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Rhode Island police dig for the victim of a decades-old mob hit
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
November 17, 2008 08:44
SCITUATE, R.I. - The Rhode Island State Police have arrested 18 people allegedly connected to Mafia rings and used a backhoe to dig through an East Providence lot.
They're searching for the victim of a three-decade-old mob hit. The dig for the body was called off around dark and is expected to resume Tuesday.
Some of those arrested allegedly had ties to the Patriarca crime family, which for years controlled organized crime in Providence and Boston.
One alleged long-time Patriarca figure arrested was Nicholas Pari, 71, of North Providence.
Investigators say he took counterfeit handbags and sneakers from undercover federal agents who infiltrated the ring, allegedly based out of the Valley Street Flea Market in Providence.
In return, the agents got guns and drugs, including cocaine, marijuana and Vicodin.
Pari previously was sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter in the 1978 killing of Joseph "Joe Onions" Scanlon, whose body was never found.
State Police officials said they were digging at an East Providence apartment complex for a victim killed by the mob about 30 years ago.
Authorities would not say whether Scanlon was the victim they were seeking.
Pari was charged with racketeering, firearms violations and drug offences.
Detectives also arrested Gerald Tillinghast, 62, on drug and gambling charges. Tillinghast, released last year from prison for a mob-related killing, is accused of operating an illegal gambling and drug sales business.
Tillinghast was ordered held without bail after a court hearing Monday afternoon, his attorney Paul DiMaio said. He was not asked to enter a plea.
"I just don't believe that he was involved," DiMaio said. "He's been trying to do the right thing. I know he was trying to find a job, find a chauffeur's license."
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