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T&A Crips hitman who killed rival gang member and shot at potential witness pleads guilty
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2021-05-13T05:30:00.000Z
2021-05-13T05:30:00.000Z
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<p>One of 19 defendants charged in a 2018 Columbus gang-related racketeering conspiracy pleaded guilty Tuesday for his part in the deadly activities of the local Crips gang. 28-year-old Jonathan Dantzler admitted to murdering a rival gang member and to shooting at a potential witness in 2012.</p>
<p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Crips" target="_blank">T&A Crips</a> derived its name from Trevitt and Atcheson streets in the King-Lincoln District of Columbus, Ohio, where its members predominantly reside. T&A controlled the neighborhood through intimidation, fear and violence. Gang members were expected to retaliate with acts of violence when their members and associates were disrespected, threatened, intimidated or subjected to acts of violence.</p>
<p>Specifically, the co-conspirators in this case are charged with five murders:</p>
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<li>the murder of Franky Tention on July 1, 2012, in the area of 431 Ellison Street;</li>
<li>the murder of William Moore on March 15, 2013;</li>
<li>the murder of Marvin Ector on December 23, 2013, on East 5th Avenue;</li>
<li>the murder of Quincy Story on January 24, 2015; and</li>
<li>the murder of Deaonte Fisher on March 4, 2016.</li>
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<p>As part of his plea, Dantzler admitted to shooting Franky Tention in 2012. According to court documents, Dantzler shot at the victim because he was a member of the rival Milo Bloods gang and was driving into T&A territory in a “sign of disrespect.”</p>
<p>Dantzler also discharged a firearm into the residence of a potential witness to intimidate her from cooperating with law enforcement authorities.</p>
<p>Parties involved in Dantzler’s case have recommended a sentence of 30 years in prison. The defendant is currently serving multiple life sentences at the local level for separate murder convictions.</p>
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FBI offers $30,000 reward for information leading to arrest of fugitive Boston Chinatown’s Triad hitman
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2021-01-13T13:54:41.000Z
2021-01-13T13:54:41.000Z
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<p>Authorities are stepping up their hunt for Hung Tien Pham, a hitman of Boston Chinatown’s Ping On <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triads-overview" target="_blank">Triad</a>, who is wanted for the brutal execution-style murders of five men at a Chinatown social club in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Boston" target="_blank">Boston</a>, Massachusetts, 30 years ago this week.</p>
<p>Pham (photo above) was known as a major associate of Asian organized crime at the time of his becoming a fugitive. If he is still alive, he would be 60 years old. He was born in Mong Cai, Quang Ningh Province, North Vietnam. He is a Vietnamese national of Chinese descent and is fluent in Vietnamese, Chinese, and English. At the time of the murders, he was a legal, permanent resident of the United States.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Boston’s Chinatown massacre</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gangstersinc.org" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237155897,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237155897?profile=original" /></a>In the early morning hours of January 12, 1991, Hung Tien Pham (right) entered an illegal gambling den located at 85A Tyler Street in Boston, Massachusetts, and allegedly shot six men, execution-style, while they were playing cards. Of the six victims, only one survived the attack, and he subsequently identified Pham, along with Nam The Tham and Siny Van Tran, as the shooters. Six days later, on January 18, 1991, a warrant was issued for Pham’s arrest following his indictment by a grand jury in Suffolk County Superior Court on five counts of murder, one count of armed assault with intent to murder, one count of conspiracy, and one count of carrying a firearm without a license.</p>
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<p>Following the massacre, it is alleged that Pham left his two children and their mother and drove to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to gamble and then to New York, New York, where he boarded a flight for Hong Kong on February 1, 1991. A federal arrest warrant was issued for Pham on February 15, 1991, by a United States magistrate judge in the District of Massachusetts, charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for the crime of murder.</p>
<p>In addition to the quintuple homicide, Pham is also wanted by the Boston Police Department for another murder that occurred on January 8, 1991, four days before the massacre.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>International manhunt</strong></span></p>
