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Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang — Part 3

98 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Apr 23, 1974 · Broad topic: Organized Crime · Topic: Purple Gang Aka Sugar House Gang · 98 pages OCR'd
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Cleveland, Ohio June 87, 19359 HOMCRANDUW FOR INSPECTOR M. E. GURNEA Bez TOLED) = GENERAL ORGANIZED CRIME CONDITIONS In order to get a complete picture of the crime con- . dition in Toledo, Obie, for the present day, it ip necessary — ogg cigts se to go beck to the year 1951., At that tine THOMASKLICAWOLI, | a 7 a son of o menber of the o} ® in Detroit, Mich-— igen, cams to Toledo where he orgenixed the most yuthles of hoodluas that the city of Toledo has ever LICAYOLT, together with his lieufenants, TRA, alias PY EMOLISH”, JOHN ORORG: and proceeded to exact tribute fron b ries, night elabe, poultry and produce houses, gas atations end barber shops, for allered protection which they might afford then. Their price for protection was a 10% cut of all profits pede by these businesses or enterprises. Yhenever they pet with opposition they would proceed to muxies the one responsible for opposing them. During the xeign of the LICAVOLY mod they murdered nineteen individuals in Tolede. fhe ond of this gale cane im 1934 when LIGAVOLI anf his = lieutenants were eonyicted for conspiracy to kill and were giver life sentences in the Ohie State Penitentiary. ata a Tn 1934 inte the (6Y7YC.)# picture at Toledo. ose eperated the Cagina, ~3--"~ a night club which was frequented by some of the most... atin puttyo potoricus orixinals ever known in the United States. It — was at thie place thet well-known menbers of the BARKM- at Bt. Paul, Minnesota, in
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