All Blog Posts Tagged 'Drugs' (441)
Lucchese Family Sold “Oxy” From Ice Cream Truck in New York
By David Amoruso
Don’t we all miss our friendly neighborhood milkman who used to deliver bottles of milk right up to our doorsteps? What happened to the businessman who would offer that kind of service? Well, leave it to the mob to step into that void by driving an ice cream truck into your neighborhood that not only sells ice cream but also oxycodone pills at $20… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on March 18, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments
Review: Street Legends 2 by Seth Ferranti
By David Amoruso
Author Seth Ferranti brings his readers true crime stories from inside prison. Interviewing imprisoned gangsters and crime bosses as well as law enforcement figures, he manages to paint a refreshing picture of the American gangland.
True crime is a very interesting genre. To its… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on February 28, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments
Firepower, Dope and Bloodshed: Mexico Drug Cartels Branch Out to Foreign Continents
Firepower, Dope and Bloodshed: Mexico Drug Cartels Branch Out to Foreign Continents. What's the Real Story Behind This Unbelievable Invasion?
By Clarence Walker, Crime Journalist, Houston Texas.
Editor's Note: Walker previously wrote feature stories about the international drug trade published by Gangsters Inc. To view Walker's previous stories…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on February 17, 2011 at 3:30am — No Comments
Baltimore Drug Boss: Maurice "Peanut" King
By Seth Ferranti (www.gorillaconvict.com)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you were in the drug game in Baltimore, then you answered to one man, Peanut King. He was the man in more ways than one- trendsetter, drug dealer, high roller, ladies’ man- these were only a few of the titles Peanut King carried.…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on January 9, 2011 at 6:00am — No Comments
Serbian Boss: Sreten Jocic
By David Amoruso
Posted on December 27, 2010
Sreten Jocic is a man whose name strikes fear into the hearts of cold blooded killers throughout Europe. For over three decades he has operated in the criminal underworld of several countries and risen to the top by being more…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on December 27, 2010 at 9:00am — 1 Comment
Teenager Was Hitman For Mexican Drug Cartel: Why Organized Crime Uses Children As Soldiers
By David Amoruso
Posted on December 9, 2010
Standing by himself, Edgar Jimenez Lugo does not look very intimidating. Of course, he is only 14 years old and not many boys that age have mastered the skill or size needed to make that kind of impression. But don’t be fooled. Lugo was a hitman for a Mexican drug cartel and is accused of carrying out “at least” four beheadings. This is why Lugo is surrounded by armed soldiers wearing… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on December 9, 2010 at 12:09pm — 1 Comment
The Murder of Fray, A Washington D.C. Street Legend
By Seth Ferranti (www.gorillaconvict.com)
A lot of factors figured in the death of the Washington DC street legend, Fray, but the main reason was Alberto “Alpo” Martinez. When the soon to become infamous rat Alpo hit DC in the late 1980s, Fray was a well established and respected hustler at the top of DC's street hierarchy. Fray didn't take kindly to New York dudes coming from up top to…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on December 7, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment
New Arrests in Violent Albanian Drug Gang Bust
FBI personnel working in the arrest processing room
Photo Credit: Rich Kolko, FBI
By David Amoruso
Posted on August 25, 2010
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Yesterday, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Janice K. Fedarcyk, the Assistant… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 27, 2010 at 1:01pm — No Comments
How the Sicilian Mafia flooded the US with heroin
Standing: second from left a young Vincent Basciano, the man on his right is Philip Giaccone.
Sitting at the table from left to right: Joseph Benanti, Dominick Trinchera, J.B. Indelicato, Frank Lino, Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato.
By David Amoruso
Posted on October 4, 2008 (First appeared in the 2008 spring issue of… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 27, 2010 at 12:45pm — 1 Comment
Puparo presents: The Roaring 1950s (Part 2)
Salvatore Marino then testified to making a delivery of narcotics from the apartment at 36 East 4th Street for Ralph Polizzano before his
arrest the night of July 5. On cross-examination Marino claimed that in
the police station he was punched in the stomach by the arresting
officer and two other officers for five or ten minutes and was knocked
out. He claimed he… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 25, 2010 at 9:56am — 1 Comment
Puparo presents: The Roaring 1940s
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Marseille, France, Loco mayor Simon Sabiani, Bosses Spirito and Carbone
The gangsters Francois Spirito and Paul… Continue
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Puparo presents: The Roaring 1950s (Part 1)
Giuseppe "Pep" Cotroni 's drugtrade was financed by Luigi Greco and Cotroni once told an undercover that 5 men in the US controlled the heroin market and prices, those customers of his were Angelo "Angie" Tuminaro, Rocco "Rocky" Sancinella, Anthony "Bootsie" DiPasqua, Frank Mancino and Anthony Strollo "Tony Bender", those were often financed by Squillante.
