Allesandro Vollero

Alle­san­dro Vollero and Leopoldo Lau­ri­tano owned a cof­fee house at 133 Navy St, Brook­lyn. The cof­fee house was used as the head­quar­ters for their gang, which mainly con­sisted of Neapoli­tans. Their part­ner Pel­li­grino Morano was based in Coney Island where he owned the Santa Lucia restau­rant. The col­lec­tion of killers that made up the gang was often referred to as the “The Camorra”.

On June 24^th 1916 a meet­ing took place at Coney Island between the Sicil­ian Morello gang, the Neapoli­tan Navy Street gang and the Neapoli­tan Coney Island gang. The idea of the meet­ing was to dis­cuss the expan­sion of gam­bling dens in lower Man­hat­tan. The plan led to string of mur­ders, and even­tu­ally the two gangs attack­ing each other.

In May 1917, a very impor­tant event took place, Ralph “The Bar­ber” Daniello, a mem­ber of the Brook­lyn based Navy St gang, began to tell the police every­thing he knew about the Navy St crew and the recent killings. On Novem­ber 27^th Daniello was arraigned with John Espos­ito, Alle­san­dro Vollero and Alphonso Sgroia.

On Feb­ru­ary 15^th, 1918, in the case of the Nicolo Morello and Ubri­aco killings, Vollero was tried for mur­der in the first degree . Ralph Daniello tes­ti­fied against Vollero, and stated that the gang paid money to a Detec­tive named Michael Mealli. Mealli was reduced in rank and assigned to patrol duty. Fol­low­ing this rev­e­la­tion, Judge Kap­per was taken ill on Feb­ru­ary 18^th, caus­ing a mis­trial to be declared. Vollero was retried on March 4^th and was sen­tenced to life at Sing Sing.