<p>After a decade-long international manhunt, Tham and Tran were arrested in China and, following extensive diplomatic negotiations, returned to the United States in 2001. In 2005, Tham and Tran were convicted of murder in Suffolk County Superior Court and are currently serving five consecutive life sentences. Pham remains a fugitive and his last known location was Bangkok, Thailand, in the mid- to late-1990s.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: Asia’s Most Wanted Drug Lord - Profile of</strong> <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/asia-s-most-wanted-drug-lord-profile-of-triad-boss-tse-chi-lop-ni" target="_blank"><strong>Triad boss Tse Chi Lop, nicknamed “Brother Number Three”</strong></a></li>
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<p>Investigators have determined that in the 1980s and early 1990s, Pham was a major associate of Asian organized crime, specifically the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triads-overview" target="_blank">Ping On crime syndicate</a>, operating in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Toronto, Canada. He also has family in the San Francisco Bay area of California, South Korea, and North Vietnam, giving him various locations to find a hiding place or shelter.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> is offering a reward of up to $30,000 to anyone who can provide information leading to Pham’s capture and conviction. He should be considered armed and dangerous and an international flight risk. Pham has held a variety of jobs, including but not limited to, a cook, waiter, bicycle repairman, and floor sander. He was also known to be a big spender who liked flashy cars and cognac.</p>
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<p>The public is being asked to review Pham’s wanted poster which includes new photographs, including an age-progressed photo of him at 60 years old. An international publicity campaign launched this week includes the launch of a webpage on fbi.gov; social media outreach on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube; and targeted publicity in the cities to which Pham has been tied. The public can play an active role in helping law enforcement find the subject by sharing links to the website and official social media content.</p>
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<li><strong>READ: <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-chinese-godfather-profile-of-chinese-italian-crime-boss-zhang" target="_blank">The Chinese Godfather</a> - Profile of Chinese-Italian crime boss Zhang “Il Uomo Nero” Naizhong</strong></li>
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<p>“As alleged, this cold-blooded killer has been on the run for 30 years, and we’re hoping this reward will incentivize anyone with information on Pham’s whereabouts to come forward so we can we bring him to justice for his role in one of the bloodiest massacres in Boston’s history,” said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, special agent in charge of the FBI Boston Division. “The six victims and their families who suffered so much deserve nothing less, and we will not rest until Pham has been held accountable for these horrific crimes.”</p>
<p>“For those of us who were in the Boston area 30 years ago, the massacre is something that cannot be forgotten. Five families lost their loved ones that night, the one surviving victim’s life was changed forever, and an entire neighborhood was traumatized. Boston remembers these lives that were brutally taken. It took years to find Pham’s co-defendants, and we will not rest until Pham is brought to justice and held accountable. There is no statute of limitations on murder. We will not stop looking until we find him,’’ said Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Call the Feds</strong></span></p>
<p>The FBI is offering a monetary reward of up to $30,000 for information leading to the location, arrest, and prosecution of this individual. Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts should take no action themselves but should immediately call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324), their local law enforcement agency, or their nearest American embassy or consulate. Tips can also be submitted at tips.fbi.gov.</p>
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Kansas City Mafia boss Nick Civella and betting on the Super Bowl
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2019-11-24T07:32:21.000Z
2019-11-24T07:32:21.000Z
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<p>In the 1969-1970 season of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=NFL" target="_blank">NFL</a>, the Kansas City Chiefs were headed to the Super Bowl against the favored Minnesota Vikings. Nationally, the Vikings were getting all the action to win with <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bookmaking" target="_blank">bookmakers</a> around the nation.</p>
