Portland, Maine’s Main Mafioso: “Mickey Naples” Napolitano

Orlando Michael Napolitano - aka "Mickey Naples" - was born on August 3, 1916, in Brooklyn, NY. He was one of twelve children born to Joseph and Lena (nee’ Grimaldi) Napolitano. His siblings were named Pasquale, Frank, Larry, Ernest, Anthony, Jean, Mary, Yolanda, Melphis, Gilda, and Rita. The Napolitano children were all raised in Kings County, where they attended New York City Schools.

While he was still a young man, his parents relocated their large brood to the State of Maine, settling into the City of Portland. This is where he and his family would remain for the rest of their lives. It’s also the city from which Mickey would operate his criminal rackets and schemes.

Orlando (Mickey Naples) Napolitano

As a young man, Orlando Napolitano served as a sailor in the U.S. Navy and fought the Japanese in the Philippine Islands during World War II. After returning home from the war, he first went to work as a steamfitter for Local #217. He soon met and fell in love with a young local woman named Ernestine (Elizabeth) Tingley. The young couple got married around 1940 and took up residence within the area. They eventually had four sons together, Joseph "Little Joe," who would later grow up to join his father in the criminal underworld; Robert M., who would grow up to become a lawyer; Pasquale L.; and Edward R.

Over the years, Mickey, Elizabeth, and the boys lived at various addresses around Maine. During the 1950s, the Napolitanos resided at 84 Beckett Street. By the early 1960s, they had relocated to another home on Mayer Road. Around 1965, the Napolitano family finally moved into 208 Eastern Promenade in Portland, which was a quaint two-story house with a large porch that would become their family’s compound for many years to come.

208 Eastern Promenade, Portland

By the early 1970s, Mickey had another home on Lynn Fells Parkway in Melrose. He later relocated down to Pompano Beach, Florida on a seasonal basis. Yet, the Eastern Promenade house remained the primary Napolitano household until his death.

Mickey Gets Mobbed Up!

Over the years, both local and federal law enforcement authorities described Orlando Napolitano as an organized crime figure affiliated with the Raymond Patriarca Crime Family headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. The Patriarca borgata also had a powerful offshoot of the Family based in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as a smaller regime operating in eastern Connecticut. Law enforcement considered Napolitano to be the Family’s linchpin and their main representative for the City of Portland, Maine .

Orlando Napolitano, better known in the underworld as “Mickey Naples,” was also identified during several U.S. Senate Committee Investigations on Organized Crime to be a documented “soldier” in the Patriarca Family who lived and operated out of Portland, Maine but who was also active in New Hampshire and the Boston area.

The infamous FBI informant Vincent (Big Vinny) Teresa, a mob associate and stock swindler, once described Mickey Napolitano as one of his key sources for stolen stocks and securities.

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Napolitano had a long criminal record which included arrests over the years for assault, burglary, robbery, possession of stolen property, illegal gambling, violating federal anti-racketeering laws, stolen firearms, extortion, forgery, counterfeiting, RICO conspiracy, interfering with interstate commerce, and obstruction of justice.

Authorities say he was familiar with, and respected by, members of New England’s criminal underworld. Among his better-known criminal associates over the years were many documented members and associates of the Raymond L.S. Patriarca Family. They included such notorious characters as New England underboss Gennaro (Jerry) Angiulo, capo Ilario (Larry Baione) Zannino ; soldiers Angelo (Sonny) Mercurio, Richard (Richie) Floramo, and Carmen Fuccillo; and crew associates John Nappi, Joseph Puzzangara, John (Johnny D) Di Raffaele, and John (Big Jackie) Jannoni.

Like Father, Like Son

Once he became of age, law enforcement authorities say that Mickey’s son, Joseph (Little Joe) Napolitano, had gone into the Family business as well, becoming an organized crime figure himself and a devoted minion and close criminal associate of his father.

Knowledgeable law enforcement officials reported that “Little Joe” Napolitano was later sponsored for formal membership into the Patriarca Family by Larry Zannino, a powerful Mafia leader who operated out of Boston’s North End “Little Italy” neighborhood. Authorities reported that Napolitano was subsequently inducted into the Mafia in a formal ceremony and became recognized as a Family soldier, the same rank his father had achieved many years earlier.

“Little Joe” in headier days.

