Bonanno Crime Family
Gus Farace
Sexual assault,murder. Dea agent slaying
Costabile "Gus" Farace, Jr. (June 21, 1960 Bushwick, Brooklyn - November 17, 1989 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn) was a low-level criminal with the Bonanno crime family who murdered a teenage male prostitute and a federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in New York City.

On October 8, 1979, Farace murdered a 17 year-old boy and brutally beat his 16 year-old companion. Farace and some friends were on a street in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan when the two boys allegedly propositioned them. Enraged, Farace and his friends forced the two teenagers into their car and drove them to the beach at Wolfe's Pond Park in New York. Once there, Farace forced one of the boys to commit an oral sex act on him. The men beat the boys using driftwood and other objects, then left them for dead. The 17-year-old, Steven Charles of Newark, New Jersey, died on the beach. The 16-year-old, Thomas Moore of Brooklyn, was critically injured, but dove into the pond and managed to elude his attackers. Moore then walked to a nearby residence for assistance. Later on October 8, the police arrested Farace, DeLicio, and Spoto. Four days later, Moore identified Farace and the other suspects from a police lineup.

On December 10, 1979, Farace pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. The state had accepted his manslaughter plea rather than go through the uncertainty and expense of a capital murder trial. Farace was sentenced to 7 to 21 years in prison.

It was in prison that Farace first met Gerrard "Jerry" Chilli Sr. Chilli had unofficially "adopted" Farace who at that point was in his late twenties as a protegé and stayed in contact when they got out of prison. Farace used his contacts with old friends, and new ones he met in prison, to start a Marijuana selling business, which soon expanded into other drugs. In June 1985, Farace was released from prison. By June 3, 1988, Farace had become partners with his friend Gregory Scarpa Jr. who worked out of his criminal headquarters at Wimpy Boys Athletic Club. His father Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a secret FBI informer. Farace married Antoinette Acierno, a sister of a criminal associate.

After being released on parole on June 3, 1988, Farace soon got into trouble again. He began selling small amounts of cocaine and marijuana. In late February 1989, Farace set up a cocaine deal with Everett Hatcher, an undercover federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent. At approximately 10:00 p.m. on the evening of February 28, 1989, Farace was to meet Hatcher at a remote overpass on the West Shore Expressway in the Rossville section of Staten Island to complete the deal. Hatcher had met Farace to discuss purchasing cocaine from him on several occasions.During the course of the drug transaction, Hatcher got separated from the surveillance team. When the team finally found Hatcher, he had been shot through the head three times in his unmarked Buick Regal. The window was rolled down and the Regal's engine was on, but Hatcher's foot was on the brake.

Police theorized that Farace shot Hatcher from a van as it passed Hatcher's car. The van was found abandoned three days later on a street about two miles northeast of the murder scene. This location was less than half a mile from the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, where Farace had spent the last two years of his manslaughter sentence. It is not known why Farace killed Hatcher; it may have been because Hatcher was African-American and Farace was a racist. Another theory is that Farace had become suspicious of Hatcher from rumors he had heard.

A few months after the Hatcher murder, the manhunt for Farace would be over. At 11:08 p.m. on November 17, 1989, police dispatchers received a 9-1-1 emergency call about a car parked at 1814 81st Street in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn. The car contained one male occupant, with another male laying face down on the sidewalk, both of whom had just been shot (the call came in as "shots fired", no other specifics).
Police rushed to the scene and found the two men, one dead and the other seriously wounded. The dead man was identified as Costabile Farace. He had gunshot wounds to the head, neck, back and leg. According to witnesses, a van had driven alongside Farace's car and shot the two men nine times. This was the same method that Farace had used to kill Agent Hatcher. The survivor in the car was identified as Joseph Sclafani, a member of Farace's organization. Sclafani said he fired two shots at the assailants.

In a different version of this story, per the responding officer, Farace was still breathing when police arrived. They placed him in a trauma suite, but he died en route to the hospital. Sclafani was outside of the vehicle, having been shot out of his shoes. Officers handcuffed him on the scene for weapons possession.

First and Kennedy Street Crew
Bennie Lawson
DC police headquarters shooting
On November 22, 1994, a street thug named Bennie Lawson was concerned about his reputation among fellow gang members. He had been questioned by police about his role in a triple murder and the word on the street was that Lawson was cooperating. He had been labeled a "snitch," and to Lawson that was a fate worse than death. So, in an effort to clear his name, he walked into the "Cold Case Squad" office at D.C. Police Headquarters and opened fire without saying a word.

During the next terror-filled moments, more than 40 shots were exchanged between Lawson and the four officers in the room. Three of them were FBI agents. When it was over, four people were dead. They included D.C. Police Sergeant Hank Daly, and FBI Special Agents Martha Martinez and Mike Miller. Lawson had killed them all. After finishing what he had set out to do that day, Lawson then took Agent Martinez's gun, put it to his head and pulled the trigger.

Stapleton Crew
Ronell Wilson
Murder of two undercover detectives
Ronell Wilson was convicted of the 2003 capital murder of two undercover NYC police officers in Staten Island, New York. His trial before Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York began on November 27, 2006.

Two covert police detectives spent their final minutes touting their underworld credibility and evading their surveillance team in an effort to put the men they were investigating at ease, according to testimony and recordings delivered in court yesterday.

“What is the big deal?” one detective asked the two men in his car, according to a surveillance tape transcript provided by prosecutors. “I know. Everybody’s leery. Listen, I’m leery, I’m leery too. I, I understand. I don’t want to get caught up.”

Minutes later on the evening of March 10, 2003, the detective, James V. Nemorin, 36, and his partner, Rodney J. Andrews, 34, lay dead on a street in Staten Island.

Prosecutors have said the detectives intended to buy a Tec-9 pistol from one of Mr. Wilson’s associates, Omar Green, as part of an undercover investigation. But, they say, Mr. Wilson and some of the other men had set up a fake gun deal as part of a plan to rob the detectives.

The two detectives were shot and killed as they drove Mr. Wilson, who was then 20, and another man, Jesse Jacobus, then 17, to buy the gun, the authorities have said. Detective Nemorin was driving, Detective Andrews was in the front passenger seat and the two younger men were behind them, Mr. Wilson on the left and Mr. Jacobus on the right, the authorities have said.