<p>Locally, in <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Kansas" target="_blank">Kansas</a>, the money was going down on the Chiefs. <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Civella" target="_blank">Mafia boss Nick Civella</a> called the tapped North View Social Club’s phone. This was the mob clubhouse known as “The Trap.” The main bookies, Dude Fontanello and Frank Tousa were worried about the “Book” being out of whack.</p>
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<p>Dude noticed too much local money going down on the Chiefs. They needed to “lay off” the Chief’s action to another city. At another city like <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Chicago" target="_blank">Chicago</a> or Minneapolis where there would be more money down on the Vikings.</p>
<p>You see, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia" target="_blank">Mob</a> does not gamble with the “<a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gangsters-inc-s-mafia-speak" target="_blank">Book</a>.” They equalize the number of bets on each team in any given contest. The losers pay the losing bet and a 10% “<a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/gangsters-inc-s-mafia-speak" target="_blank">Vig</a>” to the bookie. The winner gets his win while the Mob keeps the “Vig.” Vig is short for vigorsh.</p>
<p>What happened next? <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> wiretaps, arrests, and a murdered snitch.</p>
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Frank Cullotta, the Las Vegas hitman made famous by Scorsese’s Casino, comes to Mob Museum for book signing
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2017-10-20T13:01:00.000Z
2017-10-20T13:01:00.000Z
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<p>Former Mafia hitman Frank Cullotta has written a new book and will be out and about doing some heavy promoting. Known as a member of infamous <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chicago-soldier-anthony-the" target="_blank">Chicago mobster Anthony Spilotro</a>’s <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Vegas" target="_blank">Las Vegas</a> crew, Cullotta eventually became a turncoat and said farewell to his life of crime. His latest book is titled <em>The Rise and Fall of a “Casino” Mobster: The Tony Spilotro Story Through a Hitman’s Eyes</em> and promises plenty of gore.</p>
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<p>The book details the life story of Spilotro from the eyes of Cullotta, who was his childhood friend. Spilotro was sent to Las Vegas in 1971 by the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-chicago-outfit-overview" target="_blank">Chicago Outfit</a> to assemble a crew of thieves. He turned to Cullotta to lead the ring, which came to be known as the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tony-spilotro-and-his-hole-in" target="_blank">Hole in the Wall Gang</a>.</p>
<p>Spilotro’s life has been told before, most notably in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-truth-behind-movie-classic-casino" target="_blank">1995 movie Casino</a>, but no one can tell it like his long-time ally Cullotta, who writes about Spilotro’s rise up the ladder to become an Outfit boss, the many murders linked to the mobster and his subsequent fall from power and murder at the hands of the Outfit.</p>
<p>Cullotta will sign copies of his latest book at <a href="https://themobmuseum.org/" target="_blank">The Mob Museum</a> in Las Vegas on Saturday, November 18, from 13:00 till 16:00 p.m.</p>
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Brooklyn Bloods gang enforcer remains loyal to his boss and gets 30 years in prison for drug trafficking
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2017-06-02T13:30:00.000Z
2017-06-02T13:30:00.000Z
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<p>Shondell “M-Dot” Walker, a member of the Brooklyn-based Murderous Maddawg Bloods, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for narcotics trafficking and his role as an enforcer for Bloods gang leader <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bloods-gang-leader-charged-with-three-murders" target="_blank">Ronald “Ra Diggs” Herron</a>. The 31-year-old gangster (photo above) had pled guilty pursuant to a plea agreement on October 6, 2011, to conspiring to distribute narcotics.</p>
<p>During Herron’s trial, Walker was called as a defense witness and testified falsely on Herron’s behalf. He testified that Herron had served as a positive role model in the Gowanus and Wyckoff Gardens communities, that he had never seen Herron sell narcotics, and that he had never worked, sold drugs, or carried a firearm on Herron’s behalf. Walker’s claims were substantially undermined by the admission into evidence of a letter he had written from prison in which he stated that he intended to remain loyal to Herron because of their membership in the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">Bloods</a>.</p>