Some years later, during their annual report on the status of organized crime in the northeast, the Pennsylvania Crime Commission named the younger Napolitano as a “made” member of the New England crime family. Among Little Joe's other criminal activities, they also reported he was involved in the operation of gambling junkets from Pennsylvania to a lavish casino in London, England.

High-Stakes Card Games

On October 24, 1948, the Portland Police Department’s Gambling Squad, led by Detective Capt. Edward M. Kochian, conducted an early Sunday morning raid on the Monument Square Social Club, which was described as a private gambling club.

The then 32-year-old, Orlando Napolitano was identified as being among eleven men nabbed on gambling charges. Police said they had broken up a high-stakes card game. They also said Napolitano was suspected of, but not formally charged with, running the game.

Others arrested in the raid were identified as Harry A. Popkin, Daniel J. Casale, Anthony J. DePaolo, John J. Conley, Sigurd A. Steinarson, Louis Bedell, Daniel N. Di Biase, Gavie L. Cavaliero, and Robert Peters. The case against the eleventh man, Michael Stevens, who was charged with permitting gambling on the premises, was continued because his lawyer was sick. But Stevens was still required to post bail of $500.

The other ten suspects were all allowed to plead guilty to common gambling charges and paid fines of $5 and court costs of $4.70 each.

A Day at the Races

On August 19, 1956, after a big day betting the ponies at the Scarborough Downs Racetrack where they said they had won a lot of money, Mickey Napolitano and six other men later claimed they were robbed of $4,000 in track winnings. They said a lone gunman had burst into an Old Orchard Beach house where they had gone after their day at the track to play in an all-night card game. Napolitano and friends claimed the stranger had robbed them of all their winnings.

The men told State Police Troopers that the lone gunman, armed with a handgun, interrupted their game inside the Ocean Avenue cottage at approximately 3 a.m. The armed robber, who was reportedly unmasked at the time, had slipped into the cottage, lined the victims up against a wall at the point of a .45 caliber automatic, then scooped up all the cash on the card table, and emptied the men's pockets of cash before he fled the scene.

The thief reportedly took off in a car owned by one of the victims but abandoned it several blocks from the scene of the robbery where it was later recovered by police. The men described the gunman as being in his mid-twenties, “clean cut,” about six feet tall with blond hair, and weighing about 190 pounds.

Suspicious of the bizarre circumstances of the robbery after questioning the men, police decided to have three specific alleged victims, including Mikey Napolitano, take lie detector tests to try and get to the truth of the matter. State Police in Augusta didn't reveal the test results publicly at first, but they continued their investigation of the robbery as suspicious. Napolitano's friends Eddie Lanna and Freddy Ferris also took lie detector tests but Joseph Brooks refused because of an alleged heart condition. The other two men present, Adrian Moore and Eli Rassanovich, were in the Air Force and stationed at the nearby Loring Air Force Base at Limestone and couldn't be tested.

Eventually, the lie detector test results proved inconclusive, and police could never gather enough additional evidence to solve the armed robbery.

Runnin' Numbers

On January 13, 1964, the FBI charged the then-47-year-old Mickey Napolitano and two other suspects in Boston, Massachusetts with operating an interstate policy-numbers gambling racket. The three were arrested in Maine by Special Agents of the local FBI office on a Federal warrant charging them with interstate transportation of wagering paraphernalia and interstate transportation in aid of racketeering, according to Thomas J. Jenkins, Special Agent in charge of the Boston FBI office.

Mickey was nabbed with two Massachusetts-based gamblers named John F. Di Raffaele (48) and Joseph Costa (49). They were both charged with similar criminal counts to Napolitano. At his arraignment in U.S. District Court, Judge Andrew A. Caffrey released Napolitano on a $10,000 bail package. DiRaffaele and Costa were also released but on bail of $2,000 apiece. The Judge also deferred disposition of the case until June 29.

Federal authorities nabbed Napolitano after they say they saw him place a thick envelope containing lottery slips into the hands of a Railway Express truck driver who FBI Agents say was supposed to deliver the gambling receipts to Napolitano’s gambling associates in Boston, Massachusetts. Di Raffaele and Costa were accused of being his partners. Napolitano was later held for extradition to Massachusetts to face the music in connection with the case.

That March 13, Napolitano and Di Raffaele were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for operating a numbers pool gambling ring from Portland to Boston. The grand jury said Di Raffaele, a truck driver, was the conduit to transfer betting slips across state lines into Massachusetts.

