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In October 1996, Galione was indicted and charged with running a crack-cocaine ring that operated in Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn since 1992. [104] In 1997, Galione and Lucchese family associate Mario Gallo pleaded guilty to the 1989 murder of Bonanno family associate Constable "Gus" Farace. [141]
Bay Ridge is known for its Norwegian community but it also has small Irish, Italian, Arab and Greek communities. Bay Ridge is part of Brooklyn Community District 10, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11209 and 11220. [1] It is patrolled by the 68th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. [5]
The Lucchese crime family's Brooklyn faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Lucchese crime family that control organized crime activities in the New York metropolitan area but are predominantly based out of Brooklyn and Staten Island. The Brooklyn faction was created after two separate crews in the Lucchese family were ...
The friends were hailed as heroes by their teammates and parents, and Kingson was even awarded a City Council citation from Councilmember Susan Zhuang (D – Bay Ridge) earlier this month for ...
William Michael Parente was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to Willie and Roccolyn Parente; the elder Parente was a New York State Police trooper. The younger William Parente grew up in Bay Ridge as an only child, summering with his family in Long Beach.
[6] [17] During the late 1970s, Franzese met with future Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, who was then a soldier. Angelo Ruggiero was also present. Franzese was contacted by a flea market owner who complained that his partner was using and selling drugs at the market in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Franzese agreed to frighten him and become the ...
With the recent gentrification in the early 2000s of the Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, and Red Hook area, the gang associated with and largely moved to what is considered the actual geographical south of Brooklyn, including Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Sheepshead Bay, and Gravesend. The term South Brooklyn Boys has not only been used as a ...
August 30 - The body of Lucchese Family mobster Bruno Facciolo, who had been missing since August 24, is discovered in the trunk of a car in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, following an anonymous complaint to police of foul odor. He had been shot several times in the head, and stabbed multiple times in the chest and back.