<p>Bloods leader Herron was convicted after trial and has already been sentenced to multiple life terms consecutive to 105 years in prison. He had done little, beforehand, to evade the eyes of law enforcement as he posted videos of himself on the Internet in which he identified himself as the leader of the Murderous Mad Dogs set of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Bloods" target="_blank">Bloods gang</a>, and claimed that he headed a “murder team.”</p>
<p>The videos also showed Herron firing weapons and threatening to use them to kill people. He also posted messages on Twitter in which he boasted that he had “beat the stabbing,” “beat the attempt,” and “beat the body.”</p>
<p>Herron and Walker’s convictions followed dozens of successful prosecutions over the past decade conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, along with the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=FBI" target="_blank">FBI</a> and <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=NYPD" target="_blank">NYPD</a>, of violent gang members and drug dealers from the Gowanus and Wyckoff Gardens housing developments.</p>
<p>“This case proves the lengths gang members will go to protect their own,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney. “The subject will spend the bulk of his life in federal prison all because he felt allegiance to a deadly and criminal gang. The work of our FBI New York Metro Safe Streets Task Force and our law enforcement partners is vital to stopping the spread of criminal enterprises like these gangs, and we won’t back off until these gangs no longer exist.”</p>
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Camorra mobster gets life in prison for murder of drug dealer
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2015-12-17T20:06:36.000Z
2015-12-17T20:06:36.000Z
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<p>Camorra gangster Giuseppe De Filippis (photo above, left) was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for the 2014 murder of a Nigerian drug dealer in the town of Mondragone. The trial of De Filippis shed light on how the local Camorra is outsourcing some of its rackets to emerging foreign groups.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GangstersInc" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237058083,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237058083?profile=original" width="236" /></a>De Filippis is a member of the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/camorra-boss-augusto-la-torre">Camorra clan in Mondragone</a>, made (in)famous in Roberto Saviano’s book Gomorra. As is usual in Italy, this clan dominated organized crime in the area, collecting extortion payments and dealing drugs.</p>
<p>When it came to the drug trade, however, they were very “hands-off.” They acted as wholesalers and distributed the drugs to local African gangsters who worked the street corners. The Africans were free to do whatever they wanted as long as they bought their drugs from the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/camorra-overview">Camorra</a>.</p>
<p>It didn’t take long for an enterprising kingpin named Edokpa Gowin, nicknamed Nokia, to think he had acquired enough power to take a stand against the mob. He was wrong.</p>
<p>In May of 2014, police found a burnt out car in the countryside of Villa Literno. Inside was the charred body of Gowin. Once, he acted as an integral part of the Camorra in Mondragone. Now, he had been dealt with like so many other low-level mobsters who wanted more than their bosses were willing to give.</p>
<p>Camorra hitman Nino Capaldo (photo above, on the right) is all too familiar with such a life. In court he recounted how he was ordered to murder Gowin because the Nigerian had cornered a piece of the market. “[Giuseppe De Filippis] told me to shoot and I shot him,” he testified.</p>
<p>Yesterday, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for obeying De Filippis’ deadly order.</p>
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Chicago Hitman Frank Calabrese Sr. Dies in Prison
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2012-12-27T13:00:00.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chicago-hitman-frank-calabrese-sr-dies-in-prison"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237020871,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237020871?profile=original" width="426" /></a>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. died Christmas day at the age of 75. He was serving a life sentence at Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina after having been convicted of several murders at the Family Secrets trial in Chicago.</p>
<p>Calabrese Sr. will not be remembered as a kind person. During his trial there was gruesome evidence of several vicious murders that Calabrese Sr. had a personal hand in. The evidence literally made the mob hitman laugh in a full courtroom.</p>
