Ralph DeLeo arrested today

[BeatiPaoli]

To Everyone:

I don't know if this has already been reported somewhere else on this Forum today, and, if so, my apologies in advance. Ralph DeLeo, the one-time alleged street boss for the Colombo Family, was arrested today in Massachusetts, according to Tim White of WPRI 12 News. No details other than that.

Anyone have any reasonable speculation as to what is happening?

Regards,

BeatiPaoli

[Wiseguy]

Former Mafia ‘street boss’ arrested for allegedly violating probation
By Shelley Murphy Globe Staff
May 15, 2025

Former Mafia “street boss” Ralph DeLeo was arrested Thursday for allegedly violating the conditions of his probation a year after he finished serving 15 years in federal prison on racketeering conspiracy and gun charges.

Few details about the alleged violations were disclosed Thursday as DeLeo, 82, of Somerville, made a brief appearance in federal court in Boston. A court filing related to the allegations remained sealed.

Assistant US Attorney Lauren Maynard said in court that DeLeo committed several violations: lying to federal agents, communications with convicted felons, and possession of steroids and marijuana.

She said the government was seeking to hold DeLeo without bail until the new allegations are resolved on the grounds that he poses a danger to the community and risk of flight.

“Danger would be the primary basis,” she added.
US Magistrate Judge Paul G. Levenson ordered DeLeo held overnight pending a hearing Friday.

DeLeo was a “street boss” of the Colombo crime family, one of five Mafia families that controlled organized crime activities in New York City. He pleaded guilty in November 2012 to racketeering and gun charges.

Prosecutors alleged that he ran a criminal enterprise known as the DeLeo crew, which operated in Massachusetts, Florida, New York, and Arkansas and was engaged in drug trafficking, extortion, and loansharking.

US District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock sentenced him to 19 1/2 years in prison, with credit for three years he had already spent in jail while the case was pending, and placed him on three years of supervised release, or probation.

The following year he filed a motion attempting to withdraw his guilty plea, alleging that “an unknown officer of the court” forged his signature on his plea agreement. His request was denied.

He was released in May of last year.

On Thursday, DeLeo repeatedly told the magistrate, “I can’t hear you,” prompting a brief pause in the proceedings as he was fitted with earbuds with microphones.

Attorney Kevin Barron, who was provisionally appointed to represent DeLeo until it’s determined whether he can afford to hire his own lawyer, described DeLeo as “an ailing and infirm” man.

He said DeLeo is being treated with chemotherapy, suffers a blood disorder, requires ongoing dental surgery, and is dealing with “a number of other medical problems that need immediate attention.”

DeLeo has a lengthy criminal record and previously served time for the slaying of a doctor in Ohio.

In 1977, DeLeo was serving a 25- to 40-year sentence in the state prison at Walpole for kidnapping and armed robbery when he escaped while being treated at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain.

He was captured in Ohio, where he was charged with bank robbery, then struck a deal with prosecutors. He confessed that he shot a Columbus doctor, Walter Bond, in 1977, but claimed the slaying was ordered by another doctor and later testified against that physician.

DeLeo was sentenced to 15 years to life for the slaying but was granted clemency by Ohio’s governor in 1991. He was returned to Massachusetts to finish his earlier state sentence, and he was released in 1997.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/15/ ... violation/

[Pmac2]

hmmm that article puts the nail in the coffin for me as to weather ralph was ever a informant. he was. maybe not against the mob but someone.

[SonnyBlackstein]

82 and violating. Dude was hungry and needed his 3 hots.

[Aunt+Baby]

What a whack job this guy seems to have always been. Those wiretaps of him bragging to his sister *in detail* about being made boss of the Colombos (he actually says “Colombo” outright haha) were so strange. Matter of fact the entire tale and saga of his dealings with the colombos was one of the strangest and most random ever in lcn history. It also makes that family the biggest joke of them all. They may have had an active informant as sitting boss LOL and he wasn’t even a NYC guy

Didn’t he also get smacked around by 600 lb whale carmen dinunzio in jail?

Also am I reading this correctly that this 82 year old had steroids on his person during this recent arrest?

[TommyGambino]

If he's still involved the Colombo family are finished

[JohnnyS]

The fact he's still in good standing and considered a high ranking member after it was revealed that he cooperated is very confusing.

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[FrankWhiteIs9P]

Lightning rod

[Adam]

Well wasn't this also the guy who was learning about the Colombo's from the prior iteration of this forum?

[Ivan]

Also am I reading this correctly that this 82 year old had steroids on his person during this recent arrest?

I did kind of a double take when I saw that too. Hope they were for sale and not personal use.

[SonnyBlackstein]

FWIW Steroids actually have various medical uses, not just for bodybuilding roid heads.

[Aunt+Baby]

Also am I reading this correctly that this 82 year old had steroids on his person during this recent arrest?

I did kind of a double take when I saw that too. Hope they were for sale and not personal use.

He may have been looking to push them. He is a career drug dealer after all.

However, after reading the “after a bunch of sit ups & squats, believe me, I’ll fuck em up” lines, who knows. This crazy fuck could be swallowing anavar daily

[Ivan]

FWIW Steroids actually have various medical uses, not just for bodybuilding roid heads.

Yeah, fair enough. But given who this man is, if I had to bet on it, I'd bet he's doing something illicit with them.

[SonnyBlackstein]

FWIW Steroids actually have various medical uses, not just for bodybuilding roid heads.

Yeah, fair enough. But given who this man is, if I had to bet on it, I'd bet he's doing something illicit with them.

Oh sure, I was just giving the poor prick an out

[The Greek]

Well wasn't this also the guy who was learning about the Colombo's from the prior iteration of this forum?

I think he was