Girolamo “Mimmo” D’Anna and Giuseppe “Joe the Hood” D’Anna alleged members of the Detroit mafia have agreed to a plea deal and are headed to prison. The Sicilian-born
The Sicilian-born Detroit mob brothers agreed to plead guilty in their racketeering case which included the beating of a rival restaurant owner they were attempting to shake down. According to reports, Joe D’Anna is a captain of an eastside crew in the Cosa Nostra family and could do from three to five years behind bars while his brother Mimmo D’Anna is looking at a likely sentence of no more than three years.
“Mimmo and Joe D’Anna”
The brothers were convicted of the 2011 assault in a state case about five years ago but were issued a very controversial plea and each served only four years in county jail and some home confinement. The feds were not satisfied with the state’s punishment and later dropped a RICO case against the mafia duo in 2013. According to the feds, Joe D’Anna brutally attacked fellow restaurant owner Pietro Ventimiglia with a baseball bat. The restaurant owners place named Nonna’s Italian Kitchen was located across the street from a restaurant owned by the D’Anna brothers and were trying to get him to pay a street tax for over two years.
Joe beats the man leaving him with cracked ribs, cracked skull, and other broken bones while his brother Mimmo stood watch at the door according to court documents. As he hit the man in the face, head, and body threatening to kill him and his family back in Italy if he didn’t pay up, he screamed at the man “Don’t you know who I am?.” The brothers are nephews of former Detroit mafia capo Anthony “Tony Cars” D’Anna and were close to former Detroit mob boss Giacomo (Black Jack) Tocco. Black Jack passed away in 2014 but according to Scott Burnstein and his Gangsterreport one of his last acts as boss of the mafia in Detroit was to promote Joe D’Anna to captain.
UPDATE:
A correction to the previous report as the charges against Girolamo (Mimmo) D’Anna have been dismissed as part of the plea deal reached by his brother. So only one of the D’Anna brother will head off to prison.
Seems like another pretty decent plea deal although not as ridiculous as that original state deal but all in all I would assume they consider it as not so bad considering they were caught red handed.
Ah the Detriot family. That is one family I love to read and do research on. They seem to always stay afloat and I have been a nice organized family for years. I think they’re getting smaller in made men though.
very interesting family but Detroit has little young guys to replace the old guys like jack Giacalone,toccos,corraods Lapianas etc these guys wont be here 20 years from now even the young made guys are in there 50s
True they don’t seem to have many young up and comers with in the family and seems their talent pool and potential is lesser then some other places like Philly and New Eng so they may end up dying out sooner.
Here in Toledo I’ve seen them cruising down I-75 or even by the Franklin Park Mall. I used to see them in the Detroit Casinos as well. Weird how I can see them around town but you never hear anything about them in the news.
Agreed, I have always found them to be one of the most interesting families outside of NY.
This thread may find interest in these articles:
“Detroit Mob Family Alive and Well Under the Radar”
“Mafia Rarity: Tony Tocco, Acquitted in Major ‘Combination’ Case, Dies at 80 of Natural Causes”
The Philly and New England families do not even belong in the same sentence as the Detroit family when talking about a future. The Detroit family is very alive and thriving with it’s interstate (St.Louis, Toledo) and international (Canada) operations. Nearly impenetrable, the only way to get made in Detroit, is through blood. So, if you want to see what the future looks like here, then look no further than the families of it’s current members.
How is it that the Locricchio family members keep their names out of discussions of the Detroit mob? I remember working the valet lot as a teen at Pine Knob in the mid to late ’70s, and frequently parking the cars of the more known guys who came to visit.; Charles “Chucky” Obrien; Tony Giacalone, etc… There were 2 lower level guys that ran the lot at the time that were likely soldiers. “Big Joe” Locricchio also had a Las Vegas connection through Indusco Corp. “Little Joe” was just an a-wipe wannabe, while “little Joe’s” brother, who lived on-site, was an oaf who still managed to bring in and entertain a regular stream of fairly hot ladies.