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Topic Started: Mar 15 2009, 08:43 AM (247 Views)
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March 9, 2009, 11:25 am
F.B.I. Resumes Search for Mob Graves
By William K. Rashbaum
F.B.I. agents and Suffolk County police officers resumed their search Monday morning for the makeshift graves of two men killed by the Colombo crime family more than a decade ago, digging near an industrial park in Farmingdale, N.Y., an F.B.I. spokesman said.

The search was temporarily halted in December, after agents and the police found the body of William Cutolo, a Colombo family underboss who had disappeared in 1999, and were unable to locate the bodies of the other men, said the spokesman, James Margolin.

On Monday morning, the New York F.B.I. office’s evidence response team, working with agents from the squad that investigates the Colombo family, were using backhoes and other heavy equipment at the industrial park near Route 110 in Farmingdale, he said.

The two men whose bodies have not yet been found are Carmine Gargano, who was 21 years old when he was last seen in 1994, and Richard Greaves, who was 26 years old when he disappeared in 1995.

Law enforcement officials have said that Mr. Greaves, a Colombo family associate, was killed because crime family members believed he was cooperating with the authorities.

Mr. Gargano, the officials have said, was killed as part of a revenge plot against a relative.

The family’s acting boss, Alphonse Persico, and Jackie DeRoss, a senior crime family figure, were sentenced to life in prison last month in Federal District Court in Brooklyn for the slaying of Mr. Cutolo, who was 49 when he died and was known as Wild Bill.

Several other New York City men have been indicted in the other two killings.
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FBI agents search for remains of alleged mob hit on Long Island
By KIERAN CROWLEY and MITCHEL MADDUX

Last Updated: 4:42 PM, October 19, 2010

Posted: 3:22 PM, October 19, 2010

Comments: 0 More Print FBI agents are digging near a Long Island industrial park this afternoon, hunting for the remains of a reputed Colombo crime family associate who was suspected of being an informant.

The site, a wooded area near Executive Drive, adjacent to a railroad track and Route 110 in East Farmingdale, Nassau County, is being searched by agents assigned to the FBI's evidence recovery team, said Jim Margolin, a bureau spokesman in New York. Margolin declined to identify whose remains the agency was looking for.

Two years ago, the FBI dug unsuccessfully at the same site in an effort to find the body of Ralph Greaves, the Colombo associate suspected of being an informer. Greaves was last seen alive on August 3, 1995.

Agents were again looking for Greaves on Tuesday, after new information surfaced in the case directing feds to look in a new spot at the same site, not far from the location where the previous, two week-long, excavation took place in the past, a law enforcement source said.

Investigators probing Greaves' disappearance believe that around the time he went missing he had been lured to a basement apartment in Brooklyn, where he was shot and killed, according to documents filed in federal court.

Three reputed members of the Colombo crime family, Dino Calabro, Thomas Gioeli and Dino Saracino, who owned the apartment, were charged with Greaves' murder in a June 2008 federal grand jury indictment.

A year and a half ago, in the same area, FBI agents unearthed the body of William Cutolo, who was murdered in a mob struggle in 1999.
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