Thursday, September 22, 2005

'Arrest in Killings of 2 Who Dared to Rob the Mob'

article by WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM here

excerpts:
In the annals of New York City crime, few undertakings were more ill-advised, foolhardy and just plain dangerous than the one that prosecutors say was chosen by Thomas and Rose Marie Uva, a young married couple from Queens.

Dominick Pizzonia was arrested Thursday in the killings of Thomas and Rose Marie Uva, below, who robbed mob clubs.

Rose Marie and Thomas Uva were killed after robbing the mob.

The Uvas set out more than a dozen years ago to solve their financial difficulties in a most unusual fashion: walking into mob social clubs with an Uzi submachine gun and separating the Mafiosi within from their ill-gotten gains.

The crime spree was predictably short-lived.

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