Five months later, on June 29, the case went to trial and Mickey was convicted by a jury in Boston Federal Court. He was found guilty of illegally transporting 45 lottery slips interstate and violating federal gambling statutes. He later received a two-year jail sentence. His co-defendant, John DiRaffaele, was also found guilty and given a six-month sentence on the same charges.

The Underworld Abortionist

Four months later, on May 15, 1964, Mickey was arrested along with a 24-year-old woman by the name of Barbara LaChance for performing an illegal abortion. The two were arraigned before a Magistrate the following Monday, May 18, and were each held on $7,500 bail.

But days later, after their attorney informed the judge that his clients couldn’t meet that figure, the judge agreed to lower the bail to $5,000 apiece, which they posted up. Both were subsequently released from the lockup.

Napolitano and LaChance were charged with performing the illegal abortion on a Massachusetts woman in LaChance's trailer home, located on Beech Ridge Road in Scarborough. Police said they arrested Napolitano after they pulled his car over in Scarborough and took LaChance into custody at a local restaurant where she worked as a waitress. Both were booked into the County Jail.

Authorities say the arrests followed a tip they received from acquaintances of the victim after she was hospitalized in serious condition following the botched surgery. She has since recovered. The investigation was initially conducted by State Trooper Detective C. Russell Bruton and the arrests were made by a joint State Police Team.

At the time of his arrest, a police spokesman said that Napolitano was also free on $10,000 bail on federal charges for illegal interstate betting activities.

The Diamond Heist

In June 1968, several years after Mickey Naples got out of jail, he was arrested once again. This time, he was accused of committing a large jewelry theft. In July, the Manchester District Court found probable cause to hold him until the Grand Jury convened that September regarding the criminal charges.

On Monday, September 23, 1968, the then-51-year-old Napolitano was indicted for major theft. Manchester police had originally charged him with the theft of over $140,000 in jewelry and diamonds from Jason’s Jewelry Store on Elm Street in Manchester. He was indicted on three counts of burglary, possession of burglary tools, and the theft and illegal possession of a revolver.

Authorities later said that despite having made a successful getaway with the loot, Napolitano was quickly identified and arrested within hours of the burglary. The Maine Police Department was able to recover most of the stolen jewelry shortly thereafter when they searched his automobile and found the loot in his trunk.

Police say that he gained entry into the jewelry store through the roof, and then ripped open three jewelry safes. The merchandise found in Napolitano’s car included raw diamonds, watches, an assortment of gold jewelry, and various other gems.

He initially pleaded innocent before Judge John Leahy in New Hampshire Superior Court during his arraignment. He was held in lieu of $51,500 bail (a very significant sum of money back in 1968.)

Less than four months later, on January 13, 1969, the judicial chickens finally came home to roost for Napolitano. Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge George R. Grant sent the 52-year-old hoodlum away to a New Hampshire State Prison to serve another jail term. This time around, he was sentenced to serve between 30 months to 10 years behind bars after Napolitano pled guilty to committing the Manchester jewel robbery.

Napolitano pleaded to four counts, including possessing burglar tools, theft of a firearm, breaking and entering, and grand larceny.

But Mikey wasn't the only Napolitano running afoul of the law. His son, Little Joe, had his problems as well.

Funny Money and Little Joe

In 1975, Little Joe Napolitano was one of a gaggle of suspects arrested for their participation in a large cross-country counterfeiting scheme. At the time of the arrests, prosecutors described Napolitano as the “kingpin” of a $1,000,000 coast-to-coast counterfeiting operation that had printed, and then distributed, large quantities of counterfeit $20 bills. During the sweep, authorities conducted several searches.

For example, Little Joe's 20-year-old cousin Michael Napolitano had just pulled his 1970 Thunderbird into a restaurant's parking lot in Revere, Massachusetts when he was surrounded by police, dragged from the driver's seat, and placed under arrest.

During the search of his car, police found two large suitcases jam-packed with neatly wrapped stacks of freshly printed funny money stashed in the trunk. The suitcases contained over $800,00 in counterfeit $20s.

U.S. Secret Service Agents count some of the confiscated funny money.

One notable old hoodlum who was also charged in the case was Boston-based Vincent J. Costa, a notorious hood convicted back in 1950 for his part in the infamous $1.2 million Brink’s Robbery in Boston’s North End.

