First “Big Meech” Left Monster Legacy In Detroit Dope Game, Shot Dead 30...
October 22, 2020 – The original “Big Meech,” legendary Detroit drug lord Demetrius Holloway, was slain 30 years ago this month in one of the Motor City’s most sensational homicides ever, a gangland...
View ArticleFed Judge In N.J. Slams Philly Mobster “Joey Electric,” Delves Out 15-Year...
October 23, 2020 – The sentence was stiff. It exceeded the recommended guidelines. That’s just the way it goes sometimes in the Philadelphia mafia, where the feds gun for their targets with a full...
View ArticleThe Buffalo Mafia Vs. The Boyz In The Hood: Bifulco Sought Vengeance On Drug...
October 24, 2020 – According to FBI records, recently-deceased Buffalo mob capo Frank (Butchie Bifocals) Bifulco put out open murder contracts on a crime baron and two of his enforcers he held...
View ArticleU.S. District Judge Questions Avengers MC Hit Man’s Sincerity In Denying Plea...
October 28, 2020 – Avengers Motorcycle Club member Ward (The Anvil) Wright had his bid for compassionate release rejected by U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Murphy in Detroit this week, as Wright...
View ArticleJust Some Of The Guys: Peterson Bros. & Their “It’s Just Us” Gang Go Down For...
October 29, 2020 – Detroit breakdown. Motor City shakedown. Just like the old J. Geils Band used to rock out to. The feds in Motown took down the It’s Just Us Gang in a drug, racketeering and murder...
View ArticleA Most Reliable Source: Slain Montreal Mob Boss Aided In Writing Of Book,...
October 30, 2020 – At the same time he was acting boss of the Montreal mafia, Andrew Scoppa was secretly helping two Quebec crime writers work on the a book about the mob war he was immersed in and...
View ArticleThe Free & The Guilty: Two More Latin Kings See Judge In Boston, “King...
October 30, 2020 – One Latin Kings boss in Massachusetts went free this week and another pleaded guilty in continuing fallout from last year’s Operation Throne Down. More than 60 members of the mostly...
View ArticleHarlem Homecoming: The Great Guy Fisher Returns To NYC, Fmr. Heroin Chief...
October 31, 2020 – One-time New York drug don Guy Fisher got a ticket home from the federal government this week, let out of prison Wednesday on a medical pardon after 36 years behind bars on a drug...
View ArticleThe Pointes Of Contention: JoAnn Matouk Romain’s Suspicious Death Was Most...
October 31, 2020 — Back in the summer, I was approached by Google News to write an investigative piece on the JoAnn Matouk Romain case from 2010, a disturbing murder mystery out of my hometown of...
View ArticleAn Uncle’s Pride & Joy: Alleged Buffalo Mafia Don’s Nephew Pleads Out In Drug...
November 3, 2020 — Anthony Gerace, the nephew of reputed Buffalo mob boss, Joseph (Big Joe) Todaro, Jr., copped a plea in his federal drug and gun case from 2019 last week. The 40-year old Gerace...
View ArticleDaddy’s Coming Home: Detroit MC Club Chief “Big Daddy” Moore Let Out Of...
November 4, 2020 – The most powerful biker boss in Michigan has gotten a reprieve from a life prison sentence. He’s walking free this week. Leonard (Big Daddy) Moore, the 72-year old “Godfather” of...
View ArticleThe Casino Movie Murder Timeline: Tony The Ant’s Las Vegas Mob Hit List
November 4, 2020 – This month marks the 25th anniversary of the classic Martin Scorsese gangster flick Casino, telling the story of the Chicago mafia’s days ruling over the Las Vegas hotel and gaming...
View ArticleBobby The Cigar Blows Past Prison Gates, Fmr. N.E. Mafia Capo Rides Lucky...
November 5, 2020 – Smoke’em if you got’em. A victory cigar would be appropriate. Turncoat mobster Robert (Bobby the Cigar) DeLuca, formerly of the Patriarca crime family in New England, was granted a...
View ArticleTwice-Bitten “Frank The Shark” Comes Home From Prison Early, Western Mass....
November 8, 2020 – Springfield mob figure Frank (The Shark) Depergola walked out of prison four months early on a compassionate release issued by U.S. District Court Timothy Hillman out of Worcester,...
View ArticlePicture-Perfect Ending: Canadian Underworld Chief “Picasso” Woolley Walks...
November 11, 2020 — You could not have painted a better picture for one of Canada’s most notorious criminals. Montreal gangland leader Greg (Picasso) Woolley was paroled early from his drug case with...
View ArticleNinety-Nine Restaurant & Pub Massacre: “Four On The Floor” Murders Brought...
November 11, 2020 – Twenty-five years ago this week the Ninety-Nine Restaurant & Pub Massacre in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood marked the end of the bloody Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme...
View ArticleLatin Kings No. 2 Man Out East, “King G” Rodriguez, Gets 18-Year Prison Bid...
November 12, 2020 — United States District Court Judge Rya Zobel sentenced the Latin Kings’ east coast “underboss,” Jorge (King G) Rodriguez, to 18 years in prison last week. Rodriguez, 32, was the...
View ArticleU.S. Rap Murder Index: MCs from Chicago, Dallas Gunned Down, Death-By-Gun...
November 13, 2020 — The music world lost two more rappers this week to street violence, as Chicago’s King Von and Texas’ Mo3 were both gunned down in separate incidents five days apart. Sadly, the...
View ArticleThe Ralphie Question: Where Does Younger Santaniello Stand In Springfield...
November 12, 2020 – Springfield (MA) mobster Ralphie Santaniello was let off house arrest last week, per MassLive resident mobologist Stephanie Barry, who broke the news of Santaniello’s ability to...
View ArticleLow Winter Sun: Former Boston Irish Mafia Don Howie Winter Dies Of Natural...
November 14, 2020 – One-time Boston Irish mob boss Howie Winter died of old age this week at 91, in his own bed, a free man. If you know the math for guys who reach the highest levels of the...
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