<p>His bad temper and violent behavior even alienated Calabrese Sr. from his own relatives. His own sons testified against him. Adding to the heap of evidence that resulted in guilty verdicts against Calabrese Sr. and Chicago bosses <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chicago-boss-joseph-lombardo">Joseph Lombardo</a> and James Marcello. The <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/chicagos-family-secrets">Family Secrets trial</a> was the biggest trial against the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-chicago-outfit-overview">Chicago Outfit</a> in decades and succeeded in sending many top mobsters to prison for life.</p>
<p>Frank Calabrese Jr. told the <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-mob-hitman-frank-calabrese-sr-dies-in-prison-20121226,0,4793843.story" target="_blank">Sun-Times</a> on Wednesday that his father’s violent history made his death especially emotional. “I believe he was taken on Christmas Day for a reason. I hope he made peace. I hope he's up above looking down on us. He's not suffering anymore. The people on the street aren't suffering anymore.”</p>
<p>Calabrese’s attorney in the Family Secrets trial, Joseph “Shark” Lopez, told the <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-mob-hitman-frank-calabrese-sr-dies-in-prison-20121226,0,4793843.story" target="_blank">Chicago Tribune</a> that Calabrese Sr. had been in bad health. “Last I spoke with him a little over a year ago, he was a sick man,” Lopez said. “He was on about 17 different medications. But always a strong-willed individual.”</p>
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Profile of Cosa Nostra hitman Giuseppe “Scarpuzzedda” Greco
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2010-11-19T12:57:35.000Z
2010-11-19T12:57:35.000Z
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<p><br /> By Angelo Carmelo Gallitto<br /> Posted in 2003<br /> <br /> Giuseppe “Scarpuzzedda” Greco was born in Palermo in 1950. He joined the Ciaculli “family”, ran by the boss Michele “The Pope” Greco, not related to him. His father, nicknamed “Scarpa”, was a member of the Greco’s from Ciaculli, who fought against the Greco’s from Croceverde Giardini in 1940s before joining themselves in an unique “family”. At the end of the 1970s he started his escalation inside Cosa Nostra; he would become the most violent and feared killer in the mafia history, but especially the most loyal killer of “Corleonesi”.<br /> <br /> He was the leader of the so called “death team”, including Mario Prestifilippo, Filippo Marchese, Gianbattista Pullarà, Giuseppe Lucchese, Giacomo Gambino and Nino Madonia. He was also promoted underboss of Ciaculli “family”. From 1977 to 1985, he probably killed more than 300 people. He was involved in hundreds of murders during the 1981-83 period, included several excellent murders against the institutions. He killed the bosses Bontade and Inzerillo, the most powerful of Palermo. He killed the 15 years old Giuseppe Inzerillo, son of Salvatore, and before doing it he cut his arms, saying: “So you won’t avenge your father”.<br /> <br /> On November 30th 1982 he committed the greatest massacre in the mafia history; after a dinner in the Brusca’s lair in San Giuseppe Jato village, the “death team” murdered Rosario Riccobono, boss of Partanna Mondello “family”, together with 20 “men of honour”; their bodies were loosed in the acid and never would be found. The same day other 50 people were murdered, between shooting and disappearances, around Palermo province; the Partanna Mondello and Noce “families” were totally decimated just in a day. That was Giuseppe “Scarpuzzedda” Greco and his team. His friends said he was born with the gun in the hands. When he became too dangerous even for Riina and the other bosses, the Commission decided to kill him; it was very hard to find the shooters because everybody feared his possible reactions, and according to inquiries, in the end, his best friend Giuseppe “Lucchiseddu” Lucchese murdered him. He disappeared in 1985, while he was on the run, and his body never would be found.</p>
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Profile of Russian Mafia Hitman Aleksandr Solonik
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2010-11-03T18:54:59.000Z
2010-11-03T18:54:59.000Z
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<p><br /> By David Amoruso<br /> Posted in 2001<br /> <br /> Aleksandr Solonik was born in 1960 in the Russian city Kurgan. Growing up as a kid Solonik showed great interest in martial arts and guns. When he finishes school he decides to join the Russian military. When his service time is up Solonik decides to join the militia (a security unit that is used for special commando missions). Solonik signs up and eventually learns his militia skills at the Gorkovskaja Institute. However after six months he is expelled from that institute for unclear reasons. Back home Solonik gets a job as grave digger at the Kurgan cemetary. He is married and his wife gives birth to a daughter. After some time they divorce and Solonik remarries with another woman with whom he has another child, a son this time. But Solonik apparently stays restless and in 1987 he is charged with rape and convicted to 8 years in the Gulag. At the day that he is leaving for the Gulag, Solonik is allowed to say goodbye to his wife but Solonik had other ideas and during this meeting he escapes. He jumped from the second floor and fled. After several months Solonik was apprehended 120 miles north of Kurgan. Now Solonik was heavily guarded and on his way to the Gulag, no escaping this time.