Nov 16 2007
BRATISLAVA — Serbian and Slovakian interior ministers, Dragan Jočić and Robert Kalinak, met in Bratislava Friday.
They signed an agreement on cooperation in fighting organized crime, and pointed to the danger posed by ethnic Albanian mafia from Kosovo, Tanjug news agency reported from Slovakia. Continue Reading »
Nov 15 2007
‘Frankie B’ was believed to be a member of the Mexican Mafia. He and another man were shot at a Pomona bar. Continue Reading »
Nov 14 2007
The ‘Mafia Summit’ stakeout
Robert Croswell at home in Vestal, with newspaper articles about his dad, Edgar Croswell, a state police sergeant who broke up the largest meeting of mobsters on November 14, 1957, in Apalachin, New York. (Times Herald-Record/MICHELE HASK)
Apalachin — Fifty years ago today, this hamlet on Exit 66 off Route 17 was like Woodstock for mobsters. But the party came to an abrupt end because of a native son of Woodstock, a state police sergeant named Edgar Croswell.
Matter of fact, you could say that when Croswell rousted Mafia bosses with names like Joseph Bonnano and Joseph Profaci; Carlo Gambino and Russell Bufalino, the Mafia began sliding into oblivion. Up until then, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had soft-pedaled the presence of the mob, but the stones that Croswell kicked over at Apalachin led to investigations galore, the passage of new state and federal racketeering laws and the fabled code of silence being broken in pieces by Mafia songbirds like “Sammy the Bull” Gravano. Continue Reading »
Nov 13 2007
ROME: Police on Tuesday arrested four aides to a reputed top Mafia chief who was himself arrested last week in a raid on a summit of Mafia dons in Sicily, police said. Continue Reading »
Nov 13 2007
A wide-ranging operation is underway in Syracuse and various other areas of the country with 70 arrest warrants for mafia-related criminal association, drug trafficking, extortion and usury. Continue Reading »
Nov 12 2007
Italian paramilitary police have arrested a fugitive from the Calabrian Mafia or ‘N’Drangheta’, in the southern town of Siderno near Reggio Calabria. Continue Reading »
