″One of his convictions was for the 1974 Valentine’s Day murder in Dade County, Fla., in which the victim was shot 23 times,″ Morris said in a news release from Washington, D.C.Ĭravero also is suspected in other murders that involved the use of barbed- wire around the necks of victims and torture with locking pliers, Morris said.Ĭravero also faces federal sentences totaling 50 years for convictions on charges of possession of explosives, possession and distribution of dangerous drugs and conspiracy to procure perjured testimony. Far from a sophisticated organization, this crime ring was a loose network of thugs, as the FBI called them.
His criminal convictions date to 1970 when he was found guilty on charges including first-degree murder, aggravated assault and intimidation, as well as drug and weapons offenses, Morris said. What Is The Dixie Mafia During the 1960s, a group of criminals known as the Dixie Mafia began to creep across cities and towns in the South. The Dixie Mafia or Dixie Mob is an American criminal organization composed mainly of white Southerners and based in Biloxi, Mississippi, operating primarily throughout the Southern United States since at least the late 1960s. 17 and had been sought by a task force since then, said spokesman Steve Boyle. Morris, director of the Marshals Service.Ĭravero was put on the Marshals Service’s ″15 Most Wanted″ list on Dec.
8, where he was serving three consecutive life terms for multiple murders, said Stanley E. He escaped from Union Correctional Institution in Raiford on Sept. 44-caliber Magnum revolver believed to belong to Cravero were found in the residence.Ĭravero, 44, led the so-called Dixie Mafia gang that was believed reponsible for 35 murders and disappearances tied to drug trafficking in south Florida in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She offered no resistance during the arrest by task force members and Philadelphia police, Matulewicz said. Cravero, 44, waived extradition proceedings and was expected to be returned to Florida today, he said. ″She was wanted on a warrant issued out of Florida charging her with aiding in the esacape of her husband,″ Matulewicz said.
Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Philadelphia. 8 from Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Fla., said Dennis Matulewicz, supervisor of the U.S. Philadelphia apartment the couple had apparently inhabited since his escape Sept. They are a Mafia or organized crime group, but their religion has about as much to do with their crimes as Catholicism has to do with those of the Sicilian. Richard Cravero, a pistol tucked in his belt, jumped from a car when it was stopped Wednesday afternoon in suburban Miami Shores. MIAMI (AP) _ A convicted torture-killer and ″Dixie Mafia″ drug kingpin who was one of the nation’s most wanted fugitives was captured without incident in the suburb where he was raised, authorities said.
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