<br /> <br /> Because Solonik had worked for the army and had training with the militia he was entitled to seperate lock up away from the normal population, but for some reason (probably Solonik's month long run) he was placed among normal prison population. When it became known to the other inmates that Solonik had been a soldier and had done work for the militia he was marked for death. Since there are no real rules in the Gulag Solonik was on his own, and he managed. After fights where Solonik sometimes took on as many as twelve hardened inmates a time Solonik came out the winner. After this the other inmates left him alone, he had proven himself. Solonik kept to himself in prison and after two years escaped again.<br /> <br /> Solonik again went back home to Kurgan and there he joined the local notorious criminal organization where he started work as a hitman. Solonik's first target, the leader of a rival organization, has no chance and is whacked in 1990 in the city Tjumen. After this hit Solonik and some fellow gangsters from the Kurgan organization decide to go to Moscow. In Moscow there were jobs enough for a qualified killer such as Solonik. In 1992 Solonik whacks Russian vor Viktor Nikiforov, 6 months later another important Russian mob boss was whacked by Solonik. This time the victim was vor y zakone Valeri Dlugatsj, Dlugatsj was shot down in a crowded disco eventhough he was heavily guarded by bodyguards. In 1994 Vladislav Vinner is whacked by Solonik, Vinner had become boss after Dlugatsj death. These were all big hits but Solonik's biggest kill was yet to come. In 1994 Solonik tried to extort a Russian mobster and was told by that mobster that he didn't have to pay anything. The mobster made a phonecall and put the speaker on, Solonik knew the guy on the speaker it was Otari Kvantrishvili one of the most powerful Russian mobsters in Russian history. Solonik went home without the money. Several weeks later Kvantrishvilli is killed Solonik got his revenge and apparently had powerful backing, allegedly from Chechnian groups.<br /> <br /> Solonik had by this time become a famous person among Underworld and law enforcement figures. Law enforcement especially had a special interest since Solonik was supposed to be in prison. When Solonik and a fellow criminal are having a drink at a Moscow marketplace they are apprehended by the Moscow militia. The militia doesn't frisk Solonik, a big mistake. Under his jacket Solonik carried an automatic weapon when Solonik and the militia members are inside the office Solonik decides to fire. He hits four militia members and runs outside, on the run he shoots two more militia members, still running Solonik was hit by a bullet but kept running eventually he was overpowered and gave up. Solonik was back in prison this time in Moscow. He went into surgery and the bullet was removed. In prison he studied foreign languages. In 1995 he escapes again. This time Solonik has little hidingplaces in Russia, his name and face are known and he is wanted by government and organized crime groups. Nobody knows where he is.<br /> <br /> After his escape Solonik went to Greece using a passport with a false identity which he got from the Greek consulate in Moscow. In Greece Solonik set up his own organization of around 50 men which dealt in narcotic shipments and ofcourse Solonik's specialty contract killings. Solonik's organization bought several villa's in an Athenes suburb. All this was done in secrecy, the Russian media and government had no clue what had happened to Solonik and among the public Solonik's legend grew. Solonik already had the status of 'superkiller' and now had escaped law enforcement and organized crime. But in February 1997 the legend was over. Greek newspapers published articles that said a Russian mob boss had been found 15 miles from Athenes. The man that was found was strangled to death and had no identification documents on him, after fingerprints were taken his identity became clear: it was Aleksandr Solonik. In the weeks after Soloniks body was found Greek authorities raided the villa's of Solonik's organization and found an arsenal of weapons, it also became clear that within a week Solonik was expected in Italy for a contract killing. A killing he wouldn't finish. According to the rumors Solonik was whacked by a Moscow Organized Crime group according to the Russian legend Solonik is still alive and the body that was found was a fake put in place by Solonik. Solonik remains to this day a legend for the Russian public and is known as a 'superkiller', which is the name for the best contract killers in Russia. </p>
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