A cross-country cocaine pipeline dried up after 44 pounds of the powder bound for Amityville were seized in California, leading to the indictment of 20 people who acted as drug couriers and distributors, Suffolk and federal officials said yesterday.

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

The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) were involved in the takedown of a cocaine distribution network and the indictments of 19 people on charges of operating as a major drug trafficker and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

They were rounded up in a bust said to be “a major disruption of La Costra Nostra’s activities on Long Island”. John “Johnny Boy” Ambrosio, Frank “Frankie Boy” Salerno, and Anthony Saladino will spend several years in prison for their crimes.

On October 1, 2010, Robert Spatafora pleaded guilty to Counts Three, Four, and Five of a five-count superseding indictment. Count Three charged that between July 2009 and February 2010, Spatafora, together with others, conspired to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846,

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.