Westchester drug trafficking

its my opinion it's a place where evil people congregate since its basically a suburb to the most important city in the country. Rich and important people that work in industry, banking, and government all live around that area. There's an over abundance of psychopath/sociopath types who would do anything to fulfill the lusts of their flesh. Again, only an opinion lol.

There was the Mob-connected attorney Albert Romano in Yonkers, who seems to have had something on the Carrs and allegedly was involved in the call-boy ring that operated in the city. I haven't been able to dig up much information on him.

Here's a news article from the NYtimes April 3 1981. It lists Joseph Tocco as a member of this mob drug syndicate. The SOS cult had a member from Yonkers with the last name Tocco, I'm not sure if this is him as I can't remember the first name. A lot of Toccos from Yonkers are related I'm willing to bet. The professor naming Charles Tacko made me remember the name lol.

"in Westchester County were arrested today and charged with conspiracy in an alleged multimillion dollar operation involving gambling, loan sharking and drug trafficking.

The Westchester District Attorney, Carl A. Vergari, said the alleged syndicate, which the authorities said controlled bookmaking receipts of $100,000 a day, operated from 20 Iselin Street in Yonkers. That address is the site of an auto-wrecking yard, a scrapmetal company and a refuse-hauling operation.

Law enforcement authorities had placed an electronic-listening device at the site. Mr. Vergari said John A. Pelose Jr., 41 years old, of Yonkers, was the ''operational head'' of the alleged syndicate. Also cited as a leader was Lawrence Centore Sr., 74, of Yonkers, the group's ''problem solver,'' according to the District Attorney.

Mr. Vergari said Mr. Centore ''has long been regarded as a highranking member of the so-called Genovese crime family in Westchester County, which was until recently headed by Frank Tieri.'' Mr. Tieri died of natural causes on Sunday. Operation 'Infiltrated'
The 18-month investigation began when Police Chief Donald Singer of the Town of Greenburgh approached Mr. Vergari in an effort to ''find higher-ups in a local numbers racket.'' The District Attorney's own officers, working in a parallel investigation, eventually ''infiltrated'' the alleged operation.

An undercover officer, given the job of bet collector, ''became so adept, with his fellow officers at picking winning numbers and football teams that the police came out ahead, earning money to further the investigation at the gambler's expense,'' Mr. Vergari said.

Most of the ''victims'' of the syndicate, which Mr. Vergari said made an estimated profit of $250,000 a year, were gamblers with bad debts or ''borderline businessmen with no credit ratings'' who came in contact with loan sharks offering cash at interest rates of 100 to 250 percent a year. Two of the arrests were made in Dade County, Fla., where a drug trafficking link with the Westchester syndicate had just started, the authorities said.

Mr. Vergari said the inquiry also was able to provide New York City investigators with the names of suspects in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Those arrested, mostly at their Westchester homes, were arraigned in County Court on charges of criminal conspiracy, usury, gambling and drug trafficking. The penalties range up to 15 years in prison.

Those arrested, in addition to Mr. Pelose and Mr. Centore, were: Frank Alipo, Yonkers. Frank Calise, Yonkers. Fred Castaldo, Yonkers. Lawrence Centore Jr., Yonkers. Frank Condon, Yonkers. William Fields, Yonkers. Leonard Giordano, Yonkers. Steven Madori, Yonkers. Frank Muscente, Yonkers. Robert Pagliaro, Yonkers. John A. Pelose Sr., Yonkers. Joseph R. Pelose, Yonkers. Joseph Portanova, Yonkers. Joseph Tocco, Yonkers. Henry Burrough, Eastchester. Dominic Collarusso, Eastchester. Michael Leone, Eastchester. Anthony Martin, Eastchester. Frank Mezzone, Eastchester. Darin Mezzone, Eastchester. Louis Wade, Elmsford. Rufus Leath, White Plains. Harold West, White Plains.Burt Maruch, Tuckahoe. Amos Blackwell, Tarrytown. Dominick Colarusso, Monsey. Jimmy Murray, Teaneck, N.J. James LaRocca, Davie, Fla. Michael Scandizzo, Davie, Fla."

After looking further it seems Tocco is a common name, especially among the mafia lol. Don't wanna piss these guys off! Lol. I do know for a fact that a Tocco was a part of the SOS cult though, I'm sure others out there remember the name from the brain web page.

The name Tocco does indeed turn up in the Yonkers cult saga. In August 1963, an Elmsford priest named Francis McShane was stabbed to death in New York City by eighteen-year-old Robert Charles Burger, a former mental patient; one of the Yonkers detectives who booked Burger on the homicide charge was Anthony Tocco. (The Herald Statesman noted that Detective Tocco had known Burger for two years. "'He wasn't a bad kid but he had a terrible temper, a very violent nature,'" Tocco said.) The SOS Cult site featured a newspaper clipping with photos of McShane and Burger, as well as two photos captioned "Robert Tocco Grady." The man in those photos was obviously Burger in old age. I'm not sure exactly how Robert Charles Burger became "Robert Tocco Grady," but the implication seems to be that Detective Tocco had adopted him at some point. In 2011, Burger beat his wife Rebecca Dethlefs to death and pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder the following year.

On closer inspection, the Riverdale Pizzeria was also a tavern that served hard liquor--meaning that it might have been *the* location mentioned by John Paul Ranieri (i.e., "They operated out of a bar near the Carr house"). The old Carr house and the former location of Riverdale Pizzeria are separated by 1.7 miles, and are actually on the same street since Riverdale Avenue becomes Warburton Avenue further north. A man named Joseph Molinari owned the pizzeria/tavern in 1961 (and was, in fact, attempting to sell the place that year), two years before the McShane murder, but I haven't turned up anything interesting on him.