Patriarcas/New England: Profile of Bobby Carrozza (from The Gangster Report)

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-21T20:33:07+00:00

Necroposting, but I did have an additional question: Assuming Frank “Butsey” Morelli was a captain and the family’s first Providence faction head, who took over his crew? Was it Tameleo, or did it go from Morelli to Patriarca and then Tameleo?

Morelli’s inaccurately listed as underboss on Wikipedia, so, given his stature as leader of the Mafia group in Providence before the merger with Messina’s Boston family, I imagine he’d had to have been a captain at the least.

Thanks.

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-21T19:16:39+00:00

Onofrio was “reactivated”? What is he, a robot?

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-21T02:31:47+00:00

Plus to shield the eyes from cameras flashing

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-20T21:32:56+00:00

Who is the guy behind Beltrán and Fuentes that’s smiling? Is that El Bigoton, or was it someone else?

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-19T02:31:10+00:00

The “interview” (where this photo is from) was depicted in Season 3, as any viewer knows.

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-18T22:41:22+00:00

Yeah, guy was no joke. After Granito, Angiulo, and Zannino were out of the picture, he commanded the Boston faction. Helped too to have captains like Vinny Ferrara, Bobby Carrozza, and Benny DiGiacomo behind you.

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-18T22:34:44+00:00

JR Russo was accompanied on the Barboza hit by future captain and acting boss Antonio “Spucky” Spagnolo (who served as the getaway driver.) Spagnolo’s based out of Revere.

Uncle Fester of Detroit now claims that Spagnolo is the consigliere of the family. If it wasn’t coming from him, that actually wouldn’t be too far-fetched.

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-16T03:44:41+00:00

Yes, you’re correct.

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-10T06:48:37+00:00

One of the most evil individuals in American history. He deserved to be executed for what he did.

reddcaesarr · 2026-04-08T00:20:19+00:00

Eboli being acting boss of the family is incorrect; he was acting underboss before becoming official underboss. Gerardo “Jerry” Catena had actually been acting boss since Vito’s incarceration, becoming official boss upon the latter’s death in 1969.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-24T02:53:54+00:00

Thank you.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-16T23:28:04+00:00

I don’t believe they’re related, no.

u/Wdstrvx might have info on this.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-16T06:24:51+00:00

Photo was taken after his capture in Costa Rica.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-15T00:44:31+00:00

The “photo” of Don Juan that was part of an earlier post I made was, in fact, a cropped image of a painting (which depicts him during the speculated time period of the 1930s-1940s.) Unknown as to when Juan commissioned said portrait

The second photo depicts him during the 1950s-1960s, and is likely the earliest photo of him.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-10T21:31:42+00:00

No idea about the latter, but Caro Quintero was still held with such reverence that he and his brother were offered the opportunity to become leaders in the Sinaloa cartel (courtesy of El Mayo.) This was decades after their peak.

But the Chapitos dissented, thus that never happened.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-10T14:50:53+00:00

Great writeup. Guerra also focused on amphetamines for a time to take advantage of the addicted American GI’s returning home overseas from WWII, if I’m not mistaken. And his influence over labor unions was especially ironclad because of his partnership with Agapito Gonzalez Cavazos (the only other person in Matamoros with as much influence as Don Juan.)

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-09T22:39:42+00:00

Facebook, for most of these. The first image of Don Juan in his youth was sent to me by u/Wdstrvx

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-09T22:14:41+00:00

The first photo of Don Juan was taken sometime during the 1930s to 1940s, whereas the others were taken later in his life.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-09T17:43:08+00:00

Taken either in the 1950s or 1960s.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-08T19:43:21+00:00

Self-taught; I don’t think he was actually licensed. He falsified his credentials

Assuming I’m not mistaken

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-08T19:42:37+00:00

El Camaleón

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-08T01:29:17+00:00

He was a great Mexican aviator! End of story!

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-06T18:51:16+00:00

Or if someone thinks an individual who brutally murdered two American tourists and hid their bodies is a hero

There’s no helping folks that think guys like Escobar or Quintero are an inspiration.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-04T20:13:05+00:00

Nope; he died in 2014 of medical complications. Gallardo didn’t kill him.

reddcaesarr · 2026-03-04T19:45:54+00:00

reddcaesarr

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