On this date, February 1...
• in 1904, Secret Service agents trail recently freed Barrel Murder suspect Tommaso Petto from Port Chester NY back to Manhattan.
• in 1913, a federal jury convicts Frank Filasto of New York City and Joseph Ribuffo of Paterson NJ of human trafficking.
• in 1917, Frank Yale of Brooklyn and two other men are arrested at a New Utrecht Avenue cafe for illegal possession of handguns.
• in 1921, following the Bronx shooting of Angelo Lagattuta, mafioso Saverio Pollaccia is arrested for possession of a revolver.
• in 1930, Jack McGurn and Tony Accardo are arrested in connection with the murder of Chicago Crime Commission investigator Julius Rosenheim.
• in 1932, two gunmen kill three and wound three at a Bronx apartment linked with Vincent Coll, who is not present.
• in 1936, Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewey orders dozens of simultaneous raids against New York brothels.
• in 1951, gangster Edward Coco shoots and kills a car-washer in Miami Beach FL.
• in 1959, Meyer Lansky is admitted to a Hollywood FL hospital with pericarditis.
• in 1966, a delegation of Italian Americans, including four congressmen, meet with the U.S. attorney general to object to the planned publication of Joseph Valachi's memoirs.
• in 2002, John J. Gotti is taken from a federal prison hospital to receive further cancer treatment at St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield MO.
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