Constantino Gamba
In 1950 arrested in Italy for trafficking in narcotics
Schiaparelli directing chemist… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 25, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments
Get ’The Right Man’: How the FBN nailed Vito Genovese
It begins and ends with a man who had a name that sounded like a musk melon.
His impact on the American Mafia was much more than to just have helped the law incarcerate a man who at the time, they considered perhaps the most powerful hoodlum in the country. By helping to nail him and thus sending him to prison, he created a chain of events that would have perhaps, the most significant repercussions on Italian-American organized crime since its recognized… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 24, 2010 at 2:59pm — 1 Comment
Death in the Afternoon, The shadow of a Dream: The Story of Carmine Galante (Part 2)
During Lunch
As his nephew drove away from the drop-off, Galante walked into the restaurant, whose front windows were masked by yellow curtains. It was a favourite meeting place, where he often arranged sit-downs with his closest associates. Knickerbocker Avenue had for over 50 years been the turf of the Bonanno crime family, according to… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 24, 2010 at 5:00am — 1 Comment
Death in the Afternoon, The shadow of a Dream: The Story of Carmine Galante
By Thom L. Jones
Before Lunch
It was not quite the dog days of August, but almost. The temperature was in the upper eighties by mid-day, baking the cracked asphalt that shimmered under the relentless rays of the noon-day sun, beating down on the city like a blow-torch, tempered by the 80 degrees of humidity.
In Bushwick, Brooklyn, inland from whatever on-shore breezes may have been blowing in from the East River, there was no relief from the wilting heat.…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 24, 2010 at 5:00am — 3 Comments
Drug Boss: Frank Matthews
By Seth Ferranti
In the 1970s the heroin market in the United States was dominated by a black distributor named Frank Matthews who operated out of New York. He was the most notable black figure on the east coast at the time and one of the first major independents who challenged the mob for supremacy in the criminal underworld. The Black Caesar, as he was known, was a new kind of super-criminal ruling a nationwide empire of dope. He was…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 19, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments
Drug Boss: Roland "Pops" Bartlett
Posted March 20, 2007
Roland Bartlett reputedly was the biggest drug boss of Philadelphia in the 1980s. His organization consisted of around 60 members, and had seperate crews which consisted of salesmen, cutting crew supervisors, and enforcers. Bartlett himself had started out as a streetdealer for the Philadelphia Black Mafia, and had worked his way up. Eventually he developed connections with the Gambino Crime Family from New York, from which he purchased… Continue
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 19, 2010 at 10:45am — No Comments
Drug Boss: Leroy "Nicky" Barnes
By David Amoruso
Posted: July 4, 2007
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Leroy "Nicky" Barnes is a legend of African American organized crime history. Once a dope fiend himself, he kicked the habit, and became the main distributor of heroin in Harlem, NY. In 2007 his autobiography "Mr Untouchable: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Heroin's Teflon Don" was released. In it Barnes…
Added by Gangsters Inc. on November 19, 2010 at 10:30am — 2 Comments
Drug Boss: Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff
By David Amoruso
Posted on October 17, 2007
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Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff was born on September 19, 1959. McGriff grew up in Southeast Queens around many drugdealers. He wanted to be one as well and started doing jobs for them such as guarding drugs and cash at stash houses. McGriff was feared because of his connection to a gang called "the Peace Gods,"…
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Profile of Cuban mob boss José Miguel Battle Sr.
By David Amoruso
José Miguel Battle Sr. was one of the most powerful crime bosses in the US. Born in Cuba he was a policeman in the pre-Castro era ruled by dictator Fulgencio Batista. Batista had a good relationship with several of America's wealthiest mobsters, among them New York bosses Charles "Lucky" Luciano,…
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