Others arrested in the sweep included Pasquale Napolitano, Joe’s brother; Felice (Philly) Napolitano, a cousin to the Napolitano brothers and the father of the aforementioned Michael Napolitano; Paul Ceven of Stoughton; Marvin Frieman of Minneapolis; and Melvin Hentoff, Robert (Bobby) Berk, Royal Rixner, and Joyce Lewis, all of Los Angeles, California.

Of the eight hoodlums convicted in the case, Joe Napolitano was the only defendant who walked away scot-free, without any prison time. The judge sentenced him to a suspended jail sentence, placed him on probation, and then released him from custody. Joe was free to go home.

And there was a very good reason for Joe Napolitano’s good fortune. Sometime earlier, Joe had secretly agreed to become a federal informant; he turned rat for the FBI.

But according to investigators, Joe was actually trying to work on both sides of the street. At the same time he was coordinating counterfeiting schemes with his underworld buddies, he was also clandestinely meeting with several Boston-based FBI agents and steadily feeding them some information about the counterfeiting operation and its participants.

Authorities claimed that Joe also often fed them inaccurate information in an attempt to satisfy his requirement as an informer while at the same time trying to throw them off his trail so he could jump between the raindrops and underworld shadows in order to earn off the counterfeiting racket.

For example, he grossly inflated the size of the counterfeit operation in order to gain their interest, then told them the gang had already distributed some of the funny money out “on the street.” Then he would feed them other false details about where the remainder of the counterfeit money was being stashed.

And while he was leading law enforcement down the primrose path throwing out a tidbit here and there to keep his FBI handlers satisfied, Joe kept himself busy pushing bundles of "fugazy" currency notes out to his criminal associates and collecting his profits.

At first, the federal authorities completely believed Joe’s stories hook, line, and sinker. In FBI reports, they documented their prized informant as the major counterfeiting figure active throughout Maine and the greater New England area.

A Leopard Can't Change His Spots

And for his part, Little Joe just continued doing what he did best - lying and scheming his way through life.

Two years later, he was still at it, involving himself in various money counterfeiting schemes. Joe figured he could still work in the same fashion, with the same arrangement with his federal handlers.

So, he continued meeting with FBI agents, explaining to them that he and his gang had recently printed another $10,000,000 worth of phony $100 bills, but that he could only lead them to approximately $7 million dollars worth.

During his meetings with the agents, he provided two fake $100 notes as samples of the quality of the counterfeits which was also proof of the existence of the money-printing racket. Apparently, he had secretly also hoped to sell the other $ 3 million unaccounted-for funny money for a hefty profit.

He also told the agents that this second counterfeiting scheme was being quarterbacked by the notorious Howie Winter Gang of Somerville, Massachusetts, which was completely false. But he said it in a failed attempt to throw the agents off the trail of the real counterfeiters.

But after a short rerun, Joe, Mickey, and their “funny money” gang were nabbed again. Mickey knew he had a real problem this time around. But secretly, young Napolitano figured he’d be covered and in good shape, regardless.

Joe was counting on the continued goodwill he thought he had built up with the feds while working undercover for them. His plan had worked the first time around when Joe got off with a slap on the wrist. So, he figured, why not again?

But Joe’s twisted scheme had gone awry after the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office started their own, unexpected, separate probe into the counterfeiting ring. Over the course of many months, with the use of their own confidential informant, the D.A.’s Office had gathered enough evidence to arrest Little Joe and six other members of the ring for counterfeiting. One of their prime targets was Joe's father, “Mickey Naples,” who had also been implicated in the operation.

Their second counterfeiting scheme came to an abrupt halt on September 8, 1978, when Mickey and Little Joe were among eight people charged once again in four separate but interconnected indictments for counterfeiting U.S. currency bills. These indictments resulted from an investigation first started by local authorities, but it culminated after a joint probe by the State Police, the FBI, and the U.S. Secret Service.

The arrests took place almost one year after authorities had first conducted a surprise raid, in September 1977, on a stash house in Dedham, Mass., where they recovered over $3,300,000 in counterfeit currency at that time.

Some of the same defendants had been charged in both counterfeiting cases, including James B. Shapiro, in whose house the second counterfeit money stash was discovered. Also arrested that day was Shapiro’s common-law wife. Authorities said that Ethel Rotondo Shapiro, a mother of six, had played an integral part in the racket scheme.

Other key operatives placed under arrest were John (Big Jackie) Jannoni and Joseph (Joe Putz) Puzzangara, who were both described as known organized crime figures. At the time of his arrest, Puzzangara, an ex-convict, had been scheduled to be sentenced that following Monday in U.S. District Court in Boston for another case in which he was convicted for conspiring to counterfeit $300,000 worth of U.S. Treasury notes.

