Southwest part of Detroit by brothers Demetrius (Big Meech) Flenory and Terry (Southwest T) Flenory in...
View ArticleWith A Little Help From His Friends: Philly Mob Boss Gets Cheering Section...
The boys from South Philly are in the Big Apple. Several members of Philadelphia mafia don Joseph (Skinny Joey) Merlino usual entourage descended on New York this week to give support to Merlino, who...
View ArticlePurple Reign Redux: One-Time Minnesota Cocaine Kingpin Can’t Wrangle Himself...
The former king of cocaine in the Twin Cities failed to find the results he had hoped for in his bid to be resentenced. Ralph (Plookie) Duke, the Godfather of the drug trade in Minneapolis and St. Paul...
View ArticleFrom Motown To Appalachia: More Arrests, Prison Time For Detroit Drug Dealers...
The Detroit drug scene continues to impact West Virginia. For the second time in the last month, dope pushers from the Motor City have run into problems with the law down in the Appalachians....
View ArticleProcession Of Pagan’s MC’ers Lay Pennsylvania President ‘Rocky’ Bedics To...
Pagan’s Motorcycle Club president Ronald (Rocky) Bedics passed away earlier this month as a result of natural causes. The 54-year old Bedics headed the Lehigh County, Pennsylvania chapter of the...
View ArticleRevered Outlaws MC Member, Author ‘Roadblock’ Harrell Passes Away At 76,...
Highly-respected former Outlaws Motorcycle Club regional boss Wilson (Roadblock) Harrell died this winter from injuries sustained in a bike accident back in the fall. Harrell ran the Outlaws in...
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