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Joseph E. "Joe Bikini" Brocchini (1933 – May 20, 1976) was a soldier under Joseph "Joe Brown" Lucchese in the Corona crew. Born and raised in Corona, Queens, he was arrested as a 17-year-old along with four other youths for carrying out a series of burglaries that robbed eight businesses in north Queens of $26,000 during a week-long spree in 1950.
Lucchese led a quiet, stable life until his death from a brain tumor on July 13, 1967. At the time of his death, he had not spent a day in jail in 44 years. [10] Lucchese left his family in a very powerful position in New York City. The Lucchese family had a stronghold in East Harlem and the Bronx and consisted of about 200 made members. [21]
The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Bruno–Scarfo crime family, [19] the Philadelphia–Atlantic City crime family, [20] the Philadelphia Mafia, [21][22] the Philly Mafia, [23][24][25] or the Philadelphia–South Jersey Mafia, [26][27][28] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Killing of Walter Wallace. On October 26, 2020, Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old African American man, was fatally shot by Philadelphia police officers Sean Matarazzo and Thomas Munz at 6100 Locust Street in the Cobbs Creek section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The two officers arrived in the area to respond to a domestic dispute.
Walter Ogrod case. Walter Ogrod is an American man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1988, sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to police, Ogrod confessed to Horn's murder four years after it occurred, but in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false.
July 31, 2024 at 4:24 PM. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man shot and killed outside the Philadelphia mosque where he was headed for a prayer service was identified by police on Wednesday as a 43-year ...
Names of the victims of the September 11 attacks were inscribed at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum alphabetically by last name initial. They are organized as such: List of victims of the September 11 attacks (A–G) List of victims of the September 11 attacks (H–N) List of victims of the September 11 attacks (O–Z)
10th & Oregon Crew. The 10th & Oregon Crew, also known as the 10th & O Crew, the 10th & Oregon Gang or the 10th & O Gang, is a predominantly Italian-American organized crime gang operating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Active since the 1960s, the gang is associated closely with but independent from the Italian-American Philadelphia crime family.