Authorities took down a coast-to-coast drug ring on Long Island after a yearlong investigation that led to the arrests of 20 people. Members of the massive operation would transport as much as 40 pounds of cocaine at a time from Los Angeles, said Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota. The drugs

A mob goon linked to the Colombo and Lucchese crime families may be linked to the unsolved execution of a police informant on Long Island, federal prosecutors have revealed. The allegation emerged at last week’s sentencing of Robert Spatafora, 38, a garage owner who calls himself “Junior Gotti,” for intimidating a

Out of 127 reputed mobsters federal authorities rounded up on racketeering charges in Long Island, at least 16 have been accused of extorting businesses and running underground gambling clubs with the help of two former police officers.

Members of New York’s infamous Five Families—the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese crime organizations—were rounded up along with members of the New Jersery-based DeCavalcante family and New England Mafia to face charges including murder, drug trafficking, arson, loan sharking, illegal gambling, witness tampering, labor racketeering, and extortion. In one

More than 100 alleged mobsters and their accomplices were arrested in what was billed as the largest ever bust of organized crime and included violent gambling-extortion operations on Long Island. Former police officers from Suffolk and Nassau counties were caught in the net.