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SCITUATE, R.I.-- Twenty-four people, including some suspected mobsters, are under arrest following a lengthy investigation into an organized criminal gambling operation, Rhode Island State Police ...
SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) -- State police in Rhode Island arrested two dozen suspected mobsters and their associates Friday following a wiretap investigation into what authorities say was an illegal ...
Initial estimates pegged the value of the cash, precious stones and metal, bars of silver and other valuables at $2 million. Now it's $32 million.
Tillinghast and other Rhode Island mobsters were accused of participating in the $3-million Bonded Vault heist in 1975 in Providence. A Superior Court jury declined to convict him.
BOSTON, Mass. (WPRI) – Defense attorneys attempted to poke holes in the testimony of admitted Rhode Island mobster Joseph DeLuca on Thursday, questioning his memory and honesty. DeLuca, 78, of ...
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island is filled with all sorts of crazy stories, but few top what went down at Hudson Fur Storage on 101 Cranston St. in Providence’s west end on the morning of Aug. 14, 1975.
BOSTON, Mass. (WPRI) – Rhode Island mob captain Robert “Bobby” DeLuca took the stand against Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, telling jurors the former mob boss reached out to him ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A secret 2011 case against a veteran Rhode Island mobster was quietly unsealed by a federal judge late Friday, revealing never-before-seen details about the case that ...
PROVIDENCE — A man known as an associate of the Rhode Island mafia was sent to prison this month for, once again, running an organized retail crime network at the Decatur Social Club. Richard G ...