On this date, February 12... • in 1909, in a visit to a counterfeiting plant in Highland NY, Ignazio Lupo discusses a plot to assassinate NYPD Lt. Joseph Petrosino in Italy. • in 1912, police arrest West Side Manhattan gangster Owen Madden for the fatal shooting of William Henshaw. • in 1914, Anthony Celentano, a gangster on New York's Lower East Side, is stabbed and seriously wounded by members of the Jimmy Curley Gang. • in 1916, gangster Ludwig Augustine is wounded by gunshots as he crosses Manhattan's Fifth Avenue near 47th Street. • in 1936, the artichoke monopoly case against Joseph Castaldo and codefendants ends with a hung jury in New York federal court. • in 1938, $10,000 in cash and jewelry is robbed from a Brookline MA jewelry store. • in 1947, an indictment against Mike Miranda for complicity in the 1934 Brooklyn shooting of Ferdinand 'the Shadow' Boccia, is dismissed by Judge Samuel Leibowitz. • in 1958, upon his return to New York City, Meyer Lansky is arrested for vagrancy and questioned about the murder of Albert Anastasia. • in 1962, 'Trigger Mike' Coppola is convicted of income tax evasion in Miami FL federal court and sentenced to a year and a day in prison plus a $40,000 fine. • in 2009, federal agents arrest seven alleged members of a Genovese crime family crew in Garrison NY. Image of Mike Miranda.
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