Mickey Napolitano was convicted in this case and was later sentenced on April 18, 1978. The judge remarked that this was the largest counterfeiting ring ever uncovered in New England. He then sent Mickey away to serve a 3 to 5-year jail term at Walpole State Prison.

Jimmy Shapiro was also convicted. He got banged with a 9 to 12-year sentence to be served at the same prison. His wife Ethel was given 6 years in jail to be served at the Framingham Correctional Institution. But in a show of compassion, the judge then immediately suspended the prison term and placed her on 6 years of criminal probation instead.

The Party's Over

After he was arrested for counterfeiting the second time and brought into the lockup, Joe still hoped he could use his contacts at the FBI to strike a deal with the D.A.’s Office. But he was sadly mistaken. The FBI, now fully aware of his lies and duplicity, decided to turn their backs on him. Little Joe Napolitano was now left out in the cold to fend for himself.

And now he had even bigger problems to worry about than just a counterfeiting indictment because word of his longtime cooperation as an FBI informant was out in the open - and had reached the ears of his father and other members of the New England Mafia.

Once word got out Joe Napolitano was a rat, he was as good as dead!

Joe was now exposed as the rat he was. And he was worried, very worried because he damn well knew how the underworld dealt with rats! So, he jumped bail, forfeiting the $50,000 he posted, and took off. And he convinced his good buddy and codefendant, John Jannoni, to join him “on the lam.”

Authorities later stated that Napolitano and Jannoni fled the New England area right after news of Joe’s informant status became public knowledge in order to avoid mob assassins.

Side Note: John Jannoni had another incentive to skip town. He had also been indicted that past December by a Federal Grand Jury on conspiracy, racketeering, extortion, threats and assault, and obstruction of justice charges related to his participation in another Patriarca Family racket - the systematic shakedown of illicit massage parlors and prostitutes working in Boston and several other New England cities.

(L) Little Joe Napolitano, Big John Jannoni (R)

Despite their disappearance, the counterfeiting trial got underway with the remaining defendants sitting in the dock. When all the smoke cleared, Napolitano and Jannoni were found guilty in absentia. So were Mickey Naples and three other defendants, who all ended up pleading guilty to the charges. The judge gave Mickey another 3 to 5-year prison term.

On August 11, a fugitive arrest warrant was issued for Little Joe and Big John's capture after law enforcement agents failed to locate them. The FBI notified law enforcement agencies in all jurisdictions to be on the lookout for the two men.

Shakedowns at the Whorehouse

Then, in a seemingly never-ending cycle of criminal activities and arrests, the Feds came for the aging mafioso one more time. Mickey was named in a major organized crime-related indictment handed up in federal court against nine men and women that prosecutors grew out of the New England Mafia’s attempt to infiltrate, extort, and takeover of a multi-state string of prostitution rings operating as legal massage parlors businesses.

Charged in the case were Orlando (Mickey Naples) Napolitano of Pompano Beach, Florida; Samuel Nore of Milton, the longtime owner of two Boston “combat zone” nightclubs; Angelo (Sonny) Mercurio of Woburn; Richard (Richie) Floramo of Everett; John J. (Jackie) Jannoni of Natick; and Carmen (Ronnie) Fuccillo of Framingham. All six men were described by the FBI and federal prosecutors as members or associates of organized crime.

Others charged included Michael Procaro of Malden, Charles (Tash) Tashjian of Norwood, and 29-year-old Lynette Grabert, who worked as a masseuse and prostitute in a Burlington massage parlor that was smoke bombed after the government says the owners of the business refused a coercive demand by mob figures to sell the business to them at a cut-rate price.

Side Note: At the time of their arrests in this case, federal authorities said that Floramo and Mercurio had recently been arrested in Pittsburgh for stealing $24 million in securities from the Putnam Investment Fund in Boston. They said Nore had been among 33 persons indicted months earlier on charges of burning down buildings in the Boston area to collect insurance money. They also described Floramo as “a hitman" for the mob, and said Mercurio was, “considered by law enforcement officials to be a confidante of Gennaro Anguilo, reputed leader of the Mafia in Boston.” They also identified Napolitano as “being linked to organized crime leaders.”

