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The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family [5] or Pittsburgh Mafia, is an Italian American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] [6] The LaRocca family is one of the original 26 mafia families in the United States. [7] In 2021, the boss Thomas "Sonny" Ciancutti died, he was also the last known ...
FBI surveillance photograph of the Lucchese crime family members Vic Amuso, Anthony Casso and Frank Lastorino. Frank "Big Frank" Lastorino (April 9, 1939 – November 5, 2022) [121] was a soldier, caporegime and consigliere of the Lucchese family. Lastorino was formally inducted into the crime family in 1987. [122]
Robert Ward Duggan (January 27, 1926 – March 5, 1974) [1] served as Allegheny County District Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a decade, from January 1964 until his shooting death under mysterious circumstances in March 1974. He had been under investigation by then- United States District Attorney Richard Thornburgh for corruption.
Ed Biddle (left), and Jack Biddle, c. 1901 Brothers John E. Biddle (January 8, 1872 – February 1, 1902) and Edward C. Biddle (December 27, 1876 – February 1, 1902) were condemned prisoners who escaped from the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania using tools and weapons supplied to them by Kate Soffel, the warden's wife, (June 27, 1867 – August 30, 1909) who fled with them.
He was officially declared dead at 3:51 am at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. Besides the officers involved, the only other witness to the killing was a tow-truck driver. Autopsy. A coroner's report by the Allegheny County medical examiner stated that his cause of death was homicide by asphyxiation due to pressure applied to the chest and neck.
The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a successful plot to rig The Daily Number, a three-digit game of the Pennsylvania Lottery. All of the balls in the three machines, except those numbered 4 and 6 , were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of those digits.
He was 61 years old. City Council President Luke Ravenstahl became mayor in the wake of O'Connor's death. He was sworn in at 10:36 pm EDT at the City County Building in downtown Pittsburgh. O'Connor's funeral and burial followed on September 7, 2006, at the Cathedral of Saint Paul and Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The grave is ...
A Pennsylvania man who tried to shoot a pastor during a sermon that was being livestreamed earlier this week has been additionally charged with homicide, accused of fatally shooting his cousin the ...