During their subsequent trial, prospective witness Elfreida Compton, the owner of Elfie’s Garden of Eden massage parlor, gave sworn testimony that two men, whom she identified through mugshots as John Jannoni and Mickey Napolitano, warned her that she must either sell her business to them, make them her partners, or pay them weekly protection money.

Another prosecution witness, Michael Hackett, who owned a half interest in the Swedish Sauna, Inc., of Reading, testified that another one of the defendants, Michael Porcaro, stuck a gun in his ribs and threatened him with bodily harm if he didn’t sell his ownership interest to the mob.

During the course of the trial, Federal Strike Force Agents also informed the judge that a prosecution witness had contacted them about threatening phone calls she had received about recanting her testimony. The authorities suspected, but couldn’t prove, the phone calls were made by mob associates of the defendants.

But the FBI started an investigation into the alleged harassment of the witness, as well as possible jury tampering charges after it was disclosed that over a period of two weeks, there was an incident in which an alternate juror by the name of Christine Dupre reported that a family member had questioned her about the case. The trial judge immediately excused her from jury duty, and the jury tampering investigation got underway.

In January 1979, Mickey was convicted along with four other reputed mob figures of the New England Family for strong-arm infiltration and extortion of the prostitution racket.

The five hoodlums, along with a sixth accomplice, had originally been accused of plotting to forcibly seize control of a string of illegal massage parlors in Peabody and Manchester, N.H., Warwick, R.I., Boston, MA., and Hartford, CT.

At their sentencing, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro gave Mickey Napolitano 3-years in federal prison. Michael Porcaro received three 4-year prison terms to run concurrently; Angelo (Sonny) Mercurio and Richard (Richie) Floramo received 5-year jail terms, to be served concurrently with 15-year sentences they were already serving, and Samuel Nore got 2-years incarceration. Carmen Fuccillo was ordered by the Court to perform 60 hours of public service each month for two years. Charles Tashjian was acquitted of extortion charges by the same jury.

Gangland Vengeance

On the afternoon of Friday, September 8, 1978, the bodies of two men were discovered in an abandoned automobile in New York City’s Jamaica section in Queens County. Authorities made the grim discovery after tow truck employees hitched an abandoned car from a Queens intersection and towed it into the pound. Police had received numerous telephone complaints from area residents about the car being abandoned there for days.

New York City Police Department Homicide Detectives said the partially decomposed corpses of Joseph Napolitano and John Jannoni, wrapped in four black plastic trash bags, were discovered inside the trunk of a green 1978 Ford Fairmont. The killers had parked the automobile at the curb off of Tudor and Kent Roads in the exclusive residential neighborhood of Queens’ Jamaica Estates section.

The victim's bodies had been stripped of jewelry and their pockets were empty of cash. Authorities tracked down the car, saying it had been rented days earlier by a friend of Napolitano from Gateway Motors in the nearby Ozone Park section. He was brought in for questioning and identified the slaughtered men for detectives. Once local authorities realized who the victims were, the FBI was called into the case.

Brothers in blood? Napolitano and Jannoni played together, stayed together, and died together.

Police said it appeared that the actual murders had taken place elsewhere but that from the condition of the corpses, the men had been dead for at least three days, since Monday, September 4th. A later autopsy by the Queens County General Hospital Morgue confirmed that both hoodlums had been shot multiple times through the head, and both had also been garroted.

Bullets were reportedly removed from Jannoni’s left cheek, temple, and ear. Napolitano suffered two gunshot wounds to his forehead and a third shot through his left hand, while apparently trying to protect his face.

Sources say that the men’s identities were initially confirmed visually by a New England-based law enforcement officer familiar with them and both were later officially identified through fingerprints taken at the morgue.

The medical examiner reported that all the gunshots had been fired from a distance of only several feet away, while the killers were standing directly in front of their victims. News reports also said that the men had been found trussed up from head to knees with a synthetic rope, leading to speculation that they were shot to death while bound.

Mickey Naples Cashes in His Chips

After reportedly suffering from a long illness, Mafia soldier Orlando Michael (Mickey Naples) Napolitano died in a local hospital in Portland, Maine, on March 12, 1990. Mickey was 73 years old. He and Ernestine had been married for 50 years.

Prayer services were held for Napolitano at the Jones, Rich, and Hutchins Funeral Home, followed by a Mass at St. Patrick’s Church. Mickey was buried in Calvary Cemetery in South Portland.

Until next time…”The Other Guy”

Portland, Maine’s Main Mafioso: “Mickey Naples” Napolitano

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